Bountiful harvest doesnt seem to be working!
i am lvl 26 on my hunter now,
throughout the grind i have gained 200+ skinning & had 4 points bountiful harvest, increased it to 5 when i hit 25.
i have been trying all day to get the last few Pristine leathers i need for crafting.
i started @lvl 23,
i run farmed;
SFK @ lvl23 twice, and bfd once, skinning every kill,
yellow mobs lvl 24+for 1 hour,
green mobs lvl 23-20 for 2 hours,
grey mobs lvl 20 > for another hour,
and i havent skinned a single pristine leather all day?
(i did finally sell all my leather jsut to afford the pristine leather i needed @60s a piece)
is there a certain lvl mob, or difficulty challenge mob (grey, green, yellow, orange) that i need to be killing to collect pristine hides?
my druid leveled up and collected enough pristine leather to craft 4 full sets of crafters leather working recipes for my 3 characters while he leveled,
but now my 4th character who has the bountiful harvest cant get a single drop?
help me understand what lvl range/difficulty mobs i have to kill to try and collect pristine hides?
Think the recent patch that removed raid skinning bugged the auto loot of skinning. You will now get an error message sometimes when trying to skin a corpse whelp that was your pristine leather that went into the void due to that fix.
I’m wondering if the drop rate on pristine was nerfed overall. Like you, early in beta I was getting them at what felt a very reasonable pace. (maybe once every 40 skins?) Now that I need it for another character’s crafting, I have been skinning again (had that toon sitting out for a bit) and in 2+ hours of kills/skinning (yellow mobs) I got pristine once.
Today I spent the legacy points and put 5 into Bountiful harvest (all excited it might help). I just killed/skinned worgen in Duskwood for about 1.5 hours (got 2/3 of a level) and it dropped once.
Something must have changed and/or bountiful harvest doesn’t work on the green gathering drops.
yeah i did an hour today yellow lvl 26 mobs the full hour 20 mins. i got 100 light, 100 med, 5 each light/med hide and 1 mob dropped 3 pieces of pristine hide at the tail end of my tracking, 0 pristine leather! still
8 hours of nothing but skinning, 2 dungeons worth of skinning. 0 pristine leather?
Oh you know what…after reading your post just now I double checked and the one drop I got was pristine hide, not leather! So 0 pristine leather from my 1.5 hours too! grrrr.
hmmm not that the droip rate is greatly improved at all…
but is there lvl cap for prisine leathers…
i killed lvl 15-24s for 3 hours without either dropping,
what lvl do pristine leathers need to be dropping from?
meanwhile with teh reduced drop rate even with the 100% improved chance to drop…
pristine leather and frilled lichen are @70s a piece each driving the price with scarcity
I can also confirm i have not seen a single lichen or rosecap since acquiring 5/5 bountiful. It appears to be broken and doing -100% or something stupid.
another friend has a herb alt and they got lichen before putting points in and then tested after adding points and went to 0 since.
currently lvling a new toon with full bountiful harvest from lvl 1 to test how much uncommon loot i get from gathering, skinning/herbalism.
will report back soon!
currently lvl 14, 100+ skinning and herb
i have 5 points for 100% improved chance to drop rare gathering materials.
i so far have collected 1 single lichen. from my first mageroyal.
so far 2 full lvl 20’s 150+ skinning, 2 pristine leather drops total w/ full bountiful harvest
one char with nothing but 9 hours of skinning after hitting lvl 20 and getting bountiful harvest with 2 total drops grinding 6 lvls just farming leather
one grinding out with bountiful harvest from lvl 1
for reference,
i have 2 lvl 30 toons w skinning and had 0 bountiful harvest
i was able to farm enough pristine leather between them to craft 4 full sets of the new crafted armor, that was before the patch and the gift of legacy points granting me access to bountiful harvest.
since that patch, i have farmed 2 hole pristine leathers between 2 skinners
pretty sure its safe to say its broken and this in not the intended drop rate?!
Define the drop rates for scarce materials as latest data from players shows zero to negative impacts from Legacy point additions to Bountiful Harvest with several hundred herb attempts as samples.
it finally happened…
i have ground out almost exclusively on beasts and quests to kill beasts…
i have farmed the raptors for the stolen silver quest for about an hour…
lvl 20 skinning 170, skinned a lvl 18 mob and got my first pristine leather !
and 4 nodes have produces lichen
Worked today on the herb/skinning toon again. level 12-15 1/2 right now. herbing/skinning in Ashenvale (great skinning zone!) 5/5 Bountiful. I’ve turned in a few quests but this is mostly just grinding mobs to skin.
0 pristine leather at all on this toon
0 additional lichen after the first 2 I got early on.
I’m going to see moonstalkers and thistle bears in my sleep. lol
in a stark contrast…
skill lvl 100 mining w 5/5 bountiful harvest…
17 pyrite
12 malacite
8 tiger-eye
9 shadow gems
and 1 moss agate
the first time i did a miner w/o before access to bountiful harvest i had 130 mining, adn only 5 pyrite
so its working for mining!?
but the disparity of minings drop rate compared to herbalism and skinning shows in the disparity of price. a full stack of pyrite sells for less than either lichen or pristine leather…
still @ 70s a piece vs 1.5s a piece for pyrite.
i find it odd that pristine leather drop rate is so “scarce” compared since you actually have to kill things to skill it up, unlike mining/herbalism ( for the most part)
Hi. The reason you are all going insane is that you are likely trying to to do some of this farming on level 30s. Per my testing level 30 characters can’t farm Lichen/Pristine Leather, they can only farm Rosecap/Pristine Hide. See my thread on scarce material mechanics for detailed info. I don’t know if Pyrite works the same way but I’m comfortable saying “probably”