World of Warcraft players are once again slaying hundreds of frogs, this time to skin their hides before Blizzard catches them

World of Warcraft players are once again slaying hundreds of frogs, this time to skin their hides before Blizzard catches them | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these World of Warcraft World of Warcraft: Midnight’s lack of combat addons lets the devs make raids harder without resorting to ‘shoot more bullets at you’ design, says encounter lead World of Warcraft WoW lead says they ‘lost something along the way’ by building dungeons for sweaty Mythic+ timers instead of 20-boss mazes like the good old days, but Labyrinths could be the solution RPG Blizzard says ‘There’s actually millions of people that still play Diablo 3’ and those players have the right idea World of Warcraft WoW’s classes were pruned for Midnight because many were ‘built in a world’ where its devs assumed they’d be using addons World of Warcraft Here’s when World of Warcraft: Midnight launches in your time zone World of Warcraft ‘The Light really did call EVERYBODY’: players find Leeory Jenkins, complete with his cloth shoulderpads, defending the Sunwell in World of Warcraft: Midnight World of Warcraft Blizzard will take it slow with World of Warcraft balance updates after the Midnight expansion drops RPG The best parts of my favorite World of Warcraft classes are being turned into new heroes for Fellowship’s pre-season 2 update this week Fallout Fallout 76 adjusted roughly 50 events and activities for the latest free update, with more XP for higher levels and shorter timers: ‘We tried to concentrate on the broad strokes’ Final Fantasy Final Fantasy 14’s latest unofficial census is a surprising uptick, and shows I’m not the only one getting sucked back into the MMO again RPG Thanks to Diablo 2, Blizzard might’ve found a way to fix Diablo 4’s loot fatigue in its next expansion World of Warcraft WoW’s revisiting old zones for Midnight and The Last Titan because not every story ‘has to be told within the context of a new continent’ RPG Warlocks have taken the throne as Diablo 2’s best class 26 years later, and Blizzard seems to be OK with letting them have their fun for now FPS I thought Overwatch’s new Arcade mode was a glitch, but it’s actually a ridiculous cat-stuffed free-for-all where spamming ‘meow’ is mandatory FPS An Overwatch bug which allowed you to crash the game by typing in chat has been fixed, so don’t make Blizzard regret letting you talk again: ‘That bug accidentally made OW a safe place’ PopularNEW: PC Gamer Clips!Resident EvilArc RaidersBest PC gearGame Quizzes Games MMO World of Warcraft World of Warcraft: Midnight World of Warcraft players are once again slaying hundreds of frogs, this time to skin their hides before Blizzard catches them News By Tyler Colp published 28 February 2026 Frog farming is back. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Blizzard) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter PC Gamer Get the PC Gamer Newsletter Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Want to add more newsletters? Every Friday GamesRadar+ Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you’re going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them. 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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter Here we go again: World of Warcraft has yet another frog problem. This time, players have found a spot in the new Midnight expansion where the frogs won’t stop spawning.Unlike the previous frog exploit in Mists of Pandaria: Remix, these amphibians don’t drop any valuable loot. They do, however, have hides worth skinning at a time when everyone is racing to level up their professions. Players are grouping up around the pond outside Silvermoon City to slay hundreds of frogs until their experience bars are satiated.I went to observe the frog-slaying myself. You can find the Stillwhisper Pond just outside the entrance of the elven city. Curiously, the place was empty for me, but I killed a few frogs, or “Gloombelly Toads”, to confirm that they do, in fact, keep showing back up. The lack of players running around made me skeptical, so I opened up the group finder to see if frogs were still on the menu. Related articles Players discover once again that World of Warcraft is powered by invisible bunnies that make everything work World of Warcraft: Midnight’s new roadmap includes prop hunt, mega-dungeon sized delves, and a new experimental game mode from the folks who brought you Remix and Plunderstorm World of Warcraft: Legion Remix was supposed to be full of lawless fun, but it turned out to be awfully grindy Sure enough, several players have groups for what is being referred to as a “frog farm” in the group finder. One of the group’s descriptions sim