Recipe: Greater Nature Protection Potion
Recipe: Greater Nature Protection Potion drops from only two mobs in World of Warcraft, Rotting Behemoths and Decaying Horrors. These are both located in and around a small cave (66,40) in the Western Plaguelands.
This has to be one of the more difficult of the greater protection potion recipes to acquire. Though the mobs go down pretty easy, they don%26#8217;t respawn super fast. Of course the drop rate is super low, but a 1.3%-1.4% drop rate isn%26#8217;t hopeless. The rub, however, with grinding this recipe are the damnable Devouring Oozes, along with Vile Slimes and Large Vile Slimes that are found in the cave.
The Elemental Rotting behemoths and Decaying Horrors are intermingled in this area with these slimes. The Vile Slimes, large and not, are no big deal to clear out. But the Devouring Oozes can be a real pain. After it is killed, a Devouring Ooze will spawn three or four Oozelings who have 700 hit points and do a pretty decent amount of damage. Assuming you are at least level 60 this will be not much more than an annoyance %26#8230; but it gets very annoying. That makes this area most effective to grind at levels 65 and above.
The Greater Nature Protection Potion Recipe is one of the harder-to-get recipes in World of Warcraft, but it still sells for a decent amount of gold on the Auction House. You can also make a lot of WoW gold buy making the potions yourself and selling them on the Auction House. This along with the other protection potions sell mainly to the hardcore PVE raid crowd. I would say the ROI on this recipe isn%26#8217;t the greatest, however.
Keep in mind that as of Patch 2.1, the durations of all protection potions have been reduced from one hour to two minutes - a huge change that may effect the value of this potion and the recipe%26#8217;s value as well.
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