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Commentaire de 14067

Got this as a drop off level 68 mobs in Nagrand near Oshugun.

Commentaire de 7371

Same here, got one last night. Just need 4 more points in Alchemy to learn it now.

Commentaire de 16137

Its BoP item. Drops from mobs arround Oshu`gun in Nagrand.

Commentaire de DownD

Make sure you're not just shift+clicking to loot. If you move on too quickly, the popup to loot a BoP item will disappear and you might miss the drop.

Commentaire de icantswim

took me about 5 loops around the big diamond to get it, that's clearing every "camp" and all the arcanists right up near the side of the diamond.

Commentaire de 22651

Flied on a circle around of a white building and landed to kill Vir'aani Arcanists.
Got it near about 40 min.
P.S. Many of Vir'aani Arcanists u can see near a white ice blocks.

Commentaire de eqXzeRt

The best strategy is to run from one big white stone to another (one on the south, other on the north), it's enough time to let the mobs respawn.
For me this recipe droped from 15th mob. Lucky I'm :)

Commentaire de 23904

Hour and 20 minutes or so of farming. Not too bad. (not nearly as bad as the Major Shadow Protection >_<)

Commentaire de 14657

I had to kill 134 Vir'aani Arcanists before I picked mine up (recap kill count). Gathered 180 netherweave in that grind.

Commentaire de 25783

It dropped fairly quickly, about 20 kills or so.

Commentaire de jl4788

Got mine in 6 kills

Commentaire de 19170

Took 335 kills for it to drop. I wouldnt mind so much, but its a necessary recipe for end-game. I would recommend not farming this solo, but take some guildies with to farm it as it benefits the guild for the most part.

Commentaire de 19534

listed drop rate for this item (17k plus kills ) is .4% so it might take a while to get also some of the spawn points are shared with Vir'aani Raider's so be shure to clear all mobs or you will end up with fewer to kill

Commentaire de 31889

got mine after farming for about an hour and a half. not too bad.

Commentaire de Graendur

Snagged it after 35 kills, probably not typical for this drop though.

Commentaire de 30475

Dropped on my 164th arcanist (after 70 raiders). Takes about 2 hours. You will get into a pattern where you run between the 3 white stones killing arcanists. When there are too many raiders and not enough arcanists clear both types until they even out. Made about 140 netherweave as well.

Commentaire de 31843

Took me about 30 - 40 min of farming. Not bad at all.

Commentaire de 18513

I've killed about 150 of them so far... no drop. :(

Commentaire de 38037

All the new prot pots require primals. I don't forsee them being used much for a long time unless bosses start dropping primals like they used to drop essences. :(

Commentaire de 22764

89th kill at me, i just travelled to the mini-chrystals around Oshu'gun in a counter-clockwise path.

Commentaire de 43728

Confirmed. Drops in Nagrand around Oshugun. As a level 70 rogue the mobs died fast. I think I killed between 20-30.
Very pleased to know how to make this potion.
Also it is true about only Alchemists being able to see it. The hunter helping me farm for it did not know it had dropped when I looted the winning-corpse :)

Commentaire de 3006_

Boy I'm lucky, just got this off the 2nd mob kill...

Commentaire de 26961

8th kill, bought lots of food, was guessing a lot of farming was goin to happen, got lucky, guildie of mine farmed for 3 days

Commentaire de 39322

hmm... i see now for make 1x need 1x, 1x and 1x!
not 1,3 and 5 for 5x

Commentaire de 33514

Killed about 70 of these mobs. Easy to kill, and enough of them. Just run around in circles to the "small" crystal areas.

Commentaire de 53706

The stories of "rare" aren't wrong. 520 Arcanists for my drop today, measured via swstats death counter. But, got it in the end :)

Commentaire de 56334

I had great luck, droped for me after 11 kills.

Commentaire de 49521

not so great luck, dropped after 161 kills.

Commentaire de Gutts

drop rate is extremely too low...I have killed over 100 and no damn luck.

Commentaire de Tourn

Got it in 64 kills

Commentaire de Al3sinth

Got it in about 25min of farming Vir'aani Arcanists.

Commentaire de 7498

dropped for me this morning, I spent a good 30 mins last night, and about 15 mins this am...but really took quite some time...

Commentaire de 66154

Took a lot longer than most people who commented here: 3 hours.

Commentaire de 2328

Same here, been farming for more than 2 hours with no drop. I think you're in the minority if you get it in less than 100 kills.

Commentaire de 66943

Been farming these for 1 hour a day for nearly 3 weeks now and not a sausage.

Although my tailor now has enough cloth to make several 18 slot bags :)

Commentaire de 41966

Im farming 2 weeks now. nothing. did they change the drop rate or smth ?

Commentaire de cregor

Took me 2 full circles around Oshu'gun took get the recipe, killed every arcanist alive on both trips.

Commentaire de blupache

This recipe is still orange for me at 371 alchemy. Should be quite a good way to level up to 375 without wasted skillup opportunities, assuming you're prepared to farm this BoP recipe and a bit of primal mana.

The fact it's actually something useful is definitely a nice bonus.

Commentaire de Wildhorn

Since only alchemist who doesnt have it learned already can see the recipe drop, the % showed here is not really accurate.

You have to use WoW's Armory which give:

Vir'aani Arcanist Extremely Low (1% - 2%)

Commentaire de Ncl8

Got this recipe on my 64'th kill

Commentaire de 73436

After over 100 kills this weekend, i can confirm without a doubt the rate is low. i spent hours two days straight trying to farm for this. Not one drop.
*sigh*

Commentaire de 86775

I just got this tonight on Blades edge US server. I was just doing some consortium quests, and it just appeared. I wonder how much i can sell the pots for.

Commentaire de 92532

Does this still drop from the Arcanists? Killed over 400 of them and no sign of it.

Edit: 475 kills to get the drop, so yes, it still drops from this mob.

Commentaire de 42996

Got it from first kill, today. Guess I should go buy a lottery ticket :).

Commentaire de slone13

Has anyone got this lately i have been farming ..well this will be day two..

I ask a GM it was nurfed but i wasent on and i got a dumb email about "Unfortunately, we are not allowed to provide game hints of any kind."

guild mate said he did some looking and the drop rate is like .1% now

Commentaire de 146150

got it in 15 minutes

Commentaire de Kuroryo

Got mine in a solid hour of farming. I just ran around the entire Area, there are 3 good spots where many spawn, to the Northwest, Northeast, and Southwest of the giant crystal, and a few around the edge of the giant crystal, northeast, North, and Southeast. Also got lucky with a Jewelcrafting recipe drop. Not bad at all :)

Commentaire de xstaindx

This took me about an hour and a half to farming with my hunter. The recipe dropped off @ (31,75) in nagrand against an Vir'aani Arcanist. Settle in, this one is not quick.

Commentaire de 99328

I was fortunate, it dropped on the 5th kill. Be warned, sometimes the Arcanists will phase behind you, and be much farther behind you than other ethereals. They might seem to vanish, but they're simply 30 yards behind you.

Commentaire de 157048

woot ! it droped for me at the 4th mobi killed :D never been this lucky

Commentaire de 157048

woot ! it droped for me at the 4th mob i killed :D never been this lucky

Commentaire de 157582

Keep up hope, dropped for me on 3rd kill. Hooray!

Commentaire de 161223

This dropped for me tonight after about 25 minutes worth of farming.

I started off in the south west corner of the map, and worked my way around Oshu'gun, killing all Vir'aani Arcanists I saw, then moving onto the next lot. By the time I had reached the group mining at the north end of Oshu'gun, the recipe dropped.

Commentaire de 114876

=D Just started farming this about 30mins ago, took me about 50-60 kills to get, all in all, well worth the farm

Commentaire de 169009

This Item was VERY hard for me to get i farmed for it for about 2 hours but never got it...after i left i came back like 2 weeks later killed 2 or 3 and it droped right away i guess this just says that they are almost completly random.... good luck trying to get them. hopefully its easyer for you than me.

Commentaire de Tessela

On kill #247 and still farming : /

Commentaire de 63753

23rd kill for me on my resto druid, but i farmed over 300 kills on my feral druid without getting this at all

just keep plugging away, ignore the "drop rate shown as low because only alchemists see it" comments, it can be as low as hell for some people and great for others, just pray you're a lucky one

Commentaire de 186710

Took me about 4 hours of farming before it dropped. Very frustrating. I also got about 5 stacks of netherweave, 10g and a few crappy greens.

Commentaire de vbdotnetrulz

I got mine in the first five minutes of farming... oh the wonders of % drop chance system.

Commentaire de seryie

Just remember to clear around at each of the white crystals, and also around the very edge of the oshugun theres about 5 in total around in inside. Took me and hunter about 30 minutes of farming to get it. Good luck.

Commentaire de 308906

Well , maybe I got lucky , maybe they lowered the drop rate who knows , but after only a half an hour it dropped for me, maybe 50- 60 kills or so

GL farmers

Commentaire de Mangea

Got it on my warrior (68) while doing some quest. When I looked it up, I felt really lucky with the recipe having >2% dropchance :)

Commentaire de Thaerun

I got this on my second kill. I feel kind of bad looking at all these people who spent hours farming it... but...

Is it possible that some of these recipes had their drop rates buffed in Wrath sometime? I remember searching for two JCing recipes which were supposed to be really rare and I got them both within 5 minutes, and a friend was farming for some enchant recipe which also was supposed to be low, but again he got it really quickly.

I don't know but it's possible it's all just been buffed.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I decided to begin farming this recipe yesterday. Knowing that my guild was having trouble with the Curator and all, I thought it'd be nice if we had this recipe in-guild.

I caught a wyvern to Garadar, hopped on my flying mount, and headed down to Oshu'gun. Landed, buffed, pulled my first Vir'anni Arcanist. Lo and behold, my first kill yielded the recipe.

I will never get that lucky again.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

This finally dropped after almost 3 consecutive hours of grinding. I also received nearly 8 stacks of netherweave cloth,5 nice greens, a few scrolls, some drink and food items, 3 super mana potions and 2 super healing potions.Not to mention about 45 Oshu'gun Crystal Powder Sample...Oh and a 10g repair bill (:
To those who are having trouble getting this to drop, just be persistent.If you have a friend who can help that should make the process twice as fast (in theory).
Good luck!

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Didn't even realize it was a drop until on the fourth arcanist i killed looking for crystal fragments it dropped; lucky me ;)

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I was on the crystal quest it drop off of the third mob. BOP ... lucky i guess

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Gott his today. Its BOP and only alchemists will see the drop

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Untold number killed, but I finally got it. Key is just sticking with it.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Drops off Vir'aani Arcanists in Nagrand. Took me 28 kills to see one drop.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Took about 2 hours of killing, flying circles around the area, to see this drop. no joke. Your mileage may vary.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Just got this after about 20mins. Went straight to shadowmoon and got the shadow prot potion on my first drop. Good day.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Only took 135 kills to get this sucker... that was annoying, but at least they're easy kills, unlike the mobs for the Holy Protection Potion recipe. Now to farm Shadow!

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Got in about 30 minutes!

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Farmed for 10 mins killed about 30 mobs and it dropped.
I am Alchemist 375 Master Elixrs.

Edited, Oct 15th 2007 10:18am by GalaxiaWarsong

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Second kill and I got one w00t pays off for the shadow prot one that took forever to farm.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

This is my 3rd day of farming this.... spent about an hour and a half each day... still no luck.... epic leatherworking pattern dropped off them, no alch recipe yet... guess I shouldn't complain too much...

EDIT: I FINALLY got this recipe to drop. I would estimate that I killed well over 500 before I got it.

Edited, May 25th 2007 2:59am by Bowaflex

Commentaire de Allakhazam

i got on afterwork and got the recipe to drop in about 15 minutes and 10 kills
it dropped at 37,66. lol i actually spent more time herbing then killing arcanists

Commentaire de Allakhazam

On http://www.realmhistory.net you can view who can craft this on your realm or add yourself as a crafter;

Commentaire de Allakhazam

2.5-3 hours of farming for me.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Same experience - farmed Arcanists for about two hours and it finally dropped.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

29.76 in Nagrand,,,drop after 5 kills

Commentaire de Allakhazam

199 kills. This one was harder for me to get than Major Shadow Protection... and shadow's drop rate is worse!

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I got mine in about half an hour of grinding on the Arcanists. I was about halfway to my 7th stack of Netherweave Cloth when it dropped.

Edited, Mar 12th 2008 4:20pm by whitehusky

Commentaire de Allakhazam

It's a good feeling to finally get it after 193 kills. I made three batches and still no cauldron :( Guess i need to go farm some more mana motes :(

The little islands around the big rock seem to have the most of these mobs.

Commentaire de Thottbot

With BOP recipes only showing to alchemist, the drop rate shown will be alot less then what it actually is.

This recipe and the 3 fel potions for exemple...

The 3 fel potions aren't that rare. Hping this one isn't either.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Had it drop. Id say 400+ kills.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Got this a few weeks ago. I was with a rogue friend who is not an Alchemist and I believe only I could see and loot it. But I was only 300 Alch at the time, so it definitely drops even if you don't have the skill level for it. Went in my bank and learned it a week later. Too bad the mats are so exspensive it itsn't viable right now :(.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Maybe the exect place where i find the receipe is help You guys:
35,63
The round thing, and killed only arcanists.
Do not wanna make anyone angry, but i got the receipe after about 10 arcanits killed.
Friday morning 9:30.
I hope i can help.

Montecris
Lvl 70 hunter
The Venture Co.

Commentaire de Thottbot

my alchemy was at 300, this still dropped for me, and i was still able to loot it.

i was also the only one able to roll on it.

Commentaire de Thottbot

if you got this recipe in under three hours i hate you

Commentaire de Thottbot

got the recipe after 1H30min farming. went get primal mana and mana thistle and got the cauldron after the first batch. made my kara group down curator :D

Commentaire de Thottbot

I had similar results to osme of the people here. I flew around the big crystal palace thing killing arcanists for 30 minutes. The recipe finally dropped off the one at 35,63 (same for others people it sounds like). After I got my recipe, I went to shat and learned the cauldron on the 6th batch of potions.

Commentaire de Thottbot

The farming for this takes a bit, took me 3 times around oshu'gun till i got one, i dont know how many i killed but the farming took me about 50 minutes, it wasn't hard because the arcanists dont do much damage.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Took me about 2 hours of killing before it dropped.

Well worth it.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Bout 2-3 hour for it to drop and i had help from a lvl 70 hunter but defently worth it getting 10 gold more than how much its worth to make and got cauldron in 5 trys.

Commentaire de Thottbot

I have farmed this recipe for three days for 2-3 hours each, and still no drop...

Commentaire de Thottbot

On my 4th session of around 2 hours each it finally dropped.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Been farming these guys for 3 days now at the co-ords suggested.
Got Design: Great Dawnstone but no potion recipe!

Commentaire de Thottbot

At last!
Dropped about 10 mins after I made that post!

Commentaire de Thottbot

Dropped for me after 35.836 kills.

w00t! =)

Commentaire de Thottbot

I killed only arcanist (approx. 25-30) and was able to get it to drop.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Grinding arcanists for around 3 hours, nothing.

lvl 70 Feral Druid

Gonna Try the Vendor in Netherstorm ;p

Commentaire de Thottbot

I farmed this recipe for 4-5 hours today...I was starting to get really frustrated. Just as I was getting ready to quit I killed a group of 3 arcanists. The recipe dropped off two of the three. Which was funny..in a twisted sort of way..

Commentaire de Thottbot

Well I am sorry for all of you that had to grind countless hours for this recipe. I went to Nagrand expecting a long drawn out drop rate, extra food and water and plenty of bag space. Dropped off the second arcanist I killed, Not even 2 minutes of grinding. Good Luck to you all and I hope you have the same luck as I did.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Oh and discovered the Cauldron after making the second stack.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Well, my story falls somewhere in the middle. Must have killed like 60-80 of them to get it. Took maybe two hours. But well worth it if it helps take down the Curator!

Just keep grinding them. One of the Arcanists will eventually drop it. Got mine from one of the ones on the northern side to the left of the passageway into Oshu'gun where three patrolling Arcanists are located. Though that hardly matters. Any of them should drop it if you just get lucky.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Got mine after only about 3 hours farming, so it does drop. It's just a matter of luck. The shadow protection recipe took much longer-weeks of farming shadow warlocks and getting ganked by the elite. This is much easier-no elite other than Durn to worry about.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Same here got it easy. I would say 34ish kills. Have fun gettin this thing comes in handy for Curator.

Commentaire de Thottbot

Well I wish i could say this was cake, but i have been grinding these arcanists and no luck yet (about 110-120 mobs), where as i got the shadow protection one on my third kill, lol. But atleast the rep drops are not bad and the voids near the area are dropping the motes of shadow for the shadow protection pot. well just thought id give my little update. By the way Im from Balnazzar, (I know its a dead server but its my server)

UPDATE: 4 hours 46 min/ 220 or so mobs later, I just got the recipe.

To everyone else trying to get this goodluck. and just stick with it.

Commentaire de Thottbot

3 hours of grinding it and it dropped :) Nobody else touched any of the arcanists while I was there. Similar to some of the other recipes ive farmed, not too shabby!

Commentaire de Thottbot

4 kills, 5 minutes, 1 new alchemy recipe. I spent more time just looking for Arcanists to kill than actually fighting.

Commentaire de Thottbot

I've killed exactly 211 of these arcanists so far (I know because of MobInfo) all while 375 alc/herb and I still don't have it! Ridiculous! I'm giving up for now...

Commentaire de Thottbot

Confirmed 35,63 37 Kills -

Commentaire de Thottbot

4 hours and 65 kills later, it finally dropped for me, if you find its not dropping for you after kill 50-55, take a break, go quest or something then come back, I had 9 Mote of Shadow drop from Voidspawn's and the recipe finally dropped.

359 Alchemy / 365 Herbalism

Commentaire de Thottbot

dropped for me in 10 min of farming. used the above coords. and no worries.

Commentaire de Thottbot

About 15 kills for me.

Commentaire de Thottbot

It seams that ALL of the Major (magic class) Protection Potions have an extremely low drop rate. There are a few out there that have been lucky enough to get it early on, but almost every major potion has a very low drop rate.

Stick with it. It took me almost 500 kills to get my Holy protection while it took me about 13 kills to get this arcane potion. Unfortunately these things take time. Don't get too discourage.

If you start getting aggravated with it go somewhere else to farm and come back to it later. It does not help when you are pissed and the item that you want does not drop. I truly know the feeling. I normally come back to it later, or you must be prepared to be sitting there for a long time.