This is ridiculous. By far the worst grind since BC. On my server you can travel the whole map 3 times and you’ll have maybe 30 herbs in your bags. Literally it takes around 3 to 5 hours to farm for a week of raiding and mythic+. I remember in WOTLK it would take me maybe an hour at most. This drives the price ridiculously high. Last week almost cost me 15k to raid and do mythic+ on my server.
The strange things is all the other mats are super easy to farm. Leather is super easy you can get a stack in 15 minutes just find a world quest where there’s mobs dropping leather and you’ll also get meat at the same time. Gems lol my bags are full i sell them to the vendor since the price at the AH is often lower. Ore not so bad and anyway you don’t need like 3 stacks a week. Fish well you don’t need them much and the price of them food at the AH is acceptable. But herbs. Man worst grind since BC hands down in my book.
Not that much of a problem for me since i have over a millions i’m just bleeding money and getting farther from my beloved spider mount but well it is what it is but I can’t imagine how it is for someone who just started playing and got no money to pay that 10-15k a week in flasks and potions. 3 to 5 hours farming a week just for potions and flasks is ludicrous. Only realistic option is to do lot of world quest to pay for it.
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It’s multi boxers sucking them all up like a vacuum. I was doing good one hour at like 650 herbs per hour then another hour barely 275. If you don’t get at least 12 nodes per trip around that entire map circle give it up -someone is multi boxing.
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Exactly, sadly blizzard gets too much profit out of it to ever ban multi boxers, plus having a blizz defense brigade defend anything no matter how bad helps since they can pretend it is something that is to be argued about and not a simply wrong and unfair thing that shouldnt exist
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I thought the whole purpose of being forced to stay online for games was to protect against cheating in any form including piracy but it seems only when they deem it cheating. Since when is it plausible to have more than one account going on a single user game if not for the sole purpose of gaining an advantage over one person–which is cheating period.
I remember once they deemed the flight form on druid as an unfair advantage that can pick herbs without breaking stride but now they have craft items and sky golem doing the same thing. So why can’t I invite my own characters on the same account into the same party to pick herbs? Why do they feel the need to cheat the system buying 5-10 account blowing 400 bucks plus at least 150 dollars month to make fake game currency? Is it fair? Nope, not in the slightest because most likely it’s gold seller bots but I won’t buy their stuff period I make all my stuff or buy from my friends. Eventually at some point the people will get sick of it and drop like flies from this game till nothing is left but bots.With all these bots gathering resources like crazy you would think zinanthid would drop to 20g each or less but nope --still hanging around 40g plus each.
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Hell that issue can more blatantly be seen by some multiboxer playing 10 boomkins for example and one shotting people with starsurges.
That is pretty much cheating, but blizzard shills will defend that no matter what because they simply just cant get themselves to admit blizzard is wrong for allowing such abhorrent practices.
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Does your guild not do feasts and cauldrons? Plus zin farming inst that bad if you have a good route I get a stack in about 30 mins the trick to it is 2 paths you cycle threw to hit the reset timers
That’s my point. I want to make my own stuff. Always had up until now. Even in Legion the Potion of Prolonged Power was good enough and really cheap to make so you just had to farm for flask. In Cata and WOTLK it was super easy to farm your own stuff. You could make like 3 potions with just 4-5 herbs something like that. Did not play mop. In cata it was so cheap and easy to make cauldrons people were giving them for nothing.
But man maybe it’s easier on some servers but on Stormrage farming your herbs right now is worse than poking your eye with needles. I’d rather watch paint dry. Not only that but it requires so many of them to make just a handful of potions. I have almost 2 stacks of herbs in my bag and i can make 38 potions or something like that. I mean like WTF??? And then i must roll my stupid item and l always get the wrong one. And the procs. Obviously it always procs on healing pot. I’d rather have lower and more consistent procs while needing less herbs to make the potions. At the end of the day it’s just not worth it so yeah i give my money to some multi-box farmers and it angers me.
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I hate zin farming. It forces me to step out of current content and go back into old content. Having the flowers constantly despawn when trying to pick because of multiboxers has made me sick of farming. I rarely log on for dailies anymore because I am frustrated knowing I have to go back to old content to do stuff. I have always hated it. Whatever though, it’s not about player happiness anymore, just players being in the game for hours even if we are just afk in a city chatting with friends.
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Farming for Zin’athid is painful. Don’t see why it just can’t be added to other zones. Even if it’s like stranglekelp and i have to dive for it, just up the chances to get it.
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Well doesn’t seem Blizz will do anything for that. This must be nightmare for a new player who boosted to 120. No 10k rep chest to make easy money. Must focus on Azerite doing world quests. No easy way to make money and no way to farm for his consumables.
On my server right now it cost 15k a week to raid (2 nights) and because of multi-boxer famers it’s impossible to farm Zin’athid. There’s always 3-4 multi-boxers on my server farming Zin’athid and if they grab an herb before you it’s gone.
The fix would be easy. Put the herb in more places. Add it to corrupted areas. It’s ridiculous to have such an important herb used even for healing pots spawn in only one small area. On full servers it’s simply impossible to farm it. Or simply change the mats of potions. Zin’athid for flask and other herbs for dps and healing potions.
Zin’athid has been pretty scarce in my own farming forays. It was less of a problem in 8.2 when we had other reasons to be in Naz’jatar, but now it’s downright painful. And nearly every relevant potion/flask requires heaps of the stuff. >_<
Having less nodes with faster spawn times is a multi-boxer’s dream.
To more evenly distribute Zin’athid to the players, have many more nodes. Multi-boxers can only visit one node at a time, but multiple uniboxers can be spread out all over the place all at the same time.