Farming

[Flight]

If you are thinking of taking up farming, start before Tuesday. Massive nerf inc - yields going down from 3 seeds a run to 1.

You can actually make a good profit seeling back to vendors at the moment, once you get past the first two levels.

 

[Zerine]

Please expand - I'm working though Expert farmer/cook atm.

 

[Flight]

At present the poor harvests give three seeds when you use the recipe. This is being nerfed so that it will only give one seed. Farming is going to get a lot more expensive.

It will go live Monday morning, I believe, with them bringing patch day forward 24 hours.

 

[Flight]

I was up late because I was testing this last night; it definitely needed a fix. Took me a few hours to figure it out because there was nowhere to read up on it and I hadn't done any crafting before.

The real problem was once you mastered a tier. You then get the option to add additional components to ensure 100% critical results. The biggest problem was at tier 3 - Master Expert Farmer. This tier was producing quite a profit as it used the same fertilizer and water components as tier 1 and 2 (tier 4 uses more expensive components).


Using the extra components is quite expensive - 3 each costing over a silver a piece. But the return it produces is remarkable - roughly 3 times as many 'Fair' results (Fair are what you want - they produce goods at the workbench - poor produce more seeds, fair and poor being the only seen results).

Net result - each batch of 25 Farming processes was giving over 100 silver profit.

 

[Zerine]

Thanks for the info and work figuring it out Flight.

Typical though, I go farmer/cook and am on Expert level of each, *just* as they nerf it so you can't make a fortune /sigh