Tips on farming for Naxx readiness

I noticed alot or uproar in the community about how expensive it is to farm for Naxx, Greater Shadow Protection Potions can go for 70-100g a stack on my server. I knew there would be a economical inflation because this is end game content and people are gonna suck the gold off your toons with the Auction house

Level 3 herb alts preferably over 50 for aggro radius reduction (best if stealthy or hunter for feint death), get to 160 Herb skill because this is required for cultivation of Fadeleaf in SM, this will allow you to pass 240+ herbalism with multiple resets

UPDATE: In case your a mage you can blink between packs in Library or AoE kill them depending on your gear setup. Can blink away from the Armory door guards leading to the courtyard. I’ve done this on my 60 mage

Farm all of SM even Cath because liferoot can be valuable for normal Nature Protect Potion’s. You get x2 Fadeleaf nodes, x0-3 Gravemoss nodes (RNG is a mother because you could get x3 Kings blood in one GY run). x2 Liferoot (1 in Cath 1 in Library if you are level 60 to kill Hound master), x2 Goldthorn

Reset when you have done the entire set of SM, don’t forget each instance of SM is connected on one lockout

Do this enough on all your alts until you have enough to make Shadow Oil, go farm Dream foil or trade extra Shadow Oil for Dream foil

This will save you hundreds if not thousands of gold a week alone

There is pros and cons but the pros do outweigh the cons largely. Biggest factor here is that it will take alot of time away from having fun on your toons to supply readiness for raid content and you will get bored with repetitive content in a short amount of time

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The only farming that frustrates me is the elemental:

-elemental earth
-elemental water

Always so much competition in the farm spots

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Elemental Earth you can farm easy on a mage in Marudon.

You can do this as any Ice Barrier spec, I’ve even done it as Fire but it’s can be more skillful

You simply cast frost bolt taking down 1 Elite Elemental down kiting the elemenal shard until elite is down then blow them up when elites are down with Nova, Flamestrike, Cone of Cold and finish off with Arcane Explosion

They respawn every 25-30 minutes so you do not need to reset the instance

I do one pack at a time this allows time to pass by for respawning by the end of the run you should have about 5 minutes or so until the first wave spawn

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