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Commento di Lordship

Farming these from the Silt Crawlers in Swamp of Sorrows seemed like a good idea. However, I killed about 25 of them and they didn't have a drop rate of 30% as listed. None dropped. Monstrous Crawlers drop fine though. Was this just rotten luck on my part or has the drop table changed?

Commento di 63679

It's much easier to just kill the murlocks there so just kill them, wile i was doing ''treath from the sea'' and ''continued the treath'' i got like 30 or 32 st from them.

Commento di 97775

the murlocs in dustwallow have a terrible drop rate. killed about 30-50 of them not one clam.

Commento di Thottbot

i farmed turtles and got around 75 clams total

every clam has meat, and i also got:
5 black pearl
2 golden pearl

no other pearls

ive got the 2 golden pearls in a row i was pretty shocked :p

Commento di Thottbot

IVe looted around 260 clams now, Ive gotten this.
2 small lusterous pearls
13 Black pearls
5 Ire. pearls
and ONE! Golden pearl

Commento di Thottbot

190 clams

1 golden pearl
7 black pearls
7 iridescent pearls
2 small lustrous

My cooking skill went up by about 75 though.

Commento di Thottbot

My question is if clams found off different mobs drop the pearls at different rate and particularly if clams found fishing drop differently.

If not then the cave mentioned above is likely the best place because of the kill rate but never-the-less the statistics on goldens has them drop around ever 205 clams which is over 800 kills. Seems that fishing did better but without a huge N hard to know

Commento di Thottbot

I just farmed the Spitelash Naga in southern Azshara for a long time looking for a Golden Pearl. I would say the clams drop more frequently than off those the previous poster mentioned, but then again they probably take longer to kill, so I don't know which is easiest to farm. Here's what I got from the clams:

Out of exactly 100 clams:
1 Golden
2 Black
5 Iridescent
0 Small Lustrous

Ironically, the Golden Pearl, what I had been looking for the whole time, dropped on clam #98.

Commento di Thottbot

Out of 109clams i got
3-black...
1-iridecent...
1-small...
and 109-Zesty Meats...

Commento di Thottbot

Was killing Hatecrest Naga in Feralas for one Black Pearl. First kill, dropped a Big-Mouth Clam, and I was surprised, a black pearl inside :)

Commento di Thottbot

I have found... the higher the lvl of the NPC the more chance of getting the higher lvl pearl.

Golden - Highest lvl
Black
Irridescent
Small Lusterous - Lowest lvl

Feralas hatecrest nagas have dropped more black pearls than any other type for me.

I have only gotten golden pearls from the nagas in Azshara.

You can get pearls from fishing the different types of clams... but the drop rate of the pearls seems much lower to me compared to NPC clam drops. I have fished up many small lusterous and irridescent pearls fishing. I have only gotten 1 black pearl and have never gotten a golden pearl.

Commento di Thottbot

12 Clams, 1 Golden Pearl, 2 Black Pearls, i guess i was just lucky,

Btw, i got these from the naga explorers north of Booty Bay

Commento di Thottbot

Look up nearer the top of this page. See the part that says "Dropped By"? Near the names of the various mobs is a column listing their level.

- and for the record: "Perhaps in your boredom, you could look up the definition of percentage" is just too funny. Thank you for taking the imperious twit down a notch.

Commento di Thottbot

i am about to try the lowbie dustwallow murk threshers for these big mouth clams, I will let you know if after a at least a few days whether or not it makes a difference for the level of mob. (in relation to the dropping of pearls)

Commento di Thottbot

I was farming in Hinterlands.
Got corpse camped by a mage and priest (60) :\
Found 21 clams:
1 black pearl

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60 pala

Commento di Thottbot

The naga south of Feathermoon Outpost drop big mouthed clams frequently, give good exp (for a level 44), and are eeeaaassyyy to kill. I got about 130 clams - 3 small lustrous, 4 iridescent, 2 black pearls.

It was odd, in the first 10 clams I got the 3 lustrous pearls, over the next 20 I got 4 iridescent pearls, then I saw nothing for about 60 clams, when I got the first black pearl. Then another 40 clams later I got the second. Good xp though, about 75% percent of a level from all of it.

Commento di Thottbot

I had 10 and got one Iridescent pearl and one golden pearl
Guess i was lucky right?

Commento di Thottbot

Farmed nagas in STV and Azshara for clams for golden pearls -- 2000 nagas so far, over 800 clams -- and 1 golden pearl.

Either up the drop rate or some making so many golden pearls necessary for high level tailoring or enchanting.

This is an absurd grind.

Commento di Thottbot

i was down by the azhera shore for farming little xp i need for leveling and found 5 clams and started opening and found 2 golden pearls got 50g for them 1 hour later ..

Commento di Thottbot

41 Warrior. Got 95 clams from feralas hatecrests.

0 golden
0 black
0 lustious
1 iridescent

Drop rate su*ks

Commento di Thottbot

i farmed them cos iw as in need of 1 golden pearl, cant rmember how much but i cleaned the cave just 2 times (isle of dread nagas, feralas) and got one
if u guys have to spend 3 hours to get one, think about it cos if u spend 3 hours killing some other 60mob even non elite u make enought money to bouy them, at least on my server they are at 23-35 g, rarely rarely 50.

:)

Commento di Thottbot

It doesn't matter who drops the clam, the drop rate of pearls is dependent on the clam, not who dropped the clam.

Now it's possible that some mobs drop clams more often than others, but there is no mob that drops super-special Big-Mouth Clams that have a higher percentage of pearls inside. Doesn't take Capt Obvious to realize that. Think about it.

Commento di Thottbot

These are the correct drop rate for each pearl gained from a Big-mouth Clam:

- Small Lustrous Pearl
- Iridescent Pearl 2.5% 1/40
- Black Pearl 4.0% 1/25
- Golden Pearl 0.5% 1/200

The average drop rate for a Big-mouth clam is 33% 1/3 kills

So statistically it takes 200*3=600 kills for 1 Golden Pearl

Do whatever you want to do with this information, but I'm not gonna grind Golden Pearls anymore, since they are 10-15g on my server.
And 10-15g is easy to make anywhere else in less time.

Commento di Thottbot

Big waste of time. Easier to farm something else and pay the 30g for the pearl. I spent 3 hours in STV and 2 hours in Ashara and received nothing but a load of crap clam meat, 3silver per kill, and (3) green items.

Commento di Thottbot

i farm 1 hour in azshara - 70 clams
4 black pearls -6%
2 iridescent pearls - 3%
1 small lustrous pearl - 1%
2 golden pearls - 3%

Commento di Thottbot

can you actually get any of those iteams in the clam like (ore)...........

Commento di Thottbot

I was grinding turtles in the hinterlands on my hunter and got about 100 clams looted.I found:

2 Golden

3 Black

1 Ire

0 Lustr

I was excited to get the 2 golden pearls since they went for about 15g last time i checked but go to the AH to find about 15 golden pearls on sale, all from different people with an average buyout of 1g...I dont know what happened to the price of the pearls and whether or not the drop rate changed recently or if that was just 15 noobs putting up an item for 1 fifteenth or so of its regular price but i would enjoy an explanation 0.o

Commento di Thottbot

Blizzard has increased the drop rate i think but not only that, not many use the pearls anymore other than to lvl skills on different professions... i was killing naga in azshara for zesty clam meat for my alts cooking quest and got 2 golden pearls in 8 clam drops so i would either say yes its increased or my luck was just running high today... but both have affected the price on golden pearls since the BC release... they used to be expensive now you find then for around 4 g on this server
oh and not to mention that with 3 toons above lvl 35 and playing for almost 2 years i have done the quest for cooking for all of them with all the clams i have opened i had never had any golden pearls drop for me. but since the BC expansion i have had well over 10 in the last 2 months

Commento di Thottbot

ive got a nice hint here that many ppl can use for easy money. that is open the clam with a full inventory and if u dot see a pearl close it again and open it and check again, do this until u see a pearl in there and then sell some stuff or just put something in bank to free space. once this is done, put the meat in the bank or sell it, fill ur inventory again and repeat.
ive made about 30g just doing this selling the golden pearls for one gold a piece

Commento di Thottbot

A Golden Pearl will drop more often out of a Big-mouth Clam dropped by a high level monster. This statisitc is standard for all the items in WoW, like Elites always drop more uncommon items than regular beasts or mobs enemies of the same level. And it gets even more complicated, like how Linen drops more often from the 11-19 level bracket of monster spawns than it does from the 5-10 level bracket (by 19, you start getting Wool btw).

The Golden Pearl, and the Big-mouth Clam work exactly this way. The higher the level the monster that drops the clam, the more likely you'll get a Golden Pearl from that clam. And since Thottbot only lists the looted times, and makes the ratio from that looted number, it is definately likely that people will be misunderstood on the likelyhood of the pearl dropping.

Overall, my suggestion, if you're locating Golden Pearls, is to focus your farming on higher leveled monsters and mobs that drop the Clam.

***Remember as you comment that this drop is in reference to the Big-mouth Clam drop, and not a drop on it's own. The information chain on the Golden Pearl references to it's own drop, not it's drop from the clam. All replies are asked to be made to the credibility of this topic, and not to the degrading of it's writer. This drop standard is set through all online realms.***

Commento di Thottbot

Turtles in Tanaris drop them alot i noticed, in my 1st 6 i opened i got 2 black, 1 gold, and 1 iridescent pearl.

Commento di Thottbot

These drop like crazy off the Nagas near Booty Bay. I had spent over an hour killing turtles in the Steamwheedle port area just to get 10 zesty clam meat for the cooking quest, then the next day I go kill Nagas near Booty Bay and get over 40 within an hour. I got one golden pearl as well.

Commento di Thottbot

isle of dread ferlas is the pwnsers for this stuff i got like 20 in no time and it droped raw spotted yellowtail sometimes =P

Commento di Allakhazam

I found black pearl inside

Commento di Allakhazam

I was after a Golden Pearl so I kept track of the drops.

Didn't keep track of mobs killed. Drop rate was about 1 in 3 for the clams from the Spitelash Serpent mobs at the ruins Azshara.

In 37 clams I found: 2 Small Lustrous, 1 Iridescent, 1 Black (came with a Sm. Lustrous), and in the last clam, 1 Golden Pearl.

Happy Hunting!

Commento di Allakhazam

"Farming turtles that roam the beaches are a good source of the Big-mouth Clams, they are non agressive and can be skinned, but they drop no coin." FYI The Speckled Shell Fragments I get off of turtles in tanaris sell for 9s. Whenever you want money from grinding you should loot everything and vendor anything that you aren't using or putting on AH. Any items marked as grey are meant for vendoring.

Commento di Allakhazam

azsahara, priest 60

1 hour farming:

2,8g from them,
+3,2g from drop items

50 clams

1 gold pearl
2 black pearl
2 iridescent pearl

Commento di Allakhazam

They sometimes contain a golden pearl, which can sell for over 10 gold on the auction block.

Commento di Allakhazam

just in case anyone is interested...

261 clams
golden pearl x 2
black pearl x 11
iridescent pearl x 1
small lustrous x 2

got the clams from the spitelash naga in azshara, one of the very few quiet grinding spots left. shame these are only worth 7g atm on xavius... will have to keep hold of them for a while :)

Edited, Fri Mar 17 20:44:45 2006

Commento di Allakhazam

Because of the lack of statistics what drops from these clams, I farmed a few and took notes of the pearls I found. During the farming of these clams I also got a few uncommon items which I sold at the AH.

Total number of clams: 100
4 x black pearl - 4%
3 x iridescent pearl - 3%
1 x small lustrous pearl - 1%
1 x golden pearl - 1%

I may update this post if I keep farming these. I felt really lucky as the golden pearl was the 23rd clam I opened, but unfortunately the drop rate was not every 23rd.. :)

And I don't think it makes any difference, but I farmed the clams from nagas in the Ruins of Solarsal, Feralas.

Edited, Fri Feb 17 02:58:39 2006

Commento di Allakhazam

100 clams:
5 black pearls
1 irridescent pearl

Jal

Commento di Allakhazam

Whats the chance of finding the pearls is my question.

Commento di Allakhazam

Total number of clams: 60
2 x black pearl - 3,3%
2 x small lustrous pearl - 3,3%

(edit)
day2: 103 clams
6 iridescent pearl
7 black pearl
1 small lustrous pearl

day 3: 80 clams
3 black pearl
1 small lustrous pearl
1 iridescent pearl

still no gold, i bought 1 at ah :(

Edited, Wed Mar 22 09:35:23 2006

Commento di Allakhazam

~850 clams
golden pearl x 4
black pearl x 42
iridescent pearl x 11
small lustrous x 8

Commento di Allakhazam

10 clams 2 gold pearls lol, in a row to

Commento di Allakhazam

10g would be nice. Send me ten or twenty of them. On my server they sell as high as about 50g with an average of about 30g. Back when we all were young you could buy them for about 3g at the ah but with all those maxed out tailors around the prices are ridiculous.

Commento di Allakhazam

60 mage grinding in Azshara @ 00:30 - 04:30
284 Clams

3 golden pearl
10 black pearl
7 iridescent pearl
7 small lustrous pearl

Commento di Allakhazam

Found inside 41 clams:

41 x zesty clam meat
3 x black pearl
1 x small lustrous pearl

Commento di Allakhazam

killed 3500-3700 nagas in the past few days and with 40% droprate, I got roughly 1400 clams. I've got 15 pearls out of them and I've lost counting the other stuff they seem to drop long time ago.
The droprate seems to be a flat 1%

Commento di Allakhazam

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Edited, Jun 26th 2006 at 3:20pm EDT by Imbalock

Commento di Allakhazam

This isnt junk, It usually contains zesty clam meat and I have seen them contain pearls

Commento di Allakhazam

Although pearls can drop from any of the mobs that drop Big-mouth Clams, the clams themselves are the main source of Pearls: Small Lustrous Pearl, Iridescent Pearl, Black Pearl, and Golden Pearl.

The Lustrous and Iridescent pearls can also be found in other types of clams, on lower level mobs.

After opening many thousand Big-mouth Clams, I've gotten 7 Golden, 63 Black, and a smattering of the Lustrous and Iridescent ones.

Farming turtles that roam the beaches are a good source of the Big-mouth Clams, they are non agressive and can be skinned, but they drop no coin. Farming the crab and murloc humanoid types also drop the Big-mouth Clams and coin, but they are agressive.

For me, the humanoid types tend to drop more Green and Blue items for good AH cash, but I've gotten an epic from each type. I tend to enjoy farming the humanoid types and the beach at the eastern edge of Azshara is huge with a very wide range of mobs and areas to hunt. The Azshara beaches will also support a goodly number of farmers unlike other areas that are quite small.

Commento di Allakhazam

Just finished farming the Hatecrest naga on Sardor Isle (Feralas) at level 40 recieved the following:

37 Zesty Clam Meat
2 Golden Pearls
2 Black Pearls
2 Lustrous Pearls

If someone could tell me the best way to find Iridescent Pearls I would appreciate it.

Commento di Henderman

I keep this macro on my toolbar to make it easy to open the clams and reclaim bag space:

#tooltip Big-Mouth Clam
/use Big-Mouth Clam
/use Thick-shelled Clam

Commento di Xaliden

Pulled a golden pearl from these today while doing the Akiris Reed bundle quest in STV. Rather lucky, I can't remember the last time I got one that way.

Commento di MeEeDo

897 Zesty clam meat
96 random pearls
o golden pearl

but at least the ah sales from the Zesty clam meat got me 22 gold :')

Commento di dbfblackbull

So these Are suppose to drop from fishing. I have fished quite some time in Tanaris both in pools and in open water and I have not found any clams. Is it possible to catch these with fishing?

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Prezzo di vendita: 46

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Questo oggetto può essere pescato a Azshara (227), Tanaris (54), Feralas (45), The Hinterlands (29), e Stranglethorn Vale (9).

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