Elwynn Forest – A Zone Overview in World of Warcraft (12.0.1)

Elwynn Forest is an alliance zone, meant for players level 1-30 and founded in Classic World of Warcraft. It’s the home of the city of Stormwind, and all around starting zone for the disgusting race called humans. Just kidding, of course. We’re not that bad.

Although this zone has an intended level range, if you have Chromie Time enabled, the levels for Elwynn Forest will change to 1-50.

Reputations:

• Stormwind

Notable Locations:

• Stormwind City (capital)
• Goldshire (known as Pornshire when I first started playing)

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Battle Pets [1-2]

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Battle pet vendor (44,53)

You can find Donni Anthania in a home to the right as you make your way out of Northshire and head down the path to Goldshire.

She sells the following battle pets:

• Cat Carrier (Bombay)
• Cat Carrier (Cornish Rex)
• Cat Carrier (Orange Tabby)
• Cat Carrier (Silver Tabby)

Below are the battle pets that you can find scattered throughout Elwynn Forest.

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Chests

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Below are the types of treasure chests that I’ve found in Elwynn Forest. You won’t be able to find a chest in every single location they appear in, and they are on a timer if someone happens to take the specific chests in the zone before you.

• Silverbound Treasure Chest

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Herbalism

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Herbalism trainer (42,67)

At the bottom half of Goldshire, you’ll find Lien Farner standing off to the side of the path, next to a wagon. He can train you in any profession at apprentice level.

Like with Mining, you’ll get competition from either higher levels or lower levels, depending on who’s looking for what. You go over an alliance area in this route, so horde be careful. Aside from that, you net a decent amount of all the starting herbs, which is a plus.

Timed: 30:00
Class: Druid (lvl 68) (Started with Switch Flight Style, but changed to normal flight, due to too many trees)

• Earthroot – 101
• Peacebloom – 72
• Silverleaf – 151

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Fishing

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There are two ways I go about fishing in a zone; I either choose a static location where I don’t move for a set amount of time while I fish, or I create a route of the places that spawn schools of fish, and I fish in them until they’re depleted, up until I’m back where I started.

Fishing trainer (47,62)

East of Goldshire, you’ll find Lee Brown standing on the docks to the water. I believe he can teach you all the fishing available in-game.

I didn’t create a route for this zone for any pools of fish, therefore I focused on one specific location to fish in.

Timed: 15:00
Coords: 48,67 (on a boulder)

• 12 Pound Mud Snapper
• Raw Brilliant Smallfish – 40
• Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper – 26

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Mining

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Mining trainer (42,67)

At the bottom half of Goldshire, you’ll find Lien Farner standing off to the side of the path, next to a wagon. He can train you in any profession at apprentice level.

There’s going to be competition in this zone, even if your competition doesn’t deal with higher level players. This is a starting zone for humans, so a lot of low levels will be trying to gather ore, as well as higher levels.

Timed: 30:00
Class: Shaman

• Copper Ore – 260
• Rough Stone – 210
• Malachite – 1
• Tigerseye – 3

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Skinning

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Skinning trainer (42,67)

At the bottom half of Goldshire, you’ll find Lien Farner standing off to the side of the path, next to a wagon. He can train you in any profession at apprentice level.

Obviously you’re going to have more luck with skinning at either one of the farms, but if the people who are questing in those areas become too much of a hassle with your grind, you can also fly to the small dens that the wolves linger around, and pick off the wolves wandering between the den locations. Their respawn isn’t as fast, so you’ll have to keep killing any you see along the path.

Timed: Full route, not timed (spent about ten minutes altogether going through the route)

• Light Leather – 43
• Ruined Leather Scraps – 78
• Rugged Leather – 1
• Heavy Leather – 1

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Rares

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There are 13 rare mobs you can find and kill for a boost in XP or somewhat better loot. 7 of these rares are able to be tamed via hunters.

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Mats

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Crystal Lake (54,66)

You’ll be killing murlocs in this area, and you can either commit to one of the islands or the other, because either way their respawn rate is high. I don’t really recommend you to run across each island, since just staying in one spot seems to work the best.

Timed: 15:00
Class: Druid (lvl 68)

• Small Barnacled Clam – 100
• Murloc Fin – 157
• Greens – 4
• Elixir – 1

Stonefield Farm (32,85)

This is a place that’s used primarily for skinning, so if you’ve got the skinning profession and might also be in the need of Chunk of Boar Meat for cooking purposes, here’s a good area. If you’re simply wanting the boar meat, just realize that not every kill is going to give you loot.

Timed: 15:00
Class: Druid (lvl 68)

• Chunk of Boar Meat – 89
• (Skinning) Ruined Leather Scraps – 127
• (Skinning) Light Leather – 59
• (Skinning) Light Hide – 1
• (Skinning) Medium Leather – 6
• (Skinning) Rugged Leather – 2
• (Skinning) Thick Leather – 6
• (Skinning) Heavy Leather – 2
• Green – 2

Maclure Vineyards (41,86)

I don’t know if perhaps this farm is smaller and there was less running around to try to target mobs, but I seemed to net a bit more of mats than at Stonefield. Still, this is kind of the same as I stated before. You’ll benefit a lot more with the skinning profession, though you still also get a good chunk of boar meat.

Timed: 15:00
Class: Druid (lvl 68)

• Chunk of Boar Meat – 100
• (Skinning) Ruined Leather Scraps – 134
• (Skinning) Light Leather – 81
• Green – 1

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Vendors

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These vendors sell special goods, meaning they’re limited supply. If someone buys one of these first, there’s a timer on when they’ll be back in stock. In no way does the list below show every vendor located in this zone.

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Quests

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This section is a work in progress.

• Beating Them Back!
• Join the Battle!
• Lions for Lambs
• They Sent Assassins

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Goldmaking

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This section just tallies up the different items I acquired during my time in Elwynn Forest. From farming specific locations that were noted, to going through all the quests that I could on my characters. I thought this would be interesting to see, so people can get an idea of what Elwynn Forest has to offer them in the long run.

There are no duplicate stacks of the same item in my guild bank, to save on room.

I’m working on it.