What's the deal with wool?Follow

I realize server economies differ as well as faction ones and I'm not really complaining here I'm just curious:

On my server, horde-side, wool is selling for at least 3.5g a stack, often more. Almost never less. At first I thought maybe someone was just powerleveling tailoring or something and when they were done it'd go back to a lower price. But this has been going on for months now.

Like I said, not complaining, I throw my stacks up there and they sell fairly quickly and I'm making some good money. I just don't get it. Especially since silk only goes for about 1.2-1.4g a stack.

Is there some ultra-secret use for wool that warrants that steady, high price?

For silk, people farm SM - round all the graveyard mobs up, AOE and bob's your uncle.

I've yet to find a decent farming area for wool cloth.

I farmed wool in Deadmines. Yes, you'll get about 60% linen/40% wool, but that's ok. You can do VC in 3-4 large pulls (i.e. however many doors there are). Usually about 15 mins.

I found it to be better thank SFK (too many beasts in SFK).

That'll be why the price is higher horde side

Pfft, Horde can do Stocks.... Just a bit harder to get in is all. ;)

The quillboar in the camps north and south of Camp T in Barrens are really good for wool drops. At least 2 out of 3 will drop wool. WC is also a good place also. On my server I've seen wool sell for upwards of 4-5 gold a stack. Good way to make some beginning gold when you have alts on other servers.

You're playing horde side now? Still on SWC?

Send me a whisper and I'll hook you up. I also have a whole slew of toons at various levels, so if you need a leveling partner, let me know.

And ironically enough, netherweave is going for 2.5g or less on my server. >_<

Buy it all out and make bandages :-) Heavy Netherweave Bandage sells for 30s each, so a stack of 20 cloth makes 10 bandages worth 3g.

Of course with a little tailoring and disenchanting effort you can usually make much better money than that, but the bandage price ensures that it's never a loss to buy netherweave if the price is less than 3g a stack.

The place I (when I play Horde) go if I need Wool is Durnholde Keep. (I think that is the name) Place east of Tarren Mill.

Not a lot of mobs there, but they do drop wool. It isnt fast, but it works.

Wool is going for about 4g/stack on Area 52 horde-side right now. (or was two days ago)

If you're 70 there are eleventy-bajillion better ways to make money than farming wool in Durnholde.

Yeah, but I just meant if you need a good way to farm wool and were too cheap to buy it off the AH.

But now that I think about it, I don't know if anyone is really that cheap.

SFK is tough for farming wool because not many mobs drop wool there. Only the ghosts really. Everything else is meat. For blue BoEs that you want to sell to twinks - SFK is the place to be.

However, unless you can get to Deadmines as horde, you don't have too many options.