Jumping in on the conversation here because this is getting to absolutely ridiculous levels of absurdity.
Reasons why Plaguebloom / Black Lotus need to have increased spawns
AT LEAST BEFORE AQ/NAXX:
1) ZG patch will introduce Mageblood Potions:
http://db.vanillagaming.org/?item=20007 - This means that Rogues, Warriors, and Hunters (Who buy Plaguebloom for Mongoose) will now be competing to purchase Plaguebloom with Priests, Shamans, Paladins, Warlocks, Mages. This will result in yet another price spike in Plaguebloom prices.
2) Flasks and full consumables are almost a complete necessity to properly attempt the harder AQ40/Naxx bosses. Guilds can not be forced to spent 10,000g a week on flasks and consumables for members. Nor will they even have the funds to be able to.
3) A single player can not
reasonably farm enough gold to be prepared for multiple weeks on AQ40/Naxx if they are a functioning member of society who does not spend 95% of their time logged into Nostalrius.
4) Nostalrius has 5,000 more players, almost triple a Blizzard retail server, active and playing. Not all of these players are raiders but the ratio remains the same for raiding guilds. We can't continue to function with an herb spawn rate meant for 2,500 players when we are working with an average of 8,000 players online.
TLDR - ZG patch will make more classes buy Plaguebloom, AQ40/Naxx require consumables, it takes too long to farm what is needed currently, we have 3x the numbers of a retail server with 1x the spawn rate.
