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Comment by logie

ok i have found out that this drops from wyrmhorn turtle's in the pool of purity in the vally of the four winds... it's not a great drop rate but it's the only one i have found so far

Comment by Mihir

The Rankbite Tortoises in Townlong Steppes (around Kri'vess) seem to have a good droprate and there's a ton of them. :) The turtles in the Briny Muck of the Dread Wastes didnt drop anything tho.

Comment by 321961

Old Hillpaw
Old Hillpaw is either standing outside his house by some ponds, on a tall hill (31.0, 53.0) or at Halfhill

When you are level 90, if you have Braised Turtle x5 in your pack he will offer you a daily to turn those in to him for rep.
One Braised Turtle is made with Raw Turtle Meat x1 and Juicycrunch Carrot x5
When you are level 90, his favourite gift is Blue Feather along with Chee Chee

Best Friends with Old Hillpaw
When you are Best Friends, chickens will be added to your farm.
He will also post you a Straw Hat.

When you are exalted with the Tillers and Best Friends with Old Hillpaw, if you ask him for help on the farm he will come and stand about on your farm with several chickens near him (he's feeding them, but not really).
If he's at the market he will not come to your farm and you must wait for a day when he is at home.

General Information
Tied up with the new Pandaren cooking, and the Tiller's reputation are some individual "reputations" associated with ten npcs which are located around Halfhill and the Heartland in Valley of the Four Winds. All the information you could possibly want on farming and the associated reputations can be found in Perculia's guide. Note that there is more information if you scroll up.

If you want to feed every npc on one day you will need:

FISH	MEAT	VEG
05 Reef Octopus	05 Raw Turtle Meat	25 Scallions
10 Jade Lungfish	05 Raw Tiger Steak	35 Juicycrunch Carrot
05 Giant Mantis Shrimp	10 Wildfowl Breast	25 Striped Melon
10 Krasarang Paddlefish
05 Emperor Salmon

By npc that's:

NPC	FOOD	INGREDIENT 1	INGREDIENT 2
Old Hillpaw	Braised Turtle x5	Juicycrunch Carrot x25	Raw Turtle Meat x5
Jogu the Drunk	Sauteed Carrots	Juicycrunch Carrot x10
Chee Chee	Valley Stir Fry x5	Wildfowl Breast x5	Reef Octopus x5
Farmer Fung	Wildfowl Roast	Wildfowl Breast x5
Gina Mudclaw	Swirling Mist Soup	Jade Lungfish x5
Sho	Eternal Blossom Fish	Jade Lungfish x5	Striped Melon x25
Ella	Shrimp Dumplings	Giant Mantis Shrimp x5
Fish Fellreed	Twin Fish Platter	Krasarang Paddlefish x10
Tina Mudclaw	Fire Spirit Salmon	Emperor Salmon x5	Scallions x25
Haohan Mudclaw	Charbroiled Tiger Steak	Raw Tiger Steak x5

Comment by Allyosaugh

There's a great spot for these if you go to the Windward Isle in the Jade Forest (for level 90s). The young turtles there have low health pools and good drop rates for this, so you can gather up a large group of them, AoE them down and get a significant amount of turtle meat.

Comment by Arno00

The windward isle (cloud serpent questing zone) around 67,27 in the Jade Forest is indeed the best zone ever, especialy as a skinner.
This is a good spot to farm Raw Turtle Meat if you want to sell them or change them for ironpaw tokens.

There are a lot of Saltback Yearling and Saltback Turtle.
The yearlings are easy to kill because they have 129k HP wich is pretty low at lvl 90 with heroic gear.
You can gather them quite easily and then aoe down large pack of turtles, they respawn very fast (no downtime).
A great plus is using Battle Horn if you can handle large amount of mobs, wich can be really hard.

As a skinner you can also skin them to get Mist-Touched Leather and Prismatic Scale.

They have a good chance to drop Raw Turtle Meat (around 50%).

See by yourself, here is my looting log for ONLY 1h of farming (As a Windwalker Monk) including skinning time and dying time (Died two time using Battle Horn before if got it right)

160x Raw Turtle Meat
35x Mote of Harmony
16x Green items
3x boe blue items (lvl 85 ilevel 450, wich is worth quite a lot in the auction house ! I sold two of them 5K each)
100,26g worth of vendor trash

307x Mist-Touched Leather
120x Prismatic Scale
2x Magnificent Hide (First time I skin these, mostly luck)

Comment by Blazeflack

Edit: The spawn rate of Wyrmhorn Turtle at this particular location was hotfixed October 19th

I found that farming Wyrmhorn Turtle on the eastern side of Pools of Purity in Valley of the Four Winds is a great way to not only farm Raw Turtle Meat but also a great way to get some easy Mote of Harmony.

Since the turtles are part of a quest, the spawn rate is raised dramatically if you're more than 1 person farming them. I usually use my Shadow Priest for this. I find a good spot where I'm in range of a bunch of turtles and then just dot everything up.

As long as I am not alone at the spot the turtles usually re-spawn within 15 seconds. They are level 86 and only have 110k hp. They drop Raw Turtle Meat which you can use for Replenishing the Pantry along with the occasional green items and motes of harmony.

If you're not too badly geared you can also use this spot to earn some easy exp. With rested exp and a guild banner which provides +10% exp I was sitting at roughly 8.8 million exp / hour just by farming this spot. I can't remember the exact amount of meat I got but it was around 800 for a 2 hour farming session. The amount of motes of harmony is roughly 50 per hour depending on how fast you can kill stuff.

I just went on a 1 hour farming session in order to provide the exact amount of items I got. Here is the list.

375x Raw Turtle Meat
50x Mote of Harmony
20 green items
Grey items worth 257 gold
I'm not a skinner so I can't tell exactly how much leather you would get, but I expect a lot.

Comment by 775714

For my money the best spot to farm these is in Valley of the Four Winds - Riverbank Barbshells are just a stone's throw away from Halfhill, can be pulled by dozens, have 190k life and 50% drop rate. Just work your way up and back down the river for a couple of quick stacks...

Comment by 1006228

Another great spot is in Valley of the Four Winds at the grassy cline. The turtles there only have 110 k health and have a great drop rate!

Comment by Elmblossom17

I tried the Seadragons at Turtle Beach in Krasarang. Disappointing. There aren't actually that many turtles there, and the respawn rate is crappy. I don't recommend it for farming.

Comment by tikki100

Now, all of the sudden, I get why most turtle are close to being extinct...

Comment by jackal187

I have found that the chillwater turtles have a higher drop rate at about 65-75% in the dread wastes just north of the Lake of Stars.

Comment by ErisStrife

I got about 140 raw turtle meat, 15 BoE armor and weps to DE, 39 motes of harmony, and 160g worth of Gleaming Turtle Shells and regular Turtle shells (more if vendor or AH BoE's). All in about an hour farming Riverbank Barbshell along the river in Four Winds. I start on the river bank where Warband (Galleon) spawns, work my way east to the small waterfall ( don't forget the small patches of land in the river). Then back west up the other bank. Turtles have 189k hp. You also might find the rare Salyin Warscout on the way if you don't already have him. Fastest way to get turtle meat that I've found along with a few perks too.

Comment by Iconyx

Farmed these for 8 hours at Windward Isle for Ironpaw Tokens. Here's what you can expect to find per hour:

~ 200 to 300 Raw Turtle Meat
~ 100 gold
~ 50 to 100 Mote of Harmony
~ 20 to 30 Gleaming Turtle Shell
~ 15 to 30 Windwool Cloth
~ 20 to 30 random greens from ilvl 377 to 429
~ 3 to 5 random grays
~ 1 or 2 blues around ilvl 433
~ 1 or 2 Ghost Iron Lockbox
~ 1 or 2 random cooking ingredients that can be farmed on your plot at halfhill
Hundreds of Turtle Shell
Some random Pandaria food (200k Health/Mana)

Farming includes killing some Slitherscale mobs that patrol around the island, so their loot table affects what I found.

Comment by 1001147

After 30 minutes of farming on my 532 bear with forager's gloves and golden fleece I received the following from farming the turtles on Windward Isle

88 raw turtle meat
8 greens
15 motes of harmony
20 sha-touched leather
11 windwool cloth
60 prismatic scales
125 exotic leather
143 gold from intestines from skinning and vendor trash

I farm turtle meat for my Sea Mist Rice Noodles and sell my skinning stuff for profit and throw the greens in my guild bank for disenchanting. Great place overall for getting stuff along with the skins/turtle meat or both.

Comment by Castyle

Another spot with crazy drop rates and respawns is at 67, 28 in the Valley of the Four Winds. Lots of little turtles - in 10 minutes I had 20 Raw Turtle Meat

Comment by BeckiQT314

My best place for farming these are at the east side of Winward Isle. Many many turtles there.

Comment by Asinains

Draenor post.
The best spot for farming Raw Turtle Meat is still Windward Isle. Farmed for 10 minutes and got :

76x Raw Turtle Meat
7 greens
2 witchberries
bunch of turtle shells

I needed 110 of Raw Turtle Meat and got it in ~15 minutes as Brewmaster Monk by pulling groups with Ox Statue.

Starting at 64, 33 , then moving to 65, 27 -> 66, 26 -> 67, 25 -> 68, 25 -> 69, 25 -> 68, 27 -> 68, 28 -> 68, 32 -> repeat.

Comment by Endyrz

Pond at Valley of the Four Winds 20.60, 12.11
As well as the little shrine area right next to it. Tons of turtles dropping meat, motes of harmony, green items, and gleaming shells. They respawn extremely fast, and are tight together.. absolutely the best place for turtle meat!

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