[Fishing] Farm tome of polymorph: turtle?

  1. Gummo <The Pacifist>, 2 years ago:

    From here:
    http://www.wow.com/2010/09/02/the-queue-predicting-the-cataclysm-release-date/

    (Zul'Gurub will be an open, level 30ish area (not instance) when Cataclysm comes out)

    "Will the Zul'Gurub mounts still be available by other means?"

    We don't know yet. However, if you wanted them and haven't gotten around to farming one (or both), I would suggest you start now, just to be safe. If I had to guess, I'd say they're going to be removed -- but that's just a guess. I don't know either way.

    I'll also take a minute to say how scared I am about what's going to happen to the price of the turtle polymorph tome ... I could see that going well over 100,000g eventually. If you have one and haven't used it, now would be the time to save it and forget about it until it becomes a super rare item of yet-unknown demand.

  2. Renetta <Salty>, 2 years ago:

    This one is hard to predict. It could also be that they just make it trainable. Or if they are so inclined they can even make the item disappear. Then again, this is one of the more fun fishing grinds, so it's worth taking the risk.

  3. el <Nat Pagle's Love Child>, 2 years ago:

    I can't source the comment, but I remember Blizzard stating that they did not want to encourage pre-expansion stockpiling. So I expect items like this will be just as common (or more common) after the Cataclysm. Unless the drop accidentally gets taken out.

    Since this creates lots of speculation, the best auction strategy is probably counter-intuitive: Farm tomes and sell them at inflated prices pre-Cataclysm, to people who think that the turtle tome will be even more valuable after Cataclysm.

    There's one important counter-argument:

    Each expansion causes inflation - the gold earning potential of a top-level normally almost doubles. (In WotLK this was pre-empted partly by patch 2.4, but overall the pattern still holds.) Such inflation effectively de-values any gold you have stored, because the price of everything at the auction house reflects earnings.

    The best way of riding out inflation is to invest in items that will be just as desirable to a future level 85 buyer as they are to today's level 80. They'll be prepared to spend the same proportion of their earnings. Unusual tomes, like the turtle, are precisely the sort of item that remains valuable to those at top level, regardless of expansions. Other historic examples have included Savory Deviate Delight and minipets.

  4. Paela <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    Is there any more information on this topic now that Cataclysm has been out for a while? Most of the reports I see elsewhere talk about fishing in Uldum. I'm interested in obtaining the spell, but 1k is quite a bit for a novelty thing.

    Also, anyone actually USED this? I had the Penguin polymorph glyph, and half the time it was polymorphing to a monkey. I hope it doesn't do this for turtle. Yet another reason I'm apprehensive about spending 1k on it. :D

  5. Shrodinger <Salty>, 1 year ago:

    I do a lot of fishing at Tol Barad peninsula and I have caught Tome of Polymorph: Turtle twice in this area. According to Wowhead, it has a 0.01% drop from pools in Tol Barad and LESS than that in other Cata areas. Both of the times I have caught the Tome, I was fishing from Fathom Eel pools. Good luck and happy fishing!

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