Is it just me or are the gathering profession’s like mining & herbing just abosolutely awful this go around. I’ve been trying to mine so i can continue to level JC with out spending massive amounts of gold on the items i need from the AH but ….this feels so bad right now. and i can imagine its only going to be worse in Outlands
my assumption is because there is 2 servers for each region … outland was pretty bad last time … rogues and druids will live inside instances
It is not just you. I have spent hours looking for Thorium, and every zone has 6+ people all circling. It is WAY worse than the previous versions so far.
I am assuming, besides botting, that it is the lack of servers/layers.
Since I have ZERO faith in Bliz to fix (or even address) this issue, I am probably going to drop mining and just quest for gold at 70 to buy mats.
With dungeon farms and boosting nerfed expect more bot node farming competition. Note I said MORE, it’s going to exponentially increase. Blizz did NO one any favors by not directly confronting bots and instead nerfing players.
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All more the reason to either put WoW tokens in the game…or stop banning gold buyers….or make nodes player specific then everyone can farm…I spent triple the time just leveling my mining 1-300 because once you reach Mithril you have to fight against bots etc
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It’s worse but I don’t know if it’s that much worse. I didn’t have any real issue until trying to gather Thorium. It’s definiltly pointless to try and gather end-game mats without 100% riding, once I got 100% riding I was getting a decent amount more ore and I felt actually competitive with other players farming.
What I would like to know is. Who the heck decided out of the OG dev team to make it so the minimum most efficient number of Thorium bars you need to get to 300 Blacksmithing, is 580, at least according the Wowhead. That’s nuts and feels to be way too many bars! I remember last TBC launch, even with less people in the OG zones, it still took a ridiculous amount of farming to get my BS to 300.
It really feels like you need too many end-game mats to progress and for end-game items, which has now been made slightly worse due to the mega servers. Farming for gold and mats to this degree is not fun and shouldn’t be required to the level that it is.
I’m super intelligent and decided to work on blacksmithing, engineering and jewelcrafting all at once. And by super intelligent, I mean I’m a moron, not even at thorium yet, I’m still working on iron/mithril, thorium looks like the easy one at least for ENG.
Oh well, I dug this hole, it’s my hole, it was made for me, by me.
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Yeah gathering professions are pretty rough. I have found auction house flipping is much easier and very profitable
It’s amazing how cheap you can get stuff if you just pst people and ask for 40% off
The good news is: mat prices are deflated right now because of all the bots and people levelling gathering professions. I power levelled Engineering from Mithril to Thorium and, after selling the grenades/slugs I made, only lost some 10-ish gold.
If you have the extra gold to stockpile mats now, it’s a great time.
Gathering is what you do on your first character until you get to 60. After that, double crafting is the way to go.
Unless you’re a Druid in TBC, in which case you may opt to keep at least one gathering profession since flight form + stealth beats all other classes for gathering in Outland.
If the poor sharding is going on for high levels that is going on in the start areas its safe to assume gathering is a nightmare. Every starting area for every race is overrun with people. Many quests require you to group if you don’t want to be there for 20 minutes for that 1 kill. Not uncommon to see 5+ people waiting for 1 spawn… and some of those spawns take forever.
If this continues into outlands on release its going to be a mess.
Oh and all those boosted characters are likely gathering right now because that is useful for a while and probably really useful if you bank all the mats and sit on them for a few months.