Holy priest farming speed

Hi group! (Hi Babe!)

Having played mostly my warrior, my rogue, my hunter and my mage for
the past 8-9 months or so, I had forgotten how good of a chinese
farmer my holy priest was.

As a guild consisting of three casual alt-aholic players, last week we
bought four non-epic flying mounts (a shaman's, a hunter's, and my own
hunter's and warrior's) which was kind of a big gold expense. As a
matter of fact, we still have big incoming expenses on the horizon, as
one of the enchanting hunters needs her runed adamantite rod made for
spelldamage enchants, my warrior has wet dreams of getting his
poultryzer, khorium destroyer and drakefist hammer completed. As we
very rarely run high level instances, we're severely lacking large
prismatic shards, and we all loathe everything that's labelled
"daily" (except the PVP quest, from time to time).

I figured I'd start farming some motes of fire; I've got several ways
to do this. The more obvious one would be to take my swift flying
mining rogue around Hellfire Peninsula and mine the hell out of this
place. But seen as I had logged him off in Shadowmoon Valley, about
ready to quest the Cypher of Damnation chain, I figured I needed
something else for a change. I knew my MM/Surv hunter wouldn't be able
to take down elementals fast enough to make the trip worth the time;
the days my pet would enjoy a good firewood trip powered by a cup of
coffee are over since I specced out of beast mastery to score
headshots in the Gulch. I knew my fury/arms warrior was a bit worried
about all this fire damage, and the bleed immunity of these mobs,
cutting down on his impale damage. So I decided to undust my "spirit
priest", Esa, and get her to smite some molten butts.

As she was hanging around in Orgrimmar I first went to Shattrath then
flew to the Elemental Plateau. Epic Cup of Coffee equipped, target
acquired, locked, go, one by one the elementals went down. At some
point my 30mins spirit buff went out, so I laid back on my windrider
and watched what had happened:
A 6-pack of purified draenic beer went down her saintly throat
2 primal fires in the pack, along with 30 elemental fragments.

Not bad. Could be better - why bother drinking at all? Let's go to the
gulch in Blade's Edge instead, mobs have about four thousand less
health. And indeed it was much, much, much better.
25 minutes of farming in BEM yielded:
7g in cash (from the imps)
2.2 primal fires
4*20 elemental fragments (2g37 a stack)
2g in basilisk gray trash drops
4g in gray weapon drops
4 green item drops
40 netherweave cloth
at the expense of a grand total of zero water.

Tell you what, that beats hands down any rate of solo money making
I've ever accomplished with any class. An undead rogue on a
netherdrake, from an illidan farming guild, tried to match my killrate
- he gave up after about 5 minutes. He was wondering why I would spend
time killing imps and basilisks when I could fly around and just kill
elementals instead; I said I simply wanted to keep spirit tap up.
Incidentally I increased the chance to spawn new fire elementals, but
I didn't realize this at that time, my mind was still buzzy from the
night.

As Orion would say:

Three cheers for the Holy priest farming speed!

OH! OH! OH!

On Feb 5, 8:54 am, Babe Bridou wrote:
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Great post and LOL

Any other for primal farming (need to get the damned Spellstrike
pants....).

thanks!
ale