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Comment by 433189

by far the easiest way to farm these in mass quantities so far is to go to Hyjal just south of the Grove of Aessina. The wailing weeds have 5k hp and are bunched up so you can aoe them very easily and pick their corpses. i got about 20 volatile life in 25 kills. of course, farming herb grants these AND xp so its up to you :)

Comment by tonydizzle

As a historical record, the icon for these were originally red. It was updated to green as of Cataclysm beta build 13277. Made glancing at mats easier.

Comment by tonydizzle

There have not been elemental life clouds since patch 2.3... Only Air, Water, Fire, Shadow (Outland), and Mana (Outland)

See for yourself that Motes of Life or Crystallized Life don't have clouds they can be harvested from (anymore in the case of the Motes).

Edit: I now see why a number of people have downrated this. The comment I was responding to was either purged or deleted even with my comment attached. Someone had asked something along the lines of "Has anyone seen 'mote clouds' in Cataclysm?"(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##Gryphon##DELIM##

Comment by Sillykatmeows

Wailing weeds no longer drop loot nor are herb skinable :(

Comment by Erethzium

So....where's a good place to farm these? (Without Herbalism)

Comment by 421626

As a Herbalist the best place for this is Hyjal, due to the environment(Grassy) and the chance of three different herbs spawning it makes for quick gathering.

Comment by hermeska

If your selling this on the AH, consider selling it in stacks of 15 so Alchemists can conveniently buy them for their Transmute: Living Elements. I usually put stacks of 15 up a slight premium to buying it in 20 stacks (or if you like, charge slightly less than a stack of 20 to catch out the unaware).

Comment by 744084

If your not an herbalist or skinner, don't plan on getting this other than AH or a friend, not dropped by any mob except the one in Halls of Origination.

Comment by Ovahealz

30 of this items, along with 8 bolts of embersilk are needed to make Dream of Hyjal. At 10g a piece (on Arthas-US at least), expect to be selling a lot of the powerful spellthreads to pay for the Lifes every week.

Unless you're a chinese farmer, then go ahead and buy them all.

Comment by wodla

Volatiles are the new Eternals / Primals of Cataclysm.

Complete list of Volatiles:
Volatile Fire
Volatile Water
Volatile Earth
Volatile Air
Volatile Life

There is also Volatile Shadow but these are deprecated and can't be used for antyhing.

Comment by llangevi

I have a great spot for you. In Deatholme there is a daily called Soft Rock. For those people wanting to get in good with this faction it's one of 7 dailies available in that area. Now, the great thing about that is that you have huge numbers of people killing these monsters.

The good news is that herbalists can skin them!

When Cata first came live, I was disappointed to find out that skinning them only made them disappear. After doing that to a dozen or so, I just gave up.

After the last patch, however, I did a skinning automatically and got 3 volatile life. I went "?". So I started flying in a circle, skinning the masses of the dead, and got about a 40% drop on he Volatile, and about a 10%+ drop on acquiring other herbs (some high end, some with the volatile life), and the rest of the time, some grey trash herb.

As an alchemist, this meant that in a short time I had 15 volatile life to transmute, and I could do it as part of my daily (and as a master of alchemy, I sometimes got a double transmute!).

So my recommendation is to go there, and be a vulture, swooping down on the dead to get what you need - volatile life!

Comment by jameswood150

This works great for an herbalist who can skin, but what about those of us that cannot? Does anyone have any idea of how this can be aquired without going to the AH and paying the rediculous prices?

Comment by 243011

This works great for an herbalist who can skin, but what about those of us that cannot? Does anyone have any idea of how this can be aquired without going to the AH and paying the rediculous prices?

"skinning" here likely means using herbalism to dispose of a looted corpse so you do _not_ need skinning to do it.

Engineers kan dispose of (aka "skin") some mechanical mobs (not so much in Cata as in Northrend though) for engineering parts.

Miners can dispose of some elementals (mainly earth elementals) for ores.

Skinners can skin creatures (but seldom elementals or mechanical mobs) for, uh, skins and leather.

Herbalists can dispose of nature elementals for various life essences and flowers.

I think that covers it all.

Of course, you could just do what herbalists normally do, pick herbs, and get volatile life in (at the time of this writing) droves.

Comment by Seana

As an herbalist, I find I get tons of these off the herbs in lower level areas. Mount Hyjal cinderbloom seems to drop a lot more than Tol Barad cinderbloom for example. And I hardly get any from herbs in Twilight Highlands.

Comment by wowgeek123

Best place to farm volatile life: Deepholm.

I start from the temple and go around Aeonaxx's path until i reach the northwestern end. There i abruptly keep going until i hit the place that gives has those big mushromms that u need to explode for a quest.

There are 10 billion herbs there and all over deepholm. If you go at it, u can farm up to 200 volatile life an hour (i find that generally i get about 125-175).

Great place to farm :)

EDIT: Since there is so much volatile life, pairing herbalism and alchemy is great, so you can Xmute the surplus of life into w/e else u want (make sure to go to whichever place u want though). Deepholm: Volatile life to EARTH. Uldum: Volatile life to AIR
Twilight Highlands: Volatile life to FIRE. Vash'jir: Volatile life to WATER (no surprise there).

So far, i have not seen Aeonaxx, but still, it is pretty good way to farm him without being completely camping.(##RESPBREAK##)2056##DELIM##adashiel##DELIM##

Comment by squiretoad

Apparently every single entry above (except maybe Living Vine) is incorrect. If you aren't an herbalist, you'll not get Volatile Life from any of these entries. (Read the comments for each of the items and you'll see what I mean.)

Any way to correct this totally misleading page?

Comment by RicardoZ

These don't drop from Twilight Stalkers in Twilight Highlands anymore. I just went up there looking and after you kill the Stalker you can't loot it, so we can cross that one off the list too.

EDIT: Can't loot Fiery Minions in Hyjal either. I think someone put them in there as a joke because they're both kind of obscure mobs and they're sitting back laughing at those of us who go trying to farm them for Volatile Life. Not funny, man! =)

Comment by swede422003

Volatile life is'nt able to be looted off of Mac Toads as stated. They are a level 1 critter and unlootable.

Comment by Trolled

To the previous comments regarding the "Dropped by" tab of this page:

The wowhead client, in one technical way or another, reads the drop as the items received with the npc clicked. If, for example, a mac toad was killed (and still selected) while a volatile life was looted from a plant, it would count as a drop from the mac toad.

The misleading drop page isn't a matter of user input trying to mislead you, but instead just an unfortunate bug in the way that drops are tracked.

In the cases where there's several loots of the item shown (Riverbed crocolisk, for example), it's simply a matter of that monster spawning on or near an herb that gives the volatile life. When a person with the client kills the mob to loot the herb, it's not uncommon that the mob is selected when the loot appears and then the incorrect data is displayed.

Comment by 829653

When I checked the droprate on volatile life from these Fungal Bemoths i was surprised. It's only a 11% dropchance of volatile life.

Comment by 794337

old news, but i go uldum farm whiptail till i get 100 Vlifes at that point i have 16-20 stacks or whiptail.. best time ever love the thrill of the chase

Comment by bob72

So the only use for these is to get an alchemist to trasmute them into something more useful?

Comment by 25122

OK~ I just read through these comments... and unless I'm missing something here, the verdict is that there's NO WAY to farm these if you're not an herbalist?

Comment by 839525

Sometimes while skinning in Vashj'ir i got the "Strange Bloated Stomach" and a couple of them had the vol life in them.

Comment by 749141

i wish they would update their tracking system so there would not be so much crappy info when i saw that i could get volatile life of npcs i was like "yay" then read the comments and was like "bummer" and it is really annoying to go on a wild goose chase because of faulty cords and its lucky if one of comments says something but when you have to figure out for your self its even more annoying

Comment by Synchant

I find this easy to farm in Uldum.
Whiptails gives alot :-)

Comment by GUSIS

Volatile Life is crazzy to get even if you are Herbalist... Reasson - I have gathered 16 stacks of Azshara's Veil & 16 stacks of Twilight Jasmine & i still missing Volatile Life to make 2 stacks of Flask of the Draconic Mind

It took me more then 4 hours to gather mats for 2 stacks of Flask of the Draconic Mind & even now,i must keep herbing damn flowers,because i still need more then 80 Volatile Life to get those damn 2 stacks of Flask of the Draconic Mind

I`m sick already of herbing...

And its a shame,that there is no elementals who drops some lifes,like it was in previous expansions :/

Comment by Omac

I just picked 10 Whiptail nodes in Uldum and there wasn't a single Volatile Life nor any other additional item such as lifegiving seeds - there was just Whiptail, and that was it. But Cinderbloom and Stormvine on Hyjal are both still dropping them (volatile life and lifegiving seeds), although I haven't picked enough to check the drop rates.

Comment by Omac

I just picked up 62 Volatile Life during a 40-minute run on Hyjal. It dropped often from Cinderbloom and Stormvine, but not at all from Azshara's Veil.

Comment by 1001500

Farmed for about 3 hours a couple of days ago in Uldum

Gathered:

256 X Whiptail and 129 X Volatile Life

Sold them all for a very decent price and there are plenty of nodes which quickly respawn.

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