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As my regular readers would know, I sometimes farm when there is a lack of supply in the AH and prices of raw materials are just ridiculous. One thing I noticed whenever I farm since patch 3.3 are the number of fellow farmers with the title “the Patient” in them. For those not familiar with how to obtain “the Patient” title, you obtain it by running random dungeons and grouping with 100 different people.

I have a little hypothesis on why farmers all display their “the Patient” title. For one thing, it does take a lot of patience to farm. Maybe displaying their “the Patient” title is a way of saying to other farmers they aren’t gonna stop farming anytime soon. Kidding aside, the farmers I see are always dps class. As I bet everyone has experienced, queuing for random dungeon as a dps class takes a long time. Therefore, instead of jumping around in Dalaran, some people decide to get extra gold while waiting.

Using the idle time to get extra gold isn’t so bad. You aren’t doing anything anyway. Might as well do something to increase your gold supply!  Those with gathering profession, herb/mine until your dungeon pops up. For those without gathering professions, you can do a little buy and sell or even do dailies. Waiting for dungeons wouldn’t piss you off with boredom anymore. Plus, you are earning gold WHILE YOU WAIT!

However, this isn’t really an option for tanks and healers who instantly gets a group when queued into dungeons. You can try it when gearing up for your dps set. This is really a little compensation for queuing dpsers who wait a long while before getting a dungeon group.

If you’re mining or herbing around northrend, it’s inevitable to notice some fellow farmers going around as well. You notice them not because of their cool mount or their weird name but because at one point, they’ve beaten you to that herb/ore.

One time I got beaten to herb nodes several times by the same person so I put him in my friends list with a note beside his name that says “hardcore farmer”. Then I saw a lonely herb beside an ore.  Nearby was the hardcore farmer who also sped up towards the herb. He beat me to the spot. I was surprised, however, that instead of gathering the herb, he was smashing that ore with his mining pick. What? He’s a miner too? Of course, surprised, I paused for a while, allowing the hardcore farmer gather the herb as well. Damn it.

Apparently, alts of some players are designated to be the farmer. Both have Herbalism and Mining at the same time. Most of the time they’re paladins for Crusader’s Aura, or druids for the ability to gather herbs without going out of flight form. Next on the most toons used for farming are Death Knights because of their Unholy Aura.

I suppose they just put both gathering skills on one toon to save time. If you have herbalism on one toon and mining on one toon, you double the time required to gather the same amount of herbs and ore as to having both gathering skills on one toon. While herbing, you’re bound to see an ore and vice versa. Why not farm it as well?

Of course the only downside is you won’t have cool profession bonuses other than Lifeblood (herbalism) and Toughness (mining). If you’re planning to raid with a character of yours, I suggest don’t take both herbalism and mining. But if you have a toon that you think was no fun for you at all, and he’s just sitting in your character screen collecting molds, then a great punishment for being not enjoyable is banishing your toon from cool profession bonuses and deeming him, THE FARMER.

Those who love to farm for raw materials and sell it fast on the AH/trade channel have a big problem of not measuring their gold/hour rate. If you’re farming, it’s necessary to know how much you can potentially earn in an hour because you should know its advantage over just doing the 25 dailies. It takes an average of 1 hour 20 minutes to finish 25 dailies which will give around 325+gold depending on which dailies you do. If in the same amount of time farming for eternals, relics, etc., you only get less than 325+ gold, then you’re better off doing dailies instead.

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Having an average of 5% drop rate (according to wowhead) , frost lotus is a terrible thing to farm. While others may claim huge success in farming frost lotus in certain areas, the truth is random is random.

Luck should be on your side if you want to get huge amounts of frost lotus. There will be times when it seems frost lotus is mad at you, giving you almost zero in a span of 30 minutes. It can happen! But there will be also times that frost lotus is your best friend, giving you frost lotus streaks such as the screenshot below shows:

Talandra’s rose may have an advantage of a 6% drop (1% diff from the other herbs), but really 1% isn’t that much.

Random is random. It doesn’t matter where you get your herb. You can get frost lotus streaks wherever you are in Northrend. You can probably even herb in different areas for your whole run. It’s really up to you which area you want to herb in because random is random.

There are several uses for frostweave cloth and buying them all can be a pain for your pockets: Leveling Tailoring can be a gruesome task considering frostweave cloth can be scarce’; frostweave bandages can sometimes be a savior in arenas;  Frostweave bags is a must have if you don’t want to get stuck with the netherweave bag era.

As you finally hit level 80, your stock of frostweave cloth may still not be enough and buying frostweave stacks at 20g each is probably out of your budget. Is it time to farm frostweave cloth?

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For skinners out there, I notice a lot of hunters are hanging out in Sholazar Basin skinning beasts for leather. I’ve been observing this for a while and it never fails – hunters skinning around Nesingwary. There are crocodiles, giraffes, cougars, and the one that looks like a rhino getting killed all the time. I wonder what will happen if D.H.E.T.A has a camp nearby.

Occasionally, I would see the hunters on different spots as encircled in this picture. The gorillas are the ones killed a lot, as they are in groups of 5-6.

I don’t understand what is it with hunters and skinning. Maybe because they can skin a mob while their pet attacks another one? Anyhow, it seems that Hunter and Skinning is an IN thing! I suppose they are leatherworkers as well so they can turn Borean Leather to Heavy Borean Leather for more profit.

Also, be reminded that in patch 3.3, Heavy Borean Leather can be traded for Arctic Fur (Read More On Artic Fur in 3.3).