Top 3 pre-cata instances to farm?

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08-18-2011, 04:00 PM
gunsun

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?
08-18-2011, 04:05 PM
Kalros

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.
08-20-2011, 05:00 PM
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)
08-20-2011, 09:48 PM
gunsun

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

Awesome.
08-21-2011, 10:11 AM
Kalros

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!
08-21-2011, 11:26 AM
Lyonheart

Quote:

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)

what trick?
08-21-2011, 02:29 PM
Kalros

Quote:

what trick?

I concur. Is there a way to beat the "5 instances per hour" lockout?
08-21-2011, 05:13 PM
Shodokan

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kalros

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

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.
12-04-2011, 06:01 AM
jnorland

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.
12-04-2011, 06:39 AM
Khatovar

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.
12-04-2011, 12:33 PM
Lyonheart

Quote:

Originally Posted by Khatovar

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.

IWT baby! I can loot on all my toons in 5 fast button presses!
12-04-2011, 01:12 PM
Multibocks

You need to press it 5 times? I press it once...
12-04-2011, 08:36 PM
Lyonheart

Quote:

Originally Posted by Multibocks

You need to press it 5 times? I press it once...

For me.. if one toon is looting, it will not let others loot until that one is done. I'm talking about when there is an item for everyone ( like a collection quest item that drops for everyone in the group). I'm not sure if all your toons had the loot potion buff, if its possible for more than one chest to be on a corpse though.
12-04-2011, 11:54 PM
Khatovar

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lyonheart

IWT baby! I can loot on all my toons in 5 fast button presses!

Pshhh, IWT is so old school. Interact with Mouseover is where the love is now. {More detail/rambling on my site}
12-06-2011, 04:58 PM
Multibocks

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lyonheart

For me.. if one toon is looting, it will not let others loot until that one is done. I'm talking about when there is an item for everyone ( like a collection quest item that drops for everyone in the group). I'm not sure if all your toons had the loot potion buff, if its possible for more than one chest to be on a corpse though.

Oh ok, I see what you are saying. I just mash it when there are quest items on the body.
12-09-2011, 03:37 PM
sync00

I read the treasure of potion finding was nerfed in 4.3.