I must say I am pretty bad ass at farming on my druid. Bird form FTW! I know, I know, everyone will tell you the same thing. But no seriously I fuckin rule that shit! I can't play my druid for beans, so I tend to avoid mining nodes that are surrounded by baddies just so I don't get caught up fighting while someone comes along and swipes at my shit. If it's an herb, you don't come out of bird form so those are muuuch easier.I guess my only default is that if someone near a node is trying to kill something themselves, I refuse to go into bitch mode and steal it from them... unless they did it to me earlier while we were farming the same area.
I tend to be the nice one and let them have it. However!!! if I see they're about to die I do one of two things, either I help them kill it and let them get that node, OOOOooooorrrrr I wait till they die and then swoop in and take it for myself. So really I'm not "stealing" it.
Cuz then I think... by the time they run back to their body, someone else will have gotten it, Or when they rez, the baddie will kill them all over again. So torn I tell you. I used to be extremely aggressive if fighting with Alliance for nodes. Since making and playing my Alliance toons(Pally mainly), I've been more lenient on what I've been letting the opposing faction players get a way with while farming.
I remember in Cata, while on my Mage, Uldum was the zone that I had on lockdown. I could farm for hours (ok, maybe not hours) and have to Hearth/Port back to Org constantly and empty out my bags. I didn't miss one single node and I knew others were there farming, but it seemed like I was always getting to them first. Didn't matter what time of day. Hyjal is a populated server and there were always a bunch of people around. Seeing Alliance farming always made me focus more and want to snag shit away from them first... and then deviously giggle to myself "stupid, slow Alliance... hehe"
Gatherer addon helps but only for a bit until you get used to knowing where the nodes will spawn and you can just fly there without looking at your map. Sadly I am there. I don't need my map, it's all in my WoW brain. :-) It just occurred to me today to turn off Gatherer because I don't need it anymore for Pandaland or any other zones for that matter. As you can see from the maps above, it just clusterfucks my map up. Including my minimap up in the corner. And those are just 2 zones! I will refrained from taking screenies of the other zones as they are just as terrible I assure you.
Before my sister Michelle moved back to Minnesota to continue schooling, she left her job several weeks before she had to leave. So she was home with nothing to do. I pounced at this opportunity to have my very own farmer. She technically wasn't labelled as a "gold farmer" but come on... everything she got for me ended up turning into just that!!!. I made a cheatsheet for her to explain the basic Mage buttons, portals to use, etc. I'd tell her to fill my bags and she did just that. I would go to work, come home, log on, and have a bag fuuuuull of wonderfulness. She learned how to empty my bags into the Guild bank and start all over again. I miss my farmer. making gold was so easy when she lived with me.
(And just in case you didn't get the "Japanese farmer" crack...
We're not Chinese, we're Japanese :-P )
