A Lazy Rogues guide to infinate Lockboxes

[Jauken]

I've posted a while back about the ability to farm lockboxes from the ghosts in Wildhammer hold (and whatever the horde town in Shadowmoon valley is, they have the same quest to kill 12 ghosts)

It wasn't until last night did I confirm a suspicion of mine, allow me to elaborate.

In Shadowmoon valley you get the following quests
Alliance: A Ghost in the Machine
Horde: A Haunted History

The quest which immediately follow these are what we are interested in.
Alliance: Harbingers of Shadowmoon
Horde: Spectrecles

This quest involves killing 12 Shadowmoon Harbinger, now I've previously advocating killing these ghosts to grind out money, greens the odd blue & a metric crapton of Netherweave Cloth. Since these mobs are inside your own factions town, you don't have to worry much about ganking and you have both a repair NPC and food vendor handy. This is obviously quite handy to rogues since they drop a healthy amount of Lockboxes to be pickpocketed.
Previously I would kill everything I pickpocketed until last night.

YOU CANNOT TURN THIS QUEST IN!!!, IF YOU DO YOU WILL BE UNABLE TO USE ALL SUBSEQUENT VERSION OF THE GOGGLES TO SEE THE GHOSTS INSIDE YOUR OWN TOWN! EVEN THOUGH ALL SUBSEQUENT VERSIONS OF THE GOGGLES SHARE THE SAME NAME UP UNTIL YOU GET YOUR STEALTHERS HELM, WHICH ALSO CANNOT SEE GHOSTS IN YOUR FACTIONS TOWN!!!


I was getting ready to go to SSC and didn't want to kill everything in my patch so I just made a large circle around Wildhammer hold pickpocketing the entire camps population of ghosts once through. I came around to the first ghost I had pickpocketed and pickpocketed him again, behold more loot?? Possibly someone had killed him while I was inside the bunker?
I didn't give it much thought until later that night while I was raiding, I hadn't seen anyone else killing ghosts, most people have already turned in this quest and are unable to even SEE the ghosts let alone kill them.


Finally my curiosity got the better of me and after the raid I went back and made a fresh sweep pickpocketing the entire camp and coming back around to the first mob.
Once again he had more loot for me, so did the next mob and the next one and the next one.
I made 7 full circles, each time, each ghost had a fresh loot table for me and the only ghosts I had to kill were the ones that resisted my pickpocket.
I am not sure of the time between pickpockets but I do know that eventually if you leave a mob alone long enough his pockets will magically refill themselves with fresh loot and you don't have to dirty your hands with killing each mob, just run past em, steal everything they have and do it over again.

Now I am combat spec, I do not have camo and so I am a very slow stealther, but eventually I got my routine down so well that by the time I made it back to the first mob his loot had not yet respawned. As such a Sub Spec rogue will not get the most out of this and spend most of his time tapping his foot waiting for the mobs to get paid so to speak. It's almost just enough time for a combat rogue without Camo to make a full circle before the first mob regens his loot.

I ended up making 157 blind powder, 14 Super Healing pots, around 40g & enough poison mats to compete with a Shady Dealer.

It is truly a paradise for rogues who are too lazy to farm mech or don't have the time and would rather leisurely walk around in circles stealing from neutral mobs.

Thank you for reading and happy thieving.

[Ascension]

Now that's a great find! +Rep

[LTGH]

Nice Great and cool find! im always rogue

[whoaa]

cool +rep and also nice for making some xtra gold plus more if u sell the blinding powder

[Drax0]

Damn, i handed in the quest to get the head. When i say this i was so exicted

[somknight]

NoOOOICCEE ... 2 bad i already handed it in

[Soarus]

Nice, i will try that =)

[nzayno]

very nice! too bad I turned that quest in ages ago, but I could grind those mobs on my 68 SHOULD be common sense, but sometimes I lack that

[samthejuggalo509]

Great Find!!+REP