So I have become a farmer.
While looking for the captive dune scavenger I noticed the obscene amounts of cloth and boe that were dropping.
Eventually I grouped up and the obscene amount became uber obscene.
Problem is there seems to be a system to this, and people familiar with the system have less patience then heroic pug raid leaders looking for AOTC 385+ or GTFO.
A couple questions I have:
Why is 4 optimal, but you don’t want to go 5?
What are the strategies for this. I have been yelled at for farming A when I should be at B. I imagine that refers to 2 spawn areas where the mobs won’t evade and return, but when do you go A or B?
Any pro farmer tips would be appreciated.
I farm 2x4s at the Home Depot.
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That’s more like going to the auction house and buying what you want.
Farming wooden 2x4’s would be like going to the forest cutting down a bunch of trees, setting up a lumber mill and cutting and treating your own boards.
I’ve heard of this 2x4 thing at the time I didn’t really understand what it was just that a guildy was getting super amount of BoE epics and made alot of gold from it.
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the tag limit is 5, if a person in your party tags a mob everyone in the party gets a tag.
with a 2x4 group setup one group tags, gets tag credit for everyone because of a group, and the second group can tag and get credit for the group.
its a work around that allows 8 people to tag a mob instead of 5
addition: they need to remove the tag limit, they removed individual tags a while back so people werent fighting with their own faction for tags, and now we’re back at it.
it feels heavily like there less mobs in the areas for people, so when a group is going around tagging everything, if your not part of the group your going to have a bad time.
faster respawns can help, but not when you have people throwing targetted AoE all over the place instant tagging things as they spawn.
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Ahh that makes sense now I understand it.
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Apparently it started working recently (since BFA) due to some small changes in the game’s tagging rules. So any unannounced tiny change by Blizzard could make it stop working. All 2x4 does is let 8 people tag (AND LOOT) a mob instead of 5.
Other than that, it’s the same as always: find a spot where the mobs respawn very fast, get in a group so you can all get loot from every mob killed, and kill mobs rapidly then loot them.
I haven’t tried 2x4 yet. There are a hundred ways to make gold in WoW. As Studen Albatross said in a recent video, pick a gold-making method that is fun for you. They all take time, and if you pick one you dislike, you’ll burn out and start hating the game.
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That helps clear things up.
So the guy who was mad at me when I invited a fifth didn’t understand what 2x4 was either.
The group I joined that were taking forever trying to phase together were trying to get the 2 separate groups.
They guy who asked me if I wanted to be A or B was probably trying to get us split so we could form 2 groups.
A lot more makes sense now.
Still that seems like a lot of coordination just to get 3 extra people. It sounds great if you have excess people, but I was having trouble getting up to 4 people in one group.
Anyways thanks for the info. I appreciate it. Will come in handy if I find my group competing with another.
As an added thought is there a chance that during the farm a group could get put in a separate shard? I have noticed that happen when I am farming, a bit of lag then suddenly mobs are reset.