Insanes, how did you grind Darkmoon rep?
Cryptoengineer
very slow. The only way is to turn in decks. Low level decks give 25
rep, high level ones 325. 90 minutes of hard-core herbing in Swamp of
Sorrows yielded 400 Sorrowmoss, which translated to 11 high-end cards.
8 are needed for a deck, about 140 high-level decks to get exalted
So, I'm asking those folks who did it; what strategies did you use?
Are there better places to herb? Did you just buy the mats? Are the
low-level Rogue decks (which need 3 cards) the way to go?
If I had a lvl 65 inscriber, I could get the Greater Darkmoon Cards
from Whiptail - no faster, but at least I'd get Volatile Life on the
side. But my inscriber alt is only lvl 50, and probably not going much
further.
My hat is off to people who did this at lower levels.
pt
Orion Ryder
I just grinded out as usual to make gold on whatver toon I happened to
be playing in the game. Of course when I did it it was easier to
manage because I could grind dailies and WotLK heroics. THe gold piled
high as time went on.
1. Bought single cards provided they were lower than a price I laid
out as the maximum price I would pay
2. Bought full decks provided they were lower than a price I laid out
as the maximum price I would pay. Mostly the lesser 25 rep decks.
3. Bought the required herbs provided they were lower than a price I
laid out as the maximum price I would pay
4. Bought the required inks and pigments provided they were lower than
a price I laid out as the maximum price I would pay
I am sorry but I do not remember what all the maximum prices I would
pay were.
I would save the greater decks until it was time for the faire.
I would turn in the lesser decks several tiems a week.
Eventually the rep added up.
In the end I put all the single greater cards back on the AH and got
back some of the gold I put into it.
I do believe that even if my hunter had the Kingslayer title available
I would continue to flaunt the Insane title.
Is this the only thing you ahve left to do?
Forget the herbing I say. I tried it at one point in time. It didn't
add up. The gold I made was faster and it was easier to buy from the
AH even though there were many herbs, inks and cards that I passed on
because of the prices asked.
Good luck man!
OH! OH! OH!
Orion
Jason Tinling
A cheaper (albeit slower) option is to work the DMF when it's
available. Friend everyone who's got a deck on the AH, and offer to
pay them XX gold to convert their deck into a trinket for them,
particularly those decks which only have a single trinket reward
option. You can also set up shop at the DMF, and just bark into /
general about offering XX gold per deck turn-in.
Cryptoengineer
I'm not actually doing Insane - I'm trying to get up to 55 exalted
reps (at 52). Pretty much all I have left are DM, Ravenholdt, some of
the BC raid factions, and PvP factions.
Buying the mats would make sense if there were enough - there are a
total of 58 Sorrowmoss available in the AH as I type. Ink of the Sky
is going for about 15g
Here's the ratios:
400 Sorrowmoss -> 56 Sapphire Pigment -> 56 ink of the sky -> 11 cards
Ink of the sky goes for about 15g a pop
single cards, 50 -> 200g
Decks, low thousands.
pt
Catriona R
Probably a bit late with this reply, but I did something of
everything. Figured the max I was willing to pay for a card, and
bought every card under that limit, and kept them in a tab on the
guildbank so I could see which I needed to complete a deck, then I'd
be willing to increase my limit for the last one to finish a deck. Did
same with the cheaper decks, but significantly lower limits on my
prices, beyond that, bought *every* herb below a certain price lvl,
milled the lot, made whatever cards I could out of the results (both
epic decks and lowbie ones) and added those into my massive guildbank
collection - the white inks turned into glyphs more than paid for the
herbs (in fact I made a very tasty profit - it was mainly my Darkmoon
grind that made much of the current over 100k gold my scribe is
sitting on nowadays).
Basically it was a case of looking at both angles, buying and
crafting, and using both to the max, over a period of 3-4 months, to
get my rep. And then spending another few months selling off the
trinkets and spare cards, and making lots of money off it! Gathering
the herbs isn't really worthwhile, it takes a long time, and I just
kept a couple of big herb bags to keep my leftovers in (the piles of
1-4 herbs which can't be milled yet), and bought up all the little
scraps of herbs people put up cheap. Basically don't worry about which
particular type of cards to go with - get them all, as and when you
can; if somebody lists them cheap (I tend to put mine up cheapish to
get rid of them, and so may other scribes who've done the grind and
are just using up leftover inks), then great, if not, then buy the
cheap herbs instead.
There's more decks than rogues; I tended to get more Swords decks at
the time I was farming since that was the cheapest herb range at the
time, takes more cards to make them, but if the herbs are cheaper, why
not? Especially since you can offload the white inks easier via glyphs
if you're producing all types of ink and not just a couple :-)
Obviously the epic decks are bigger rep, but in many cases it's a pain
to create them, very luck-based to actually get the exact 8 of the
same suit that you need (I always had to buy some to make up the
numbers), while the cheaper decks you already know the suit you'll
get, it's just the numbers that count, so less luck and materials,
even if it's also less rep (incidentally the rewards for the lowbie
decks sell nicely to alts without heirlooms; I make much use of those
decks for mine!)
Good luck, and enjoy the cash you make if you do much crafting, I've
keept it up at a slower pace since, and got a fair amount of gold out
of it, shame I don't play that alt much!
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