Mass xp 26-32 in 1k needles

[Cashcharac]

I dunno if this should be considered an exploit or a guide...but I don't think Blizz intended it to work this way. Anways, we all know about the Test of Endurance quest in 1k needles; the one where you break some boxes in the cave and fight 4 waves of harpies.

I originally tried breaking more than one box at a time to see if I'd get multiple waves, no luck. I then tried breaking one box, killing a wave, and breaking another, then killing a wave and breaking another. At this point I had three waves with 2-3 harpies each going at once, so 7-9 harpies total. I was in a group at the time to do the quest, so we handled em real quick. In any case, we kept doing this for about an hour and were getting amazing xp.

So yeah, grab a group of about 4 around lvl 26-30, preferably a pally tank for aoe tanking, a healer, and two dps and you can grind mobs pretty much non-stop. The harpies hits are light and the silence doesn't really matter if your healer stands in the back. We did this for about two hours and I got a level and a half (I was 27 when we started). Make sure to have your healer break the boxes as they respawn so the waves dont stop.

Note: I searched for "test of endurance", "harpy", "harpy grinding", and "harpies" before posting; didn't get anything.

[GanjalfTheGreen]

never seen this posted before, nice find +rep

[XFiFiX]

Nice find man +rep

[Cashcharac]

Nice find man +rep

If only you had the ability to +rep =P; s'all good though, thanks for the nice comment XD.

[shadowbladex]

Sounds good, might try it if i start a new alt.

[Ariakan]

Cool find but 26-32 Im sure you could do BFD and take an hour and get similar xp at a decent at any rate + REP

[_Shapes_]

rly nice find =), thou wouldn't it go better if u paid a lvl 45-60 like 10g and he would just kill em for ya for 2 hrs ?

[Lyana]

one and a half lvl in two hours doesn't sound like a lot to me on these levels. I think I could get just as much xp by questing. Nice find anyway for those who doesn't like questing

[Sallix]

That sounds nice, how much xp did they drop in group?
+rep ^^

[Appelmoes]

Has been posted before, I think, but as a Prot paladin aoe place

[Makeman]

I used to farm these for vibrant plumes when darkmoon faire was new, I remember getting 1g cash for each, these drop alot of those.

[fugiy]

Nice +rep if i could.

[Ozrien]

This post is like a breath of fresh air- something new to the site that I've yet to see posted.

+rep from me

[xps980]

rly nice find =), thou wouldn't it go better if u paid a lvl 45-60 like 10g and he would just kill em for ya for 2 hrs ?

i doubt you'd get any exp :\

[Cashcharac]

one and a half lvl in two hours doesn't sound like a lot to me on these levels. I think I could get just as much xp by questing. Nice find anyway for those who doesn't like questing

lol I'm a prot pally, I click to attack and then tab out for a minute and browse the net. I don't get to AOE grind effectively till 35...so this is great xp for me compared to 1 mob a minute.

Edit for Sallix: I believe it was about 60-80 xp a kill in a group of four