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Commento di 14004

Got it on the 5th Spell-Thief. Took me about 30mins. Right where the map said it was, thank you wowhead!

Btw, I never could get the +30 one from MC, it always went to an officer so it would stay in the guild until they left. So I went out and got this one at level 63 for myself. Mutiny!

Commento di 15631

It's definitely a low % drop (0.5-1.0%), but it's from the Spell Thief as mentioned. To the best of my knowledge there were 4 static spawn locations, 1 frequent patrol and 1 uncommon patrol.

Killing the other spawns in other locations will not cause more Spell Thief mobs to appear, so it's up to you if you want to bother with them, but I definitely recommend keeping those nagging beasts dead as they tend to muck with your kills.

Finally got the Formula on the last kill of the night (which was actually declared BEFORE I got the drop) - 4am after ~3-4 hours of grinding this spot over the course of two days.

Commento di Frenzi

1 roamer inside the camp and there is one roaming outside on the north east.

There is 4 more mobs all by the little sort of market stalls by the edge.

I just avoided the annoying "HP's of Ragnaros" beasties, they don't aggro while red if you shoot the mob next to them so I just looted the corpses when they went yellow.

As a mage the beasties are one of the most annoying mobs I have seen, tons of hit points, fast little buggers as well. I had no where to kite them and they disrupt my casting like no ones business :/

I did 15% of lvl 70 last night killing these.

Commento di funkymillah

18 kills and i got mine today

Commento di Goldenboy

I have killed around 300 now, still waiting for the drop :(

I can confirm 4 fixed spawns and
1 normal patol from the center of the camp and south
1 uncommon patrol ourtside the camp north east
1 very uncommon patrol north of the camp, patrolling south

Commento di 16356

Well it took about 300 kills but I got it

Commento di 301

Ages to grind. Probably around 12 hours. I'm tailor, so I made sure to kill the other mobs as well, as they drop Netherweave at a reasonable rate. I'm a mage, but I imagine these tips will help anyone to grind here.

Make sure to display NPC names always.

The little annoying runts change from hostile to neutral in a very predictable way. When they run up to a purple "candle" (a purple beam will pop up between the runt and the stick), they'll grow in size and turn hostile. So watch for the areas where these candles stand. Furthermore, their patrol pattern is fairly predictable (can you tell I spent hours there?), so you can basicly avoid them all the time, as they drop fairly bad things. While I did get jumped once or twice (or maybe ten times), it's much easier and quicker grinding when you can skip these mobs (since they move so fast, they're annoying for mages, and they have fairly high HP).

Commento di rayme

Can anyone confirm that this drops from the guys in Bash'ir... I heard that it does but just looking for a confirmation, because it is a lot easier to farm up there.

Commento di NovaDramaKorgath

Found after probably like 3.5 hours. Killing the Raiders also is a good plan as some of their spawns definitely can respawn as a Spell-Theif.

Commento di Edcel

I got mine after about 15 mins of farming.

Commento di 17773

can anyone confirm that this recipe is actually bind on pickup?

Commento di 11529

This is looking to be similar to a new crusader, but worse (or, kinda, better), as it cannot be sold on the AH, cutting down on the farms but upping the aggravation for those who want it.

Commento di 18580

20mins of farming finally droped...but im payin for the drop rate on tryin to get the +15spell dmg to bracers... make it drop =(

Commento di ShihanLock

No more than 10 mins farming. Travel time was longer.

Commento di Caustic

I got this on about my 10th kill

Commento di 19101

I guess it's the Spellbinder Tower all over again, but without the annoying gold diggers just wanting to AH it.

I'll start this tonight. Killed a couple yesterday, but no luck.

In general having most of the formulas BoP is a mixed blessing. They don't all get farmed by just everybody... but they also don't appear on the AH at all, whatever the price.

Commento di 19741

6 Hours farming last night and so far an hour today... nothing... during that time, three others have gotten their bloody enchant....

Bloody drop rate is terrible....

Commento di 17526

Not too bad, it dropped after 98 kills.

Get an addon that tracks how many times you've killed some type of mob. I use SW Stats. It helps keep you sane because you can do the math figure out how many you need to kill before you have like a 95% chance to have gotten it. Then you just farm and chances are it will drop long before that number have been killed. And since you have the counter it sort of gives you a sense of progress rather than just feeling like it's pointless and forever.

So if drop rate for something = 0.7 % then 200 kills is a net 75% and 400 is 95%.

Have fun.

Commento di Lobo2me

Got it in 30 minutes with 2 other people farming it, I guess I was lucky. Killed perhaps 20 Spell-Thiefs

Commento di 20485

What are you guy's enchanting skills, im at 325 just wanting to get it for the future, but i'v killed about 75 and nothing. Anyone know if there is a skill requirment?

Commento di steeve

45 kills, about 1 hour for me. 350 enchanting..

Killing patrols spawned more spell-thiefs for me.

Commento di edsky

Got mine this morning, 1 drop out of 60 kills.

Commento di 17948

Dropped after 20-30 mobs flying mount makes it easy to drop behind em and kill em, just watch out for those small ones they sting, under an hour got it at 5 35 am =)

Nec
Twisiting nether

Commento di 17690

Was planning on a long campaign grind for this one. Even got out a pad of paper to track the kills and to keep me sane. But then it went and dropped on my 5th mob. Very lucky. (at 355 enchanting)

I found it much easier to use the flying mount to land in the spikey rocks and attack the spell-theif from there. He will find a path up so you can loot, and will usually bring along another humanoid mob, but the little beasties stay home; so I found it much more manageable.

Also of note: I could not seem to find a way to attack him from on top of the tents, perhaps due to the angle of attack being almost straight down. Stick to ranged attack from the rocks FTW.

Commento di 20504

I can make it, Shariq @ The Maelstrom EU (Alliance)

Commento di 14055

About one and a half hour of farming and I got it. At two spots outside of the "town", south and east there are mobs patrolling. Sometimes Spell-Thieves, so kill mobs there to have a chance of spawning a Spell-Thieve

Commento di 22831

40 minutes of farming.

Mind you, the droprate also takes into account every single non-enchanter kill. If it "drops" for a non-enchanter they'd never know.

Commento di 8640

Remember that this is bop!! You can't "farm" it and then sell it. Only enchanters will try to obtain this and ofc only once... Took me 44 kils to get it, btw.

Commento di 20299

Wow, I got really luck on this one. 15 seconds before restart it finally droped. I have a theory that I will be checking on these BoP formulas, I farmed these guys hardcore before I was 350 enchanting. My theory is, MAYBE, the drop rate improves once you have the required skill. I killed about 200, then I went and skilled up and hit 350, soon as I got back it droped on the 22nd kill. I could have just got lucky, but I will be testing this theory with the other BoP in blades edge.

Commento di raffaj

Very low drop rate. I had to kill 280 before i got it. I found it best to stand where the Prince was so that way you were close to four of the spawns. These mobs have a very good drop rate of netherweave also, so if your a tailor/enchanter it's all good.

Commento di aiacos

Got it today after 3 days of farming and 301 kills (im a protection warrior).
If are 70 is easy to farm this place cos u can fly behind every mob without aggro all the rest. For what i experienced i suggest this: watching the screenshot posted keep clear te area with circles, especially the circle on the right. A patrol will randomly spawn near another spell-thief, so u have 6 mobs instead of 5!
Good luck everyone...

Commento di 554

Just got mine on my 140'th kill.

I killed 75 lvl 68's and 65 lvl 67's and it dropped off a lvl 68. I don't know if this is a coincedence but when farming sunfury signets i killed 1,400 lvl 68 eradicators and 1,200 lvl 67's. I recieved 5 blues from the 68's and 2 recipies and only recieved green gear from the 67's.

I have a theory that it's the even numbered mobs that drop the good stuff.

Commento di 24999

Do you need to have your enchanting above 350 in order to see this drop? Or just have the enchanting skill?

Commento di 32584

I've spent a few scattered hours doing this before, but today I spent 8 hours camping (only one break to repair) and it finally dropped. Remind me how this is fun?

Commento di ThoSenk

Dropped for me after the 2nd Spell-Thief. I guess I used up my luck for the next two years ;)

Commento di Vachyr

Well I finally got this enchant a few days ago. I went non-stop on it for about two days, netting well over 400 kills in the two days and finally got it to drop.

You will quickly discover the static spawn locations, so just cover those and I would recommend killing the pats out in front of the camp by the road as they sometimes pop the spell-thiefs also. It was actually one of these that I got my enchant off of.

Now to tackle to geomancers.....uck

Commento di 36345

Exactly as the image given here ( https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/screenshot=view&3.22555#17569 ), the spell-thieves spawn. Although I must add that one extra patrol exists occasionally just south of the right-side patrol indicated in the picture, right before the "gate" into the Razaani landing.

I got mine after 117 kills. They are pretty fast to farm, as all locations can have a spell-thief at the same time.

As a mage, it was quite easy to down them very quickly as long as you keep the surrounding areas clear. It is best to clear the areas between their spawn times, as usually following the kill of all the different locations there is a pause between their respawn.
Nothing, except for the patrol locations, seem to share the spawn spot with anything else. No need to "clear" the spawn spots in that sense, but it makes things easier for you once a spell-thief spawns.

The drop-rate % is a tad under 1% as stated, and it occured to at almost that exact rate.

Commento di Wolfeh

It might take a while to get this recipe, but it is worth it in the end. Farmed them for myself and got lucky, if you can call 37 thieves lucky. Then helped a friend and it took about 100 of them.

Right now the enchant does not have any glow connected to it.

Commento di 10013

I got mine on the 11th or so kill, not bad. All depends on luck I guess

Commento di 30594

Took me 142 kills over 2 days. Use the map provided, it works great.

Also, I am confirming that you DO NOT need 350 enchanting for this to drop, as I am only 324.

Had me worried there for a while after I began approaching 150 kills. =P

Commento di Grizlor

Well over 300 kills, still haven't seen it yet. 2 in 23 kills? I wish I had that kind of luck :(

Commento di Itamae

I've been killing these for 3 days now. According to mobinfo I've killed and looted them over 400 times and I still haven't seen it drop. :(

Commento di 42675

As of 2.1, this will drop off of Bash'ir spell thieves (https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/npc=22242)

"Enchant Weapon- "Major Spellpower" enchant has been stolen from the Razaani spell thieves by the Bash'ir spell thieves. The Bash'ir are more likely to have the recipe than the Razaani previously did, however."

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=94849591&postId=947510958&sid=1#0

Commento di Anzael

I starting grinding for this as soon as I hit 350 enchanting... in mid- to late-February. I FINALLY got it mid-April. I probably spent a total of eight or ten hours grinding these guys.

For patch 2.1, this will drop off level 70-71 mobs. This will make the grind a bit harder, although it'll be interesting to see what the new drop rate will be.

Commento di 40199

This chant is really lame to farm.. the pats are really pretty hard and all have abilities which pwn mages hard. I killed about 15-20 and got chant but im lucky ^^

Commento di 47777

I have been farming for over 4 hours. Still no luck, the area is so crowded that it is difficult to farm and added to the low drop rate it really is tough.

Commento di lsgwow

I believe it took me about 20-30 kills before this dropped. Difficult area because of all the adds around.

Commento di Senji

Not sure how many I ended up killing, I got in a groove. 2 hours or so.
4 full stacks of Netherweave cloth, 3 or 4 greens.

Commento di wodelaotian

Farmed it with a 70 hunter, it dropped to us in 25 mins.
Lucky? I'm sure is ^^

Commento di scoOby

70 mage
2 days, 210mobs.. still nothing :(

Commento di 20775

Anyone know what enchanting skill you need to get the BOP recipes to drop? I've been farming this at ~275 skill thinking it'd be easier to get now than after the patch, but no luck after 5-6 hours of farming.

Commento di 36611

Maybe it is just luck but it dropped for me on Dalvengyr today after killing 6 thieves

Commento di Ritavu

The drop rate for this enchant has been increased in the latest patch. I don't know by how much, but I farmed mine up solo in the new location after about 20 minutes.

I spent somewhere around 14 hours farming it the original location with friends prior to the patch with no luck.

Commento di 613

Killed over 200 of the old spell thieves pre-patch and about 75 of these guys now. No recipe drop. Grats to you lucky ones getting it on 3 kills etc. You have no idea how lucky you are.

Commento di 47777

It took me about 100 kills or so at the post 2.1 spot. Before 2.1 I had killed well over 500 and didn't get the drop. Very satisfying to finally have it.

Commento di 61701

I am not convinced that the Raazani actually drops this.

I spent several days killing a few hundred with no luck.

I switched to the other location and killed about 10 Bash'ir to get it.

I definately believe the Bash'ir have a much higher drop rate.

Commento di 6638

25 kills on the Bash'ir thieves. Much better than the last time I took a stab at farming the formula. They're also a lot easier to cherry-pick. Only had to kill an extra 2-3 mobs on each circuit around the 8-10 spawns.

Anecdotally, I'd say the drop rate is a lot better. I found a Depleted Badge that I sold for 2500g too, though, so I think I was just lucky :P

Commento di Pribyl

Got it on first kill Lucky^^

Commento di 60852

Just got mine from a Bash'ir Spell-Thief, think ive killed around 100 of em. Was just about to give up for today :D

Commento di arcanuslink

Got it on 3rd mob xD

Commento di Rebs

Just for anyone wondering, you do not need the skill level required to get this as a drop, as long as you have enchanting of any level.

Commento di 613

Grinded 200+ spell-thieves now and no drop.

Commento di 69302

Definatley an increased drop rate from before, unless I got lucky with my first kill.

Drops from the Bash'ir Spell Thieves in Blades Edge (On the northern most ridge.) 51,14.

Commento di Zabel

The Recipe does not want to drop for me. Ive farmed both Versions of Spell-Theives for 3 days now =[

Commento di 69426

Got mine after the 3rd kill. Extremely good drop rate! =)

Commento di 66591

got mine after 15 Bash'ir Spell Thieves

Commento di 69884

Got mine on 5th kill, Bash'ir Spell Thief dropped it.

Commento di 61101

Took me 161 kills to get it, as the others have said before, drops from Bash'ir Spell-Thieves in BEM
About 0,6% dropchance based on my experience :D
But it do not take that long, most of them can be pulled without clearing around them, just fly around circling the inner area, do not bother with the one out in the open. In this circle there is 14 Spell-Thieves, all either lvl 70 or 71.
As a frostmage (0/0/61) with over 1000 spelldamage I could kill all 14 in the circle, and have a short break to reconjure water every time I came to my start point, before respawns.

In total it took me 2-3 hours to get it, not that bad.

Commento di 71624

Took me about 50 kills. I just kept to the middle of the place (there's a huge rock) and walked around it picking off the spell-thieves with mind blast as shadow priest. Worked well for me.

A couple seconds into the fight they'll put up a 20% magic damage reduction buff, but it's not a huge problem. They have low health (below 6000) and basically never use their magic pool, so they're easy kills for their level.

They also drop Apexis Shards and I guess it was just luck, but I got three random greens from them while I was there apart from the formula.

Commento di 78018

PLZ READ ME.
Forgott about "Razaani Spell-Thief" i farm this guys 5 days, 1346kills no1 formula.
And i understand that unreal, but i haven't fly mount for farm "Bash'ir Spell-Thief". Heh i forgott this way and go to do quest (for money), and now i try do quest Prisoner of the Bladespire. And i die... and i be resurect on Crystal Spine. Kek i kill 5 "Bash'ir Spell-Thief" and recipe drop to me.
IF you haven't fly mount, but gonna take this formuls, go to 62,19 and die(undress 1st), after resurect on graveyard and go go farm =).

Commento di 58652

I farmed the Razaani guys for 3 hours and didn't get a drop. I decided to switch over to the Bash'ir guys since alot of people here said they got their drops from em. So I flew over and started farming and got the drop in an hour. It was nicer farming the Bash'ir guys due to them respawning by the time you make a full circle. You can pull one at a time with no fear of pulling extras.

I definitely recommend farming the Bash'ir guys over the Razaani.

Commento di 46711

Something to note, when you get this enchant on your weapon it only says +40 Spell Damage, I was concerned about this and thought I was given the wrong enchant, but it does in fact give the +40 to healing as well.

Commento di 52563

Well i killed about 40 Razaani Spell-Thief whitout getting it, then i just went to kill some Bash'ir Spell-Thief.. and 2nd kill got it.. so maybe good luck or something, and atm grinding for that Major Intellect recipe..

Commento di 80180

Hate me for it — I got my drop on my 5th Bash'ir Spell Thief. About 10:30 server time, no one else was there. (they also drop netherweave, so at least you get something if not the enchant)

Commento di berbel

Around the 20th kill, defo much better droprate

Commento di 61021

Got this after farming a little bit each day for about 3 days. Got like 5 greens, a lot of cloth and the silver they drop. Dropped of a Bashir spelltheif for me. Pretty easy to get I would say.

Commento di 67552

ok, for a Warlock who hasnt seen any Epics drop or had to run Slabs 7 times for his Greatsword of Horrid Dreams, it is very very ridiculous for it to drop on my 4th ethereal kill. I was at the Bash'ir landing place, just fly around and kill all ethereals u see. now to get my enchanting to 350....

Commento di 87977

i dont know if any1 has experienced this problem, i have been farming the formula from bash'ir spell thieves,the formula dropped, but it wont let me pick it, happened 2 times, and i am an enchanter, skill 360. i dont have the formula or the enchant. would any1 help me plz?

Commento di 38108

I know it's random, but recap says I killed 262 Razaani Spell-Thief over about 3-4 days. I gave up, went to try the Bash'ir Spell-Thief and it dropped 2nd kill.

Commento di Moklar

Only took me around 20 kills in total, 9 Spell thieves - 15 mins or so (after I spent ages to get the major intellect so I guess it is indeed very random.

Commento di brock

is there any way we can get a wowhead mod to correct this entry? ie the razaani vs bashi'ri thing?

Commento di 92706

I did only 3 kills and it appeared..quite lucky
been spending hours in netherstorm for the bracer one and the shadow one, still no drop

Commento di 33173

How to do get this formula pre-70 without a flying mount:

To get there: Ride north up the road in BEM that leads to Netherstorm, and when it veers east toward the bridge into Netherstorm, continue going north to edge of the world. Climb through the blades there on the eastern end of the Crystal Spire area until you get the msg 'Discovered Crystal Spire'. Then suicide or fall off the ledge into space, die, and you'll rez at the Crystal Spire gy. Spirit rez, wait 10min for the rez sickness to wear off, then make your way from the gy west, along the southern border of the ravine, until you get to the Bash'ir camp at the western end.

I did this on my 67 lock to both grind levels there and farm the Major Spellpower recipe, got it after about 2hrs farming it.

What to bring: Lots of buffs, and lots of hit rating gear, since the mobs in this area are 70-72: lots of scroll, pot, elixer, weapon oil, cooked food, etc. buffs. Lots of bandages and stacks of Netherweave to make more, and lots of high lvl vendor food since you'll have a lot of downtime b/t pulls (if you do this at 67, at least). I had +70 hit rating, +600 spell dmg (with buffs), ~8000hp, and had to limit myself to the 70-71 mobs, could barely survive a lvl 72 one. Also, collect Apexis Shards from your kills (most mobs here can drop them, including the Bash'ir), and every 10, go to the Bash'ir Crystalforge just outside the main camp (north side of valley) at 54.4,10.8 and make Unstable Flask of the Sorcerer: https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=32601

Commento di 26219

Confirmed, the Forumla just dropped for me off of a Bash'ir Spell-Thief. You can fly around on your flying mount at Bash'ir Landing, (51,14) in Blade's Edge Mountains and land in safe spots to range pull the Bash'ir Spell-Thiefs to you. It took me about 150 kills to get it, good luck farming.

Commento di 95429

Think i was really lucky..... got mine after 3d kill..from a Bash'ir Spell-Thief :D

Commento di jason15ju

i wanted to kill myself while grinding for this...

300 mobs + it took.. during that time i found about 30g in vender trash, 24g in loot, three on lunaracy (all thought about 200gs worth of crap) and still no drop.. so as i start to leave i kill the last mob to get out of combat and teleport.. low and behold.. it drops the forumlar >.<

anyway... i found the easiest way to see which mobs are the spell-theif's is by the fact they carry a sword rather than an axe, kinda handy/easy to spot from the air.. hope it helps you.. and good luck ^^

Commento di 74790

Killed 4 of the thiefs, got the recipe on the 5th :)

Commento di 37710

Just got it on my 2nd kill. Sorry :(

Commento di 101396

Last night i decided to grind for this formula so i preperd myself for some hours of grinding, i landed with my flying mount at the right spot.

Killed 1 mob and i got it on my first kill( Bash'ir Spell-Thief). So for me the drop rate was 100% abit luck tho ;)

Commento di 101701

Got this from my first spell-thief as well.....maybe they changed the droprate? Or maybe pure luck :)

Commento di muaddib84

67 shadow priest

i got there by going the way fbg111 said and i could get onto the plateu without dying

made my way to the Bash'ir camp and i got it within about 10 kills

Commento di purpLe

Got mine on 13th kill and i think im so lucky ;)

Commento di 104627

Went to farm this morning for the enchant. Got it on my second pull off a spell thief. Hubby got it last night after about 30-40 minutes of farming.

Commento di Leika

I started to farm... and in my 5th kill I saw the formula. Ye, now it's easier to get it than before.

Commento di 54002

The Drop rate is correct... i can see some people farming this forever and never getting it... others like LEIKA got lucky.... worth the Farming... Expanding on my Enchanting is Never a Bad investment of time as it diddnt cost me Anything...

some Mobs will drop more then 25s... Along with vendor Trash... making this Spot Nice for Jumping in and Killing things Profitable

i found That Standing on the Spikey Mounds behind them and using my imp to pull them into Range Was the Best Way to Kill alot of them... if you have a Mage Friend Snake a Few hundred Mana Biskutz as you will be There a While...

~Gothik~ Destro Lock

Commento di 105402

so, does this till drop from the ba'shir mobs in 2.3 ?

Commento di 102467

I got mine on my 14th kill.
There were 2 horde mages there grinding against. It took about 30 minutes.

Commento di 92129

I just got mine. Took me about 2,5 hours to farm it, which was a pain. Luckily I bumped into a spriest 20 minutes through who was kind enough to help me speed things up. God bless players like that.

Commento di msco

Took me some 3 hours of grinding split in 2 days, about 300+ kills...horrible...these statistics are...well, statistics...0.7% (corrected probably to 2-3% cause only enchanters see that) can also mean 20 out of 1000, or 200 out of 10.000 kills, which mean you could theoretically end up killing 9800 mobs then have it drop 200 times in a row...but that's statistics...

Commento di 8489

Got it on my 2nd kill.... *hides*

Commento di 89935

I believe the drop rate is higher than what WoWhead says. It took me and another mage around 20 minutes to get two, and a guildie who grinded it also told me it only took him 20 minutes. I think it shows such a low rate as it doesn't drop for non-enchanters :) I'm guessing this was between 30-40 kills as we just AOE pulled most of the area.

Commento di Viper23rd

It dropped for me after about 2 hours and 20-40 minutes of farming.
Very happy it dropped for me as I no longer have to ask other enchanters. :>

Commento di 74124

54,14 location.
got me exactly 15 mins to drop.

Commento di alchemist

thank God it took me 12 kills
coz i was farming them while holy specd :)

Commento di 124773

I can confirm this dropped today after about 8 Bash'ir Spell-Thief kills. There is an area where there are 5 spell thief spawns in the southernmost "doorway" if you are heading west. Cleared that area twice before it dropped. Took about 15 minutes.

Commento di 40444

Farmed for 2 hours, killing only Bash'ir Spell-Thief and Arcanists with my Warlock. Still haven't seen it drop. All you people who got it quickly suck. :P

Commento di 50558

Took over 2 hours and exactly 134 Spell-Thief kills before it finally dropped.

I don't know why Enchanting recipie rareness is held to a higher standard than anything else - green recipies are as rare as other blues, and blue recipies are as rare as BoE epics. I cleared Karazhan every week for 9 months and only ever saw one enchanting recipie (Soulfrost) drop, and nothing else.

Commento di dmpbarn

I just went there to farm it.. Got it on my first kill. :)

Commento di 120481

Fell off the first Bash'ir Spell-Thief I killed.

Commento di 109111

Dropped on first kill , was kinda lucky haha

Commento di 19897

Took me 50-60 kills to get it, less than what it took me on my last enchanter to get it from the Razzani.

Commento di 128924

Dropped second kill ^^ total farming time = 5 mins lol, off the Bash'ir Spell-Thief. good luck :)

Commento di Zaitak

Confirmed. The drop rate is alot higher then stated on Wowhead.
I was prepared to farm for this for an hour or two.. but I got it on my first kill. Thanks for ruin the fun, Blizzard :p

Commento di 87098

The reason the rate drop is so low, is because this is a BoP formula, therefore only enchanter are able to see the drop.

If a person with the wowhead looter doesnt have enchanter as a profession, he will not see it, and the wowhead will regist his kills for the rate.

We cant be sure on the % of the drop of this formula, it took me about an hour, but with the formula for +30 intelect it was very quick to drop. i would say 5% but we cant be sure.

The rate on all BoP one tip of mob drop formulas is higher than was is stated on wowhead. heres some of them:
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=22533
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=22554
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=22533
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=22544
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=22551

Commento di 136055

I just got it after about 40 kills on Blackhand. Not bad at all.

Commento di Kerotan

Dropped from Bash'ir Spell-Thief first time whilst waiting for afk tank ;)

Commento di 62313

Got mine after less than 20 minutes farming..

Guess i was lucky ^^

Commento di Evilblobs

After the hours i've spent grinding for this pattern, that 0.8% drop chance is looking to be desired

Commento di 128534

got it after 45 kills - just a note, if you are circling the area by bird to spot the spellthieves, make sure you don't run into Furywing . He got me twice hehe but then again, i got my recipe )

Commento di 65022

I would like to add that yes the drop rate IS higher then listed.

The distortion you see is due to it only dropping for enchanters.

Commento di 17463

Took me 83 kills. Seems kinda high compared to everyone else, but I'm actually happy because I killed over 200 Bloodmaul Geomancers months ago before giving up on Formula: Enchant Bracer - Spellpower

Commento di 146721

Farmed for about 30 mins, was about to leave and it dropped :)

Commento di vensan2962

Gain at 57 druid, boosted by 70 shadow priest... It's took about 3 hours grinding.

Commento di toreador

I guess I got lucky as well. Got it on 3rd kill on my mage!

Commento di 149700

I just wanted to say that I too believe that things have changed as far as how often this recipe drops. I killed probably ten Spell- Thiefs last night and then today I logged in and killed only 3 and got it!!! I was sooo excited I screamed. I started killing around 54 15 and approached the Spell Thiefs in that area pulling one at a time. I am a 70 warlock and my name is Chelm on Hellscream... Thanks and good luck....

Commento di 31445

just got this on my 26th spell thief kill, was resigned to a 0.6% drop rate :) am 69 warlock, followed the directions for <70 and they worked perfectly, thanks guys info helped me out a great deal

Commento di 62118

does being in a group affect the drop

Commento di blackone

I kept killing and killing for about an hour. then I did a long <Sigh> because ppl are saying it dropped for them in 20mins. and I was unlucky there okay? so what I did is a break. i put afk then went to bring a drink, when I got back it dropped from the first mob i killed ;) yay.

Commento di 35553

308 kills. Just dropped. Be warned. :D

Commento di 153265

Dropped off the 4th spell-thief I killed, just now. :)

Commento di 156180

2000 kills of just the spell thiefs alone and no drop, very annoying have max level enchanting skill as well, over 200 apexis shards though. Lucky if you got this early on,

Commento di Spitti3

Dropped on my 90th kill (Spellthief).

Didn't farm for it, just cleared the spellthieves a few times every day while being there for the SSO daily.

Commento di 15605

Got this with little over an hour of farming. Expect to also get many greens, stacks of netherweave cloth, tons of apexis shards, and a healthy dose of Super Health/Mana pots.

Well worth the (hopefully short) grind.

Commento di 65062

Drop rate is higher than listed on the site.
This is because Wowhead takes into account kills of the mobs by people who can't see the plan.
Will drop for enchanters of any level
Killing the Arcanists and Raiders will not cause Spellthieves to spawn in their spots
Good Luck

Commento di thetard

got all rdy for a long grind for this recipe. Cleared my instance schedule and all. Got it on 4th kill.

Commento di 60332

Dropped in 3 kills for me....yea, back flips and cart wheels..

Commento di dirkraft

Another count to add to the list: 65-ish kills (1 hour-ish); I've had worse.

Commento di clinia

I belive the drop rate is high for this one. it took 10min = 14 mobs to get it.

Commento di 167834

well i dont if it was just lucky but i got the recipe on the 11th kill of spell-thief, it was rly fast, maybe just lucky =P

Commento di 29281

Gave up after 3 and a half hours, 400 kills. I'll try again another time when they aren't being so stingy. Oddly enough I ended up with a boatload of prison keys - 15 during my run. Also 8 greens, 15 stacks of netherweave cloth and a half dozen greys. Now if they could drop the damn recipe I'd be happy.

Competition isn't bad in this area now. Since most people are exalted with Shattered Sun, only die hard daily quest runners or alts are running this area now. I was here on friday night and only ran into 6 people the entire time, and they were all doing the daily so they 'phased' after a few kills'.

It should be noted that these spell-thief mobs have FIXED spawn points. They will always spawn at the same spots, which is good and bad. Good in that you know where they will be, and bad in that it means there are a fixed number of mobs that can be up at any one time. So feel free to skip other mobs, as it won't affect how many spawn. I counted 14-15 in total across the area in question.

Commento di 117994

Lucky for me I guess, I was on my usual daily trip, and the formula dropped for me, a pleasant surprise. It was only the third or fourth time i had done the "Maintaining the Portals" daily, so i couldnt have killed to many of the things before that.

Just do your daily's and good things will come, i have gotten a couple blue Jewel Crafters formulas that sold for about 180g ea off the Island daily's.

Commento di Allakhazam

and actually the 70 flying around on his mount never was able to a single kill away from me, I just stood in the back center and kept the area clear...killed the prince twice, about 8 raiders and other, and 5 spell-thieves

US LLANE server, /w thrillrat

Commento di Allakhazam

Went out on my 65 alt with tons of water and ready to farm for hours... Got it on the second kill and was on my way. Ha, lucky me

Commento di Allakhazam

Only took like 20 hours or so before it dropped.. :<
Azléa @ EU Dunemaul can do this enchant, Horde side.

Commento di Allakhazam

22nd kill for me it drops, Pretty easy mobs, the level 72's are kinda tough.

70 Prot Pally

Commento di Allakhazam

Around 10th kill =]
5 People in my guild went up there and we got 3 drops in around 2 hours of farming. There was no one else up there farming the entire time.

Commento di Allakhazam

I got mine after about 1 and 30 mins of farming - not too bad

Frostmane Horde -- Playtek

Commento di Allakhazam

after 5-6 hours farming it finally dropped..

First thing I ever grinded that long for, and it's worth it imo.

Hammertje on Kul Tiras (alliance)

Commento di Allakhazam

Got mine the other day. Probably 100 or so kills over 2 days. Once I learned the spawn points of the thieves it was down to competitive farming, although the undead priest I was competing with had gone by the time it dropped.

Beats winter's might any day, though I'll probably wait till I get one of the +121 dmg swords/daggers rather than use it on my +85 dmg time-shifted dagger.

Commento di Allakhazam

I was farming for 2 hours. I gave up. watched a movie and decide to try it one more time. First kill dropped. Then of course blizzards screws with everyone. I CANT LOOT IT!

Commento di Allakhazam

i went and bought the talisman, and it dropped on the 4th kill. this thing really DOES work.

Commento di Allakhazam

got it after 10 hours grinding as well as 2 nice blue items :D. So if you need the enchant, Snakebert on Bronze Dragonflight (Horde) is willing to do it :)

Commento di Allakhazam

Grinded for 1,5 hour before it dropped for my alt mage. Got some nice cash, loads of Netherweave Cloth and Depleted Cloth Bracers and since the mobs drops Apexis Shard's, I got 50 of them and could upgrade it to Crystalweave Bracers the same evening.
Not bad for my alt ;)
Asteroid on Kazzak (alli) can make the enchant

Commento di Allakhazam

saw how some people got these chants easily, and usually, i'm like a lot of you, takes me AGES to get the damn things I want. Took the advice of Alla, went for the Spell-Thiefs, and sure enough the drop rate was right on. 4th kill and I got it. Had about the same luck with my pally as an engineer getting her 2.3 schems easily. maybe they upped the drop rate? who knows, but time to make my rod so I can get to power lvling!

Commento di Allakhazam

Took 45 mins of no-downtime killing for this to drop off a Bash'ir Spell-Thief. Flew around and killed any that I saw; killed approximately 30-35 in that time. Loc all around 52,14. Took about 2 mins less than the +30int enchant.

Commento di Allakhazam

Farmed for this twice, first time I was grouped with a shadowpriest and with no downtime killing, took us about 6 hours before we decided to give up. Tried again today, after 50 minutes of non-stop killing, it dropped. Spoke to several people, and it seems that no one has managed to get this while grouped - probably just a coincidence, thought I'd share it anyway.

Commento di Allakhazam

omfg just dropped from 1st mob >.<

can do it Magtheridon, /w Nacd

Commento di Allakhazam

Got it after 3 (45 min) sessions, 4th trip, dropped first kill. Pain in the butttt! And there was plenty of competition for these guys on my server

Commento di Allakhazam

Got mine after 4 hours of steady farming, first session. Early morning when I did it so no competition.

Commento di Allakhazam

Got on first kill guess im just one of the hateful people you hear about :)

Commento di Allakhazam

Dropped on the 4th Bashir spell theif, I was beginning to think it was my luckiest night ever, farming 30 int, 15 shadow resist and this, all dropped after very few kills. Im starting to wonder if Blizzard didn't drastically increase the drop rates on a bunch of these recipes.

Although after 3 hours i still cant get 12 def to bracer to drop...

Commento di Allakhazam

Can do this enchant on the Tich server alliance side, PST scelestus ingame if you would like it. thanks

Commento di Allakhazam

took me 2 days of grindin for 3-4 hours but i can do it now! msg Korom on the horde, Argent Dawn if ya need :P

Commento di Allakhazam

I farmed for a total of 8 hours over a 5 day stretch. On my final day, the pattern dropped off of my 17th kill.
I had a lot of greens drop and a couple blues. Tonnes of cloth too. Overall, not disappointed with the length of time I farmed. Made tonnes of G off the greens, blues, and cloth.

Commento di Allakhazam

First farm attempt, 20 min in, killed maybe 10-15 of them, it's mine... haven't even got me runed arcanite rod yet! :) Just thought I'd try before they moved the recipe to the higher level mobs.

Commento di Allakhazam

I concentrated on the ones out front and it worked. On the eighth kill, I got the weapon enchant. If anyone on Burning Blade would like a spellpower enchant, pst.
Regards,
Orrek

Commento di Allakhazam

Decided I'd have a quick farm before work this morning. Fly up there and start looking around not wanting to have to fight every mob in the area. Get shot down by something, but luckily into a safe area. See a Bash'ir Spell-Thief in front of me and what do you know drops first kill :D

*one happy enchanter*

Commento di Allakhazam

got this nice enchant ,which is imo cheaper than +30spelldmg, from a mob in blade edge mountains,near Toshley's station

Commento di Allakhazam

and anyone know the ratio for it?

Edited, Jan 24th 2007 9:54pm by Parison

Commento di Allakhazam

Mine fell from a Spell-Theif in Razaan's Landing :)
I hope this helps!

Cords are around 66.44 in the Blade's Edge Mountains.

Commento di Allakhazam

Got it today after about 250kills. got a druid who helped med this second day off grinding and he wasent able to roll on the formula since he dont got enchanting. so Only enchanters can get this pattern. Droped from the Spell-Thiefs

Commento di Allakhazam

I got mine after 4 days of farming. Maybe I had been killed over 1000 spell-thiefs. The problem of the area is, this is one of the questing area. For my 4 days of farming, I usually beg the alliance who came to do the qeust not to kill the spell-thiefs or I can party with them to help them quest. However, some people just insane! I had met some people who not kill whatever they seem killable but also trying to compete with me on those spell-thiefs i targeted. I know, it's just one of them out of like 40-50 ppl i met in that area. However, it's worse enough that i rather just call the day and do something else. Also, as there're about 4 static spawn spots and couple random one out there. If we have more than 1 person farming that area, I will just leave as it's definitely not worth the long waiting time. Especially, if another competitor is in opposite faction in a pvp server who may have friends coming to take care of you :)

Anyway, it's a very good enchant before those raid drop and just keep in faith then eventually you will get it :)

By the way, anyone in Tichondrius alliance side want the enchant, PST Szesze. Thanks :P

Commento di Allakhazam

Is this really Bind on Pickup?

Commento di Allakhazam

Thanks for telling that..
After 9 Ehternium Prison Keys, several greens, 1 blue and 5 hours farming I was about to quit..

Commento di Allakhazam

TWO HOURS.

still no drop.

we finaly said screw it and went home.

Commento di Allakhazam

is there any glowing effect from this

Commento di Allakhazam

does it have an visual effect on the item?

Commento di Allakhazam

Enchant drop rate sucks. It does drop from Razaani Spell-Thiefs, only 5 in the camp. Also learned that only enchanters can loot it, found that out because in an instance, only a blacksmith could loot a pattern, no one else got to roll on it. one last thing, Formula: Enchant Weapon - Major Spellpower is BOP, sorry farmers who will try and sell it, enchanter farmers only :D

Commento di Allakhazam

If anyone can do this at Turalyon alliance-side, let me know :-]

Edited, Jan 30th 2007 7:48am by Queltime

Commento di Allakhazam

Can do on alliance side on Medivh Toon : Repoman :)

Commento di Allakhazam

356 kill

Commento di Allakhazam

I farmed this place for days killing only thieves. Finally late tonight when I had it all to myself I got it to drop after about 3 hours farming. Can do this enchant for ya on Twistering Nether (Alliance) Helps alot if you have a flying mount or stealth..you can just stealth from thief to thief or drop down on them from flying.

Commento di Allakhazam

I was 2 boxing these guys for 3 days straight. 4 1/2 hrs the first day, 3 hrs the next day, and yesterday for about 2 hrs. My rogue was doing the killing and picking up loot, my pally (who is the enchanter) was just standing back healing. I was looting from rogue an was moving to the next spot where the dude spawns and felt like giving my rogue a heal. I switched over to pally and healed and noticed that there was still loot on the body. So I walk over and low and behold, the enchant is there!

Conclusion:
-Only enchanters can pick up the enchant.
-Unless your very lucky, you will be spending 8 to 10 hrs to farm this enchant.
-Good luck getting this with all the competition. Who knows if the horde that kept on stealing my kills got it in the first hour or two...
-Make sure you farm with a healing class. Mob aggro is a pain even at lvl 70.

Edited, Feb 28th 2007 2:41pm by mongrolman

Commento di Allakhazam

gotit after 8 kills 8)

Nymphalidae @ Burning Steppes EU

Commento di Allakhazam

Me and a friend of mine decided to go farm this, I got mine on the 12th kill and he got his on the 24th. Took a little under an hour.

Commento di Allakhazam

FIRST KILL! ROFL

this must reallllly be my lucky day cuz i also got my Pattern for Spellstrike Pants xD

Commento di Allakhazam

I was actually farming the +12 defense enchant on bracers, but I got bored of that after a few days of farming. I decided to go get some other BoP enchants first. I went to BEM and after killing 7 Bash'ir Spell-thieves I got my drop.

Shortly after I also got the +15 spelldamage on bracers from the Bloodmaul Geomancers ^.^

Commento di Allakhazam

Got this after about 20 min of grinding. whoo hoo off to the bank.

Commento di Allakhazam

I can do this enchant. Insight on the Thrall server horde side.

Commento di Allakhazam

I was at 72 kills with nothing to show for it but some cloth and 1 green. #73 dropped Crystal Pulse Shield The next one dropped the formula :)

Commento di Allakhazam

detheroc horde, digidydotdot can do

Commento di Allakhazam

Got mine on my very first kill! Stole the tag from a fellow mage. I wonder if it would have dropped for him.

Commento di Allakhazam

Got mine tonight ^_^ took 21 minutes to drop and i just farmed this one small area (53,13) And no i did not have that talisman of trash on either.

Nefertem (Alliance) on Eredar can now do the enchant, pst me with your mats and its free =D

Commento di Allakhazam

Everyone's comment are right on the money... it is a pretty common drop. I set out for a long day of farming and got it on the 20th kill or so. :P

Commento di Allakhazam

where do you get this?

Commento di Allakhazam

I can do it. PM shawarma on aman'thul

Commento di Allakhazam

Iwas farming this when i was bored every odd day for 1-2hrs. found it today 1hr in, nice chant and mas arnt that,that, bad.

If anyone wants this on Eldre'Thalas PST Frozt Alliance Side

Commento di Allakhazam

Farmed for 2 hours today, killed a lot, got some netherweave :D, no luck ...
Came back here and read about the talisman (Talisman of True Treasure Tracking). Lol, at lvl 70, 35g is no big deal, so i went to buy it.
Came back, formula dropped at 4th spell-thief!
:)

Commento di Allakhazam

well after farming spell power to bracers for 3hrs wich i got i came to farm this and it dropped after 1hr. It's good day, flying mount helps land at spell-thief smack hima round move on. I have this on khadgar pm Underversed (fade to black). Off to get my speed and stam to boots hope luck keeps going XD

Commento di Allakhazam

I have this on Burning Blade(Alliance) give me a whisper, Balthezarx 70 Warlock

Commento di Allakhazam

The chant gives no glow. Come on Blizzard!

Commento di Allakhazam

after about 20 - 30 kills I got it:D

make sure:

- You ONLY kill the Razaani Spell-Thief only those dropp it.
- You must have enchanting do get it.
- It is BOP.
- You DON'T have to have 350+ skill, I got it when I had 291 enchanting skill.
- It's help alot if you got flying mount so you can fly around and look for spell thiefs, they walk around.
Think thats it;)

Zangor > Turalyon horde side can make it, EU server.

Commento di Allakhazam

1. Went to Shat
2. Bought Talisman of True Treasure
3. Went to Bash'ir Landing
4. Dropped on 1st kill!

'nuff said

- oSc

Commento di Allakhazam

farmed the razaani spell thieves for about hour, but nothing, so I changed places and it dropped on tenth kill from bashir spell thief

Commento di Allakhazam

It took me a little less than an hour to get this. I'll do this enchant free to Horde on Skywall if you have mats. PST Wahota.

Commento di Allakhazam

At my first try for farming this I killed more mobs than I could keep count of during four and a half hour before I gave up.

A couple of days later (a saturday) I went up there quite early in the morning with my sights set to farm all day if I had to.

To by big surprise it dropped on the first kill! :D

With a stated droprate of 0,76% above you'd have to kill ~131,57 mobs to be guaranteed a drop. With the mobs I killed the first day that could actually be quite right (not that it's "saved" for me or anything like that, just statistically), since I'm a prot pala, thus not killing each mob very quickly and I also had some minor pauses for loo, grabbing a bite, manabreak etc.

Now, when facing Karazhan, I'm looking forward to lay my hands on the Moongoose formula. :p

Commento di Allakhazam

Realm: Kult der Verdammten
Fraktion: Horde
Verzauberer: Rokh

Commento di Allakhazam

Holly crap.
First thing i kill it drops.

Horde Marcin - Malygos

Edited, Oct 11th 2007 6:37pm by Volcomskate

Commento di Allakhazam

Took me about 30 mins to get, did a few circles over the place swooping down on any spell thief i saw.

I'd say i killed about 20.

Commento di Allakhazam

Drops off the Razaani Spell-Thiefs in Blades Edge Mountains(35,47).
I got mine off my very first kill O.O .. just incredibly lucky I guess?

You do not have to be 350 enchanting for it to drop for you, b/c I was 346 when I got it. You must also have enchanting for it to drop as it is bop.

I don't now what the glow is yet, but I will post it when I do my first enchant with it.

Commento di Allakhazam

i pulled 3 at the same time with SoC and it dropped twice, to bad its BoP

Commento di Allakhazam

I started farming from 3pm and by 9pm I still havent seen it drop. Must have killed hundreds of Bash'ir Spell-Thieves. My bag is full of cloth and greens but not a single formula in sight.

Commento di Allakhazam

2 hours and i DID that. it finally dropped from a 100+ mob.. phooh, happy now))
Udacho!

Commento di Allakhazam

1st kill woot =)

Commento di Allakhazam

Just got it today after an hour's farming. ironically I was about to leave and it dropped off of the last guy I was going to kill before I left. Lucky me.

Commento di Allakhazam

30th Kill. Its kind of annoying since spell thiefs are not a lot.
If you need the enchant Pst me Cadi Alliance EU Dentrag

Commento di Allakhazam

Contrary to all you lucky folks that "read where it was got it 1st kill!111", I had to farm my butt off for this. Yes, it does drop off the Razzani Spell-Thiefs.

At least it's BoP so it won't be camped by gold farmers.

FYI I probably spent about 15 hours non-stop farming this thing...got tons of enchanting mats from greens that dropped and about 50 stacks of Netherweave as well, so it's not a total loss. If you grind here in your high 60s, you'll get a fair amount of XP which leaves more quests available for cash rewards at 70 as well.

Annaphylaxia on Horde Silver Hand has this enchant.

Commento di Allakhazam

This has got to be the worst thing i have ever farmed for...10 hours and nothing so far...and it doesnt help when there's idiots everywhere who tag everything i go after.

Commento di Allakhazam

i was farming bloodmaul geomancers for about 3 hrs for the formula enchant bracers + 15 spell dmg, and the place was bugged or smth, because only skirmishers were spawning, so angry and pissed i decided to switch farming places to try the razaani spell thieves: it dropped at the first kill :) , all the trouble i went through for the damn bracers enchant was well worth it

Carcass <Barbarians> 70 Ud mage, horde - Kilrogg EU, whisper me if you need the ench, the mats are very easy (8 large prism shards and 8 greater planar essences)

gl , bai

Edited, Feb 8th 2007 11:16am by dantekk

Commento di Allakhazam

damn thing finally dropped 6:47 PM server time. 2:47 AM US EST. dropped off a lvl 68 one. 64th one of those id killed combined with another 64 of the lvl 67 ones. 128th in total

Commento di Allakhazam

Karthyse, Zangarmarsh Alliance side

Commento di Allakhazam

Just got this on Bronzebeard EU- horde

If you want it /w licher

Commento di Allakhazam

As of 2.1, they NO LONGER DROP FROM RAZAANI SPELL-THIEVES. I capitalize just to highlight the importance of this statement so you do not waste hours farming there.

Farm at Bash'ir camp only. YOu probably will get it very fast there. Took me 8 kills.

Commento di Allakhazam

Took me about an hour to get it.
Roughly 70 or 80 mobs i would say.

Commento di Allakhazam

someone know if is drop or what?

Commento di Allakhazam

421 kills to get mine =\

Commento di Allakhazam

And I thought farming for Crusader was bad...

Yeah this is pretty awful to farm for. I finally got my formula after God knows how long farming those stupid Spell Thieves.

Anyways, I can do this enchant on Arygos. Horde side, send whisper to Haloblack.

Commento di Allakhazam

Can anyone confirm if this might drop off the Bash'ir Spell-Theives as well? Everytime I checked nobody farms the Bash'ir camp so I would assume it might drop off those ones too it just hasn't because nobody spends the time there. I hate to waste hours faming only to find out it's only the Razaani ones that drop it :P

Edited, Feb 1st 2007 7:35am by wingzeroone

Commento di Allakhazam

Machismo on Hakkar can do this enchant. Message me if you need it.

Commento di Allakhazam

Got mine after farming it for 4 hours, i was all alone.

Can craft it horde side at Grim batol, pm Erixn :)

Commento di Allakhazam

got mine after 5 mins:D

Commento di Allakhazam

It took me 15-20 kills. I might´ve been lucky, but usually I´m not. So enchanters... Farm it, its easy and worth it!

EDIT: May I also remind you that I was wearing Talisman of True Treasure Tracking while farming for it. It does actually work. Blizzard wouldn´t ask for you to pay 32g for an item that is useless. Give it a try. Can be bought in Shattrath in Lower City - around the tailor specialists.

Link to the item: Talisman of True Treasure Tracking]Edited, Mar 15th 2007 7:59am by ronniefranke

Commento di Allakhazam

70 shadow priest on gurubashi
got it second kill..gg, same day as i got 30 int recipe

Commento di Allakhazam

Took maybe 40 minutes.

Flying really tends to help, 69 Druid FTW! =]

But patch 2.1 is making the other clan of spell-theifs drop it too

Commento di Allakhazam

As of the upcoming patch 2.1, these will no longer be found on the Razaani Spell-Thieves, but instead on the Bash'ir Spell-Thieves, at Bash'ir landing, also in Blade's Edge. To reach them, you must be flight capable. It is north of Gruul's Lair, to the far west of the shelf. The drop rate is (supposably) going to be improved greatly, but you will need to be 70 (or a druid 68+) to get. So all you lower levels, might wanna try farming for these now, or you'll have to wait.

Bash'ir Spell-Thief:
Bash'ir Spell-Thief

Commento di Allakhazam

Had been farming for days on end on the old location, no luck.... Now with patch 2.1 dropped after about 10 spell-thieves !

Commento di Allakhazam

Not to much time for farming, but here's the results:

Monday, 11pm server - 16 kills no drop
Tuesday, 9:30 server - 8 kills no drop
Wednesday, 10pm server - 19th kill - DROP

So, recap: Kill #43 off Bash'ir Spell Thieve

Commento di Allakhazam

4 kills at the Bash'ir area... heh.

Commento di Allakhazam

Here is what the effect looks like. Plus little yellow sparkles which aren't seen in the picture.

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i816087_Spellpowerenchant.JPG

Here's the weapon without the enchant for comparison.

The Bringer of Death

Commento di Allakhazam

I have been here grinding in three separate occasions and no luck, I have been @ 64 almost 65, half way through 65 and again @ 66. I like this area as just north is the mote of fire that drops tons. Keeping fingers crossed.

Commento di Allakhazam

10 mobs and i got the recipe :D maybe i'm lucky maybe u are not :P

Commento di Allakhazam

If your on Spirestone /t Idol for this enchant.

Commento di Allakhazam

Did u even read the top ? It sais what mob drops it.

Ontopic : I got mine after 4 grinding sessions spread over 2days. All-in-all about 8hrs of grinding, out of wich half the time i had company of ppl that wanted it too :p BUT ITS MINE ^^

Commento di Allakhazam

finaly dropped after 148kills 68 lvl 68 & 80 lvl 67..only god knows how happy i am :P

Commento di Allakhazam

Farmed a whole night, no drop. Came to read on here, bought the talisman to see if it was rly a scam or not. Got the enchant on 5th drop =/ Now i keep wondering if it was rly the talisman or just plain dumb luck. Argh :P

Commento di Allakhazam

Hu want this Enchants on Sprogger realm
Alliance side , /w Takas

Commento di Allakhazam

Got this after 5 kills.
Has been my lucky week also got Major intellect after 15 minutes.

Seek out Erniedingo on Icecrown if you need the enchants. (Alliance)

Commento di Allakhazam

Super easy kills for 70 rogue.

10th kill dropped it.

Commento di Allakhazam

This Item dropped for me before I finished the quest - Recipe for Destruction would say total about 20 kills, maybe less.

Commento di Allakhazam

Dropped for me in Ayaan's Landing in Blade's Edge. Can make this on EU-Ravencrest, Alliance side.

Commento di Allakhazam

i got this from a mob in Razaani's Landing in Blade's Edge

Commento di Allakhazam

I also must not be as lucky as some of you guys who got this pattern so easily. Took me about 10 hours of farming the same 5 mobs over 2 days only to finally get it off a level 68 (the one that spawns on the bottom behind the portal and to it's right). Hope the rest of you have an easier time getting it than I did. Good luck!

Commento di Allakhazam

4 hours first day
20 mins today
woot

Commento di Allakhazam

Got it last week, i can make it

Derin / Alliance / Arathor-EU

Commento di Allakhazam

15 kills and I had one

Commento di Allakhazam

Though the drop rate is low, its not that bad, good place to farm.

Farmed it last night on Scarlet, I wish I were lucky enough to be posting a "I killed but X of them and it dropped, ha-ha, I'm cooler than you" Rather, I killed nearly 300 of them before it dropped. Got over 200 Netherweave Cloth, 10 or so greens, and after selling vendor trash, came back with about 130g. You'll also want to snag the Wraith things there whenever you can because they almost always drop a Mote of Mana. Its profitable enough I might just go back and farm there.

Oh, and I was kinda confused as to where they drop, its the Bash'ir Spell-Thief's that you want... Not those other !@#$%s... Wasted like half an hour before I figured that out.

Commento di Allakhazam

Killed 75 spell thieves and it dropped for me. Now I'm off to farm the bloodmaul for the bracer enchant.

Commento di Allakhazam

dropped after about 20min farming off of a Bash'ir Spell Thief
loc 51-16

Commento di Allakhazam

The drop rate seems quite common, got it after killing 15 bashir's spell-thieves.

Commento di Allakhazam

I got this enchant and it does nothing visual to your wep

Commento di Allakhazam

I read where to get it, went there, killed 30 of them and got my enchant. just need the skill lvl now. There are 4 spawn points for the spell-thiefs, 2 spawn at 1 place with one of them doing a patrol. I just hoverd over the big ring in the middle of the camp, from there I could see 3 of the spawn points.

enchant skill 310 as of Jan 30th give me some time and ill be able to do the enchant, I also have +40 int to weapon

Nammo - Blackwatch Revolution - Balnazzar EU

Edited, Jan 30th 2007 7:12am by Nammo

Commento di Allakhazam

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Edited, Feb 1st 2007 7:34am by wingzeroone

Commento di Allakhazam

Dropped for me. Crazypriest on Darksorrow(Horde)

Commento di Allakhazam

Farmed it 6 hours and 160k unrested XP yesterday, part of the time with a friend. Didn't drop.

This morning I figured "I have 4 hours, might as well try to farm it and grind some XP", rode to the camp and saw a lone spell-stealer outside the camp... and he dropped it. Took me about 15 seconds of farming today.

A lucky and happy troll here, Arathor (EU).

Commento di Allakhazam

So i was farming these guys for like 30min so i decided to look on allakhazam. I saw a post about that talisman of treasure or whatever...i went and bought it just to see if it works. 5 kills after i bought the necklace this pattern dropped

Commento di Allakhazam

Talisman doesn't work its BS and a waste of 35 gold i killed over 200 and no drop

Commento di Allakhazam

Seems strange to me that whenever I went to farm up my patterns for enchanting... none would EVER drop for me until I had the skill to USE THE ENCHANT. Once I was the right skill to do the enchant, the pattern seemed to drop pretty easily, within 30 or so kills for the 4 patterns I went farming for.

Seems strange to me that I killed hundreds before I was 350 skill and no drop, but a mere 25-30 kills after I hit 350 skill and it drops.

Anyone else think it's a coincidence?

Ever since, I have made sure I can use the enchant, and I get my patterns in a decent timeframe.

Commento di Allakhazam

I did it, 12th kill, but I farmed the bracer spell power for 5 hours and gave up, so....try it tho!

happy chappy here. hehhe

Commento di Allakhazam

I can make this on Moonglade (EU)
/w Timethriller.

Commento di Allakhazam

5 hours of farming - heps alot having a flying mount :)

Commento di Allakhazam

I can do this on Kirin Tor realm for the horde so whisper me or send me an in game mail so we can work out the details.

Commento di Allakhazam

I can do this on Turalyon just /w Deluzion horde side.

Commento di Allakhazam

Day 1 : holy priest farming 90 kills nothing
Day 2 : retrain ;) Shadow priest 110 kills nothing
Day 3 : 68 kills ( 268 Total Kills ) droped .. damn i hate to be enchanter :( so many time waste

Commento di Allakhazam

Droped from first. I am so happy ^^

Commento di Allakhazam

Got all set for a long grind, dropped on the first kill!

Commento di Allakhazam

Farmed this a while ago and it took me at least 10 hours... :(
Having said that, the Bracer Spellpower enchant took me 15 minutes.

Commento di Thottbot

BlxFrostwhisper, Yes it does drop when you are not skilled enough. And that goes for other BoP tradeskill related things aswell.

Commento di Thottbot

I'd never successfully farmed an enchant, including the hours and hours I spent trying Crusader, until I got the +15 spell damage to bracers off of the second geomancer I killed (I chalk this up to Crusader karma). Then I ran off to kill Sunfury Researchers, and after maybe four hours pulled off the +30 int to weapons. -I'm still L 67, and did both of these solo.

I've put in about 4 hours trying these guys so far with no luck, but that's the odds for you! Besides, if you really go out and farm every single enchant you can, you're bound to have at least one go well I figure.

These guys are particularly painful though (I have to imagine especially at L 67), you get totally overrun with mobs if you're not careful. Always take the time to kill the stupid slimy little things, they may be yellow now, but they're just waiting for you to engage two other mobs before they attack.

Commento di Thottbot

just to add something to it...the patrols outside the camp seems to share spawnpoint between the 3 different kind of razaani mobs there is, so killing them migth spawn a spell-thief as well...:)

Commento di Thottbot

before you start farming for this make sure you are an enchanter! why do i say this? because i have encountered several people who said they were trying to get it for guildmates. people it is a BOP item, which means once you get it, it's yours, soulbound, untradeable etc.

{ok the above has been disputed..some people say if you're not an enchanter it's not bop..but i can't confirm since i'm an enchanter - if someone can shed some light :) )

ok, secondly: make sure you're ready for the long haul. don't be cajoled by people who tell you they got it in 10 minutes. some people buy one ticket and win the lottery - this isn't going to be you. it's a less than 1% (some say .5%) drop rate. That's for each kill - you're not getting 'closer' to it every hour. Read about Gambler's Fallacy if you're not convinced.

finally, some specifics. you don't need 350 enchanting for this to drop, many people with less have gotten it. you only need to kill spell-thieves. nothing else. there are 5 of them PLUS 2 more random spawns to the north, for a total of 7 possible. The random spawns are patrolls around 68,42. If you don't see spell-thieves there, kill the other 2 mob types and eventually spell thieves will re-spawn. Since you'll most likely be doing a 'circuit' of the place for hours and hours, make sure you spend the downtime not waiting for the 5 to spawn by killing pats at 68,42 (north of camp). Don't tell me you don't have the time - if you're farming this, trust me, you got the time!

even more finally - be level 70 and have a flying mount. you want to fly from spot to spot to minimize aggro. it's already painful enough, i can't imagine walking this.

If you don't already know it the locations of the 5 predictable spawns are:

65,43 - Three spell thieves. stand by the bush in the middle to minimize adds. if you face the wall you'll have 2 to the left (1 pat which spawns and then starts walking around, kill this first) and one to the right. the one on the right will have an add. if you time it right you can kill the add mob first on the next spawn and split the spawn cycle so you only get one at a time.

67,44 - one spell thief here, well protected by 2 pat raiders (have to time it) plus fiends which are random.

67,42 - one spell thief. try to get on the hill behind him. After you kill this one, check for the random spell thief pats to the north, if they're not there, kill pats and maybe they'll spawn next time.

and...

68,42 - random spell thief location. kill mobs here to try and force re-spawn of spell-thieves. There are 2 possible here.
rinse..repeat.

ps. I do not have this yet. I have killed over 500 of these things.

Commento di Thottbot

Enchant Weapon- Major Spellpower enchant has been stolen from the Razaani spell thieves by the Bash'ir spell thieves. The Bash'ir are more likely to have the recipe than the Razaani previously did, however.

Happy farming :)

Commento di Thottbot

I just got this after previously grinding for hours on the Razaani Spell-Thief mobs on my 4th kill from the Bash'ir Spell-Thief.

I've never left a Thottbot comment before but I thought it was interesting how I got this enchant. I couldn't find much info on how to get to the area the Bash'ir spawned so I just ran around trying to get there for a while. I almost made it by hopping along some of the blade's edges but fell a bit short and plummted to my death. I googled and found on wowwiki that it said you could only reach this area by flight. Well I'm only level 68 so that was out of the question. After using the spirit healer I tried looking on the left side for a way over (in the fiery area where you do the quest to plant seeds) and died because of the res sickness pretty much overlooking Gruul's lair on one of the pointy rocks.

This time when I came back I was at a graveyard I've never been to between the words Felstorm and Point on the map which just happened to tbe the area supposedly only reachable by flight. I waited out my res sickness, walked over to around 54,15 or so and killed a few spell-thieves and voila, on the 4th kill there it was.

So it's possible to get this from the new mobs without a flying mount if you're willing to take a rez sickness hit. I hope I'm not wrong and there's no other way to get here or I'll feel pretty stupid.

Commento di Thottbot

The trick to getting up to the area without a flying mount is as follows: Go north on the ground along the ledge at 69,21 toward the spikes bordering the northern area. Facing the area, go northwest as far as possible and jump up the spike in the corner and then down to the spike below. Keep jumping along the spikes/land northward hugging the wall as you go until you land on a piece of land where you should discover the area up north (I cant remember what it was called). After you discover it, die and res at the spirit healer. That place of land where you discovered the north area is where you need to land and die to be transported to the graveyard in the northern area. It sounds confusing but once you hit that piece of ground where you discover the area it will all make sense. Ignore the randomly landing on the spikes nonsense earlier.

Commento di Thottbot

here we go! 6th kill and it dropped!
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/2152/6thkillae0.jpg

Commento di Thottbot

Dont trust these comments either. Before it dropped, I had to kill off Bash'ir thieves for 2 hours, flying with epic mount to get to locations, and using 3 spells top, to kill them as an epic geared fire mage. I dont know the exact number of kills, but you can imagine. Just learn the route, have a flying mount, and start grinding. Some people can end up grinding for days, others for hours, and the lucky ones, for minutes.

This droprate is DEFINITELY not above 2-3% when you are an enchanter, I refuse to believe that.

Commento di Thottbot

Signed up just to post on this thread, like others above.

It's true, it is not difficult to farm out this pattern. It took a little over an hour over 2 sessions for me.

It's true, you only need to kill the Spell-Thieves. There are more of them around than you might think at first. One cluster near the edge of the camp has about 6 (including one that pats) in a relatively small area. There is a great mining node over there too, so keep an eye out for that if you're a miner. After clearing them out, mount up and fly accross the camp. There is another mining node over here with one spell theif that spawns next to it. There are a couple other places where you can find one or two spell theives together (sorry no coords, at work atm... maybe I will post when I get home, if I remember). Best way is to be 70 on flying mount, scout them out, land in the rocks avoiding aggro, and pull them one by one into the rocks to kill them. There is no reason to have to deal with more than one mob at a time, all the spell theives can be single pulled, no saps or cc required. Pull them into the rocks away from all the other mobs to kill them, should be a snap. In addition, there are at least 2 spell theives that pat on predicatable routes, so keep an eye out for them.

Good luck to all who are trying to farm this out. I'm happy to have mine!

Commento di Thottbot

I'm a holy priest and this is the first enchant i have successfully farmed for. Took about 1h. But I kill %^&* REALLY slow so it might have taken less for other heavy dmg classes

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After reading all the comments here I deiced it was time to start farming. The post that I followed was by "dijon". I found this help full and went to the location. As a holy priest I died 3 times in about 1 hour because I didn't understand that you could go in the rocks behind the mobs and fight them there.

I didn't find the Enchant so went to bed, came back next day and started farming. About 200 kills in I deiced to read the comments again because I remembered someone saying you could only get to the place with a flying mount and the place I was at, you didn't have to have flying mount.

So turns out I was farming Razaani Spell-Thief and not Bash'ir Spell-Thief with out noticing the difference. I wanted to wright this post to inform you the Bash'ir are the ones you want to farm. After reading the location of them I flew over there and on my 16th kill found it.

So DO NOT farm the location posted by "Dijon" it was help full at the time but seems they patched it and now it has higher drop rate around(50,18).

So to sum up,

Farm the area around (50,18)
Only kill Bash'ir Spell-Thief, (Click on the link for a picture of the mob and a location).
You can fly behind them in the rocks and you can safely pull only one mob at a time. Don't waste time fighting out in the open. Simply fly around the area, then find a safe location behind them in the rocks and drop down, then pull.
You can only get to the location (50,18) with flying mount. Unless you do the method posted by "velocity92c" but I would only do this if you can stealth.

Here is a picture of me fining the enchant. The mob info is from a mod called "mobinfo" it is a great mod.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y251/oxgon/Maloenchant.jpg

I hope this comment wasn't to long but I don't want people to make the same mistake, happy hunting and good luck :)

Commento di Thottbot

This is my 1st post on this site. I read it all the time, but was never compelled to comment until this farming mission.

I have to say I am amazed at peoples' purported luck in finding this formula, since I've been farming for about 4 hours and killed probably about 200+ Bash'ir Spell-Thiefs at Bash'ir Landing with no drop as of yet. Very frustrating to say the least. I'm giving up now, and will try again tomorrow.

On a happier note, I did get the Epic gloves (Crystalhide Handwraps) and enough Apexis Shards to activate them. As great of a find as these gloves are, I would be much happier with a new Enchanting skill right now. =(

The good thing I can say about this area is that the mobs are extremely easy to take down in groups, and drop a fair amount of silver along with Netherweave and various green items. They also respawn very quickly. So if you're farming here and get snubbed on the Enchanting Formula as I did, at least you can take comfort in knowing it was not a complete loss.

Commento di Thottbot

I also have never posted on here, although I've used it plenty, but felt the need to do so regarding this drop!

I farmed for about 3 days (about an hour and a half first day, 30 mins next and 1 hour today) and just when I was giving up hope for tonight I decided to kill two more right in the area and the LAST one dropped it! I jumped for joy!

The general idea that's given through these posts are correct. Bash'ir Spellthieves only, use flying mount to get there and sneak up behind them, no problem pulling only them. Might run into a firefly thing, ball of fire or arcanist every once in a while, but nothing you can't handle.

As for those who got the drop in just a few kills, must be nice! But for the rest of us - it does exist and it will drop! :)

Commento di Thottbot

27 kills and it dropped for me

Commento di Thottbot

I must be lucky as hell cuz I just was gonna try farming this before work.. and turns out 10-15 mins later it dropped... I think drop rates for this have gone up a lot more than thottbot says... =)
good luck to all

Commento di Thottbot

So I went there, because I was like "oh, I'm bored so I'll go farm this."

So I went there and got it on my first mob, and now I have nothing to do. :(

Commento di Thottbot

Arcane/Fire Mage, just dinged 355 enchanting today making my Runed Adamantite Rod today. Heh, figured I'd go off and find this chant since I could really use it for my stuff.

Took me a little over two hours, but I eventually got it off teh Spell-Theives. All I did was fly in circles, kill them and had minimal problems with aggro.

Commento di Thottbot

9th thief. If only all chant grinds were this fast.

Commento di Thottbot

unfortunately the area is only accessable by flight, and I´m not in 70 yet. but I managed to get there once: I died near the mountains and ressed at the other side. then waited the ress sickness fade away and tryed killing some of them. in lvl 65 I can kill those spell-thieves! they are not really hard, but take time, I´ll get to lvl 66 1st, when I get Icelance it´ll be much easier to do it. just have to stop my enchanting, it´s on 343 now! :O

Commento di Thottbot

Have Killed over 600 Spell Thieves, and 800 Arcanists and have had no formula drop, i am currently a lvl 361 enchanter, This is post patch 2.4, did blizz happen to change which mob drops this formula? any info would be great.

Commento di Thottbot

lol i went out to do the new mana cell daily and got the enchant after killing only 1 :P

Commento di Thottbot

LOL nice.
Helped a random person with an extra mob they accidentally pulled - and got mine. ;)

Commento di Thottbot

woot, was doing my daily Mana Cells SSO and got this :) Thank the maker Im also an enchanter!

Commento di Thottbot

Just dropped for me, i didnt even want it i was just doing dailys :D least i dont have to farm it when im 350 chanting...

Commento di Thottbot

Got it after about 40 kills I think, grinding as a holy paladin is damn slow :(. I was about to give up, because it would take me to long and then poof there it was.

Commento di Thottbot

I'm VERY tired atm, it cant drop... I've been grinding in over 2 hours as a lvl 69 shadowpriest and now i'm giving up. I've decided to go lvl up to 70 , get flying mount and go to the Bash'ir place.

Tip: Don't go grind this if you hate items that doesnt drop.

Commento di Thottbot

Finaly got it, dinged 70 and vent to the bash'ir place , got it in about 10 kills :)

Good luck farming!

Commento di Thottbot

Got if after about 13 mins of flying around taking out only spell-thiefs

Commento di Thottbot

Since the spell-thief is a part of the SSO daily, it's been hard to claim it... much less to get the recipe to drop.

... Still nothing...

Commento di Thottbot

I was prepared for a long farming grind, but mine dropped after about 20 minutes

Commento di Thottbot

Got it off of a Spell Thief after the 40th kill or so. Wasn't so bad really.. Only spent like 5 seconds on each guy so it went relatively fast.

Commento di Thottbot

I had flown to the area for the first time with a friend who had farmed the enchant for hours. I was an enchanter too but hadn't tried. She said jokingly, "Kill this guy and see if he drops the enchant!" He did ^_^. It was the first kill.

Commento di Thottbot

sorry to be one of these "got it in a few kills" people...but.....

7th loot and i got it!

so happy, i'm never lucky on this game, until today :)

Commento di Thottbot

Took me 137 kills... Then it finaly droped :)

Commento di Thottbot

Just north of 53, 17 from a thief. First one. Got lucky.

Commento di Thottbot

257 Spell-Thief kills later, I finally got it. I thought it was never going to drop.

Commento di Thottbot

Well it took my 639 kills and I got it. I think its safe to say I have no life.

Commento di Anticheat

Confirmed to drop from Bashir Spell-thieves in TBC classic

Took about 40 kills

Anticheatlol - Faerlina (H)

Commento di Xanamor

got it in 84 kills from spell thieves

Commento di 164284

UPDATE FOR TBC-Classic:

Those hoping to reach Crystal Spire by ground mount, it does not seem to be possible any longer. If anyone has found a method, please share.

I ran to /way 75, 15. It said I was in Crystal Spire... but I was sent to the Bladed Gulch GY. This also happened on the west side of Skald, where I found a 2nd location that said I was in Crystal Spire. Upon dying to fall damage, I still rezzed at Bladed Gulch. It seems that this was patched sometime between 2.2.3 and 2.4.

Commento di Lependu

Do you need to be enchanter in order to loot this?or it drops anyway?

Commento di Quineloe

128 kills
80 minutes

bring two empty bags for this.

Commento di Sapplin

Decent respawn rate, often patrolling around other lvl 70 + mobs so bring some food/water.

Only dropped from Bash'ir Spell-Thief, doesn't seem to be sharing respawns with the other NPC's.

Commento di Gordolfo

Got it killing exclusively Spell-Thief npcs. It took me 3 hours.

Commento di Gordolfo

I got it by killing exclusively the Bash'ir Spell-Thief NPCs. I tried 1 night for 1 hour, then the next day for around 2 hours then it dropped.

Commento di ignax

Took about 1hr 30mins - 2hrs for the recipe to drop from Bash'ir Spell-Thief.

Commento di Moodknight

As a mage, its possible to slow fall to Crystal Spire from Skald(left side). Its tricky and you have to try it couple times, also did it mounted and from the highest point you can get to on Skald side. Got formula without flying, TBC classic.

Commento di tblythe

I died near Gruul's Lair trying to do Massacre at Gruul's Lair and ended up at the Crystalspine graveyard, which let me get this recipe without flying. Tested a few more times and got it to work consistently near the outskirts of the ogre camp, however going further in towards the Gruul's Lair entrance respawned me at the Bladed Gulch graveyard instead. Possibly a less convoluted method than the others I've seen, although I haven't tested if it works below level 70.

Commento di Santex

Got it in 1 kill ><

Commento di Laiskuri

Pretty high droprate in TBCC. Farmed it two times, dropped from 2nd or 3rd Spell-Thief both times

Commento di InTrigueWoW

Dropped after about 12 Spell-Thief kills for me

Commento di Ifartstarz2

First kill, it dropped

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Formula: Enchant Weapon - Major Spellpower

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Usa: Teaches you how to permanently enchant a melee weapon to increase spell damage and healing by up to 40.
Permanently enchant a melee weapon to increase spell damage and healing by up to 40. Requires a level 35 or higher item.

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