SM Drops Nerfed

[Lissa]

If you want to farm mobs for cash your best bet is to pick mobs that drop coin.  Monster body parts can sell for decent amounts of money but they fill up your bags very quickly which can be a pain.  I personally also like to farm mobs that can drop runecloth as it is usually fairly consistent.  Picking mobs that have a nice "rare" loot table like Lissa mentioned is nice but it relies on drop luck which can be really nice or really poor depending on how the RNG feels.

Thanks to the new patch Silithus is crawling right now with Twilights that drop cash and runecloth.  In addition they will give you some faction and they can drop decent level greens.  The fact that they are high level mobs also means that their world drop loot table is going to be nice.  If it weren't for the fact that Silithus is a mile out of the way I might recommend heading there and butchering Twilights for fun and profit...
[right][snapback]91836[/snapback][/right]

That's why I picked Dragonkin...they drop between 10 to 25s per kill and, for a Hunter, they're extremely easy kills. That initial 300g I mentioned was 250g from money and about 50g from grey item drops...and this is after expenses like more arrows, mailing off skinning things, buying pet food, and buying drinks.

The other drops were a nice added bonus for about 20 to 25 hours total work across several days. Using Nobbie's figure of 100 crystals at a 3% drop rate with 2 to 4 minutes means 3300 nodes mined on average or 6600 to 13200 total minutes or 110 to 220 total hours. Dunno about you, but I'd rather keep all those Arcane Crystals for personal uses and guild uses and spend about an eighth to a quarter the amount of time and still come out with just about the same amount of gold (all drops if I sold them on the AH that were worth selling there would have netted around 1500g, not bad for 20 to 25 hours work).