SM Drops Nerfed

[Lissa]

You can mine the same node 2-4 times, so reduce that time by a third.

No, I know you know statistics Mongo. Remember, it's 3% per hit, but, even indepenent events still have an effect chance. While each chance has a 3% probability of happening, you have to take that into account failure to get another crystal in the next 1 to 3 hits the vein may have. So, while getting 1 crystal is going to be 3% per node, getting 2 is going to be much, much less probable. So, cutting time by a third, no.

With my priestess who is tailoring/enchanting and therefore can't make the big bucks that mining and herbalism can bring, I choose to farm in locations that give me both cash and faction.  A special bonus is given if they also drop runecloth which can be sold for a steady income.  My favorite spots are the furbolgs in northern Felwood and the high level undead scourge at the farm at the eastern most end of the western plaguelands.  The furbolg village is great, because there are tons of furbolgs there that can easily be killed, and there's a boss who gives 5x faction who respawns quite quickly there.  The best way to farm them is to get in a mage-priest team.  The mage gathers them all up and aoe's them while the priest keeps the mage alive.  The killing speed is unbelieveable.

The scourge in the easternmost farm of the western plaguelands drop both invader's scourgestones (as opposed to the lesser minion scourgestones from the other farms) and items that go toward fulfilling the cauldron quests.  So, they're a double source of Argent Dawn faction.  Plus, they drop runecloth and other decent items.  In both of these places, I find a decent amount of greens and the occational blue.  Most of the time, I DE the greens and blues and sell the resulting materials on the auction house, but occationally, I'll sell the items on the AH directly (particularly the boe blues) for decent cash.

The only problems with these locations is that a fair number of other people know about them, too, and on a PvP server, that means frequent fights.  On quiet nights or less popular times, however, they're good places to farm.
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The point was though, this was 20 to 25 hours with a potential net of 1500g while soloing. Can you honestly say that farming rune cloth and selling enchanting materials get you close to that?