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Comment by Chibi

This just dropped for me off of Thorngrin the Tender in the Botanica. Was pretty shocked when it dropped :)

Comment by 20500

This dropped for me of Thorngrin the Tender in Botanica. Normal mode, not Heroic.

Comment by 48301

Dropped from Thorngrinn in non-heroic mode

Comment by 6460

Botanica on Heroic mode is a lot harder than I had anticipated. The sheer volume of mobs that now hit so much harder makes having 2 healers (or 1 main heal and 1 secondary heal) a virtual necessity to get through in a reasonable amount of time.

But yes, this does drop in heroic. Blizz has said that all the high-end patterns that drop in the 5-man instances (spellstrike/whitemend/battlecast) will also drop from the heroic versions of the same bosses.

Comment by dahehe

does anyone kno if u are say 370 tailoring will this still drop for u

Comment by omnom

You can see the real drop chance from WoW Armory (3% - 14%)
http://www.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=24310

Comment by 649042

Does this pattern still drop? I've been soloing this for weeks and have yet to see this or Warp Splinter's patterns drop. I've been doing the heroic then a few regulars immediately after until I get the "too many instances."

Comment by 837252

Yes it does still drop. My first run and it dropped, I forgot those even exsisted, now I want the hood =D

Comment by capnbiff

(copied from my post on the Whitemend Hood recipe page, as almost all the information also applies to this grind, with the exception that you also need to clear 13 more trash and 1 more boss, and it should take you another minute to clear the run)

FARMING GUIDE:

Note that there are two BoP Tailoring patterns that drop here - these and the Battlecast Pants off of Thorngrin. Wowhead lists the drops rates as nearly identical, so make sure you go after both of them while you're here. I got the pants after about 25 runs, but this hood took me 53 runs. Eventually, I got it down to under 7 minutes per run. At 85 (priest), you only need to pull three sets of mobs for 17 total kills, plus the boss.

As soon as you enter and see the first set of guards, run right down the middle of the first arch, through the second arch, and up to the third arch. You should be past the patrol points for the first two guards and the first robot, so they should reset and just leave you with the two guards from the second arch and the two guards and the robot from the third arch. AoE them down and loot (see note about loot at end).

Move through the third arch and keep to the left, avoiding the 3 mobs in front of you. Skirt the inner wall and avoid the next 3 mobs in front of you, easing up along the inner wall until just before you get to the centerline of the fourth arch. The robot coming through the arch will come almost to you, then turn to your right and patrol down that side, leaving you alone. Run exactly down the centerline of the fourth arch and you won't pull the guards on either side. Once through the arch, skirt the left wall to avoid the mobs in front of you. Run up to the birds, drop an AoE on them if can do so without stopping, then keep running through the robot and the fifth arch, stopping just before the sixth arch. You now have ten friends: three falcons, one falconer, two guards and a robot from the fifth arch, and three guards from the sixth arch. This is probably the hardest pull, as the birds can stun in succession, and that can be rough if you're a clothie who needs to channel his AoE. Loot everything except the birds - they drop nothing worthwhile.

The next two minutes have a lot of weaving but no mobs. Coming out of the sixth arch, watch out for a stray bird that pats around and will pull his friends with him. It's an easy kill, but a waste of farming time. Skirt the right wall til the corner, then follow it up the right side, behind the huge set of guards by the first boss, and on to the central platform. Run through the gap between the mobs against the right wall and the workstation towards the center, but watch out as there is sometimes a two-mob pat that wanders across that gap. Again, it's an easy kill, but a waste of farming time, so burn a few seconds to let them pass. Once through the gap, stay up against the right wall until you're past the plants, then curve over to the seventh arch. Stay to the right as you come through that arch, and you'll be at the top of the ramp in front of Thorngrin.

If you already have Thorngrin's pattern, then stay on the ramp and head left. Watch out for the two-mob pat that circles clockwise up/down the ramp and in front of Thorngrin. If they are already coming up the ramp towards you, just jump off the middle of the ramp and turn left. If they're not yet at the ramp, you can run down it, hugging the left side as they get close.

THORNGRIN FIGHT:
Move down the ramp to the right. In addition to the two-mob pat mentioned above, there is one single mob that pats in front of Thorngrin. There are also two groups of five mobs in front of Thorngrin Each of these groups has two casters (Inciter), two melee (Reaper), and one healer (Channeler). The melee can hit a bit hard on clothies, so you might not want to pull them all at once. You know the drill - kill the healers first. Loot the trash, then pull Thorngrin and hope the RNG likes you. Move to the far end of the ramp to keep going towards Warp Splinter.

From the bottom of the ramp, stay to the left to avoid the two stealthed rogues between you and the eighth arch. Once through the arch, you will see three sets of mobs, each around a workstation. You can carefully move through them, staying on the left side as you near the ninth arch. There are two guards at the arch - pull them to the left, away from the last group of scientists, and kill/loot them.

Go through the ninth arch, and keep to the left, away from the lovely mutants. If you stay to the left of that little fountain-thingie near the wall, you can avoid pulling the first group of mutants, and then slip through the tenth arch. Once through, head straight down the middle into the central courtyard with Warp. Do not veer off the centerline or you'll pull the flowers - another waste of time.

Walk up to Warp, say howdy, and slap him around. He casts a Stomp that will stun you for 4 seconds, and if you take too long he'll sometimes cast Summon Saplings, which move slowly but will trigger all the flowers to come swarm you. This is only a problem when you're looting, so be prepared to loot quickly if needed. When I got the pattern, there were six different loot items, and I had plenty of time to loot them all and then exit, without having to deal with the trash. When you have looted, keep walking straight out the back entrance, then hit reset and try again.

LOOT COMMENTS: If you want to maximize loot, try to have at least 50 bag slots open when you start a farming set. At 7ish minutes per run, I finished a set of five runs in about 35 minutes, with probably 30 spots filled with various trash and boss BoP blues, a few stacks of cloth (make into bolts and save space), around 10 BoE greens (sent to my enchanter to DE for more profit), and a stack each of Sunfury Signets and Arcane Tomes. When you're timed out, fly down to Cosmowrench to repair and vendor trash, and then to Area 52 if you need to mail stuff, even to Shattrath if you need to hit the bank or the AH. After 53 runs, I have more than enough Signets and Tomes to get to max Exalted with Scryers. Not counting actual cash looted, the combination of vendor trash, greens to DE, cloth made into Netherweave Bags and the rep items added up to nearly 200g per set of 5 runs, and the actual looting only took maybe 30 seconds or out of each run. That equates to around 350g per hour, which is pretty close to what I can make from quest rewards and drops doing Molten Front dailies - and I can farm these recipes all day long. So, while this was a pretty darned boring exercise, at least I was getting decent compensation for my time. Moral of the story - don't look down your nose at this trash - LOOT IT!

If this was helpful to you, please uprate it so others will see it. Thanks, and good luck!

Comment by bdzl07

Still dropping... not a fan of the 375 tailoring req though.

Comment by Kaiserin

I am looking for someone on MoonGuard server (US) to make these for me for transmog. Would be willing to tip nicely as well for your trouble! I just can't get them to drop on my tailors. :/

Comment by 1106829

Hey, guy's ran Botanica on heroic mode and got the drop finally, so dont grow faint it's all in good time and that applys for spellstrike pants pattern as well, good luck and happy farming! (Scarlet Crusade realm)

Comment by pope3909

I can confirm that this pattern still drops as of 7.3. It took me 100+ runs in normal and heroic, and it happened to drop for me in heroic mode. With a Swiftness Potion and the 1-hour food buff from Bear Tartare, farming this wasn't as bad as it could have been.

EDIT: Ensure that you loot EVERY corpse that you kill! During all these runs I've looted various world drops worth tens of thousands of gold! My strategy is to just fun though as much trash as I can, up to Thorngrin, and AoE and loot.

Comment by Classfantasy

I got the pattern on my 4th run on normal difficulty.

Comment by lms2971

Is this pattern only good for a one time use? I got it made the pants and equipped them now the pattern is gone from my data base and back in the unlearned spot!

Comment by addmydataz

Running The Botanica on Normal mode, farming for Pattern: Battlecast Pants from Thorngrin the Tender.

Thorngrin dropped the pattern after a total of 9 runs, 27 Jan 20, BFA. 8.3+

Comment by Tequima

Note that BC Heroic dungeons can only be run once per day. Normal dungeons, just right-click on your portrait and select "reset all instances" before re-entering.

Comment by Nagratz

I can confirm that this is still dropping in 2023.

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Pattern: Battlecast Pants

Item Level 1
Binds when picked up

Use: Teaches you how to sew Battlecast Pants.
Requires Outland Tailoring (75)

Sell Price: 1 50

Dropped by: Thorngrin the Tender

Drop Chance: 0.96%

Battlecast Pants
Item Level 31
Binds when equipped

Legs	Cloth

3 Armor
+4 Intellect
+6 Stamina

Prismatic Socket
Prismatic Socket
Socket Bonus: +1 Critical Strike

Durability 120 / 120
Requires Level 27

Battlecast Garb (0/2)
Requires Outland Tailoring (50)

Battlecast Hood
Battlecast Pants

Sell Price: 3 81

Requires Bolt of Imbued Netherweave (12), Primal Might (8), Primal Nether

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