Comments on: Pristine Black Diamonds

By: Xelophant

Xelophant — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 23:18:14 +0000

Just wanted to add my thoughts on this. I don’t see anyone talk about something that I noticed while farming things in Strathome or other instances and if someone has said it already then yeah it works.

You don’t have to loot everything to find PBD. Unless you want the money you really don’t have to loot everything. I run Strathome to try for the mount and kill everything on that side up to the boss and not loot anything. By the time I’m done most all the bodies will have disappeared. Now the thing is if there is a blue or higher quality item on a corpse it will be there long after everything else is dead. So when your walking back out you’ll know if anything has dropped something of value.

So there you go, save some time looting unless you want the cash, cloth and possible greens which I tend to get a lot of after looting the Aboms at the end of Strath anyway. Happy hunting!

By: Tsubaki

Tsubaki — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:47:48 +0000

The demand for these has imploded since Blizzcon 2010. On my server they are selling for 1.4k each! RIDICULOUS! I still need 50 to 59 too. Some people have speculated that the drop chance has increased but I haven’t noticed it at all. If it comes down to it I might just have to pay the ridiculous prices to finish Shen’dralar before it’s gone…

By: Shakapow Stormrage

Shakapow Stormrage — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:16:07 +0000

I found that it’s best to do the Steamwheedle rep grind before hunting for librams/ PBD’s because I looted over 80 librams and 15 PBDs over the course of the grind.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:14:35 +0000

Hi is it possible, to grind to hounerd w bloodsails p, then buy the diomonds and librams of ah, and then kill pirates and turn in cloth for rep insted of grinding it out,.

By: Emage

Emage — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:41:39 +0000

Hey all,

Everyone keeps stumbling upon the question of “Where can I farm these?”. In truth, since these have only about .02% drop rate, you have to find various sources to get the amount of PBD’s you need. (Sorry if some of these have been mentioned, just kind of skimmed through the posts)

1. Check AH daily with multiple bank toons. Sometimes you’ll get lucky and find a few very cheap.
2. Post on your server’s forums (and sometimes others’ forums) to see if you can find someone who’s willing to make an offer.
3. I personally look in trade for people selling their guilds and banks. Sometimes you can ask them if they have any librams/PBD’s and you can strike a deal with them.
4. Don’t assume that because one person said “lots drop in strat lol” means that that is the ONLY place they will drop. Some key places to accquire PBD’s are:
Zul’Gurub – don’t really need to be able to solo it. Just nuke all the trash and the speakers in front of the boss (if you can play dead or invis, etc). The Bijous and Coins usually sell pretty decent if you are already Exalted with Zandalar.

Stratholme – Kill EVERYTHING there. Live side, then run over to dead side, almost everything can drop a PBD, dont limit yourself to one side. And hey, Stitchings and a horsie mount? Awesome!

Scholomance – Skins of Shadow and again, almost everything has a chance at a PBD – don’t waste the chance.

DM North/West – I found these a lot easier to farm than DM East, but you can also get Librams and keep tuned for the Event every few hours for some nice Blues off the boss in the Maul.

BRD/BRS – imo, I didn’t have as much luck as i would have liked in BRD. But, in these instances you can also pickpocket mobs for Heavy Loxboxes (If you arent exalted yet and are a rogue)

Those are some tips I found helped me. Good luck to all you Insanies!

-E-

By: Shumak

Shumak — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:48:42 +0000

Well on my svr avg price for PBD is about 600-800g , and ppl rly buy it , I’m like wtf are you dumb or something? Also I tryed to figure out whats the best dungeon 55+ to farm those , I tried BRD got 1 in 10 runs, Strat 1 per 8 runs, and best place is Scholo , got about 4 PBD in less than 10 runs I was like wtf… Who don’t have the money that can buy PBD at 500g+ , you should try out Scholo, also you get a lot of green to DE and thats a lot money(atleast in my svr) Greater Eternal Essence its selling bout 23g each everyday I put 25+ on AH so its kinda lot of gold worth, and the drop of Skin of Shadow isnt that bad tbh, got 7 in less than 10 runs so Scholo is best place so far. Saate best guides ever! Keep it up.

By: Tag of Fire

Tag of Fire — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:10:58 +0000

Only need 13 more Diamonds at the moment, I’ve been forced to buy them for 250g a piece now… and still people expect me to pay 500g a piece for the Diamonds.
I don’t see how they expect anyone to pay 40k gold to get their Diamonds, just because some idiot puts them on AH for 500g.

By: Xyndera

Xyndera — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:53:54 +0000

Started 2 weeks ago for the Insane archie , 80 rogue on Arathor Eu server
Bloodsail rep costed me about 9 hours to honored….1st part done in 1 day
By reading over about the insane archie on the net i came to this site…..very good btw
After that i went straightly to DiM north , farmed there for the last 2 weeks….im at revered with the steemweelde rep about 4000-21000 atm , very boring but my best friend since lots of the mats i gonna use afterwards are needed…..total farming 74 librams and 17 pristines…….also lot of junk and greens what i DE and sold on the ah….total amount earned 20k in 2 weeks farming DiM
Every run i picked up the ogre tannins but not always the key dropped , while thinking i need to be there for some time i decided to turning in only shackle keys and save the runecloth and rugged leather, since i need to be there for the librams, means lots of gold on our server also for the rugged leather, farmed over 300 stacks of runecloth and 4 capital city´s to exalted allready from turning in runecloth…1 more to go IF…..19547-21000 exalted
since i noticed the only problem is gonna be the pristine black diamond …lack on ah and very pricey at our server i did make several chars on other servers to check the economy there….costed my some hours to figure it out , found a server with many pristines on ah for a quarter of the price on our server……both factions , sended 16k to one of my alts and transfered him to the server, since i have 2 accounts i also made a dk there on the other faction ….leveled him to 58 and moved him to the neutral ah……so both of my chars have a descent amount of gold, 1 day on this server made me allready 28 pristines and got some from guildies aswell, total amount of pristines after 2 weeks 56 , should be there soonish

By: Smitty

Smitty — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:48:14 +0000

Well, unfortunately, pristine black diamonds go for anywhere from 250 to 500 gold on my server, and people are taking advantage of that. There are usually 30 to 40 on the AH, all from two users monopolizing the market. This also makes it difficult to try and get some through trade chat from people who have no idea what they’re worth.

It’s really unfortunate that the main thing that makes this achievement “insane” now is the sheer amount of money you have to spend on it.

By: Dokomar

Dokomar — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:42:00 +0000

this guide is great, i only need 6 more diamonds left and i’ll be exalted! yay!