Increase Spawnrates for Herbs and Minerals

[Gazpy]

mumbo jumbo

You gotta remember. The lowest the server population gets is about 3k. And that's still a LOT. It's gonna be a struggle to farm man. I agree that's some brutally low yield, but it's gonna be a battle.

It was never a struggle to farm for herbs on retail, why it should be a struggle here, sounds like custom made not blizzlike to me. At least THANK god for Diremaul east for 1 BLACK lotus nearly every ID.

[AverageJoe]

Are we talking nodes throughout the entire world for every mat or just end-game specific nodes for raiding mats? I have no experience with the latter, but herb respawns seem fine for the former. On nearly any given quest I will pass up at least a dozen herbs. Either there's a lack of herbalists where I'm questing or they just have crazy high spawn rates. Minerals seem fine too, though I don't see them nearly as frequently as I do herbs.

[Lachis]

The herb spawn rate before the 4/02 patch notes was pretty high, and definitely splotchy with large patches of the same herb. They made a change that decreased the spawns AND the spawn rate to the point where it's hard to even farm for consumables. I can't confirm but I believe blizzlike was if you looted a node in the zone, another one respawned elsewhere. I don't see why this is not the way it should be here. They cited economy as the concern. But they took a lot of gold out by banning people, and there wouldn't be enough nodes to flood the market seeing as the population is so high people will actually need these materials to make things rather than sell them right away. So yes, they should be increased SLIGHTLY now since they were decreased DRASTICALLY before.


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[Tnargav]

I think respawn for herbs is a bit off. I struggle to find any as there are so many people gathering them. Someone mentioned 60-70 minutes for respawn. I did a test and waited 2h, walking between a couple of herbs I have gathered and they didn't respawn - never played vanilla and have no knowledge of what the timing should be.

Anyone with knowledge of respawn times or a statement from devs that it works as intended?

[Zottendimi]

i am now level 8 in dun morogh and just found my first herb.
i can't remember the herbs being that rare back in 2005.
i level way to fast to keep up with my herbalism.

[xochipilli]

I agree, the herbs in low level zones are tottaly gone... the only place you can farm how herbs are in teldrasil where u can find tons of peaceblooms but silverleaf are like impossible to acquire even spending more than 2 hours farmin in Elwynn Forest.

[Freak]

bump

[killshot]

Hello everybody, i'm new here coming from another private server, been into vanilla-farming last 3-4 years.

The rates are terrible compared to the population..not bad. Terrible. (Today i spent 5 hours in elowyn picking 1 peacebloom and 3 silverleafs. )

Yes those were the rates back in retail but you people forget:

In retail 50% of every server was casual players aka people who don't start maximizing professions at same time, don't look to raid and don't need to farm all the time. Only the endgame players were really farming.
Also in retail lots of players admitted they have used bots/ bought gold without being caught....and i suppose we don't wanna see that here.

[rptb1]

I had no difficulty finding enough herbs to level alchemy during the first few weeks after launch, even when the low level zones were more populated. My herbing character is on the shelf at level 29 so I can't speak for anything after that.

[Napp]

where are people finding mageroyal?