And here you give the answer without even realising it. Cheapest herbs are around 15 gold each on the AH, 14 x 15G = 210 gold per potion. They are currently selling for under that on my server, so unless you get lucky on crafting procs, it’s already not worth crafting and selling potions over just selling the raw herbs…
Also, one single potion won’t get you very far and you need specific herbs for the potions, which just happen to be the exact herbs the multibox trains are targeting, be it to make gold or to feed their guild consumables.
1 hour of herbing will get you around 10k worth of potions to sell with current prices, 17 hours of herbing to get you a token, which will save you GBP 10 irl, you do the math and see if it’s worth your time…
Well, I think you just burnt this topic to the ground, no way flasks are 210 gold on any server or even close to equal. I believe they are 1.6k here (make them myself, so idk really).
I feel sorry for you, last batch of flasks I sold I had to sell for 400 gold a piece… Or maybe I should feel sorry for myself for not getting prices like that.
Like I said before, it’s the siren’s pollen, only flask of the undertow requires it, the other flasks don’t, while the battle potions of agility and intellect both require it. Battle potion of strength doesn’t, but that one generally also is cheaper to buy.
Siren’s pollen is hard to farm. There are areas where it spawns more reliably, but these areas are usually heavily farmed by multiboxers.
Legion pots were also far more expensive than WoD and MoP potions though, which had a lot to do with bots, as well as the easiness of the MoP farm and WoD garrison garden.
I barely played MoP and WoD, so cannot comment on that, but I had a thousand Potion of Prolonged Power left when Legion launched, and could still craft more. Used hundreds to level to 120. To me this rate felt far more worthy than what we have now. For every BFA potion I use, it feels like I am wasting them. The time used to craft them(time spent farming mats) is not worth the time they’re used. It feels horrible.
Tbh. the consumables prices are really low on Tarren Mill right now, the herbs literally cost more than the pots/flasks themselves.
You’re gonna get a lot less gold by making pots/flasks than you would by just selling the herbs unless you get ridiculous procs.
kinda sucks to still be burning through like 10k per raid in pots this late into the expansion. at least they’re 300g a pop instead of 600 now i guess. be nice if they reduced the herb requirements or made a prolonged power equivalent or something.
Mats were lots less costly… I didn’t farm any more then than I do now. Flying never changed that for me. Iirc, I leveled my Alchemy on loads of Prolonged Power too.
but I shall recheck it soon.