Volatile farming...Follow

As the title states, where and what times are good spots for Volatiles? I've been half-assed looking around the internet, but cannot find anything conclusive, or definitive.


My Mage just got maxed tailoring, so Volatiles suddenly became extremely important; i.e., I can now craft a few epics. Dreamcloth is a pain enough, I really don't want to spend a fortune on Volatiles. Thanks.

Thanks Pigtails. I kind of had the thought that each zone had its corresponding elemental, so it would make sense to check each. I was kind of hoping for more details; such as where in the zone would be a good spot, but, I can just experiment.



I've noticed in my daily instance runs ( which consist of only 3 dungeons, GB, Tol'Vir, and Halls of Origination ) that no Volatiles drop from mobs, at least in my experience. I'll have to check out Vortex, I don't believe I've ever run it.

Once in a while I go on a mining / herbalism binge, for something different to do. I did notice my stock of volatiles going up, along with mats to send to my ah alt.

for water, you can also farm the water elementals near dragonmaw hold in the twilight highland

I've never seen volatile fire pools in TH albeit I've never looked - will add this to my rotation.

Personally, volatile life is my bane.

I've got a JC so the daily in Mt H results in me getting enough VH to meet my needs (at least 30 a week for my tailor to make the special cloth).

I've had way more 151 rum then is good for me so against what I know is my better judgment sober, I'll share a real secret- pyrite ore.

Yup, thanks to the shear quantity of 80+ toons mining the stuff, pyrite ore has become profitable to prospect.

Regular board members will recall how I was savaged for daring to point out that prospecting pyrite ore had potential but the joke is on them as, at least on my server, prospecting pyrite ore that's less then 5.5g each produces an obscene profit thanks to the cost of elemental earth. As things currently stand on my server, if I see pyrite for 5.5g each or less, I buy it and then prospect it with my JC. I average about two elemental earth, misc green gems and around a 25% blue gem ratio from prospecting this stuff. If I can sell the elemental earth for at least 16g each then, with the return rate from prospecting it, I make a small net profit and all the green and blue gems I get from it are 100% free.

I always sell the volatile earth as a bulk stack (we're talking a 100+ earth at a time for 16-17g per earth) and even if the singles and 10 stacks cost less, I'll always get one lazy/stupid SOB who'll buy my large stack instead of a dozen smaller ones.

I'm sharing this only because, despite my being drunk as a skunk, I know that 90% of the idiots who rate me down on principle will ignore this information.

I have just given you a "real" secret to making money (AH rates depending on your server of course) - enjoy.

I prefer to treat the AH as a hobby rather then a job so I don't look for stuff so much as simply stumble into it.

Got a great steal last night - someone must have robbed their guild bank or something as they have about a 1000 volatile lifes on the AH for 3g each - normal sell price is around 7-9 - I bought them all, now just have to decide if I want to flip them or use them.

With a steal like that sell 1/3 of them to make back your money and you've still got 2/3 for pure profit for your own use or boost to cash.

Wow, talk about a crashed economy. O_o

Our most pricey volatile is air - usually hovers around high to mid teens, earth is, well, dirt cheap at 5g or less, usually around 3g. Water and fire fluctuate alot, anywhere from 8-midteens.

My server is high pop too, 90% of the time when I log in, it says "Full." Our volatile prices aren't anything like that though, they're still pretty decent. Lives are about 10g a piece usually, with earth fire and water fluctuating in between 10-15g, and air 15-20g.

It's treated my eng miner pretty good when I go on mining binges so definitely worth making, especially if you're going to go spider farmin in TB.