Hey there guys, this is Reckles with WTBGold and today we’re doing a head-to-head with
a few different guidemakers to find out what the best Osmenite farming route is in Rise
of Azshara.
But first, it’s a new patch, we need to cover all the mining optimizations.
I did a video on this I’ll link here but here’s a run down.
There are three main things you need.
First, there are patch 8.2 specific things.
Get revered with mechagon and nazjatar for pathfinder part 2 so you can get flying.
That'll speed you up.
For your followers, grab Blademaster Inowari and Vim Brineheart.
Those guys are tanks and will taunt things so you won’t get interrupted mid-mining.
Next, if you aren’t playing on a class with a tank spec, you'll get dazed which slows
you down.
So grab Comfortable Rider’s Barding.
And finally for 8.2 stuff, get rank 3.
Once you have rank 1, and have done the introductory “what will it mine quest,” take a brinestone
pickaxe to the cave in the very northwest.
The brinestone is hard to see, but blizz fixed the initial bugginess.
The boss actually spawns now, Avarius.
Rank 3 is just an item drop so just mine one of these routes.
Second, you need a way to mine while mounted.
Druid can kind of avoid this by just swapping in and out of travel form, but it’s still
slower because if you’re in combat when you enter travel form, you move at 160% until
you swap back into it.
So I’d actually recommend monel-hardened stirrups, even if you’re a druid.
They’re decently expensive at 400g but osmenite seams are worth 400g each so if stirrups get
you one extra osmenite seam in two hours, it’s worth it.
Finally, you need to cut your cast time for gathering in half.
This allows you to gather herbs in between enemy autoattacks so pulling agro doesn’t
slow you down.
You can get the BFA mining glove enchant for this but highmountain taurens get it passively
and that’s what I play, but as I mentioned in my best professions video that I’ll link
here, it’s usually better to be a dual gatherer so you aren’t wasting time by going out
to the same route twice, once for herbs, and then again for ore.
So either highmountain tauren with an herbalis glove enchant or a regular tauren with the
mining glove enchant.
If I left anything optimizations out, leave em down in the comments.
Let’s help some new farmers get up and running.
But let’s talk about patch 8.2!
And we’ll start with wow-professions.com.
This site is traditionally pretty good, especially if you’re a beginner.
He knows how to target density, but tends to ignores things like node force spawning,
I talked about that a lot in a video I’ll link here.
In this route, he says “Don’t forget to check the caves marked with a red X” but
doesn’t say why other than that there’s ore inside.
So here’s why, mining an osmenite deposit gets you between 2 and 5 ore, so an average
of 3.5 per node.
Osmenite seams though, which are only found in caves, give between 6 and 10 each, and
average of 8.
That’s more than twice the ore per click.
Which essentially doubles your density.
Following this route got us 376 per hour.
His second route was really interesting.
It ignores the first route in case there's competition.
I don’t like going up to the cave area at the top of this route but apparently no one
does either, because there were always nodes up.
Still, this route while it’s creative and hits a couple areas with good density, was
pretty trash, at 151 ore per hour.
And I think that’s because it’s not focusing on seams.
Looking at osmenite deposits on WoWHead is fine, but if you make a route that chain together
the seams, my theory is you won’t have as much competition and won’t be sacrificing
density because you'll still be running by all the deposits.
So that’s what I did in the next route, and I’m gonna call this the WoWHead: Just
Run Around route because that’s what we’re doing.
And it was interesting, almost every cave I went into had a seam up, and I was hitting
all these caves that aren’t part of other routes so it’s just a tinfoil hat theory,
but I kinda feel like osmenite seams are on a seperate force spawn from the deposits.
What do y’all think?
Any of y'all that have done a lot of mining, let me know.
This route was a little too big though, but we still did pretty well at 362 ore per hour.
So, if seams are all that matter, let’s go ultimate scumbag.
For this next route, if you want to call it that, we’re just gonna sit in a cave with
two seam spawns and repeatedly server hop every 20 seconds.
To do this, you open up the group finder and join one of the world boss groups.
I avoid quest groups where the people might actually need help.
And honestly, I had high hopes for this.
You’re creating your own density, but it just didn’t deliver with only 246 nodes
per hour.
Not the worse, but definitely not the best.
So our final route, the one I’ve been using, we’re going to take all this that we learned
and combine it in a route I call Caves for Days.
Wow-professions says there are 5 caves, there are actually 9 right here, and I just started
at one in the south ran cave to cave, and when I hit the last one, rather than running
in a loop back to the start like wow-professions recommends, I just server hopped and ran the
route backwards.
Maximum cave density.
And depending on the time of day that I tested it, this got me between 480 and 560 ore per
hour.
So, for the 2019 Osmenite Cup, we've got WTBGold, Caves for Days at the number 1 spot.
/flex We've got the Wow-Professions, Route 1 at the number 2 spot, and then we've got
just running around the zone at the number three spot
So I hope you learned some stuff about farming osmenite, and that this helped.
Final note to leave y’all with is get flying as soon as possible because your numbers will
be much much higher when you aren’t wasting time running around the zone.
Even some of the out of the way caves, might be worth grabbing when the flight time is
so short.
Thanks for watching though, make sure to subscribe or I'm gonna come over there and faction tag
all of your hydras and make your starfish disappear.
Have a great day guys, good luck and happy goldmaking.