The Story:
Ok, the basis of this guide is farmingNetherweb Spidersilk. The story behind it is pretty simple: I have a tailor that I am leveling and I am stuck at the portion immediately following imbued netherweave bolts. The solution: Make Imbued NW bags and sell/use on alts. However, spidersilk on my server is pretty outrageous, at least 10g a pop. 20 per bag + arcane dust + cloth = negative profit.
Attempting to grind the Silks in Terokkar is pretty futile, as the drop rate is obscenely low and they are spread far apart (and occasionally being farmed).
Because of this, we're going to AoE grind the spider mobs in the Black Morass instance.
What you will need:
Any character that can AoE effectively. I chose my DK because she is geared as a tank and lol, Death Knights. This character must have done the Caverns of Time questline through Old Hillsbrad, allowing him to get into Black Morass.
My setup:
Naxx10/25 gear (aka minimal gear).
Spec (my glyphs are still unholy or blood spec since I havn't bothered to change them)
Rotation:
The Map:Code:(For DKs: Chain Cooldowns as necessary) Drop a DnD before they reach you Howling Blast Blood Boil Rune Tap Blood Boil (wait for rune cooldowns) Howling Blast Blood Boil X2 Hungering Cold (wait for Hungering Cold cooldown) Hungering Cold Blood Boil Repeat untill the pack is dead.
(I did not use this map specifically for the first several runs, although I took a similar route.)
~Black Morass~
Trial Runs:
Run 1: 8mins 7sec - 9 Spider Silks. Notes: Forgot to turn off unholy presence, d'oh! There is a lot more mobs in here than I remembered, so I made 1 massive pull and 1 small pull. Going to try next run all at once (with Frost Pres!) and blowing cooldowns. Howling Blast is beautiful for this.
Run 2: 8mins 11sec - 10 Spider Silks. Notes: MUCH harder. AoE simply was not as effective, blew 4 cooldowns (dodge trinket, IBF, Hungering Cold, Unbreakable Armor) due to the amount I was getting hit for vs the amount my AoEs were causing. Nearly Died :x
Run 3: Forgot to set my timer but I made mistakes in my route. 6 Spider Silks. Notes: AoE went much smoother (DnD, Howling Blast, Bloodboil, [wait], Howling Blast, Hungering Cold, Howling Blast - finish off stragglers with another few BB's and a HB). Staggered Cooldowns and it went fine.
Run 4: 8mins 3sec - 8 Spider Silks. Notes: Used my new map, shaved a few seconds off. Used my previous AoE strategy, came out with a good 1/3 life remaining.
Not 100% positive about the spider spawn locations, whether it is constant and they wander, or if it is a random selection of spawn points, but the easiest solution is to take this general route and aggro any one of them that you see.