Originally posted by: rstove02
Originally posted by: Bateluer
WoW's economy is already borked though, from the farmers sucking all the resources from the game.
Amen brother. Every week it seems that more and more resource spots that are scooped up with farmers. There are some gathering tradeskills that still fairly unaffected by famers (herbablism) due to there being multiple zones and no real viable endgame alchemy potions. Major healing and mongoose potions are super easy to make....and the flask potions are such a timesink for 2 hour buff no one bothers with them.
The same can be said for skinning...there are so many dang beasts and rugged leather up the wazoo. The only stuff above rugged leather are either "processed rugged leather" via enchanting or curing. Also handful of peticular skins that are easy to get (chimera leather).
The opposite is true if mining. With so many viable endgame recipies in engineering and smithing using 1-30 arcanite bars combined with only a small handful of zones with even a smaller handful of rich thorium spawns, finding a rich thorium vein is getting harder and harder. Will arcane crystals no longer spawning in chests or in pickpocket tables (decreasing supply) people are now actively farming rich thorium viens...not to make into arcanite bars for a new armor/weapon/item for them to use...but to sell on the AH.
It was painful enough finding 8 crystals to make my arcanite dragonling....but I truly feel for people needing 20+ for arcanite reapers or such. Burning Stepps is practically farmed 24/7 by anywhere from 1 to 5 full time farmers (some speak english...most don't). First thing I do when I log on is do a /who Burning. If I recongize at least 1 name from my farmer list, I do not go there because the area is picked clean.
Winterspring has been my last hold out since if fairly off the beaten path and some of the thickest rich thorium spawns (max of 3) occur in an area that is only accessable with a group or good stealth....and last week I spotted my first full time farmer there that I used to spot in BS all the time.
I have no tailors, but I heard that the fellcloth drops in Felwood are just as bad.
It's getting to the point where instances are the only refuge from full time farmers.
Also as a side note...I find most of the armor/weapon tradeskills (tailoring/leatherworking/smithing) IMO are worthless in most cases. The reasoning to this is that for almost every craftable item....you can get a similar if not better item faster by doing instance runs than blowing hours/days/weeks collecting all of low drop rate items needed to make the item. I will take 1 low drop rate armor/weapon vs 10+ low drop rate items to make 1 armor/weapon any day of the week.