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Instance Loot Analysis: Deadmines

In my study of how much gold a player can make by soloing various lower-level instances, I decided to make a run through the Deadmines instance.  I was able to run through the entire instance in approximately 30 minutes.

Loot from mobs: 1 gold, 43 silver

Junk items sold to vendor:  26 silver, 13 copper

Common items sold at auction house:  18 gold, 52 silver, 68 copper

Uncommon items sold at auction house:  19 gold, 60 silver, 58 copper

Rare items (bind on pick-up) sold to vendor:  1 gold, 89 silver, 83 copper

Total take for Deadmines run: 41 gold, 72 silver, 22 copper

I should point out that I got extremely lucky with rare items, picking up a total of 8 rare (blue) items in this run.  However, those items are responsible for less than 2 gold of the total take.

Based on the above, my estimate is that if you ran Deadmines back to back as fast as you could, you’d take in approximately 82-83 gold per hour, based on my server’s (Fenris) pricing.

To help you identify your own estimated value for a solo run through Deadmines, see the list below for a list of the items I looted on my run:

JUNK ITEMS:    QTY.
Light Hunting Bow    1
Unbalanced Axe    1
Canvas Cloak    1
Ornamental Mace    3
Stock Shortsword    1
Shiny Fish Scales    1
Murloc Eye    1

COMMON ITEMS:
Pattern: Blue Overalls    1
Wool Cloth    63
Linen Cloth    92
Tin Ore    8
Coarse Stone    9
Rough Stone    4
Copper Ore    9
Parrot Cage (Green Wing Macaw)    1
Lesser Healing Potion    1
Dalaran Sharp    1
Haunch of Meat    5
Copper Modulator    1
Scroll of Strength    2
Pattern: Murloc Scale Breastplate    1

UNCOMMON ITEMS:
Buccaneer’s Cape of the Eagle    1
Edged Bastard Sword of the Bear    1
Seer’s Belt    1
Defender Shield of the Tiger    1
Bandit Bracers of Agility    1
Buccaneer’s Cape of the Whale    1
Pattern: White Leather Jerkin    1
Inscribed Leather Breastplate    1
Blackened Defias Boots    1
Northern Shortsword of Strength    1
Shimmering Boots of the Eagle    1
Moss Agate    1
Bandit Cloak of the Monkey    1
Bandit Bracers of the Whale    1

RARE ITEMS:
Cruel Barb    1
Buzzer Blade    1
Taskmaster Axe    1
Smelting Pants    1
Smite’s Mighty Hammer    1
Emberstone Staff    1
Rhahk’Zor’s Hammer    1
Cookie’s Stirring Rod    1

Instance Loot Analysis: Stormwind Stockades

Having recently spent a big chunk of my hunter’s gold on an epic rifle and a scope, I decided to see what kind of gold I could generate by soloing some of the lower-level instances.  I first decided to tackle the Stockades in Stormwind.  Here’s how that turned out…

Cash looted from mobs: 1 gold, 92 silver, 92 copper

Junk items sold to vendor: 1 gold, 12 silver, 39 copper

Common items sold at auction house: 10 gold, 62 silver, 69 copper

Uncommon (green) items sold at auction house:  20 gold, 70 silver, 3 copper

Total take: 34 gold, 38 silver, 30 copper

I ran the instance in exactly 20 minutes, killing all the mobs, looting all the corpses, and claiming the contents of the two large chests inside.

On a second run, my take was approximately the same and it took approximately the same amount of time to run the instance, so I think for my server (Fenris) 34 gold is a typical “take” for soloing Stormwind Stockades.

To help you see how running the Stockades on your server compares to mine, here’s a list of the common and uncommon items I looted during one run through:

COMMON ITEMS, QTY
Linen Cloth    21
Melon Juice    3
Wool Cloth    77
Healing Potion    2
Silk Cloth    16
Dwarven Mild    3

UNCOMMON ITEMS,    QTY
Polished Zweihander of the Wolf    1
Ivycloth Sash of Intellect    1
Silver-thread Boots    1
Bright Armor    1
Forest Leather Boots    1
Moss Agate    1
Defias Renegade Ring    2
Bright Gloves    1
Forest Leather Bracers    1
Zircon Band of Nature Resistance    1
Bright Bracers    1