As I was searching the AH yet again the other day, whining to myself about how high prices were getting on Elixirs of Major Agility, it occurred to me to wonder... If they're so high, why don't I just make them myself? Actually, before the Burning Crusade -- or more specifically, daily quests -- came along, I generally would, or rather, I'd buy the herbs and find a friend to do the combines. Others besides me took it one step further and started an alt character specifically to have someone to gather herbs and make potions for them. But even without herbalism, if you watched the AH and herb prices for a bit, you could buy herbs when they were a bit on the cheap side and get yourself a stockpile of cheap elixirs, potions, and flasks.
Ever since daily quests, however, I've been a lot more lazy. I'll find myself at the Auction House less than an hour before raid time praying that someone has the potions I need for sale at a less than soul-gouging prices. I'll buy them at the soul-gouging prices anyway, of course, because I need them, and I have the extra money from dailies, but I wonder if I should go back to the old way of getting the herbs and stockpiling. It'd lead to fewer last minute buying sprees, at least.
So how do you do your consumables? Do you do the last minute buying spree, do you watch for good deals, or do you just do the herbalism and/or alchemy yourself?
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2-19-2008 @ 8:06AM
Tridus said...
My main is an herb/alchemist, and I have an enchanter alt. That pretty much covers consumables. Its pretty easy to farm up some mats while waiting for raid invites to start anyway, so it doesn't even take up a lot of time.
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2-19-2008 @ 8:11AM
Bunny said...
Time is money, friend.
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2-19-2008 @ 9:40AM
Richard said...
Have I got a deal for you!
2-19-2008 @ 8:14AM
Erika said...
I pickpocket all the pots I need and sell the rest on the ah. My other consumable is the 110g which is about a hour of farming for me depending on how lazy I am feeling.
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2-19-2008 @ 8:17AM
Aelwi said...
My alt is herb/alchemist but i buy herbs too lazy to gather and i bought for one month raiding each month
2-19-2008 @ 8:25AM
Balasan said...
My main's a JC holy paladin, but with a druid alt with epic flight and alc/herb, farming for consumables is way darn easy. Just do the netherwing dailies and I have enough mats for one flask a day if I'm lucky with the fel lotus.
And if we're going for a progression night my guild provides us with marks of illidari anyway so no issues about flasks. I just need to find a stable supply of mana oil...
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2-19-2008 @ 8:30AM
TomWolf said...
I ply the auctionhouse a lot and have my conenctions for refining cheap mats, be it herbs to potions or cloth to bags or gemcuts. It's a good way to A) get Gold B) Get cheap stuff C) keep your guild with cheap stuff.
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2-19-2008 @ 8:32AM
Dan said...
I tried my hand a gathering/crafting but found that since I'm casual and don't get in on the high-end instances/raids it was best for me to just go with 2 gathering professions so I went with mining/skinning but don't quite have my skinning up. I make tons of money on ore from outland and even more farming Marks of Kil'Jaeden.
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2-19-2008 @ 8:34AM
BillDoor said...
375 Fishing for the win.
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2-19-2008 @ 8:36AM
Neil T. said...
My main is herb/alch with full cooking, so most of my consumables are covered, and my girlfriend has an enchanter for the mana oils. Because I'm a healer I tend to use Flask of Distilled Wisdom on new bosses, which means occasional trips to Winterspring to get the Icecap needed to make it.
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2-19-2008 @ 8:41AM
dacamper said...
Cos I'm an alchemist, I use Mad Alchemist Pots so I'll buy the ragveil for those. For agility elixirs, I usually buy from the AH because I don't have a high level herbalist (alchemy is soo cheap to level) and on Aszune the elixirs sell for less than the materials cost... mature servers FTL :(
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2-19-2008 @ 8:46AM
Shevva said...
On the other end of the AH whats the best cooked food to put on everyone seems to like the +hit grub but my warp bugers with +agi aren't far behind?
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2-19-2008 @ 8:52AM
Screwblade said...
I did the whole Alt Alch/Herbalist.
I went potion master on him and I did really well at first making up mana and heal pots for raids. I was a potion manufacturing plant. Then it happened. While making a supply of 100 mana pots for a guildie I discovered 3 flasks (RA, Fort, PD) Now I'm at a crossroad. Do I stay pot master to help the guild or do I go elixir to possibly help myself and my coin purse?
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2-19-2008 @ 12:27PM
simeon said...
Neither. Go Transmute!
2-19-2008 @ 8:55AM
theRaptor said...
Having just joing a SSC/TK guild I have been pondering this question. As it is I only do enough dailies on my raiding character to just pay for consumables, and I would really like to get my alt an epic flyer (and spellstrike), so I am considering making my main a herbie. My old main is 300 herb/300 alchy, but I can't be bothered taking it to 70.
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2-19-2008 @ 8:56AM
Neesan said...
I just sell them for soul-gouging prices.
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2-19-2008 @ 8:57AM
Usu said...
My main is herb / alch / elixir master, 375 fishing and a melee class to boot, so I make almost all consumables myself. I do buy fel lotus when it's cheap since I have really bad drop luck on that, and buy ore on the AH for a friend to make runes and weightstones. But that expense is easy to cover by selling flasks at soul-gouging prices ;)
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2-19-2008 @ 9:16AM
Zarzuur said...
I'm levelling an alt for herbalism/alchemy atm too, after spending potions quick in dungeons and then realising that to buy replacements off the AH was very pricey.
So I've made the alt a pet class (warlock) for easier farming, plus with alchemy I can have primal transmutes which I can use for other crafting.
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2-19-2008 @ 9:17AM
Edgeonline said...
#8 - You are so spot on. My first priority is fishing / cooking when starting new toons. Excellent buffs, for just a bit of time.
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2-19-2008 @ 9:27AM
Gimmlette said...
My main is a maxed alch/herb. I haven't done the mastery quests yet as I'm still debating what to be. I make a huge number of pots but guild members are now asking, more and more, for transmutes. Elixirs make my tanks and warriors and PVP'ers happy. I actually like to go herbing because there are other things that one can get when one is battling birds in Shadowmoon who are wandering around the terocone you're craving. Being exalted in the major cities in the old world helps with the vial costs when you're making 30 major mana pots for the group heading to Scholo.
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