Fishing For Volatiles

After spending a ridiculous amount of gold this week thanks to Mr Robot, I really need to farm like a little demon to make the spend up. Not all Mr Robot's fault though. Those darned Mulgore Hatchlings made me buy them! Anyway, back to the farm.

A great way to make money for a tailor is selling those Illusionary bags (2.5k up on AH). Now, they take approximately 2 weeks to farm for the Dreamcloth required, so it gives you plenty of time to farm the Volatiles to make the cloths. Also, they sell for a pretty penny on AH, so why not farm those extra to maximise profit?

My first spot to hit is always Stonehearth in Deepholm (as mentioned in my prior post), armed with a Potion of Treasure Finding. In 1 hour today I farmed 75 bolts of Embersilk (on AH for 499g, which is far more effective than making Embersilk bags to sell, as they sell for less and slower and use a hypnotic dusts too). I also got 7 green drops (I'm also an enchanter, so this was great for disenchants), 5 Pyrium Ore, 6 Elementium Ore and lots of vendor trash. In addition, I got 17 tiny treasure chests, which each contained a good amount of mixed Volatiles. Now this wasn't a great farm today. Sometimes I get up to 25 tiny treasure chest and they have green items in and a lot more Volatiles. Or blue item drops. But hey, maybe I over farm there ;). Sometimes it's fantastic, sometimes not so much, but ALWAYS better than farming other areas. My little magelet's AoE means I can farm mobs fast to maximise loot!

Another thing I tried this week (mainly through boredom!) was fishing. I had read that Volatiles could be farmed this way and decided to give it a try. Initially I didn't catch much other than junk but I decided to go farm the lava pools in Cannon's Inferno. If you fish directly into the little fire pools, it's a 100% chance of Volatile Fire. Each pool yields about 5 before it disappears but that is still a great rate if you're the only one there! I read that the fire pools in Hyjal are a great place to fish too. I haven't been yet but I will update when I have!

The great thing about fishing in Cannon's Inferno is that you can do it as soon as you get a fishing rod. You don't have to be high level in your fishing to do this, just so long as you can handle your business with the elementals that surround the pools!

Now, onto Volatile Air...

One of my favourite parts of WoW is the farming. I live to farm. Honestly, no one farms harder than me! I find it therapeutic. Especially when I have a neat little Potion of Treasure Finding. My heart skips a beat every time a tiny chest drops. And when those tiny, cute treasure chests contain green drops and volatiles, the Enchanter/Tailor in me goes crazy! Added bonus of extra cloth drops and I'm the happiest little mage evah!


Lets get one thing straight. Annoying though the mage may be sometimes, my little gnome is made to harvest gold. With my pocket portals I can get myself to the neatest farming spots. My favourite at the moment is Stonehearth in Deepholm. Mobs close together + AoE = GOLD WIN! I can farm, on an average run, 75 bolts of embersilk, plus plenty of green drops, gold, ores and volatiles. All from those teeny, tiny treasure chests! My guild gets a share and I get the rest. To make shit and sell for a pretty penny. I do at least three runs per week here, mainly for the gold but also to go an hour without getting raged in dungeons. Though this may be counter productive as my DPS drops somewhat after being able to mindlessly create carnage for an hour...