Volatile Fire Farming
Enslaved Inferno x13% Chance
Unbound Emberfiend x14% Chance
These two mobs are the best spawn rates / drop rates that you can find for volatile fire I've seen in Cataclysm. Even my little blue geared prot warrior could take these baddies on quickly and efficiently.
Guide to Farming Spot Finding
So why farm volatile fire? First off, it's probably the most frequently purchased volatile element. It's popular for both leveling several major professions as well as producing their best items. This and volatile air are the top elements to farm in cataclysm. Finding mobs with good drop rates and spawn rates can be a problem, and more often than not you'll find someone else farming your favorite location. For this reason alone, I recommend looking up on wowhead.com just like I did for these mobs and doing the following:
1. Type in the name of the item you'd like to farm in the wowhead.com search bar.
2. Click on the link to the item in the search results.
3. On this page, if you did not get a single item, click on the one that you are interested in. If you are looking for embersilk cloth, for example, you will have to clarify embersilk cloth and not bolts of embersilk cloth.
4. Look at the following options for the item and check them all out:
- Dropped By
- Fished In (if applicable)
- Mined From (or other gathering methods)
- Reagent For
- Comments
Don't forget to check out why you're farming the reagents, especially because this will aid you in deciding how best to sell them. Maybe you'll want to diversify and sell stacks of 1, 5, 10 and 20, or maybe 2, 4 and 8, but you need to see why people buy these items before you can make an educated decision.
11 comments: on "1-2k Gold Per Hour Twilight Highlands"
Grump said... June 7, 2011 at 8:27 AM
As always check your server before farming. Fire prices are in the pits on Khaz Modan. The only volatile that sells for less is life. I assume it's because of lava fishing botters but honestly can't say with certainty.
I'm up to about 3k volatile fires and counting for my 4.2 stockpile.
Valrot said... June 7, 2011 at 9:58 AM
while it's true these guys have a great drop percentage, they also have a long respawn time so it can become a game of waiting for them to respawn.
Anonymous said... June 7, 2011 at 11:20 AM
You'd better also check how many times the object's been looted. A 90% drop rate sounds nice, but when you read on and find that it only dropped 9 times out of 10 attempts, warning bells should go off.
It could be spurious data caused by a private server, PTR, or event (like the elemental invasion in Cata)
It could also be caused by the wowhead addon becoming confused.
Worst of all, it could be caused by the monster rarely dropping anything. There are monsters that are listed with high drop rates for elemental Air, but 95% of the time they don't even drop a copper. If they do drop something, its likely EofAir, but farming them is a nightmare.
Besides, if the number of times a monster was looted is low, you should wonder why. It might be a very good reason why you wouldn't want to farm them.
Furthermore, if a drop rate is listed as 1-7 items, 50% of the time, don't assume you'll get an average of 4 on every other pull. Hover your mouse over the percent, and you may see that only one drops 40% of the time, 2 drop 9% of the time, and the chance of seven is 0.01%
This recent change is a wonderful improvement for things like disenchanting. It's just a shame that it appeared around when bountiful bags was introduced, making it hard to separate the probabilities of a guilded person and a guildless one; or a tailor vs a non-tailor for cloth gathering.
Trimble said... June 7, 2011 at 12:38 PM
i dono how farming fire could possibly give 1-2k per hr . you would need a insane drop rate.
3 servers i play on have fire at around 8g, so to make 1k out of 1 hr id need to be getting a little over 2 per min.
Anonymous said... June 7, 2011 at 2:04 PM
There's no way you could get that much gold out of this in one hour. I don't know how you get your math, but it's not even close, lol.
Anonymous said... June 7, 2011 at 2:29 PM
Acually you could make decent gold farming these, but not by killing mobs for drops. Instead try fishing for them in Hyjal or Twilight Highlands. I can farm all the pools on my server rather quickly and stil be waiting for respawns.
For the trip, make sure you take the portal to Twilight then once you have depleted those pools take the portal back then port to Hyjal. After your coompleted there hearth then port back to twilight, and start all over.
This is by far the best way to get Fire atm.
Anonymous said... June 8, 2011 at 2:28 AM
I've heard cloth sells good, because it's needed for tailors. You should go and kill some humanoids in Cataclym areas. They should drop cloth. You can also search the cloth from google.
I make good guide, yes?
WTF is going on in here?!?!
While you're googling the cloths, search for consortium or greedy goblin too, they're atleast putting some effort into their updates!
Anonymous said... June 8, 2011 at 6:47 AM
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Matt M said... June 8, 2011 at 7:40 AM
As Trimble said, it would be difficult to make 1-2k per hour with this method... let's go a little further into the math:
Ok, let's figure Vol Fire is going for 10g on your server (which is high for mine, but we'll be nice for this example)... and being that 1000g would be within 1-2k per hour, let's take that minimum estimate... So, that would be 100 needed per hour or 1.67 per minute.
Since there is only a 14% drop rate (taking the higer of the 2), you would need to kill approx 7 for each drop - or 11.7 per minute... that's one every 5 seconds - which would include finding one, getting to it (or within range), killing it and looting it... every 5 seconds... for an hour straight to get the MINIMUM stated... IF Vol fires are at 10g on your server.
Did you actually do any math on this one or did you just put up the figure and hope that noone would pull out a calculator? Come on... how about being a bit more accurate in your claims so you don't lose credibility by quoting stuff that's simply not achievable?
Just my 2c worth... ok, maybe a bit more... lol
Gaiwyn said... June 8, 2011 at 8:29 PM
He's not saying just making 1-2k from selling Volatile Fires (at 10g that is extremely low! You guys are lucky to be able to buy it for that price). You have to take into account when you are farming that you will pick up other stuff: straight silver, vendor trash and greens. What you do with it is up to you, but it ups the gph quotient no matter what you are farming for.
Making calculations based on a single element doesn't make much sense. It's like the mentality of saying because you farmed it it is free.
That said, I don't like world farming. Give me Auction House farming and its abundant reagents any day. >.<
Anonymous said... June 9, 2011 at 6:55 AM
I personally was realy glad to see the first concrete advice on a goldblogg in a long while, usually Goldbloggers eeem to jsut repeate themselves 70% of the time or jsut post usefull godlsaving stuff for new starter chars etc. not for making bulk money. And seing as Cold has started spamming filler-posts about alts nonstop for about aweek etc.
So I decided to try this out, economy is pretty shit on mys erver 8g per volatile fire.
So I started farming the southern elementals, took me 30 min before I jsut gave up, I got 0 greens, and only 3 volatile fires, the mobs arent in a great number either so after you kill tehm all you wil have to move up to the others or wait.
Didnt get any greens either.
So it was about 24g for 30 mins work. (sure I was a bit extra unlucky but still, I ahve no idea how you could even be remotely clsoe to 1-2k)
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