Heroic Farming Speed question

[Bigfish]

Well, the super fast farmers, its a straight run to the bosses, skip what trash you can, pull what multi-pulls you can. How effective that is depends on how well you handle your group, and how well you know the "tricks". Gundrak, for example, can go super fast if you can kill the initial snake pulls quick, rop the boss, jump in the water, kill the collusus and his adds from behind, jump in to the water on the way to mamtoth, and then jump in the water again after Eck, you can clear the place in under 15. That said, you miss out on a lot of vendor trash and DE mats that way, so unless you're looking for badges and nothing but badges, it doesn't usually go that fast.

of course, thats also for being severely overgeared for the content and wiping the floor with it. Naturally it takes longer if you're actually gearing up at the time.

[Niley]

15 mins for every heroic other than strat, pos/hor.(maybe i missed another one, but cant thing of it right now)

1. everyone in my team is above 5k gs, with some very close to 6k.
2. I loot everything
3.I skip bosses that i don't need to kill
4.I dont heal, i will let my tanks argent defender go off w/e i can before i even think about healing. Totems take care of healing my dps.
5.I have 4 dps+tank(tank wears mostly ret gear, 528 def)
6.Pull 2-3 groups of trash at once, sometimes more, magma totem+6s fire nova, and lock stunning takes care of it easily,
7.Bosses with 412k hp die in under 8-9s, ones with 512k die in 12-14s....who needs healing :P

[Zappy]

Here's a run I fraps today of Azjol'Nerub - right on 11 minutes:

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthrea...409#post263409

[Powerwar]

My fastest was Gundrak in 6 minutes skipping the eck boss.

In most cases skipping trash completely is money in the bank because 22 gold for random heroic completion per toon will be always more gold than clearing all the trash unless it's some instance where battered hilt could drop.

[Dorffo]

I'm averaging 20mins on the longer runs, hitting the 15min timer on AN/Gundrak/DTK. As others have posted - I AE the trash and only loot when the shaman need to drink.

The exception to this rule is any of the new ICC 5mans, where I'll take my time and check for hilts

[Shodokan]

I'm guessing others aren't looting. That's all I can think of. I know a few shortcuts but 2-3 per hours seems pretty quick.

Niley and a few others said 4-4.5 is what they can do per hour, including looting.

Edit: he already posted >_>

[falsfire3401]

Yep it all comes down to how much trash at once your tank and healer can manage, and if your healer and casters can go without having to stop to drink very often.

I don't have an 80 healer yet, but I'm close. My priest is 79 and has alot of crafted epics waiting for her already when she dings. I'm currently using LFD as part of my leveling method, and if I have a good tank in the group (ie one with good mitigation/avoidance and is not a major mana sink), I can pretty much go a whole run without drinking.

So speed comes from 3 factors:

1) How much trash your tank and healer can handle at once
2) How fast your dps can burn things down
3) How little your casters/healer need to pause to mana up

[Zappy]

and don't forget 4....

4) How many times you've ran the same place over, over, and over again.

[KAC]

Velassra, I presume you are in mostly blue? It gets easier when you get geared, most of my teams are just slgihtly 5k gs with all i219 and above gear.
UK wiped me a ton of times when i started Multiboxing, prince was a total pain, now I just nuke through it. Gear = speed

I laughed when I first went into NORMAL FoS and got an epic pair of junk shoulders to de after 5 mob kills. I can do Normal FoS in 18 mins thas 36 kills which includes the 2 bosses and get an emblem in 9 mins average that is that is 7 emblems in a tad over an hour. I dont even bother to run old heroics anymore unless its a random for some frost badges. I will do FoS normal over and over for basges plus if you de and you should have a chanter in your group you get gobs of abyss crystals that selll for 25-30 g all day; I have stacks of them. Even if you could do H Gundrak which has 5 emblems and H Nexxus which has 5 emblems in an hour you would be getting one more emblem than me and you can only do them once a day. Old heroics are pretty much useless to me now there is really nothing in them for me except maybe the stam trinket for my druid I would use on offspec for his tank but other than that everything in the old heroics is junk do your one for the daily frostbadges and then screw em. RUn N FoS over and over this will also give you the skills needed to beat it on heroic with ease! Dude that says he does heroic gundrak in 6 mins and skips eck..make a vid becuase there is no way you kill 4 bosses and even pull and kill the trash and dont loot in 6 mins I find that hard to believe but then again I loot every mob I kill and my times and gold bank reflect that. I'd like to see you do a H HoL in 6 mins..lmfao

[Shodokan]

I laughed when I first went into NORMAL FoS and got an epic pair of junk shoulders to de after 5 mob kills. I can do Normal FoS in 18 mins thas 36 kills which includes the 2 bosses and get an emblem in 9 mins average that is that is 7 emblems in a tad over an hour. I dont even bother to run old heroics anymore unless its a random for some frost badges. I will do FoS normal over and over for basges plus if you de and you should have a chanter in your group you get gobs of abyss crystals that selll for 25-30 g all day; I have stacks of them. Even if you could do H Gundrak which has 5 emblems and H Nexxus which has 5 emblems in an hour you would be getting one more emblem than me and you can only do them once a day. Old heroics are pretty much useless to me now there is really nothing in them for me except maybe the stam trinket for my druid I would use on offspec for his tank but other than that everything in the old heroics is junk do your one for the daily frostbadges and then screw em. RUn N FoS over and over this will also give you the skills needed to beat it on heroic with ease! Dude that says he does heroic gundrak in 6 mins and skips eck..make a vid becuase there is no way you kill 4 bosses and even pull and kill the trash and dont loot in 6 mins I find that hard to believe but then again I loot every mob I kill and my times and gold bank reflect that. I'd like to see you do a H HoL in 6 mins..lmfao

If it takes you 18 minuets per run that is 2 badges per run. Assuming you can do 3 in 1 hour that is 6 badges, not 7, but i'll give you the extra first boss kill. If you are in 100% blues or something that is decent i suppose? I mean if you get nexus or gundrak you get those 7 badges in about 30 minuets max even if you are in mediocre gear. People like niley and such who run through heroics in 15-20 minuets per pretty much no matter what is is (i'd assume minus occ and HoR)

Theres a mathmatical breakdown in another thread of mine that someone else posted, that once you are geared you can make over 2k an hour just because of all the extra badges (about 20 per hour). Theres no way you are making that much profit from doing the normal FoS. Doing normal FoS/PoS should only be done until your team gets the gear it needs form there. Otherwise you make more g/instance otherwise. If you are happy about the 2-3 abyss crystals you get... you said that is what 90g on your server? The random LFG tool gives you 65g of that every time you finish an instance. So i'm not sure what you are trying to say when you state that normal FoS is better than a normal heroic... when it clearly isn't. You get atleast double the badges for the same amount of time per run from heroics. Bages = money, drops = money... it's not like normal FoS can drop hilts.