I don't farm where I can't solo.
My first love is Skyward Reach- Hydras all the way! I get a lot of keys (which stack and are worth 225g apiece) and gold / purple items. And Dessicated Claws stack, plus they make good trophies. Closing in on the 400 mark.
I soloed Witman's Folly for a couple hours one day this week, but was unimpressed. For one thing, Azure Remains and Grawl neclaces are only worth 8 gold apiece (compared to 25 for desert stackables), and the drops pretty much sucked. The one advantage is that Grawl will drop armor (nobody in the desert does), so the chance of getting a superior rune are higher. In fact, the only gold drop I had was a superior hammer rune, and the unsalvaged armor was worth more than the rune itself. Blah.
Only the Drakes were nerfed in the Kryta mission. I still farm Undead there on occasion, and I've gotten a black dye and a 10/10 Sundering bow string from low-level undead in the past few weeks. And heck, you get about 20 Orr Emblems and 150+ bones per run, which add up quick.
What people miss about farming (I used to as well, but figured it out) is that an item's value is partly dependent upon who drops it. I ID everything. I maximize my money based on GPIS- gold per inventory slot. I've ID'ed white weapons with less than perfect damage to be worth close to and sometimes over 100 gold apiece. Had max damage ones be worth less than 60. Blue items sometimes ID as Precious, so that 13-21 bow can still be worth 160 gold. And I keep stackables, since 250*25 = 6250 gold in one inventory slot. Only have about 35 Elonian keys so far, but one day I'll have my 250.
I pick up everything, and once my inventory is full, I ID everything I have. I start at 50 gold as my limit, and drop everything worth less than 50. Then as I fill up more, I drop everything less than 60. Then 70. At that point I return to town and sell the stuff to the merchant. Each run is worth a few thousand in just item sales alone. That doesn't count stackables, piles of gold, dyes, or rare items worth auctioning.
