Worst farming experience?

Bambucea said:
Damn, these 3 digit runs I keep seeing from you guys scare me from starting another twink. Guess I've been lucky so far.
Can't imagine the joy of seeing it dropped after 100+ runs. I get up and go sit on the couch and think to myself what a good day today was after <20 runs lol
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That right there is blessed RNG my friend Haha
 
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I am actually kinda curious now, when you people talk about farming something, how do you tend to do them? Is it random dungeon finder groups, do you run them with a high level carry to enable legacy loot? (maybe even yourself if you have a vet/F2P and a paid account). What's the deal? How do you tend to do it, and does it substantially affect your chances of getting the drop. Like... 100+ runs for something in Legacy seems crazy, but maybe in synced RDF groups I could see it.
 
Vannozza said:
I am actually kinda curious now, when you people talk about farming something, how do you tend to do them? Is it random dungeon finder groups, do you run them with a high level carry to enable legacy loot? (maybe even yourself if you have a vet/F2P and a paid account). What's the deal? How do you tend to do it, and does it substantially affect your chances of getting the drop. Like... 100+ runs for something in Legacy seems crazy, but maybe in synced RDF groups I could see it.
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If we are talking specific dungeon armor pieces, most people will just use the dungeon finder if the piece can out-right drop for them from the boss.
And for legacy loot, most people with a group will only do it if they want a piece of armor or something that does not drop for their class normally but can be worn regardless (e.g I will want to trigger legacy loot for a Circle of Flame to drop on my holy paladin, as dungeons give me plate by default, but the helmet is useful regardless)
 
Vannozza said:
I am actually kinda curious now, when you people talk about farming something, how do you tend to do them? Is it random dungeon finder groups, do you run them with a high level carry to enable legacy loot? (maybe even yourself if you have a vet/F2P and a paid account). What's the deal? How do you tend to do it, and does it substantially affect your chances of getting the drop. Like... 100+ runs for something in Legacy seems crazy, but maybe in synced RDF groups I could see it.
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I geared 10 twinks using 3 methods, group finder, solo, and legacy with my other (subbed) account. In some cases, the latter method is really the best. I got very lucky since the maximum amount of tries for a given item was around 70 I think.
 
Farming methods ranked by effectiveness:

1. Full twink group with matching armor and level. Everyone subbed so you can trade. - Very fast, no legacy, guaranteed drops.
2. Full twink group. Levels and armor types may vary and/or lack of game time. - Same as above except that some points are missing.
3. Depending on the boss - either legacy or RDF. Thing to note here:
3.1. Which dungeon is it? Is it accessible from the RDF? If not - legacy obviously
3.2. Where is the boss in the dungeon? Is it a fast run? - Can do solo, depending on class and if you can skip to the needed boss. Druid, priest, hunter are the classes that can skip easily and solo bosses. Quagmirran and Hungerfen come to mind here. Otherwise - legacy.
4. Solo - too slow for most items.
 
Fair enough. Personally I did a lot of carrying myself on my subbed account. Not so much when gearing my priest, but for the hunter DPS queue times felt too long to make RDF viable with how speedily I can run some dungeons. Especially dungeons that loop in some regard, if I can leave the twink near the loop, in range to get loot credit for the final boss (which a lot of the time seems to be where the items I want are). Rush ahead on my subbed character and just wipe out the last boss.

Something I did extensively on Underbog when I realised that a suitably mobile character can jump a small chasm after 1st boss, skipping 2nd and 3rd entirely. Although the 'loop' is high up off a ledge you can swapsblaster the twink up after the 4th boss kill to claim the loot. Another two that spring to mind are Sethekk Halls and Blood Furnace. Both felt easier to carry myself through due to their looped map nature and how quick it was to just speed to last. Admittedly Blood Furnace is actually quite a long run to claim the loot of the last boss, especially because you can't sit at the door and wait you have to move up closer to being above the boss room to be in range of getting loot. This is only really made quick by a little OOB play on a DH drastically shortening the time to the final boss kill.

Maybe this is sorta a F2P issue though, as I imagine vets that are subbed during the gearing process can still access their mail box, so don't actually have to do the whole running to boss thing just to pick up their loot.
 
Vannozza said:
I am actually kinda curious now, when you people talk about farming something, how do you tend to do them? Is it random dungeon finder groups, do you run them with a high level carry to enable legacy loot? (maybe even yourself if you have a vet/F2P and a paid account). What's the deal? How do you tend to do it, and does it substantially affect your chances of getting the drop. Like... 100+ runs for something in Legacy seems crazy, but maybe in synced RDF groups I could see it.
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I either use random dungeon finder or solo dungeons. I have one of each class with at least one full set of dungeon blues (besides warrior and mage). The worst luck I've ever had is 31 runs for https://www.wowhead.com/item=24465/shamblehide-chestguard?bonus=6710 and I got my second one for offspec five runs later.

Not counting the grind for a socketed https://www.wowhead.com/item=158713/disc-of-indomitable-will?bonus=6516 which took like 220 solo kills on my 20.
 
My worst farming exp must be the legion boe farm. I am pretty set on tert on all my gear. I have finished my hunter and my priest now (except for speed oh on priest) I looted 1.9 million mobs across my 3 lvl 25 hunters without getting a SINGLE item I need. Everything that I got on my priest/hunter was either looted by other people farming with me or bought on AH.

Starting up a project (paladin) and I need like 4 x aurora speed rings, 2 x harm speed rings, 2 x adap socket rings, aurora speed neck, harm speed neck, speed cloaks etc.. In for a long haul if my luck does not change.
 
Poonz said:
Starting up a project (paladin) and I need like 4 x aurora speed rings, 2 x harm speed rings, 2 x adap socket rings, aurora speed neck, harm speed neck, speed cloaks etc.. In for a long haul if my luck does not change.
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Hope you find time to play the chars too :D
 
Poonz said:
My worst farming exp must be the legion boe farm. I am pretty set on tert on all my gear. I have finished my hunter and my priest now (except for speed oh on priest) I looted 1.9 million mobs across my 3 lvl 25 hunters without getting a SINGLE item I need. Everything that I got on my priest/hunter was either looted by other people farming with me or bought on AH.

Starting up a project (paladin) and I need like 4 x aurora speed rings, 2 x harm speed rings, 2 x adap socket rings, aurora speed neck, harm speed neck, speed cloaks etc.. In for a long haul if my luck does not change.
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I would be down to farm BOE's with you as I am after some rings for my twinks :)
 
Vannozza said:
I am actually kinda curious now, when you people talk about farming something, how do you tend to do them? Is it random dungeon finder groups, do you run them with a high level carry to enable legacy loot? (maybe even yourself if you have a vet/F2P and a paid account). What's the deal? How do you tend to do it, and does it substantially affect your chances of getting the drop. Like... 100+ runs for something in Legacy seems crazy, but maybe in synced RDF groups I could see it.
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For most dungeon drops, I typically queue solo while doing something else on the side like catching up on a podcast, etc. It "takes much longer" in real time, but requires much less of my attention than collaborating with others. I avoid legacy loot when I can, but I've been lucky that I haven't needed to farm a dungeon drop with a single-digit drop percentage rate. For BoE farms, I do the opposite -- I find it much more engaging and worthwhile to collaborate in a farming group than to farm solo, and of course the drop rates go higher by an order of magnitude.

Non-queueable dungeons will see me running myself on a subbed account unless someone else needs the same dungeon, and the same for oddball stuff (Blasted Lands rares, TBC treasure chests etc.).
 
Ill just mention a few ive done, most are old and since I dont play f2p anymore I dont really do grinds that compare to those.
1. One of my precious ribbons, invited a friend to tag along for the rest of a reset set at around 50-60 and it dropped. Im a nice guy so I let him roll, hes not nice and won the roll. Took me another 60 runs to see it drop again.
2. Bristlebark Buckler for MoP horde FC shaman set. Had RoP and and just about every other drop (except one) before that one. Took over 200 runs.
3. Mindthrust bracers, several hundred runs.
4. Wranglers Boots of Stamina, dropped on my hunter but never shaman.
5. Key farm.
6. Bloodsail exalted and then steamwheedle exalted.
7. Dread pirate ring on my hunter, I kept losing because I got keefers instead of tastyfish in the end. This wasnt actually a long grind but it was terrible mentally. I have so many LFHs on that hunter and that was just so annoying, getting to 38 fish and then getting 2 keefers and watching the winner and second place get yelled out, twice!
 
1. Insane in the Membrane title - I wanted all exalted so I ended up farming booty bay guards for a while.
2. Hero of Shattrath - Killing spiders over and over again was not fun by any means.
3. Ogri'la Reputation - probably the most boring one aswell since I could only do 2 quests a day.
4. Fishing all fish in this achievemet - Still need a lot but the Rockhide Strongfish will probably take the longest to get.
 
Vannozza said:
I am actually kinda curious now, when you people talk about farming something, how do you tend to do them? Is it random dungeon finder groups, do you run them with a high level carry to enable legacy loot? (maybe even yourself if you have a vet/F2P and a paid account). What's the deal? How do you tend to do it, and does it substantially affect your chances of getting the drop. Like... 100+ runs for something in Legacy seems crazy, but maybe in synced RDF groups I could see it.
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As much as I would love to be carried thru a dungeon 100 times per day by a higher lvl, I usually feel guilty after a few runs, I know they are not realy having fun and they are there only to help me, so I just run the specific dungeon with randoms until it drops. More often than not I get matched with other twinks and we just group up for that dung.
 
I never got my fishing hat. spent every Sunday, caught 9 boots and no hat my luck was abysmal.

I re-rolled a 19 NE monk 130+ times to get an epic field-tested (agi staff). That was a pain mostly because I had to lvl before I could do the quest to see if I had to lvl again.

Edit: looked over my toons and apparently I lied. My monk was VE the NE was a hunter for the agi/stam crossbow (argus-hand or whatever) the monk was not that hard since they were pretty much lvld when I made them.

I assembled the postman's set from strat on my 20 mage, that took a LONG time. I would stand around posting if anyone was doing a mount run that would let me tag along- honestly I feel pretty lucky to have it and i was so excited about the end result i didn't mind that one much.
 
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