Icecrown nodes respawn timing
Well, i guess the title says a lot by itself. farming any kind of nodes these days, either mining nodes or herb ones is proving to be a challenge. The respawn time might be the correct according to retail, to be honest, i do not know, but with a 12k population, over 1200 queue and the donnors skiping it, the nodes have little to no time to "live" before being farmed.
YES there are plenty of places to farm basically ANYTHING, either it be saronite, titanium, lichbloom, cobalt, adders tongue or any other reagent we require, however, as i stated above, the immense ammount of players farming them leaves little for the casual farmers that just want to get a flask or a few gems or bars instead of selling them.
personally i do find trouble finding nodes to farm, not because i dont look well enough (i have a 310% mount paladin with crusader aura looking for them, and still takes a long time) but because of the fact someone else got it first, and this must be happening to preety much every miner/herbalist out there.
my sugestion is simple: increase the rate at which nodes spawn by a tiny bit (not too high tho, we still need to work a bit for them ^^) or increase the ammount of nodes that can be active at a given time (same respawn time, but more nodes)
Also, should an increase on their respawn be considered, it could be applied only to a certain time of the day (the peak hours, when there are 12k+ players) and then lowered again so there are not too many when the player population goes down.