Why to not farm primals

[Afrobotics]

Primal gold/hour predictions:
This is assuming 700 dps, 10 seconds between mobs (including regen time), and no competition. This is rather average numbers imo. (These are my personal numbers)

On my server the only primal to sell at a consistently high price is Primal Fire, so I chose to farm those. If you farm a different primal...input your own numbers and try this yourself.

Primal Fire:
HP: 5-7k hp depending on location
Time to kill: 7-10 seconds per mob
Total time per mob: 17-20 seconds

Avg Drop Rate: 23%
Time until 1 mote: 73.9s - 87.0s
Primals/hour: 4.87 - 4.14
Gold/hour (assumes 22g avg sell rate): 107.14 - 91.0g

Scryer Rep Items:
Assuming 800 dps (these are cloth wearers and take much more damage than elementals) and around 3.5 seconds between mobs (I usually pull 2-3 at a time and bandaid after each pull, so 3 seconds to pull + 6 seconds to bandaid/ 2.5 mobs)

Arcane Tome + Sunfury Signet:
HP (Manaforge B'naar is my personal spot): 5.7 - 6.6k hp depending on mob
Time to kill: 7.125 - 8.25s
Total Time/mob: 10.625 - 11.75s

Average Tome Drop Rate: 2.1%
Average Signet Drop rate: 31%
Mobs/hour: 338.8 - 306.4
Tomes/hour: 7.11 - 6.43
Signets/hour: 105.28 - 94.98

Tomes go for 12g each on my server, it is a fairly constant price and doesn't flucuate much. Therefor:

Gold/hour from tomes = 85.32 - 77.16g

Gold/hour needed from signets to break even: 21.82 - 13.84g
(Gold/hour)/(Signets/hour)= Gold/Signet needed: 20s73c - 14s57

This last section may be a tab off because it is late, but as you can see, with these current numbers it is well worth it to farm at Manaforge B'naar instead of farming Primal Fires.



This is some math I did for myself recently that I thought I would share. It is for my own personal data on a rogue, obviously based on your gear/class/spec/population on server/AH prices the data will change drastically. So if you feel so inclined you should do this yourself and see if it is also worth it for you to not farm primals :wave:

[interezted]

hmm looks well thought out, +rep

[Vixxi]

well yeah no shit... Silver from each mob + a better droprate for something worth more then half a primal... you don't even need math.

[Gone Phishing BBL]

well yeah no shit... Silver from each mob + a better droprate for something worth more then half a primal... you don't even need math.

Why are you coming off like you are? He made a very well though out post explaining why HE is making more money farming scryer items. :confused::confused::confused:

[xollax]

Really good!But it whould be good whot some kind of ss or cords for the mobs u kill!

[whoaa]

however herbalist and engineers have it easy when it comes to primals. or at least air because 3-5 motes per cloud and all you need to do is avoid mobs and run around on an epic mount or fly on epic flyer and u can get bout 10 primals in about and hour or so depending on how many other ppl are farm(usually few to none) and respawn rate

[Dr. Doom]

Really good!But it whould be good whot some kind of ss or cords for the mobs u kill!

For those of you who were interested in grinding rep item's you can refer to the guide I made, and it will give you co-ords for both ALDOR and SCRYER and they are accurate. Hope my guide comes in handy.

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-gu...-grinding.html

comment on what you think

[Biospecies]

+rep...+Rep+Rep+Rep+Rep+Rep+Rep+Rep

i like how you worked it out, very smart... i cant beleive some people found a reason to flame about this.

[pow3lly]

i agree with this but if you want to level your professions...

[bassist0587]

well argued, +rep

[mazera_deville]

i farm primal mana at kirin'var and i get 23g per primal mana and i kill them very easy

[Afrobotics]

thanks to the people who actually gave me rep =).

@mazera primal manas are always overfarmed on my server, my only real constant supply of those besides buying them is from herbing while doing netherwing quests.