Mining/Herb nerf Official

[phantom325]

It is, sadly, official.

Posted by Daxxari, at 7:40 P.M. CST:
Mining and Herb spawn rates in Pandaria have been reduced by approximately 50% in patch 5.1, and this is indeed an intended change. These are in addition to the hotfix that was applied in 5.0.5 to lower the spawn rate of Ghost Iron.

In all of these cases, the reduction was prompted because the resources were too abundant, resulting in ore and herbs being undervalued, and also therefore the effort that our herbalists and miners put in to collect each node. We’ll be monitoring the situation, though, and should the current rates prove to be too low then we’ll make further adjustments as necessary.

This contradicts his earlier statement of:
To clarify, there wasn't an intentional reduction in the number of herb spawns. We're investigating the situation now.

Original thread: Herb Nerf? - Forums - World of Warcraft

le sigh

[Nylina]

this sucks

[Meumenino]

Thank god I pilled something like 10000 stacks of ores/herbs

[HollowHD]

This is bulls*** ! I would undestand like a 25% but 50%, come on ...

[markons]

Make sense, silkweed was 20g/stack or lower on my server....

[nerfmeplease]

The nerf is fine. give it a couple weeks, botters stashes will start to thin out and prices will go up. also, it may all dry up this weekend (or wheenver DMF is, just woke up cant remember). herbs and ink will skyrocket when it hits. Prices of cards will probably go up slightly with the lack of inks and increased price. Overall, it should level out and you should be making roughly the same amount or more gold if you run efficient routes anyway. Unless you are on a locked population realm like me where people have downs and cant be bothered to learn how to properly undercut by 5g a stack at a time.

[DaggermasterWinterhoof]

The nerf is fine. give it a couple weeks, botters stashes will start to thin out and prices will go up. also, it may all dry up this weekend (or wheenver DMF is, just woke up cant remember). herbs and ink will skyrocket when it hits. Prices of cards will probably go up slightly with the lack of inks and increased price. Overall, it should level out and you should be making roughly the same amount or more gold if you run efficient routes anyway. Unless you are on a locked population realm like me where people have downs and cant be bothered to learn how to properly undercut by 5g a stack at a time.

you forgot the fact that most people here are botters