Not all that is gold glitters. Sometimes it’s just a crab.
I honestly didn’t expect this spot to make any gold at all. I read of a spot on the coast of Westfall, northwest of the Jangolode mine (pictured above) that has crabs which respawn almost instantly after dying. These crabs are only level 14, so any high-level players in the area are fully capable of causing a massive crab genocide.
My first thought was, “Who cares if you can kill a million of these things an hour- if they don’t drop anything useful, then it’s pointless.” To my surprise, when I put my 30 minutes’ worth of farming up on the AH, it had all sold at decent rates within 48 hours. There are only two reasons I can think of for these things to be selling so well: there are a lot of people currently leveling their cooking skill, or some lower-level hunters don’t want to try to get their own food.
The main things that drop are ingredients for three recipes, as well as the occasional small lustrous pearl from the clams. The crabs do drop some coins and green gears, but this was so infrequent that it wasn’t worth counting (I estimate I earned about 1-2g from it all). There is, however, the option of bringing along a disenchanter next time to try to make something useful from these drops. Also, there is a rare spawning elite called Brack who walks by and is worth killing if you see him.
The above data was from 30 minutes of farming. The mobs aren’t close enough for me to AOE effectively, so instead I stood in the middle of the site and, as a hunter, kept shooting any that came into range. The bodies don’t disappear unless they’ve been left unlooted for roughly five minutes, so I was able to shoot about 50 before looting them all in one go to save time. As you can see on my server, this spot results in a nice 290g per hour, which isn’t bad for killing level 14s by the sea.
Source: European Games Radar
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