Top 3 pre-cata instances to farm?

If you had to farm 3 instances to max gold per hour, what would you do?

My situation . . .
I took 8 months off from WoW, now I'm trying to gear a team asap. They are 85s and pre-heroic gear. I'd like to up their item level on the AH a bit before tackling heroics and farming cata drops. I have limited time to experiment with different instances.

It sounds like firelands is great cash, but I'm woefully undergeared for anything like that.

My Research so far . . .

I found Shadokan's instance farming thread, but it has been closed.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthrea...rming+instance

It was also wrath specific.

What I'm looking for . . .

I'm trying to find the sweet spot of an instance with good drops (silver, cloth, de) that can be run 3-4 times an hour. I was wondering if there were better spots to farm with 85s today than with 80s in wrath?

Any thoughts?

For me, personally, my moneymaker is Normal Vortex Pinnacle. Yes, its a Cataclysm dungeon, but its Money, Jerry! Volatile Airs still sell for about 25 gold each on my server, and killing everything up to and including the 2nd boss, I can net 20 or more Airs in a run. Not to mention the money drop and greens. You dont get cloth until you go past the 2nd boss, which I dont do, I just leave, reset, repeat.

You are better off grinding with potion of treasure finding... i make up to 3k an hour with it.

You can also use the reset trick with Tol-Vir for leather (10-20 per reset)

Thanks so much for that tip. I didn't know about that potion at all.

Awesome.

Son of a b:+ c# neither did I! Well I knew the potion existed but I didn't think it worked in instances. I made one and used it in VP and wouldn't you know it, got a chest on the first pack of mobs! Damnit! I could have started doing this months ago!

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Originally Posted by Shodokan

You are better off grinding with potion of treasure finding... i make up to 3k an hour with it.

You can also use the reset trick with Tol-Vir for leather (10-20 per reset)

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what trick?

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what trick?

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I concur. Is there a way to beat the "5 instances per hour" lockout?

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Originally Posted by Kalros

I concur. Is there a way to beat the "5 instances per hour" lockout?

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same way we did it with garfrost.

also using the potion in instances wasn't what i was talking about, there are several places where you can kill MANY more mobs/hour which gives you more chests and more gold overall. My max chests was 92 in 1 hour using some spots in deepholm.

I've been wondering about that, do you have every member of your party drink a potion? How is your loot setup, free for all or loot master? I'm guessing the chest would appear in the same way extra cloth does for my taylor. I have my main loot and then I'll look back with the taylor and all of the loot that is left sparkling is extra cloth. I guess that's why I'm not sure how great it would be if you were in a group and you literally had to swap to see the chest for each toon.

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Originally Posted by Shodokan

same way we did it with garfrost.

also using the potion in instances wasn't what i was talking about, there are several places where you can kill MANY more mobs/hour which gives you more chests and more gold overall. My max chests was 92 in 1 hour using some spots in deepholm.

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Only the person who drinks the potion can see the chests, so yes it's like the extra cloth for tailors. I drink it on my master and use FFA. I doubt it'd do any good to use the potion on multiple toons, you'd likely end up wasting too much time going through and looting on everyone.