Famer, the Patient
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.
