Farming Embersilk Cloth and level 77-81 Greens

I was trying to get into the crafted cloth pvp market but I was struggling to get any good volume of Embersilk cloth. Items were selling but it could take me a week to do a full restock because of the shortage of cloth which went up in price from around 70g to 85g a stack.

I remember Faid did a video of farming for cloth on her DK.  Tailoring - WoW GoldRush - Gold Making in 15 Minutes

I took my Frost DK (ilvl 374) over to Deepholm to see how much Embersilk I could get in an hour. While running round and killing stuff I was also picking up items in the 77-81 range. I used a Potion of Treasure Finding so that I could get extra Embersilk cloth from the tiny treasure chests. These are my stats based on my realm prices. Embersilk 4g/ea and 77-80 greens 250g, I don’t put a value on green over level 80 because they might not sell so I price them in as zero gold. If I get lucky and pick up an 81 chest/shoulder/wep then yes it will sell but just to keep math simple I split up the greens I got into good and bad.

Good Greens level 77-80 Value 250g.

Bad Greens level 81 and above Value 0g in below figures.

Level 81 armour other than chest/shoulders can sell like these legplates but these sales are less frequent.

General tips: 

Always be doing damage. When I stop to loot I’ll throw death and decay on another group and a howling blast on another, I am looting and mobs are going down in health. I experimented with reforging everything into mastery but I did not really see any increase in damage so went back to no reforging. I use Glyph of Howling Blast and Glyph of Icy Touch. I am not great at playing a DK I just use howling blast and when they get close use frost strike.

 In one of the runs i did not get a green for fifteen minutes and then I got three in a row!

I did get killed a few times, my dot everything strategy (4-5 groups at a time) might rub some people the wrong way but thankfully the Graveyard is very close and you dont lose the potion when you die.

(Update Image 21st May new record for me 47 chests)

Hour 1

42 chests

145 embersilk

11 good greens 4 bad

1 blue

1 jc recipe inscribed hessonite

30g

42 chest opened gave the following:

145g

231 embersilk

3 good greens 3 bad

17 pyrite

10 air

19 earth

23 water

23 life

6 fire

10 ele ore

1 hour + potion = 5000g/hr

Hour 2

Chests 32

Cloth 167

Greens 7 good 9 bad

90g

32 chest opened gave:

119g

91 embersilk

2 good greens

25 air

20 water

25 ele ore

5 pyrite ore

10 life

7 earth

1 hour + potion = 4300g/hr

Hour 3

35 tiny chests

Cloth 97

Green 10 good 7 bad

27g vendor

35 chests opened:

132g

205 Embersilk

1 good green 3 bad

11 water

1 air

29 pyrite ore

11 fire

17 ele ore

26 v earth

1 hour + potion = 4400g/hr

Hour 4

Chests 34

149 cloth

167 trash gold

Greens 9 good 6 bad

34 chests opened gave:

 118g

195 Cloth

1 good green

26 air

13 water

6 fire

13 pyrium ore

3 ele ore

1 hour + potions = 4500g/hr

Dropped Skinning and Power leveled Tailoring to 425 (think you only need 400 for Northrend  Cloth scavenging to kick in for Cataclysm mobs but I had already bought the mats so went to 425)

Hour 5 with 425 Tailoring

41 chests

412 embersilk

25g vendor loot

11 good greens 6 bad greens

1 blue plate level 82

41 chests opened gave:

150g

Enchant bracer-agility

196 cloth

3 bad greens

11 air

13 earth

7 fire

10 life

17 water

17 pyrite ore

18 ele ore

1 hour + potion = 5600g/ hour

Hour 6 with 425 Tailoring

33 Chests

480 cloth

45g trash

11 good greens 4 bad greens

Blue level 82 ring

33 chests gave:

115g

177 cloth

2 good greens 1 bad green

10 air

10 fire

9 life

4 water

4 pyrite ore

8 ele ore

6 earth

1 hour + potion = 6200g per hour

It really pays to do this on a tailor

Average without Tailoring = 4550g per hour

Average with Tailoring = 5900g per hour

The mats cost of a Potion of Treasure Finding is around 80g on my realm.

I did not include the gold picked up from mobs only the value of vendor trash minus repair costs and the gold that was contained inside the treasure chests.

Check out Selling level 81 Greens

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