11-16-2005, 10:16 PM
Gnollguy,Nov 16 2005, 12:02 PM Wrote:As for thorium brotherhood rep. Gnolack is also grinding to revered and eventually exhalted. I think I need 1880 more Dark Iron ore (or equivalent mats) to to revered so I'm only 620 ore into the grind. While I can mine the ore myself attempts to do so have been pretty poor. Without an epic mount I'm at a horrible disadvantage to the farmers in Burning Steppes and over the last 2 weeks there have been at least 5 of them there at pretty much all hours of the day when I have checked. It may in fact be faster to farm gold and buy the ore or what not than to try and find and mine ore for it yourself. Yes I realize that I just said it might be faster to farm 2400 gold than to farm 2400 dark iron ore. My last 4 sets of 2 hours of grinding for ore yielded 32 dark iron ore. So yep I'm at 32 ore per 8 hours or 4 ore an hour right now. Ore is actually less than 1 gold per ore usually. Even I can grind more than 1 gold an hour.
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Yikes! That is low rate of getting the ore in Burning Steppes. Taunshu has usually pulled in a much better rate than that, even when some of those epic mount characters are around. The case that a character with an epic mount does not necessarily hold when doing that type of mining. They move fast, but the respawns are on a dynamic respawn situation and you only need to be in the right area when the spawn happens, not run a race across the zone to get to a specific spot. Note that I have hit RTVs and DIDs in BS after I saw a epic mounted miner pass the area before I got there, the spawn can happen shortly after they passby too. I did a similar thing with Taunshu at level 35 in Charred Vale for mithril spawns and going up against mounted characters; I just needed to be at a spawing node before them, not race them across the area to get to a specific one.
My only question to myself on the Thorium Brotherhood reputation right now is, should I push the Dark Iron Ore to Andar for another Armorsmith, or use it on Littledude for a Tailor/Enchanter?