[Yes-Under Development] Increase Herb Spawn Rates

[Dervin20]

server crashes dont spawn lotus anymore.

And yes its been mostly luck, if i actually tried to follow up on all those lotus i'd have a lot more. Its been me logging on to chat/run around checking lotus spawns.

[varth]

Yeah I call bs as well, I was able to farm 1-2 lotus a day in retail herbing for about 3h or so, and on Nost in 16h I had one lotus that I only obtained because it spawned on top of me as I rode through.

[Dervin20]

just because you dont know how to do it, it doesn't mean others can't.

and in those 16 hours 65 lotus were available at some point.

[Elexyr]

To do it, you need to get lucky with that first spawn you find, and thus you have the timer. Even after that, it is largely luck based. The places I've tried to farm, have atleast 3-4 other people from each faction, possibly more closer to spawn time of lotus.

Not much other way to do it, unless there is a network of people working together to find and communicate spawns and timers, which would be quite nice to have, but that takes quite the effort.

Fact is, increasing the spawns for Black Lotus will drive the price down to a more manageable amount. If it stays like it is now, we will find ourselves in the inevitable situation where the lotus will rise in price significantly, and eventually run out (though last point will take some time, given people are stacking).

Aim: Drive the price down a bit, I've seen 25g at end of vanilla retail was the price. One possible way to do that is increase the spawn rate. I can't think of an other way to do it. Anyone have suggestions?

[Eaglesgift]

This is exactly the style of thinking that has fucked up retail over the years. Some things are just hard. That makes the world feel real.

[Lazermon]

This is exactly the style of thinking that has fucked up retail over the years. Some things are just hard. That makes the world feel real.

People just want a chance to feel like they can actually use their profession, its not like theres anything "hard" about picking a herb or mining a node, you walk up to it and click it, that is it. this isnt "boo hoo my herbs are too expensive please make them cheaper", what this thread is about is: "I feel like my profession is pointless, I never use it".

And saying that increasing it wouldn't be blizzlike, youre just not thinking. It's NOT blizzlike right now because we have triple (or even quadruple) the population, meaning if someone would log on and do some herbing 10 years ago they would see and pick VASTLY more herbs than what a player on nostalrius can do right now, logically the "blizzlike" thing is to (roughly) scale the herb rate with the population.

[Badtank]

This is exactly the style of thinking that has fucked up retail over the years. Some things are just hard. That makes the world feel real.

Use your god damn brain. A retail server had 2,500 pop. We have the herb count for a server with 2,500 pop. We have an average 7,000 players. The math doesn't add up jim.

This wouldn't be making something less "hard", this would be making something possible to do without camping a spawn for 6 hours and gambling. This is not how herbing worked in vanilla, 40g+ for a black lotus is not blizzlike either.

[Holmes]

are you even sure we have blizzlike herbs and veins here?
for me only the black lotus seems to be blizzlike here because its grouped. unlike everything else.

there are way too many rich thorium veins either. cause they aint grouped

so everythings thats not grouped basically is 3-4x more common

[Catty84]

I can't farm as long as I have in the past anymore. I am getting old and bored.

[Elexyr]

Black Lotus at 46g and up on Alliance side.

Amount of time invested for these (either by gold or farm) is getting to a point where, when flasks become mandatory in raids, it won't be able to sustain the demand.

Hope they become a bit more availible sometime soon.