I plan to level to 60 to take advantage of farming ASAP with less crowded areas, but I’m unsure if Mages or Warlocks are better farmers. Obviously both have their advantages and play quite a bit differently, but which one is more efficient? After Dire Maul and ZG, Mage takes the cake, but what about before then? I would expect it to be at least 3 or 4 months before DM is released with Phase 2, possibly longer even.
Mages making your own water and AOE farming is 100% better then comparing to warlock.
Way too much concern over this… Why not join a decent guild and contribute like everyone else and get raid loot by means of that guild…
Gold is nice, it buys things in Vanilla, but it’s not the only thing there is.
Especially in a static game that’s not going anywhere. You have…forever to make gold.
Personally, I very much doubt I’ll be level 60 in 3 or 4 months after release.
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Because I want to bank a lot of stuff for later, as well as make some good starting gold to fund other characters. It’s more than just gold. I intend to level a Warrior as my second character so I don’t have to struggle with it at first. But first I want to stock up on as many potions and flasks and certain other mats as much as I can.
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As a fresh 60 theres not going to be enough open camps to just AOE farm like that. I laugh when people suggest or prepare to AOE level as it is. Those folks either dont remember or havent played a server launch where everyone in the world is rushing to max level. Theres a reason instance based farming is so emphasized. Trying to farm herbs, ore or other resources in the outside world is high competition and camps are overrun with people looking for the same stuff. Instances are the only way to guarantee resource generation without competition.
OP’s question is seriously valid. Go ahead and try AOE farming at any known spot as a fresh 60 and watch how that works out for you, lol. Its going to be a madhouse.
About the warlock though, you might not be wrong. A fresh 60 lock has trouble farming Mara. So its really tough before the pathing based and lasher based farming gets introduced with DM. The best class though is the Hunter. They can farm Mara as a fresh 60. Even can solo the quest for the mara key, then farm the last half repeatedly for 40g an hour. Then swap to soloing Tribute runs for 100g an hour when DM opens. Its insane.
Making gold is easy in raid if your guild has the place on farm; gold flow fast.
Raids offer some gold, but the only two raids out at the start will be MC and Onyxia. I’m going to need to make some outside of raids.
You’re making a lot of assumptions. If it’s not a high pop server there’s no reason why the op couldn’t find places to aoe farm as a mage, particularly if it’s done outside of peak hours.
I’m not sure if it’s more profitable to AoE farm in the world or grind dungeons. I don’t think a Mage can farm Maraudon like a Warlock can, not as a fresh 60.
Start and ORGANIZE runs for dungeons; post up on the forum so that people can see you’re organizing runs and they will flock too you because you’re not reserving any certain loot.
Make it very clear on what classes you’re bringing, make sure its MASTER LOOT, and distribute the loot fairly. Your reputation for quality runs that are enjoyable will garner you a long list of friends and lots of gold and all the pre-raid loot you can shake a stick at.
Not interested, just want to know if Mage or Warlock is better at solo farming before Dire Maul.
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I can’t speak to the farming methods espoused by private servers but during vanilla there were a number of good aoe spots in the world for mages. IMO mages will be more effective farmers at lower gear levels… Locks will scale better.
Likely mage, not because its better but because the skill required is roughly 1/2…
With the Mage you’re dependent on farming melee mobs, with the lock you can get away with a lot more because it’s a lot more durable.
Dead Mines will be out at release, you’ll be ok…
Not sure what you would “farm” before that.
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Temper your expectations son, I doubt you’ll be farming more Maurodon as a fresh level 60. You’re going to get 2/3 shot even by level 50 elites never mind the bosses.
Plus SM is the best low level quick easy in and out run. ZF decently geared maybe if you’re careful.
Warlock is great for Mara runs.
Mages can AOE grind while leveling up. At level 26 i was able to get a level and 7 gold in an hour by grinding worgens in duskwood. Being able to farm something like 9 mobs every 2 minutes (including skinning/drinking was pretty legit. 30-40 has many areas in stv to make a bit more then that. 40-45 has raptors in dustwallow marsh. 45-49 you can do pirates in tanaris. You have so many options of its done right and warlocks cant out farm a mage at any point if the mage is able to aoe farm.
You have a pretty good point here. So Clearcasting will proc from each mob that’s hit by a spell instead of each cast? I get conflicting results trying to find an answer to this. Frost Nova + Blizzard + Cone of Cold, rinse and repeat right?
Somebody needs to farm for the guild. It’s not like guild banks get full from nobody doing anything.
Consumables dont fund themselves either, and most healer builds can’t really support themselves without guild assistance, so every raid member doing their part in their own way is really important. Mages and other farming classes can help shoulder the financial burden of raiding better than other more single target focused classes can.