How To Farm

(Mats and Proffs for PRE Warlords.)


How To Farm, and no not the Pandaria farming for food but the old fashion kill/grind! 


Farm/Farming=Killing a certain creature, zone, or gathering a certain item over and over for any given reason.


Farming:  Proffessions


This is a broad meaning mostly refering to the gathering of leathers, herbs, or ore.  It can also refer to the need for cloth or certain crafting items like gems, Large Tooth, or Elementals.


Theres a few ways to go about this.


Skinning
Leatherworker is the main proffession needing a skinning proffession, outside of a few vanilla and Outlands patterns no other proffession needs leathers.  This means that most skinners are farming the amount of leathers they need which is usually a insane amount if you count up the needed stacks.

In Warlords you do need LEATHERS for some patterns.  You Also can skin for Cloth!  If you don't have Skinning the Barn does same thing!


Herbing

Used by many people for numerous proffessions this can be pretty time consuming as certain herbs only spawn in certain places.  That means flying, running, and fighting all over Azeroth to cap the more detailed proffession such as Alchemy.  Others like Inscription arent as picky but require a larger amount of herbs meaning alot more flower picking.

In Warlords all characters get a Herb Garden. 


Mining

Mining, if kept up, can be done while leveling since most ore spawns in level appropriate zones so its a simple matter to collect as you go and only have to go really farming when your nearing the skill caps for Blacksmith and Jewelcrafting.  But like Herbing it can be time consuming to run around looking for a special vien such as silver, gold, or trillium.

In Warlords all characters get a Mine.


Elementals

Used mainly in higher end patterns these can be collected in multiple ways.  Herbing and Mining can gather certain elements and now skinning can chance on them in bloated organs.  But the main way to fetch these is to kill the perticular elemental mob with the elements you need.  Out of all the proffessional needs these can be some of the worst is sharing mobs or if the mobs have a low rate as some do. 


Cloth

I cant skip the wonderful farming of Tailors and First Aid!  This one is not a gathering so much as looting.  If you loot every mob you kill you are more likely to get all the cloth you need without having to farm the Scarlet Instances for silk and mageweave but this usually does require a trip of farming that can vary in time due to drop rates or the amount of cloth you need!  BIG pain!

In Warlords you can get the Furs (the new cloth) from the barn or most mobs.  Its also mostly not needed for First Aid.


Farming:  Quest


Unlike the original Warcraft there arent many quest that require days of farming.  But those that do have serious rewards!  Mounts, Legendaries, pets, and most recently the epic loots of the Black prince.  But Farming these things more then likely will take you months, not hours.






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