Without being able to farm herbs…
This is getting ridiculous.
Progressing through Naxx uses alot of consumes, but I literally cant farm the herbs to continue progression. Cant seem to find Plaguebloom and even Dreamfoil is becoming a problem.
I mean Plaguebloom is 230g a stack on my server. (And that price has remained steady.) There is no way I can farm enough gold in a week to pay for it.
And NO, I am not going to buy gold…
Level a mage and sell boosts. Or farm herbs in dungeons. Open world is run by bots so you have to find other options.
Use lower level consumes if you feel you must consume. They aren’t really much worse, and the herbs are easy enough to come by. Elixir of agi instead of mongoose, str elixirs etc.
One step down from the top and you can often get 10 times as many for the cost of the top one and be almost as good.
You don’t have to be the best. You just have to be good enough to get the job done. Letting go of all that stress of trying to be the top is one of the best things you can do for your mental health and enjoyment of the game too.
But some people want to be #1 even if it breaks them. But being #1 in wow anything has no merit. So it is wasted stress.
Sadly Döt Naxx was balanced around consumes. Its part of its design.
Therefore, many of the bosses require them to progress.
(There is a reason some of the top lvl guilds have had to do ridiculous things such as use over 5,000 flasks in 1 Naxx run.)
Mind you I am nowhere at the level which requires that many flasks, but for certain bosses its needed, otherwise you are hitting a brick wall.
I played WoW back in Vanilla and knew the increased prices were coming, but was NOT expecting to be unable to find herbs.
Also, for those that don’t know, you can ONLY farm plaguebloom in the open world. 
I will probably NEVER sell boosts. I am completely against the entire mentality behind this. (Players should lvl their toons… but thats another argument for another day.)
Also, I do have a mage. Do you have any suggestions for non-boosting related dungeon farms that would net me about 460g in a few hours? (2 stacks of plaguebloom = 460g)
5Head approach.
Sometimes the juice just isn’t worth the squeeze.
The consumes that require plaguebloom are not required. Just FYI.
If your guild is requiring them, maybe y’all aren’t on the same page.
P.S. Imagine not realizing plaguebloom would be more scarce as content progressed.
No, it’s not. Naxx is balanced around a certain amount of power in the raid, healing outgoing and damage incoming. There are many ways to achieve the thresholds required. One of the simplest is to just snarf down top level consumes, but it is not the only way. If you’re wiping, its certainly not because your rogues/wars drank an agi elixir instead of a mongoose. The guilds where the consumes mattered have already cleared Naxx. For current guilds progressing it’s because people are making mistakes. When 40 people are in a raid, that’s a lot of chances for mistakes to happen.
Mistakes are simply much less forgiving in Naxx.
Our raids in Vanilla had far lower dps and wildly different composition than the ones we use in Classic and we were still pushing through Naxx. Slightly lower dps from using second tier consumes instead of top tier simply isn’t the difference between a wipe and a kill, unless you’re literally wiping at 1%. Which, would have just been a scuffed kill anyway. Even then, the mistakes made during the fight are what caused the wipe by a far larger margin than missing a bit of dps.
What server is this? I was able to run around Felwood on Sunday morning and get a few stacks of plaguebloom as there were only 4 other people in the zone on both sides. This is of course very server specific.
I just checked Faerlina and Herod (horde) and plaguebloom are 100g a stack on both of those servers so your server price seems extreme.
I agree with others that you should be picky about when to use these consumes if the price is this bad though. Like you could use them sometimes but not always if that makes sense.
You don’t NEED consumes. You kill the bosses you have on farm until your raid has enough gear to down the boss you are stuck on. You WANT consumes so you can go faster.
cant farm plaguebloom in dungeons that why it so high.
I don’t believe you one bit.
I played Naxx vanilla. CONSUMES WERE REQUIRED! They have always been.
You most certainly did not clear the majoriity of Naxx bosses without top tier consumes.
I mean, I used to go in with 20 stacks of each prot pots, (30 stacks of frost), all the defensive and offensive consumes and flask of titans back in the day and we still had trouble. (I used to farm 1500g in herbs each week during progression.)
Its just now I can’t find the herbs. 
Even now there aren’t many guilds that have managed to clear Naxx and they have had to go all out with consumes.
I am trying to find the old dev post where they actually explain how their dungeon design philosophy changed. (This is where they had stated it was designed around consumables, since it become so common place back then.)
In fact, it was after Naxxaramus was released that the Dev’s realized their mistakes and drastically cut down on the amount of consumables allowed for Burning Crusade Raids. (You could no longer stack a million buffs from consumes and world buffs could not be used, except a specific one from Shattrath.)
Anyway, I am getting off topic.
Back to my original questions.
1.) Where can I consistently farm plaguebloom?
2.) How can I farm 460g in a few hours without boosting others?
The server I am referring to is Benediction. And this is horde side.
Do the boosting without the boosties and just collect the gold drops.
I like that you’re trying to bring the thread back to its roots. A lot of people are saying consumes are NOT required, when in fact there are SOME that ARE required.
That being said, which bosses REQUIRE one of the limited consumes produced by plaguebloom? I don’t know if you avoided my statements earlier in the thread or missed them, but I’ll repost as a favor to you.
The consumes that require plaguebloom are not required. Just FYI.
If your guild is requiring them, maybe y’all aren’t on the same page.
Why does it have to be a few hours? It takes as long as it takes. If time is a barrier to you farming. And you farming is a barrier to Naxx. Then you cant do Naxx. I cant do Naxx either, I dont have the time.
Maybe if you save up for a few weeks you will have the required consumes and can then give it a shot.
I had to farm for 18 hours to get enough mats to make tank consumes for 6 hours of naxx… it’s out of control
Naxx can be cleared without using consumes that require plaguebloom. Most other essential consumes (gspp, gfpp) can be farmed fairly easily in dungeons or aren’t too pricy. Especially when you have bosses on farm, you aren’t using that many protection potions a week.
Use cheaper elixirs on easy bosses and save the mongoose for the dps checks and full consume progression attempts. And if that still breaks the bank, just use agi and strength elixirs and be sure to play with 100% of your ability. Naxx isn’t very forgiving toward mistakes.
The potions I specifically need for tanking, which require plaguebloom are “Elixir of the Mongoose, Major Troll’s Blood Potion”.
Technically I could be without Trolls Blood, but Mongoose is pretty much required because of how much of an impact it has on DPS, which means more threat, which allows more damage from our DPS.
And just to clarify, I used to be able to farm 2 stacks of plaguebloom in 3 hours. Which is why I had used the phrase “a few hours”.
Yeah, whatever will you do without the 240 health per minute that Major Troll’s Blood Potion gives you.