What class is the best farmer in WOTLK?

let me start by clarifying exactly what we're farming we're getting herbs and mines so this is either to sell them all on the auction house or to maybe mill the herbs on a scribe to pump out glyphs and dark moon cards or even prospect yours on your jc to pump out well gems and stuff you're instantly thinking druid with flight form easy the same way as if i said remember any card that i show you now but obviously not the bottom card just remember anyone i'll look away you probably thought of the jack of spades if you did put it in the you know in the comments out the algorithm just drop a comment saying yes that was what i saw there's so many ways to farm herbs and mines that depending on which route you want to go will depend on what class you want to create as your farming character so if you wanted to steal farming dungeons yes druids can stealth farm but rogues just do it better i wouldn't even say there's a competition between the two if it's a dedicated character to do one of these farms that we've spoke about on the channel like getting cobalt in uk or getting saronite in halter stone for example then rogue is the way to go but what about the tried and trusted old-school standard method of mounting up and flying around well there's more to think about than just having epic flight form yes flight form is instant cast but with amount time reduced by half so it's only 1.5 seconds now to mount up the gap closes quite a lot in flight form you can go down to the floor next to a herb and pick it without coming out of flight form but you can't do that with a mine so you need to come out of form if you want to get a mine now on a pvp server particularly the first months of launch people aren't just going to fly by and let you get that mine or herb they'll stun you or cc you in some way shape or form and try and ninja the mine right in front of you it feels bad but it's gonna happen also another thing we need to think about is if this is on your main account or do you have a second account having a second account on with a farmer is not only popular but it makes a lot of sense when you're trying to find a group for a dungeon or you're crafting on your main or you're on a flight path you can alt tab or switch over to another monitor and do a bit of flying around and grab whatever you want or not even move and what i mean by that is you might just sit between a few spawning nodes that every now and again you just look around at your other monitor or you won't tab and check if they're there you get them if you don't you just leave your characters out there it was something i used to do a lot of actually in vanilla sat in winter spring in the place with all the big elites you could just leave yourself stealth there and every time you saw some mines grab them all wait for the next spawns so with all that being said and knowing the general criteria of how we're thinking about this video who is in the running for the best farming class a druid obviously this goes without saying a paladin might not be so obvious but we will get into why shortly a rogue for the ability to stealth farm dungeons but also has potential outsider dungeons which again we'll get into soon and finally the dk you can obviously make any class work and there'll be small advantages to some of them such as having a mage as your farmer so you can frost over any mobs around a mine grab it envis mount up and go or a hunter which could do similar with a trap and then feign death and mount up and go but i'm quite happy with what the four classes mentioned bring to the table so let's talk about the dk first the dk gets a talent on a pal horse which for two points increases mounted speed by 20 and paired with the fact it only takes a short 1.5 second to mount up this all in all comes very close to that of a druid in fact in a race over a distance you will make that one and a half second delay up fairly quickly and you would definitely overtake the druid whilst technically you could be on a slow mount and get every herb in mind before other people because you just happen to be flying over it before it spawns that can absolutely be true however the faster you're flying the more ground you can cover which opens up more opportunities for grabbing bigger amounts of herbs and mines if there was a few mines or herbs in a cave you also have unholy presence to run around faster on foot which can be seen as a positive but for me personally i never bother going in caves i i just leave them when it comes to pvp servers yes dks are strong but they do lack a single target long cc or any way to drop combat and mount up in a reliable way absolutely can still be done though if you chose to go night elf dk as a farming character because you could def grip someone away from the mine use hungering cold grab the mine and then shadow meld and mount up some of you guys might be really nice and if the opposing faction's there first you just let them take the minor herb would they do the same for you i doubt it so next up let's briefly talk about the druid because we've covered some of it already if you're alliance you have shallow mill because you have no choice this is absolutely amazing for dropping a cyclone or roots on someone getting what you need pop it and go but it's also useful just in general on the mobs themselves because you can mine something for example as mobs are running in at you get the mine but now you're still in combat so you either need to kill them to go in flight form or you use shadow meld and bang off you go there's tons of advantages to having a druid for farming because when you really consider it it's a jack of all trades you can stealth farm but not as easily as a rogue you have instant flight form but no increase to its speed so it's going to average a little bit less in terms of area coverage compared to the dk or the paladin but you can also pick up herbs in flight form which is just absolutely amazing now if your primary reason for the farmer is herbin i'd say go druid 100 you can pretty much ignore all pvp grab herbs that even have mobs around them because you can pick it up before you get hit or if you happen to grab any mobs you can just fly up and reset and try again mining on the other end is a different story because you are at the same disadvantage as everyone else you need to leave bird form you do however have like previously mentioned powerful long cc's to be able to use on players on mobs to grab herbs and mines with no fuss and get out and if you're a druid that happens to have ashes of allah or any other 310 speed mount your flight form will actually go the same speed and if it's on a second account you can always have the luxury of leaving it stealthed in a cave or somewhere you know where there's multiple node spawns as i say i've done this myself it works really well the rogue's fairly basic so i won't spend too much time on it but it can do what the druid can in terms of being on a second account and just leaving it stealth by mines and herbs it really is all about utilizing the ability to stealth so chilling in minds that most people flying around won't bother even going inside of like me running through dungeons and getting a couple of mines every minute or so and of course with things like sap and vanish if you see a mob or a player just sap minor herb vanish and away you go unfortunately the rogue doesn't get any benefit outside of this though because with no flight form or increased amount speed from talents you just need to farm on it the right way finally the paladin it is fairly obvious why this even makes the list it's the same reason as the dk you get increased mount speed in the form of crusader aurora so you can nip around at 20 extra speed you'll never have the luxury of having a fret drop like the dk who goes night elf because paladins can't be night elves but you do have a stun and depending on spec you also have a repentance so you're able to mine or herb with aggro but unfortunately no way of dropping it so you're either fighting it out to the death once you've got your herb on mine or you're trying to flee which both i would see as a waste of time while farming so ideally as a paladin you don't want any conflict and you don't want to be pulling mobs that are near mines or herbs so with all that said and done what do i consider the best farming character well for open world as alliance i would actually specifically say night elf death knight i mean night elf druid is very very close as well but having that increased speed as the dk and a combat drop with shadow meld and just a powerful toolkit whether you're a druid or a dk it's just a no-brainer without worrying about faction specific though in order from best to worst i would actually prefer the extra speed while flying over instant flight form this particularly is for mining so it would be dk then paladin then druid then rogue for primarily herbin it without a doubt would be druid then dk then paladin then rogue and obviously if your focus is instance farming just go rogue no point even considering anything else you also get that option of cave farming in the open world as previously mentioned and that's it i hope this like gave you a little bit of something to think about maybe aided in your decision of what your farming character is going to be mine is actually going to be a dk so i'm practicing what i preach on the fresh servers when they come out my first character that's going to be level 80 is 80 70 sorry the first character that's going to be 70 is my paladin second is going to be my farmer which is going to be a dk so as i say not just mindless dribble although some of you will think it is but whatever check out rested xp in the comment below wherever it is like subscribe and roll the outro there's lots of ways you can support the channel to keep me here putting out world of warcraft content and covering all future mmos consider 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Length: 8min 42sec (522 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 23 2022