Making money along the way
by Zach Yonzon 
Apr 30th 2008 at 3:00PM
I guess it's just a smart thing to do that I never really thought about. Killing those Needlers won't take most 70s too long and Zangarmarsh is along the way to Blade's Edge, anyway. Making a short stopover to take a chance on the Firefly is a prudent move as far as making money is concerned. It doesn't take too much time and the gray item drops are worth a decent amount when sold to vendors. Making money is easy if you make short stops along the way, such as fishing the pools of Pure Water on the way to wherever you're going for guaranteed Motes of Water. Engineers can do the same thing by extracting Motes of Air from the gas clouds in Nagrand while doing The Multiphase Survey in Osh'gun. Sure, they'll probably need to keep swapping goggles, but it doesn't hurt and gives players more loose change.
Sometimes my wife takes quite a long time to meet up with me at a rendezvous point because she stops to mine or herb or fish (depending on the toon she's using). She never lets a yellow dot on her mini-map go while I'm just too darn lazy to mine anything that isn't Khorium or Adamantite. Of course, now that I've dropped Mining, I have an excuse not to make any stopovers. But stopping to gather or kill specific mobs is excellent advice for players who want to earn Gold beyond doing the numerous dailies. It doesn't take much time and it's not out of the way. It just takes a little diligence and knowing a good route to take.
When you're on your way somewhere, it pays -- sometimes literally -- to make short stopovers. I don't even mean farming or gathering, specifically, but making sure to do things on the way to a quest or instance. These days I encourage my party to do our Sunfury Attack Plans in Manaforge Coruu, killing Sunfury Researchers for the quest drop. While Formula: Enchant Weapon - Major Intellect hasn't dropped for me just yet, it's only a matter of time. Although the drop I'm after is a Bind-on-Pickup, there's certainly Gold to be mined (pardon the pun) when stopping to do things that are along the way.
Filed under: Odds and ends, Making money
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Kassius Apr 30th 2008 3:17PM
dan't argue with that, always nice to stop and mine some adamantite and get a blue gem or sumthin
Hotorihanzo Apr 30th 2008 3:20PM
You dont need the goggles on to extract the gas, just to see the clouds on your mini map. Besides the fact the Multiphase survey takes what 5 minutes to complete, I can go without the goggles for 5 minutes.
huangism Apr 30th 2008 3:28PM
what your wife does is farming. she just doens't farm as long as others. killing a specific mob for a drop, if that's not farming then i don't know what is.
i mean c'mon she makes a specfic stop at a specific place to kill a specfic mob. you be lying to yourself if you don't call that farming. the best you can call that is casual farming but then again if she does it all the time, it's not casual is it
Worcester Apr 30th 2008 10:33PM
No.
Farming is killing mobs for the purpose of finding a specific item. When you farm, the intent is to find the item. You kill until you find it, or you give up.
This is clearly NOT farming. She was on her way to DO something else, knew that a valuable item drops from mobs along the way, so she killed what she came across.
That is all.
Blake Apr 30th 2008 6:07PM
Sure it's farming. Even by your definition. She's only killing them in hopes of getting the firefly. Whether she does it for 5 minutes or 50 minutes per day, it's farming.
But then again, I'm just bitter. I have 63 pets and the firefly is not one of them. I'm trying to get that one on my own and not off the auction house. Been farming for quite a while now without any luck.
~Tiddlywinks http://blog.wowtid.com/
jrb May 1st 2008 6:59AM
it may be farming, but then, farming is really just playing the game. WoW, as with most MMOs are about killing or harvesting the same things again and again, thinly disguised as character progression, or economy.
these days the phrase farming has bad conotations, when really it shouldn't. we all farm. get over it.
FireStar May 1st 2008 9:13AM
She's definitely farming by making a point to kill all the types of mobs she sees for a hope of a drop.
@6 jrb: who said that farming isn't playing the game? I'm sorry for your bad feelings about "farming". This isn't automated gold farming, and i think most of the posters here understand the difference.
Xin May 1st 2008 9:17AM
umm no, she make an extra stop in zangermarsh to kill the mob trying to get the pet. and like you said, if she find it then she stops or she doesn't find it, she gives up and moves on to her daily. she is simply not a hardcore farmer.
Dan May 1st 2008 11:15AM
Calling that farming is like calling going to the loo exercise.
The motions may be the same, but the intent is not.
Personally I'm just too impatient to make those frequent pit stops while going somewhere, even though it's a good way to both get cash as well as levels when your not 70.
Gryphon Hall May 4th 2008 10:38AM
This is not farming... this is gathering. When a person happens to pass by some bushes and happens to find some berries and takes them, it's not farming; if said person went around looking for more bushes until the berries are found, that's farming.
When I do the Nether Residue daily, I kill Talbuks until I get 8 of them, therefore I farm for the Nether Residue. But I also get lots of leather, Talbuk Venison (which I turn into Spicy Hot Talbuk), some grays and some greens. All of these I gather but the moment I get all what I've been farming for, full bag or empty, I leave... because I was not farming for them.
And so his wife definitely was not farming for that firefly.
Pingmeister Apr 30th 2008 3:28PM
There are mobs that I regularly go out of the way to slaughter (if a youngster isn't there questing through them). Arrakoa and Naga are my favorites. If I see them below me and I'm not in a hurry I love dropping down and going Anakin on them!
Perhaps because they gave me such trouble when I was Questing due to the way they cluster together.
andywoho Apr 30th 2008 3:38PM
Heh. Good for your wife.
My best WoW story involves the firefly.
A friend of mine told me that she wanted the firefly, and at the time, I was just starting Zangarmarsh. I told her that if one dropped for me, I'd make a gift of it to her.
So, the next day, I start the Needler quest and guess what drops for me on the fourth kill?
And, yes, in case you were wondering, I gave it to my friend as a gift. A promise is a promise... :)
Charlie Apr 30th 2008 4:22PM
I hope you got laid for that.
>.
Broey Apr 30th 2008 3:38PM
Farming & Grinding sometimes mean the same thing. But one sounds bad. farming Xp though probably isn't correct
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Zali Apr 30th 2008 3:46PM
Typically I have to compartmentalize my farming time and my questing time. I like to plow through my quests, then work on rep or signets or cloth or... whatever, at a different time. The one exception that I make right now is Motes of Mana. I always spend time while phased at the Bashir(sp) Landing farming motes. Those mana wyrms have an awsome drop rate. I can get 3 -5 primal mana in half an hour there. But you can only get them while using the phasing device. I've been known to not turn in the quest if I'm in a hurry and come back later in the day and get a second phase device so I can phase in and farm some more. And since I'm clearing the way for people to get mana cells without having to do any heavy lifting I am usually ignored by the Whored players who would most likely ganked me on QQ Island.
Boom Apr 30th 2008 3:49PM
Grats to your wife! I hope she's kept one for herself somewhere along the way. I've "farmed" them several times now, and still no luck. :( But I won't give up just yet.
Boom
Zach Apr 30th 2008 3:53PM
She doesn't like the pet, unfortunately. It's just something that adds to her ever-fattening coffers. She already has Mr. Pinchy and a Hippogryph Hatchling, so a buzzing insect (which creeps her out IRL) doesn't do anything for her. Hehe.
mcclary Apr 30th 2008 4:17PM
If a lvl 70 can burn through the needlers quickly, I tremble at the thought of how quickly 5 elemental shaman could farm them! ... and you wouldn't have to roll on it either.
:P
/tar Boom
/cast Jealousy
Charlie Apr 30th 2008 4:36PM
Wow, Mr. Pinchy and a Firefly?
Luuuucky.
I want a Mr. Pinchy =( I've gotten the angry one a couple times now though. Those are so fun to through out in the middle of a raid!
Boom Apr 30th 2008 10:32PM
Ahhh but you forget....
5 Elemental Shaman does mean quick farming... but it also means I need 5 Fireflys ^.^
Actually, tomorrow morning I'm getting up early JUST to burn through the Children's week quest in Shat so I can get 5x Sleepy Willies. I figure with 5 out, I'm more likely to see one zap a critter!
Boom