Battle Horn

Battle Horn is a collectible toy from the Mists of Pandaria expansion. When activated, your character blows a battle horn, drawing all hostile creatures within 40 yards toward you. The effect only works on targets no higher than level 49 and only on creatures native to Pandaria. The cooldown is 2 minutes, and the "call" itself is instant: mobs acquire you as a target and rush in immediately.

The item was added in patch 5.0.4 (2012, Mists of Pandaria) as a regular drop from a rare. In patch 5.5.0, the Battle Horn was converted into a toy and added to the Toy Box — from that point your inventory is freed up and the item becomes available account-wide once and for all. That is also when the level restriction was applied to the effect: before Legion the horn pulled mobs of any level, but now only peaceful and low-level Pandaria creatures.

• Mass-pulling mobs into a single spot. Very few toys match this radius and area of effect. One click drags every Pandaria creature within 40 yards toward you — handy for clearing camps, farming quest mobs, and clearing herb or ore gathering routes.
• Useful for collectors and transmog farming. Pandaria still has many zones where players run laps for reputation, cloth bags, pets, and rare items. The horn cuts down on the number of manual approaches to each group of mobs.
• Counts toward collection achievements. The toy increases your Toy Box counter and brings you closer to the meta-achievements Big Toy Box and Toying Around.
• Account-bound. After a single use, the horn appears in the Toy Box of every character on your account — faction and class do not matter.
• Sources can be soloed. At max level in Midnight (90), both the Valley of the Four Winds and the Timeless Isle can be farmed solo without trouble. None of the sources require a group or special preparation.

The Battle Horn has two known sources. The first is targeted, with a guaranteed chance of around 20% per kill but a long rare respawn timer. The second is mass-based: hundreds of regular mobs with a drop chance of about 0.5% each, which over the long run gives a steady stream of horns. Most farmers combine both routes.

Method 1. The Rare Blackhoof

The best individual chance comes from the rare yaungol Blackhoof. This is a rare in the Valley of the Four Winds, north of Stormstout Brewery. He has several spawn points — you need to fly around the whole area before declaring him "absent".

Coordinates of the main spawn points:

Stats and farming:

Practical tip: install a rare-NPC notifier addon (for example, Silver Dragon or TomTom Rares). Blackhoof is often killed before you arrive, so flying blind in circles usually ends in nothing — waiting for an alert is more efficient than relying on luck.

Method 2. Ordon Candlekeepers on Timeless Isle

The second source is the regular mob Ordon Candlekeeper at the Firewalker Ruins on the Timeless Isle. The chance per mob is low — about 0.5% — but there are dozens of mobs in the ruins, they stand in tight groups, and they respawn quickly.

Route to the ruins:

1. Open the world map and select the Jade Forest, then take the portal to the Timeless Isle.
2. From the arrival point, fly southwest to the Firewalker Ruins — a stone complex with large braziers and guardian statues.
3. Inside the ruins stand groups of Candlekeepers, 2–4 mobs each.

Key farming parameters:

Practical tip: between laps of the ruins, use the downtime to finish off nearby Ordon Guardians and Ordon Fire-Watchers — they grant reputation with Emperor Shaohao and rare toys as gifts.

• Effect: instantly draws the attention of all hostile creatures within 40 yards around your character. The effect is mass — it affects every mob in the area of effect simultaneously.
• Cooldown: 2 minutes. The cooldown is individual and is not shared with other toys.
• Level restriction: works only on targets no higher than level 49. Against current Midnight enemies (lvl 80–90) the horn is useless.
• Creature-type restriction: works only on creatures belonging to Pandaria's fauna. The effect will not trigger on mobs from other expansions, even if they technically fit the level.
• Where it works: in the open world, old Pandaria dungeons and raids and earlier expansions, when farming cloth bags, reputation, pets, and transmog from low-level mobs.
• Where it does not work: in current Midnight raids, in battlegrounds, arenas, or any rated modes. The horn also will not trigger on mobs flagged by a cutscene script or not counted as "native" to Pandaria.
• Capital guards: activating the horn in the opposing faction's capital will aggravate the city guards, since it counts as a hostile act.
• Stacking: the horn does not conflict with other taunt toys, but reusing it during its cooldown is impossible.