Node Spawns/Low Loot on Mobs

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What is going on with WoW TBC? Nodes are almost non-existent. I can fly around every zone five or six times and find less then half a stack of herbs. That is beyond stupid. You need to increase the spawn rate. I shouldn’t have to spend 10 hours to grind out enough mats for consumes for raids.

While we’re on the topic, you need to fix loot spawns. I’ve grinded for the last week on mobs all over TBC and honestly the loot drops are garbage. 5s per mob and a grey item is rare. Anything beyond a grey item is ultra rare.

Fix it, it’s an issue. It’s making the game hard to enjoy. I’m not going to sit here and grind out 10 to 20 hours for crap 50 - 100 gold total.

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Farm primals, dude. Example: The voidspawns in Nagrand are great because not only do they give motes of shadow like 25%~ of the time, they also can drop cloth, equipment, and crystal powder (for Halaa turn-in).

Non-primal mobs are usually trash to farm with the odd exception here and there (like the shadow council warlocks in Shadowmoon Valley).

Doing the above should give you more than enough gold for buying what you need for raiding. You’ll also encounter nodes while farming primals. It’s a win-win.

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If they increase the spawn rate, the price of herbs and consumables would absolutely tank.

Don’t farm herbs unless you have epic flying and access to an hour of the day when very few people are on.

In fact, don’t farm anything. Do dailies. Do the quests. Buy materials from the AH and craft them for a profit.

I haven’t farmed anything this expansion and on a fresh account I’m doing just fine. Was leather working and skinning and now LW and herb. But cooking and LW has made me a fortune. I only picked up herb when I got epic flying, and it’s terrible unless you get a good time on mana thistle spawns and carefully set a timer to keep picking them. But that is rare and herb has been the absolute lowest income % wise compared to dailies, quests and crafting for profit.

Now that I have a lot of gold, I buy raid consumables when they’re 2-3g cheaper and sell them at higher prices when it’s raid day for most of my server. That and controlling markets where there is a very limited supply, like dark runes and scrolls of strength and agility

Also, just tip a blacksmith or alchemist to make stuff and sell it on the AH. Figure out that if you craft 40 potions, you’ll get 20% extra potions/elixirs on average, and tip the person 10% of whatever your profit gains would be. Easy money, no professions required. The overhead gold comes from just doing quests or dailies.

100 agility elixirs from raw mats netted me 360 gold in profit and were easy to sell, so I tipped an alchemist 35g to craft them. They instantly invite when I make a post that I’m tipping that much. Everyone’s happy. 10 minutes of time invested.

I hate farming. It’s brainless and boring. You don’t have to farm anything to have everything you want in this game. Have everyone else do that crap for you. Figure out how to make profits through crafting. It requires one thing: some gold through questing or dailies. No professions required. There’s no way everyone’s listing crafted goods on the AH cheaper than the cost of the materials. Maybe some of them, but not all of them.

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Didn’t grind a thing. Craft stuff or have people craft and you’ll be there in no time. It doesn’t take much knowledge compared to manipulating and controlling markets. Use TSM (just download and use it without Configuring a thing) or manually add up how much it would cost to craft something compared to what it sells for, and you’re good to go :sunglasses:

TSM is INCREDIBLY helpful though. It shows how many of an item sells a day. It shows you how much profit you’ll make per item based on crafting one and selling it too. So if only 60 pieces of food sells a day on average, then you don’t want to make 10 stacks. You’ll relist them so many times you’ll hate yourself. Maybe 1-2 stacks. Find the stuff that sells a lot every day, like 100-400 a day and make a ton of those instead.

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Honestly this was a very well written response. Thank you. I wrote my post out of frustration but I will probably try what you suggest really.

Farming herbs and trying to grind just isn’t working so I’ll look into crafting really.

Thanks man for the response. It was great.

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I agree with Brëëzy, and would like to add that the fun way to farm herb/mining is to do the quests in the area. This way you’re not wasting time, you’re getting gold from the quests and you will randomly bump into nodes that you can pick. A lot of times the nodes will spawn right next to you as you’re killing a mob.

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