Why people using 2 party of 4man instead of 1 group of 5?

[Sayonaralover]

I saw a lot of guys using 2 groups of 4 for gold farming in open world... why? (and is it true that open world gold farm is better than dungeon farm?)

[Agent 0013]

Mobs can be tagged by five people and looted. As well as those five people, everyone in their parties gets to loot as well. Assuming another player doesn't get a tag in, two teams of 4 guarantee that all 8 characters can loot every mob tagged by both teams. 8 is also the max number of WoW licenses you can have on a single bnet account, meaning all 8 toons can share in account-wide things like mounts, pets, and tmog.

I run 8 toons, and the main reason that I made the jump from 5 to 8 was for more chances at rare loot, like mounts. There are pros and cons to running 8.

[Sayonaralover]

What do you mean 8 licenses on a single bnet acc? you can play on 8 chars from 1 account? or bnet friends can share mounts or something else? i'm stupid sry :d i mean how did you share mounts, pets?

[Lyonheart]

What do you mean 8 licenses on a single bnet acc? you can play on 8 chars from 1 account? or bnet friends can share mounts or something else? i'm stupid sry :d i mean how did you share mounts, pets?

1 BNET account can activate a maximum of 8 WoW accounts. Every WOW account on the same BNET account share all achievement rewards mounts, toys, heirlooms. You can send bind of bnet account items to any character on any of those wow accounts as well.

[kate]

Am I correct that the first group of 4, even if just one person tags it, count as 4 of those 5 tags? I'm imagining someone running around with 5 teams of 5 and 1 toon from each team tags it and BOOM it's an explosion of loot.

[Tin]

Am I correct that the first group of 4, even if just one person tags it, count as 4 of those 5 tags? I'm imagining someone running around with 5 teams of 5 and 1 toon from each team tags it and BOOM it's an explosion of loot.

Would not work - only 10(9) player can loot - same as ore/herbs

The BEST Gold Farming Technique 2x4 EXPLAINED (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh29b3H23QQ)

[Agent 0013]

Would not work - only 10 player can loot - same as ore/herbs

Good to know. I'd wondered the same thing as Kate in the past.

[Tin]

Only way I see you can bypass it - is when the last player that loot is in a raidgroup - but then again - loot in a raidgroup is less that you would get from a normal 5 man group.

[kate]

Yeah, I figured it was something along those lines. Still, 8x cloth farming isn't a terrible idea if I remain too lazy to make my money via AH arbitrage.