It's really not an effort *at all* to get the gralats you need for a decent gun, potion and weapon repair. (Just out of curiosity, do you farm in Classic? How much time have you spent on that?)

The weekend that crabs were dropping M4's, I dug enough shells to buy every weapon that was out the time, PLUS I had an extra $20k. Now, keep in mind that this was when *anyone* could take your shells (now they can't), AND there were no no-pk zones to dig in. So I was dealing with pkers and shell thieves constantly.

Nowadays I find digging to be boring, but I still managed to save up the $15k for my M16, AND afford the potion every week, AND repair my weapons (it took me all of 20 minutes of mining to get several weeks worth of minerals)...the gralats all came from trash, maybe 15 or 20 minutes a day.