Hey, I can tell you this: I don't know if they have changed it with a patch, but I get loads of Arcane crystals. So far I have farmed for them 3 times, and in total I have gotten around 20-25 arcanes. Each time I farm, I do it for roughly 2-2.5 hours, and each time I get at least 4-5 of them, plus I get some Azerothian and other crap precious stones. A tip is to try to note where the rich mines spawn, and just make a good, quick travelpath between those possible spawns (use the uimod Gatherer, can't live without it). As I have found a real good path in a very nice thorium filled map, I usually find 2-3 rich mines every 5-10 minutes, which makes roughly 18-25 rich mines at least per hour.
Funny fact: Last time I farmed Rich Mines I had the most incredible luck. First mine I farm yielded 2 Arcanes, in the same mine!! I was like WTF!!! I reported it in guildchat, and ppl were stunned to hear it...then.... I went to the next mine..and got 2 more!!!!! 4 arcanes in 2 consecutive mines
!!! I couldn't believe it.... 4 arcanes in 5 minutes =D
Then it took me another 15 min to get a fifth arcane. I farmed for another hour or so, but didn't get any more, but I was still happy as u can imagine =))))
I had never met anyone who got 2 in one mine before, but I had heard of it..as a rumour..well.. now I am the living proof =)))
Anyone got a better one? =)
Edited, Tue Sep 6 03:56:20 2005 by Dompan