World Of Warcraft Grinding Guide

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By demifarr


It just doesn’t seem right to have to do something called “grinding” when you’re playing a game. Yet, that’s exactly what players of Massively Multi Player Role Playing Games (MMORPG) often have to do. In the most popular game of the genre, Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, grinding is a fact of life.

Grinding typically means patrolling a limited geographic area, killing the monsters in that area for loot and for experience points. Here are a few reasons to grind:

  • Level Up (Skills and Character Level)
  • Quick Money
  • Recipe Items
  • Reputation
  • Quests
  • Epic Drops

Grinding is a great way to finish off a level, as opposed to questing. Grinding to finish a level (generate enough experience points to advance your character one level) allows players to tackle existing quests at a higher level, making those quests easier.


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Some skills can also be advanced with grinding. As an example, leather workers will want to grind monsters that can be skinned. Usually, each use of the skill makes it go up by one point.

Grinding is a great way to make quick money. Humanoid mobs drop silver and copper in addition to sellable items. If a player needs money to buy something in the Auction House, or to train new skills, they can locate a profitable grinding area and earn the money needed.

Some professions require items that can be found on mob drops. A Golden Pearl, for example, is required for items that enchanters and tailors make. A player needing a Golden Pearl will have to identify the mob that drops them, then go to work grinding those mobs until they get the required number of Golden Pearls.

Players can also grind reputation. There are several factions or organizations in the game that have lucrative rewards for players. Which rewards a player can claim will typically be based on their reputation with that faction. Usually, the faction will want X number of Y items (cloth, basilisk eyes, and so on) that drop from mobs, with each item turn-in increased the player’s reputation with the faction. To get the reward from the faction, players will grind on the mobs that drop the desired items, then turn them in and claim their prize of a new weapon or other item.

Many (too many!) quests in World of Warcraft require the player to kill X number of Y mobs. While this is questing, it is also grinding.

Sometimes while grinding, a player will loot an epic from a downed mob. An epic is a piece of equipment that is superior to all other equipment in its class. Epic loot from a mob is rare, a player will be lucky to get two or three epic drops over the course of their game time. The best chance of an epic drop will be from a mob that is not part of a quest grind, and also is not part of a reputation grind.

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