Here’s a guide on how to farm black lotus before the change, assuming you are a normal human and only have 1 herbalist at level 60.
So the first step to “farming” black lotus was you pick a zone, and then you had to figure out the black lotus timer. There was 3 ways to do this, you either had to observe a black lotus being picked, get a timer from someone else, or figure out the Mafia’s character names and add them to your friends list.
The reason the last one worked was the way the mafia works is they have 3+ herbalists in their chosen zone, and they would log in a couple seconds before the timer, pick it, and log off. So if you had them on your friends list you would see the logoff time and essentially use that as the timer – 10seconds or so.
Ok so now you have the timer for the one zone, now what you have to do is look on Twinstar and figure out what spawn cluster you want to camp. You make sure you are at that cluster on the timer, and hope it spawns there.
So let’s assume it spawns there, which is around a 25% chance at best. You now have to beat the Mafia to the click on the flower, so best case you have ~10 seconds to pick the flower while the Mafia guy checks over his 3+ open clients to see which one spawns. Let’s assume that you actually beat him to the pick and get a black lotus.
So the Mafia now knows you are a rival herbalist because you just picked a black lotus right in front of them. This is going to make herbing more complicated because in addition to these 3+ alliance level 60 herbalists, this single player also has access to a full BWL geared BiS pvp specced horde rogue in the same zone that they now log onto and start killing you with. All they have to do is stalk you and even if a black lotus spawns in front of you (again a 25% chance at best 1x an hour) they just have to stun/sap you 1x while their alliance herbalist picks the flower untouched.
NO THANK YOU
So the first step to “farming” black lotus was you pick a zone, and then you had to figure out the black lotus timer. There was 3 ways to do this, you either had to observe a black lotus being picked, get a timer from someone else, or figure out the Mafia’s character names and add them to your friends list.
The reason the last one worked was the way the mafia works is they have 3+ herbalists in their chosen zone, and they would log in a couple seconds before the timer, pick it, and log off. So if you had them on your friends list you would see the logoff time and essentially use that as the timer – 10seconds or so.
Ok so now you have the timer for the one zone, now what you have to do is look on Twinstar and figure out what spawn cluster you want to camp. You make sure you are at that cluster on the timer, and hope it spawns there.
So let’s assume it spawns there, which is around a 25% chance at best. You now have to beat the Mafia to the click on the flower, so best case you have ~10 seconds to pick the flower while the Mafia guy checks over his 3+ open clients to see which one spawns. Let’s assume that you actually beat him to the pick and get a black lotus.
So the Mafia now knows you are a rival herbalist because you just picked a black lotus right in front of them. This is going to make herbing more complicated because in addition to these 3+ alliance level 60 herbalists, this single player also has access to a full BWL geared BiS pvp specced horde rogue in the same zone that they now log onto and start killing you with. All they have to do is stalk you and even if a black lotus spawns in front of you (again a 25% chance at best 1x an hour) they just have to stun/sap you 1x while their alliance herbalist picks the flower untouched.
NO THANK YOU
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