Primals/Motes - Relative ValueFollow

Realms and special situations aside, can anyone give me the relative value of each.

So, for example: Fire > Mana > Life > Earth... Etc...


I'm getting one of my professions to 375. I'm trying to figure out what Primals I'll be using and see if there is a way to make a relative profit on them.

So - If I end up needing Primal Earths, (I assume these are relatively low because I seem to have a lot of them all the time) - it might be wise for me to farm Primal Life (using my example above) if Life sells better than Earth AND I have easy access to Primal Lifes...

Any advise - What's the generally accepted Relative Value?

What's your profession?

Earth is cheapest due to being a common drop for miners - seems to hover between 3-6g on my server but every once in a while it'll shoot up to 10g.

I'm surprised that life isn't cheaper considering how easy and profitable it is to farm for herbalists - doesn't take any time at all in Zag farming those giants to amass a bunch of life, plus, just picking flowers on a regular basis usually gives me two a day.

Water is another thing that should be cheap but isn't - again, its easy as all heck to farm plus it can be xmuted from earth, yet its almost never less then 25 on my server and it just hit 40g this week. O_o

Mana, as noted, is cheap and easy thanks to doing the SSO dailies.

That really just leaves fire and air, both of which are a real SOB to farm (with air probably being the worst in my XP).

The other side of the equation of supply and demand is also a factor.

For instance, Primal Shadow is quite a rare drop, and it is used in 65 different things, therefore the cost is high. As one of these things is the Deathfrost enchant, the enchant de jour, the price rises even more.
An earlier poster questioned the cost of primal life and why it is so high while being quite common, this could be explained by its use in 73 recipes, including the 3 "go to" healing enchants.

Nah - the life is easy - my alch scores an easy primal a day just doing the Shat quest - if I pick every flower I see then its more like 2+. As for working the boglords, peh, those guys where easy back when they gave XP and I did an easy level just killing them to max my Spore rep in order to buy Earth to Water xmute and my NC pet.

The easiest way to farm motes of life is to get a pally tank, a warlock who loves to seed of corruption and hellfire, and one or two healers. One of them must be an herbalist. Fly to zangar and start rounding up the giants. I've done this countless times getting the primal life for my +healing enchants and we can average around 20 primals an hour. It's good for the sporregar rep, and just vendoring the trash items can net you up to around 50 gold.