Alchemy Farm Spot help !

Athas24 · February 2015

Anyone have any ideas where I might be able to find some good locations to farm ingredients that increase spell crit, sp damage and magicka regen? I made myself some of these potions for v5 the other day and realized how amazing they are. I am wondering if anyone wouldn't mind sharing some of their crafting farm locations.

Nestor · February 2015

Hollow City is where you want to farm. Go there at an off time as there are usually a few PCs farming. But the nodes respawn quickly and you can just keep making laps of the city and fill your bags up. Bolt Escape can help, so can a horse.

Barring that, Keen Eye is essential to me for Alchemy Farming, esp for Mountain Flower and Columbine and a few others. In 4 months without using Keen Eye I probably found 30 or 40 reagents. Once I turned that on, I now have multiple stacks in just a couple of months. For the record, I don't farm alchemy mats, I just pick them as I go along from place to place.

Harvest Map is an addon that will track the Nodes you discover, and then show them to you on your map. You can use this to plan a route for your farming runs through a zone. Note, you have to discover the node first for it to be marked on your map.

Athas24 · February 2015

Awesome! Thanks @Nestor ! I really appreciate it!

ashlee17 · March 2015

Sentinel - capital city of alik'r desert. No mobs, plenty of reagents

ThatNeonZebraAgain · March 2015

Nestor wrote: »

Hollow City is where you want to farm. Go there at an off time as there are usually a few PCs farming. But the nodes respawn quickly and you can just keep making laps of the city and fill your bags up. Bolt Escape can help, so can a horse.

Barring that, Keen Eye is essential to me for Alchemy Farming, esp for Mountain Flower and Columbine and a few others. In 4 months without using Keen Eye I probably found 30 or 40 reagents. Once I turned that on, I now have multiple stacks in just a couple of months. For the record, I don't farm alchemy mats, I just pick them as I go along from place to place.

Harvest Map is an addon that will track the Nodes you discover, and then show them to you on your map. You can use this to plan a route for your farming runs through a zone. Note, you have to discover the node first for it to be marked on your map.

I thought the drastically changed the reagent spawn rates in Hollow City? Last few times I've been there I only see Water Hyacinth by the little pond by the Wayshrine.

Nestor · March 2015

ThatNeonZebraAgain wrote: »

I thought the drastically changed the reagent spawn rates in Hollow City? Last few times I've been there I only see Water Hyacinth by the little pond by the Wayshrine.

Not from what I can see. I just see more players harvesting up there. Now it may have been stupid fast on the respawn rates before, but I can make a lap late at night or early in the AM and all the nodes are respawned by the time I get around to them again.

Artemiisia · March 2015

almost everybody knows about this spot, which makes its so much harder to farm now, thankfully there are still some not so familiar spots left, though not so good as hollow city

Rev Rielle · March 2015

Honestly, if you keep your 'keen eye' out whilst adventuring about (if you still do, which I'm guessing you do from your post) and complete crafting writs you should

Hopefully keep your stock of flowers up so you can replenish your potions - as long as you don't drink them every other battle, and,
Come to learn of some great little harvesting areas away from the popular spots.

Especially keep a keen eye out in silver and gold veteran rank areas, they're relatively lowly populated, and as such you'll almost always have nice little harvesting area all to yourself. And don't forget those writs for alchemist survey maps; very handy things.

Athas24 · March 2015

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the insights and feedback!