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Comment by Martika

Similar to the coin turn-in quest from the version of Griftah in your garrison; not worth repeating for the 50g after the first turn in of the week.

Comment by TheSteelPhantom

I've found the best place to Pick Pocket farm is Moon Guard Stronghold in Suramar.

Comment by Illmatica

If you don't feel like traveling throughout a massive area, I found that the Suramar Harbor is a nice place. Just circle the whole area inside and out until you're done. Them pockets fill up again real quick. There are a few demons who can see through stealth but they are not elites. Some of them (closer to the outer area) patrol in areas where they can be killed without being seen.

Comment by Haldhur

The murlocs at the center of Azsuna are another good location.

Comment by sivla

whatever coins you get, just save them for the weekly quest. On the ptr you could easily make 120k a week ...now not so much...in fact i am trying to ponder the point of pick pocketing at all...just another example of how atrocious this developer has become.

Comment by Hsilia

I've found that some of the sentinax portals have mobs that can be pickpocketed, very useful as they spawn in large quantities and are killed rapidly.

Comment by Anuerysm

Went to the murlocs in Azsuna at level 101. 10-15 min, over 11k in coins. Very good area, at any level.

Comment by tabitreader

! BEWARE !

If you are trying to get a battle pet or an XMOG rogue item or toy, be careful not to simply press Complete Quest! I just signed away 10,000 coins (enough for 1 battle pet) for 4,999g. Not what I wanted to do, but hey, muscle memory.

Yeah, it's a lot of money, but I wish I would have bought the battle pet.

Going to try a ticket for reversal.

! BEWARE !

Comment by RogueEntity

Is this quest, or the pickpocketing ability broken now? I completed all of griftah's and the djinn's quests last week, and got enough coins to buy all but the 2 pets. This week, I took the "I'll take those, thanks!" quest again, but all I get when I PP now is copper and the occasional food/drink item. No more common/rare/epic items or coins of air. And yes, I do have the 3 lamps in my inventory.

Comment by Cosmicwind

The best place I have found to farm coins and quest items has been in the Dungeon Eye Of Azshara (I put it on Normal not sure if Heroic or Mythic would have a higher drop rate- if I try those settings I will post which is better). I did a lap of the dungeon and I got 50k. This took about 15mins. By the time you are back to the beginning the adds can be pickpocketed again, so no need to reset dungeon. I pickpocketed everything that had pockets.

Comment by Lswindrunner

How come no one has mentioned the guards ?

As part of the Assa artefact quest, you have to go into SW and PP guards till you find 'information'. Since it is a 'scenario' there are no players of the opposite faction and here's the kick, the guards give a massive amount of coins and there are loads of them all concentrated in one small area, I got 2500 from just ONE guard.

Just keep doing laps and you'll have enough coins to buy all the toys etc in no time.

Comment by tooltip

Completing this weekly will have Griftah offering you I Don't Need Them, But I'll Take Them next.

HOWEVER, the second one only awards you 50 gold, so don't be bamboozled.

Comment by Calfos

They have removed the quest... :(

Comment by kthonik32

did they remove this on tuesday. i had done it on one character on monday and today with a different toon it is gone.

Comment by Millidor

CONFIRMED! This weekly repeatable character quest has been removed from CLASS TRIAL rogues. Many people were creating multiple class trial rogues to do this over and over in order to mass large amounts of gold. You will NOT find this hotfix in the notes though.

Comment by Eyecandy

Anyone has cords or map pictures of good location for this quest?

Comment by Ametrine

Wonder why the reward is exactly 20c short of a full 5000g? Did Griftah lose a few coppers somewhere?

Comment by mville

To collect coins go to Suramar, flying ability is highly recommended. It will also be easier without a follower.

Exact location: FP Iron Grove Retreat, head towards Moonfall Overlook to /way 30.7, 9.4

There are plenty of safe spots to get yourself into stealth. There is a constant supply of Imperial Conjurers coming down the stairs. Target and pickpocket, repeat, repeat.

I collected 5,000 coins off one, although that is rare, usually between 3 and 200 coins of air from each. It will take 10 minutes or less to get 10K.

Comment by Chivalreon

As of right now, this does not seem to get nerfed in BFA. Enjoy your weekly trips from Zuldazar and Kul Tiras back to Dalaran in the Broken Isles, in order to collect your 5k g! ;)

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Comment by Kupotek

Nothing anymore, only getting copper pickpocketing in Suramar now.
Is this quest no longer available? I know you can still pick it up in Dalaran,
but nothing drops the coins anymore.

I also noticed the mobs that ran out of the temple of light now have no pockets.

Comment by Surchys

With 8.1 it looks like this has been nerfed yet again, just did my turn-in and only got 1232g.

Comment by Baneleaf

This appears to have been nerfed....again. I checked on multiple rogues of multiple levels and the reward was now 1232 gold. Unfortunately I had already turned in the quest on my 120 rogue (I have 6 rogues) so I cannot hard confirm that it is the same nerf at that level. I have a ticket in and will try to update this once the ticket is answered but at the moment the ticket has an unknown duration. The nerf appears to be another unannounced 8.1 change but the previous nerf was also unannounced in 8.0

****Edit. Two days ago I put in a second GM ticket on this as the first was ignored and got in a rather heated argument with a GM who kept telling me this is a 14 year old game and that things happen. He said this appears to be an undocumented change and got all huffy when I asked why such minor things as changes in syntax are mentioned in patch notes but cutting a quest reward in half goes unsaid, again. He abruptly ended the ticket and told me the game is old.

Comment by Hrazmadul

If they nerf the gold why not nerf the coins too? 10000 to 5000 to 2500 coins of air... seems fair.

Comment by Anubis56

See if you've completed the weekly yet:
/script print(IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(47594))

Farming:
I've found that the murlocs around Bilgefin Shore (81,57) in Eastern Stormheim are an amazing farming spot!
They are plentiful and tightly packed. Not to mention if you happen to aggro, you can clear them with ease.

Probably because of their quantity, I tend to nab a lot of rare or epic pickpocket items.

#showtooltip Pick Pocket
/cleartarget
/targetenemy
/cast Pick Pocket

Further clarification; this area Rout the Bilgefin Invaders .

Pick-pocketing 99% of the murlocs in the area takes under 5min and yields about 11k-15k coins. Pretty quick to get what you need for the weekly quest without much hassle.
Sometimes I leave my rogue parked there when I need to kill time. If i'm logged off for about 3-5min, the pickpocket loot is reset on all the murlocs.

Comment by Cr00xY

So how many times are they going to nerf this quest?

Comment by WokkaD

The best places I've found to pickpocket Coins of Air :

1. If you are level 110+ and have Masquerade, then pickpocketing in Suramar City is relatively easy, especially around Starcaller Retreat (47,81) where there are no NPC's which detect stealth and using Masquerade makes all enemy NPC's non combat (yellow).

2. If you are below level 110, then goto Azsuna. The Hatecoil Naga in the El'dranil Shallows area around the Narthalas Academy and the Eye of Azshara dungeon entrance give good drops of items for Coins of Air.

Tip : use Sap to incapacitate the Naga and stealth detectors, then pickpocket them.

The closest entrance to Al'Abas and Griftah is in One More Glass, next to the Horde area of Legion Dalaran.

Comment by ziddy1232

This appears to have been changed again... and buffed, for some reason. I received 1,600g from it today at level 60.

Comment by DaemoniKira

Happened upon this method while working on something entirely different, and after realizing just how well it worked, I came here to share my experience. A great way to earn these coins is to pickpocket all the mobs at the "Warden Tower Assault" WQs.

You can farm these coins without ever breaking stealth, and make a quick lap of the whole area in a few minutes while gathering a ton of coins very easily.
Plus, if there are people killing the mobs, then they will respawn at a decent rate and you can pickpocket the new ones, making another lap! Rinse and repeat. Also, if you are close when the mob you've pickpocketed is killed, you will get credit toward the WQ completion.
The best part is that even if there's no other players around to kill mobs and reset the area for you to pickpocket, there's usually at least 3x of these WQs up at any given time!

Hope this helped :)

Comment by linda535

It's even better after "the big squish". Someone missed a cue and even though rogues can pick up this quest as soon as they get into the Hall of Shadows, rogues can't pickpocket until lvl 24. Someone's not thinking...

Comment by Kimminator

Well, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but at squished level 52, I've just discovered that the only lamp Griftah now sells is the Grimy Lamp. Even though the quest is still in my Quest Log, I'm stuck at 9546/10000 and no matter what I loot, I'm no longer getting coins of air*. In the Bloodmaul Slag Mines Dungeon I was getting the items that you can fence with Griftah for Dingy Iron Coins. ~~So... IDK? Can you no longer get coins of air, then?~~

*UPDATE! The Murlocs in Azshara are giving coins of air! Weird - but yay!

Comment by Drolfeir

At this date, on this patch, a level 60 rogue will get 1617 gold for 10,000 coins of air.

Pickpocketing in Legion zones and dungeons still gives coins of air. I'm still trying to complete "High Fast-Djinn", waiting on the Locket of Magical Memories to show up, and I've easily gathered 60,000-75,000 to buy goodies from Griftah.

Comment by wowitsnic

At level 29 I only received 798 Gold. 80 Silver...

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I'll Take Those, Thanks!

Obtain 10,000 Coins of Air for Griftah.

	Collect: Coins of Air (10000)

Description

These coins, dey be vanishin' inta air ya say? Dat be soundin' perfect, as I have jus the fella ta give dem to.

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See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(47594))

Guides

Shifty Hands: A Guide to Pickpocketing