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Comment by 62682

i wont to see the monsrers pleas ???

Comment by asaphelps

These rock for grinding 41-45. They have very low health (1500ish), pathetic damage (100 damage fireballs with a long cast), and are spaced out enough to pace yourself but close enough to keep the exp flowing nicely. Since they are 40+ they can also drop epics, skin into worn dragonscales (rarely), and perhaps bets of all drop a whelp pet. I prefer grinding the south side of the canyon and staying on one side (north of south) rather than running between them since there are 45+ elites in the middle. As a decent geared rogue at 42 I was getting about 25k an hour grinding. Boring as hell, but well worth it!

Comment by BarnabyBBarclay

These little fellows drop small flame sacs, which are an ingredient of Dragonbreath Chili (among other things). As asaphelps stated, they're well situated for farming. In addition to the bonus if you're a skinner, if you're a miner, you will also find a large number of mithril and truesilver veins in the area, with occasional gold and silver thrown in for good measure. Just be careful of the elites in the central valley if your character is under 50 or so.

Comment by Klabb

Should also be noted that they are very resistant to fire, so if you are a fire mage, you should (you dont have to, but it makes it much easier) use Frostbolt or Arcane Missiles.

Comment by 104074

Kill for http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=10822

Comment by 227572

I grinded these thinds for 2 hours looking for the dark whelp and never got it,but i did get about 9 greens that AHed good.I was a 63 MM hunter after the 3.0.2 patch so it was realy easy to kill these things

Comment by 231672

I've been working on farming the Whelps since I got my copy of WotLK Collector's Edition reserved. That said, this has been thus far the most enjoyable grind for the whelp. I've got the Emerald and Crimson whelps, Crimson is a huge "circuit" with several which don't even drop the pet, and the Emeralds you have to farm the few there are (half of which don't drop it), log to another toon for 10-15 minutes then come back and try again.

These guys are in two easy to farm groups separated by a big open area full of elite dragons (in the badlands). The group to the north has 18 and the group to the south has 14. As a holy pally it takes me about 10 minutes to clear both the north and the south groups. By the time I finish the south section the north has respawned so it's very easy to run back and forth farming with no interruptions other than running across the area with the elite dragons.

They drop mostly Forked Tongue, Ripped Wing Webbing, Small Flame Sac and occasionally Wicked Claw or green drop. The reason I say this is that on average every 2.5 circuits or so (north three times and south twice or vice-versa) you will fill a 16 slot bag, so plan to throw a lot of stuff away or bring several empty bags. I made about 3-4g on money drops over 5 circuits, and then another 4g selling everything they dropped to a vendor, so you stand to make as much as 1.6g per circuit.

Happy hunting!

*EDIT* On 11/10 from 12:00 pm cst - 10:06pm cst I farmed a combined total of 7:16 - completing 43 circuits, and 6 minutes into my 44th circuit I finally got my whelp (and that's not counting the 3 hours I spent farming and getting the information for the first part of this post). In that span and the three hours spent prior to this post I farmed very close to 2000 whelps (1952 to be exact...whats another 48?). While farming, Mr. Pinchy came off cooldown and I was lucky enough to get Magical Crawdad which also just happened to be my 50th pet... so even though my luck was crappy on the whelps, I won on other fronts.

Also worth noting the 10 minute time frame per circuit was near perfect. Any faster and they hadn't finished spawning at the top and I would have to do a double circle in each section, any slower and you're wasting time. Try and pace yourself for 10 minutes per circuit and you'll get maximum efficiency.

Comment by 259540

Well, after 15ish hours grinding these guys - full lvl range - l got the whelp and an epic (go figure) in the time range of about an hour. he's WELL worth the effort, although l'll admit l'm burned out on grinding pets for a day or so. will be uploading a screenie in a moment or two hopefully.
~feralfire (same username as warcraftpets.com)

Comment by 264353

As a level 50 hunter, I was able to set up a nice circuit on the northern half. Do them all in a circle and by the time I'd finished killing the last, the first had respawned. So far I've killed 92, and gotten one blue drop ( no greens though).

Comment by 149629

had it within 30 kills :D

Comment by 354839

it took me about 6-8 hours to get the dark whelpling to drop. Its a really easy grind for a high level character, the only thing you will really need is a lot of patience
good luck :)

Comment by ienvyno1

Maybe , with that much time on your hands, you should get a job !.. Good luck....

Comment by 432194

As rare as it is, it IS possible to get a {Dark Welpling}. I killed about 10 before it droped. Within 4 hrs. I went back and got another one so it IS possible ^_^

Comment by Durmaethor

Finally got my Dark Whelpling literally 30 seconds before server shutdown this morning! i had a hunch that if i just kept killing right up to the shutdown it would drop! Last kill, 30 seconds, dropped! Keep grinding guys! maybe try out my strategy! ;)

P.S. I am lucky # 227 out of 226072 =P

Edit: i was only farming for the last 45 minutes up to server shutdown....

Comment by 518468

Dropped on the second whelp while working on IF rep. Best of luck to people actually trying to get this thing.

Comment by 709724

Still drops dark whelpling on 4.0.3a

Comment by 805558

is this acurate? i mean people say that yes, the do drop the pet, but
wowhead does not list the pet under the drop list of the scalding hatchling...

Comment by 805558

i just wanna know so i dont waste my time cause i really am trying hard to get the pet XD

Comment by 805558

k im here in patch 4.0.6 and
YES IT STILL DROPS THE DARK WHELPLING!
IT ONLY TOOK ME LIKE 30 MIN!

Comment by 805558

and i do recommend there dudes if you want the dark whelpling companion.

Comment by 748434

confirmed, after looting these guys 1419 times, i got my dark whelping pet =]

Comment by Tagholbinn

This thing just dropped a Dark Whelpling for me. My exact words after realizing I just got one: "Wait, what?"

Comment by EquinsuOcha

Went back to hunting for my Dark Whelpling, starting killing these guys for the pet. Been hunting for a couple hours everyday for the last week, killed several thousand of these guys and still no drop. -_- Starting to thing they don't drop anymore.

EDIT: After killing about another 600 more of these guys it finally dropped. Now I can stop hunting Whelps!

Comment by chiqq

In Cataclysm!

Dark Whelpling Now drops from Ebon Whelp in Wetlands. And from Scalding Whelp in Badlands.
However Tiny Crimson Whelpling can also drop from every singel mob in Wetlands.
So now when you farm Ebon Whelp, you have a chance to get both.

Emerald Whelpling Now drops from Noxious Whelp in Feralas.
Azure Whelpling Now drops from all mobs in Winterspring.

Good luck farming may the RNG gods be with you!

Comment by 937120

I just had Plans: Wicked Mithril Blade drop for me after killing 58 of these today, and I didn't see it in the drops list.

Comment by sovnade

Farmed these guys for about 20 minutes looking for Thick Leather....got 2 dark whelplings. Don't kill me <3

Comment by thedimone

pretty sure as of 11/16/2024 these drop rates are way off. been trying to get a small flame sac for 2hrs and got 2 pets instead.

Comment by mommyclz

I came here to farm small flame sac for the anniversary quest chain. I farmed for hours and literally got a Dark Whelpling . . . which i'd previously farmed here for WEEKS without getting, and gave up and farmed it elsewhere . . . . my husband finally took pity on me and while i was STILL killing whelplings, he picked it up in dire maul. Dont be like me and try to get the flame sac from whelplings. Go to dire maul.

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Scalding Whelp

This NPC can be found in Badlands (77).

Scalding Whelp

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