Help me understand what exactly was broken about coral farming?
I just found out about coral recently and a clannie told me that it's "OP" and to "take advantage before it's nerfed".
So I spent an hour thieving chests and managed to get 40 frags. I spent the next 8 days farming those frags and yielded around 700 pillar coral.
Then I found out I needed to hunt crabs for secondaries, no problem. But first I needed fishing offcuts to hunt the crabs so I spent 30 minutes buying Herring from the tempoross shop, then built a chum station on my boat, sailed out to the middle of the ocean, spent 30 mins turning them into offcuts, then went to summer shore, hunted crabs for an hour and a half.
And only then was I able to actually make my potions for 100k herb xp. It took me 8 days and 5+ hours just to get 100k herb xp. And this method was supposed to be busted? What the hell.
edit: so apparently the mega-nerds on this subreddit can't comprehend someone not having 99 farming lmao. I understand the nerf for yield now, but the drop rate nerf for Pillar frags was still unnecessary given the arduous processing required to actually turn it into a potion.