Hello all! I have a question which is the best herb to farm for money? I feel like ranarr are the fastest and most profitable, but I'm unsure of this. Can anyone clarify this for me? Thanks in advance!

- Electro

Avantoes are more profitable and give more exp than ranarrs, but the best are snaps/dwarf weed/torstol with a Scroll of Life.

It changes on a regular basis as prices fluctuate. Avantoe and snapdragon are usually safe bets; that's what I farm.

I don't think your ever going to not profit unless you hit a string of really bad luck. But Ranarrs, avatoe, snaps, dwarf, then torstol are all very good more or less in that order.

Torstol with scroll of life is the best.

Toadflax and irit are also very good, because of their low seed prices. However the herbs themselves still maintain a high price.

Avantoes are a safe bet.

I personally prefer Toadflax.

 

One seed costs 1,464 gp, while each Clean toadflax costs 5,159.

 

Assuming that the herb doesn't die and you get the minimum amount of 5 herbs, that's a total profit of 24,331 gp per seed.

 

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I personally prefer Toadflax.

 

One seed costs 1,464 gp, while each Clean toadflax costs 5,159.

 

Assuming that the herb doesn't die and you get the minimum amount of 5 herbs, that's a total profit of 24,331 gp per seed.

 

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Snapdragon: 60k/seed, 15k/herb, so assuming no deaths, 7 herbs per seed, that's 45k per seed profit. Also, if you have a scroll of life, you'll get about 30k per run back, vs. 700 gp for toadflax. 45*5+30=255k average profit per run.

Snapdragon: 60k/seed, 15k/herb, so assuming no deaths, 7 herbs per seed, that's 45k per seed profit. Also, if you have a scroll of life, you'll get about 30k per run back, vs. 700 gp for toadflax. 45*5+30=255k average profit per run.

Well, granted that's true, but not everyone can afford to buy hundreds of seeds at 60k a pop. :P

They buy/sell well enough that you can buy the seeds for one run with the earnings of the other. There really is no reason not to farm snaps if you have 68-84 farming.

I like a torstol/avantoe mix myself. Avantoe has a nice average gp gain, and torstol is nice when you're pulling up a decent amount of herbs, or scroll of life some free seeds.

 

I usually just throw a torstol in My Arm's patch, and avantoe in the rest. Then any deaths are no loss, and the torstol will either pay for itself, or give me a [cabbage] load of profit. The past 2 runs in a row I've gotten torstol seeds back from that one patch, so that was nice. :thumbup:

Yesterday during the update I finished a farming run, played until the update logged me off. When I came back I found all 4 herb patches are dead. Is this normal?

All four patches being dead happens about once per 2000 herb runs :S

I've never had 2 dead at once more than twice and never had three dead. At least it was only avantoe.

All four patches being dead happens about once per 2000 herb runs :S

Actually, it's more like 1/10000. Even 3/4 being dead is around 1/280 chance(happent to be twice).

 

And the answer the question, torstol is by far the best with scroll of life. It's also by far the best xp.

All four patches being dead happens about once per 2000 herb runs :S

Actually, it's more like 1/10000. Even 3/4 being dead is around 1/280 chance(happent to be twice).

 

And the answer the question, torstol is by far the best with scroll of life. It's also by far the best xp.

So far my data suggests between a 12% and a 15% death rate. Assuming independence of patches (reasonable), the chance of all 4 being dead is 0.15^4, which is 0.00050625, or approximately 1:2000 :P

 

(1:10000 implies a 10% death rate, which I am 95% confident is not the true proportion.)

10% death rate is widely considered the true deathrate of all plants in the game(apart from ivy).

Remember your chance of death rate goes up more if you do multiple logging while you farm. Which is where you get the 12-15 percent.

stupid double post.

10% death rate is widely considered the true deathrate of all plants in the game(apart from ivy).

Once I get a bit more data I will post it and show you that you are wrong :P 10% is close and works fine for estimation, but it's not the true proportion.

10% death rate is widely considered the true deathrate of all plants in the game(apart from ivy).

Once I get a bit more data I will post it and show you that you are wrong :P 10% is close and works fine for estimation, but it's not the true proportion.

It's quite irrelevant to what conclusion you will come to as if you farm every 75-90 minutes(every time your bound patch is ready) you will be able to save some of the diseased, and all that really matters is how many herbs you get per seed or patch.

Data was primarily to investigate the distribution of yields. Data currently suggests a nearly normal distribution with mean 7.8 and standard deviation 2.1 for living patches.