I tried searching a ton, but the search feature on this board is not robust enough. I keep getting pages of unrelated posts and threads, so if this was answered some where else, I apologize.

Can anyone else confirm if the trash before supremus (specifically the taskmaster packs) has had their loot table changed? We would previously farm those packs, leaving one mob up and then evade leashing them to respawn the rest of the pack (borderline exploit maybe, I know). Since patch, tried to farm these packs a few times, and only got a couple hearts the first time through, no gems/epics. The next two times, we spent about an hour each time without a single heart/gem/epic drop. Total of 5-6 hours of farming, no gems/epics and only 2 hearts in the first half hour of attempts.

It's a relatively small sample size, but with the previous droprates, the chance of not getting more hearts or a single gem/epic is pretty slim. It's entirely possible we were just unlucky, but statistically it's a low probability. Anyone else experience a similar situation? I wouldn't be surprised if they found a way for those mobs to not drop anything if they were reset, just curious since we don't want to waste any more time farming if they aren't gonna drop hearts or gems.

Overall it seems the BT drop rate has been lowered slightly to balance the gain of items in Hyjal, of which I believe has generally been noticed in this thread.

How many players did you bring?

Chances are they put something in place to prevent "exploitive" farming with the early trash. Could be related to the number of players or just the first trash

This weekend I saw 2 patterns, 6 hearts and 7 gems drop while solo/duo farming trash. Seems fine to me.

I have a feeling once this BT Trash soloing thing catches on it will be nerfed.

I thought it has been "caught on" to for the last 4 months...

We went farming the trash after Supremus, (Ashtounge patrols, and the mobs on the way to Teron) and received several gems, hearts, and the DPS warrior gloves. We only had 8 in the group at the time, as well. This was just this last Sunday, too.

We farmed all the packs before Supremus as well resetting the zone 3 times, with between 7 and 15 or so people. No epic items from them, but we did get hearts and gems.

We've been getting hearts and gems from the pre-supremus trash; the overall decrease in drops has given us streaky heart drops though. It definitely seems like trash isn't dropping stuff at times, then all the sudden a gem will popup.

Judging by our experiences since the patch, they nerfed the drop rates on trash leading up to Naj'entus and Supremus. However, we get so many hearts in Hyjal that we're apt not to care (which was likely their intention).

Side note, the NE trash after Archimonde dies is giving loot now.. and its constant spawn of 1-3 mobs every now and then is quite enjoyable.

Wow you can farm that really nicely with Tyrande's help...

Ends on soft-reset of the zone

Curious as to whether the trash waves after Archimonde still exist?

Was looking around after our Hyjal clear tonight and could not find any mobs after 30 minutes, other than the scourge base near the alliance base which was not giving rep.

Will check it tonight for you.
They spawn on the ramp down from the archimonde camp to thrall's camp.
If you stand at the top of the ramp you can pick em up straight away.
It works alright, but if you have more than 5 people it's boring as hell
The spawns are on fixed timers so the faster you kill the mobs the longer you have to wait for new spawns.

Seems to be gone unfortunately, my guild had a productive 72 hours in there last week with one person tagging and 20 people afk with auto-clickers.

We killed archimonde thursday night and were in hyjal until sunday afternoon and we received ~8k rep. The rep averaged out to 150-200 rep per hour. Doesnt sound like much, but its 3-4k+ a day. Thats of course, in addition to the large amount of hearts and epics (at least 15 including patterns) received.

Since when? After we killed Archimonde on Monday, five of us stayed in there for around eight hours getting rep and drops. As someone said, it's slow but it's better than nothing especially considering only one person has to tag them and the rest can even be dead with a Homer Simpson Woodpecker stopping them being flagged AFK and disconnected.

With regards to the drop rates though, epics from BT trash definitly has been reduced. We only have Illidan left for this week and we've not gotten a single drop. Last week we got two, the week before we got four. Contrast this to pre-patch where we got ten epics before we'd even reached Gurtogg one week and it's pretty dissapointing. Gems and Hearts feel about the same but it definitly doesn't feel balanced out with Hyjal unless you wipe there a lot.

Oh and I'll see your trash exploits and raise you this.

Well since this reset. Checked today and there was no trash.

We killed archimonde today and no npcs spawed after he died.

Same, killed archi this thursday and no mobs attacking afterwards. We even waited for a pretty long time

We haven't gotten a ring in like 3 clears. We get patterns and hearts like candy though. We get one, maybe two mob dropped epics per clear as well, usually the hammer or druid boots though.

We have however, gotten about 20 paladin tanking maces.

Obligatory Crimson Spinel bitch.