In the new World of Warcraft: Cataclysm expansion, earning WoW Cataclysm gold remains an essential part of the gameplay, allowing players to upgrade their gear, develop professions, acquire rare and valuable items, and buy WoW tokens. Cataclysm introduces numerous ways to earn gold, enabling each player to choose the most suitable and effective method for their playstyle, making the process of accumulating wealth engaging and diverse. Knowing efficient farming routes and strategies is key to successful gameplay in the new expansion. Farming Volatile Elements is gaining particular popularity due to its low entry barrier and the lack of need to spend personal resources.

About volatile elements and their relevance

Volatile Elements are crucial resources for crafting professions. These elements, including Volatile Air, Volatile Earth, Volatile Fire, Volatile Water, and Volatile Life, can be gathered in various ways. They play a key role in creating valuable items, which makes them popular among players looking to improve their performance or gain new capabilities. The demand for these resources has created a high price, so collecting and selling them at the auction house can bring WoW Cataclysm gold. The methods for gathering Volatile Elements vary depending on the type of element and its location.

Key spots of farm elements

Fire

Cannon’s Inferno и Sulfuron Spire: These are two locations often used for farming Volatile Fire. To farm, you will need the Fishing profession and a significant amount of time. In these locations, you will find pools of fire in the lava from which you can fish. You can fish several times from one pool, but then the pool will disappear. It will take 10-15 minutes for the pool to respawn. You can find the Cannon’s Inferno area in Twilight Highlands and Sulfuron Spire in Mount Hyjal.

Humboldt Conflagration: This destroyed dwarven city is swarming with new mobs called Unbound Emberfiends. Killing these mobs gives a chance to obtain the fire element. This method is suitable if you cannot use the first one due to the lack of the fishing profession.

Earth

Twilight Highlands: In this location, you can find a spot at coordinates (58.0, 31.0), with hostile mobs called Obsidian Stoneslaves. You can kill these mobs to obtain elements and also use the mining profession to extract additional resources from their corpses. There is also a chance to obtain other useful items and resources.

Deepholm: This is the second location for farming elements from mobs. Here, you are interested in the Gorged Gyreworm mob, a volatile earth source. These enemies do not drop elements upon death; you must mine their corpses to obtain them. The drop rate is not high, but it cannot be called small either. The farming area is found at coordinates (57.0, 23.0) near Therazane’s Throne.

Water

Dragonmaw Port: The farming spot is not actually in the port but to the west of it. This method involves killing Muddied Water Elementals. This area is found at coordinates (68.0, 48.0) in the Twilight Highlands. This spot is often crowded with many players, so farming in this way can be challenging. However, if you cannot use professions for farming, this is your only option.

Fishing in Cataclysm zones: This is probably one of the best and easiest ways to farm volatile water because it is not tied to a specific location. You can fish from water pools in Cataclysm zones or in open water, but the drop rate will be reduced in the second case. Water pools disappear over time, so it’s better to look for locations with a large number of them.

Air

Orsis: This is an area in the Uldum location where you will find mobs called the Scion of Al’Akir. The advantage of this location is that the mobs in this region respawn very quickly, increasing your chances of obtaining the important resource over time. However, there is a catch. Sometimes, other players may interfere with you when they are completing the Minions of Al’Akir quest, reducing your chances of getting Volatile Air.

Vortex Pinnacle: This dungeon is also located in Uldum. You can run it solo or with a few companions. Your task is to kill as many trash mobs as possible, ideally not beyond the second boss, after which you reset the dungeon and start killing enemies again. The farming speed depends on your luck, strength, and class because the more mobs you kill, the higher your chances of getting the desired reward.

Gathering  professions

You can obtain Volatile Air simply by gathering resources. For this, you need to be an engineering professional and an electrostatic condenser. This will give you a chance to obtain the resource from each node.

Life

Herbalism and Skinning: Herbalism is the only way to farm Volatile Life. To farm it, you need to gather herbs that were added in the new expansion. All of them grow only in the new Cataclysm zones. You can also find this resource in Strange Bloated Stomachs by killing animals for skinning. Only one mob in the game drops the life resource, so killing it for full farming is irrelevant.

Living Elements: This is a type of transmutation that provides versatility for Volatile Life. With it, alchemist players can convert life into any other important element, for example, 15 Volatile Life into 15 Volatile Air. Players can predict the drop of a certain type of element. To do this, they need to perform transmutation in specific regions:

• For Volatile Fire, use transmutation in Mount Hyjal
• For Volatile Water, use transmutation in Vashj’ir
• For Volatile Air, use transmutation in Uldum
• For Volatile Earth, use transmutation in Deepholm

Conclusion

Farming volatile elements can be a long and monotonous task, but it can earn you a good amount of gold. The price of elements in the auction house is unstable and can change constantly. It’s important to monitor price changes to choose the type of element that will allow you to earn more. If you are tired of this farming method, you can look for others or buy cataclysm gold in special marketplaces. This will free you from the need for gold, and you can peacefully engage in your favorite activities in WoW Cataclysm Classic.