Breakfast Topic: How to Farm Gold
by David Nelson 
Nov 17th 2006 at 8:00AM
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No, not as an evil Ebay gold seller. Rather, if you need to earn a quick 50 gold, or you are looking for a way to raise 1000 gold for an epic mount (or 5000 for a flying mount), how exactly do you do it?I personally use the old flower picking method. All of my characters have the same professions, herbalism and alchemy (I am an exciting guy), and when I am short on cash, I sell some flowers. I usually do my rounds in some of the herb-dense zones early in the morning, and I sell a few stacks in the evening. It is typically good for anywhere from 25g to 75g depending on the server or the day of the week. Saturday is a great day to sell, Tuesdays...not so much.
What is your secret? How do you earn cash when you need repairs or some sweet new crafted armor?
Filed under: Economy, Making money
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Joe Jan 3rd 2009 2:44PM
Well, before WOTLK my friend and i both 70's use to farm dire maul. Of course you should have enchanting. But the jist of it is you can go into East Dire Maul and walk around almost all the mobs, you kill the bosses and get the loot. D/E and repeat! This was the best method for me pre-WOTLK. I'm sure the 80's can do this even better than a 70 ha. Although there may be instances that you can do the same now since we have 80's, but thats just how i earned gold.
gegga Nov 17th 2006 8:23AM
Auctioneer FTW!
Exolon Nov 17th 2006 8:45AM
I have a few hundred of gold in WoW with my main char. As a mage i havn't much repair cost and i don't raid. So i don't know what to do with that gold i have. From time to time i do SM runs to the bosses and with the disenchants i make about 30-40 gold in 5 runs that take about 30 mins of my time. I have allready an epic mount.
Tachyon Nov 19th 2006 1:33PM
Auctioneer :)
Buy cheap, sell at normal price.
You'll never be short on money again...
Therizo Nov 17th 2006 8:58AM
Flying mounts aren't 5000 gold! A regular 60% speed increase flying mount is the same price as a current epic land mount, 1000 gold before reputation discounts (which you'll certainly have, so really 900g.)
Which is easily obtainable considering max level quests start giving 20-30g right away (according to reports from 70s), not even including the big dungeon-chain type quests which generally give a LOT more exp (and thus gold) than standalone ones.
*deep breath* Sorry, that was off topic. Now, my gold comes from freindly instance runs with guildies (righteous orbs, rareish Dungeon 1 BoEs), or being one of the few suppliers of Guardian Stones on the AH (as far as I can tell). A nicely equipped mage can solo the Guardian guys very easily, and rack em up quick. And of course I have some other trump cards to pull if I REALLY need cash, but I'm certainly not going to give those out freely, heh.
misty Sep 3rd 2009 12:24PM
The slower flying mounts aren't 5000g, but the faster ones are.
steve Nov 17th 2006 9:04AM
I have to agree with Gegga -- Auctioneer for the win. The Auctioneer add-on gives you the ability to track current prices on your server for every type of item that hits the AH. The payoff is being able to check if a generic white item is actually worth a lot more in the AH than the vendor price (perhaps it is part of an epic quest chain), or that a certain green or blue item is worth 50g to somebody out there for some reason. Having said that, I've anecdotally found Strat Live to be the most profitable two hours in the game; the BoE drops sell for a lot and a Righteous Orb is usually worth an easy 25g to 35g on my server.
Colin Nov 17th 2006 10:07AM
The way I make money isn't the fastest or most reliable, but it does pay and it pays well.
What I do is sit in the trade channel. A lot of time people don't know how much something is worth, or they are willing to sell it low because they don't want to spend time finding a buyer. That's where I come in. I buy things. And then I sell them. Most of what I buy I get double my money back.
This doesn't always work.
Sometime I think I am getting a good deal, only to find that the market on that item just fell. Then I have to wait a long time before the I can offload th Item at a reasonable price.
I have bought and sold many blues and Purples. I was able to get the three BOE parts of my beast stalkers set without losing money because of this tactic.
But it doesn't work for everybody and it take a lot of patience.
Zghuk Nov 17th 2006 9:42AM
- farming eye of shadow (winterspring demons)
- questing at lvl 60, esp. the stones that us bind/kirith-quest series (about 70g)
- silithus farming
- killing little blue dragon at lake mennar (aszhara)
- killing black dragons in burning steppe (20silver + sometimes green items)
- run instances like ubrs or go to the scarlet monastry (alone)
Trout Nov 17th 2006 1:03PM
With a name like Trout wadda you think!
Fishing can easily net 20-25 gold per hour. For me I fish for 90 minutes each Saturday and Sunday mornings. They catch goes into the AH by 6:00 AM Sat/Sun (I'm an Eastcoaster)when the AH is pretty depleted. By Sunday at dinner time my coffers are up by 60-75 gold.
If I am really cash short, I will head to the Alchemy Lab and make some Flasks.
In many sports it is said the best offense is a good defense, that is also true in WoW. If you want to have more gold in your pockets stay away from AH purchases.
Trout
Feathermoon Server
Order of the White Tower
Koastaalys Nov 17th 2006 9:50AM
It's all about the Auctioneer. 15 minutes to scan, another 15 looking for deals and posting. Depending on how hardcore you get about it, you can easily rake in obsene amounts of gold.
I do my scan, hit the short term auctions and bid on anything worth it (I have my profit margin set to 5g, as I said, I'm pretty casual about it right now). You'd be suprised how often people focus on their buyouts and have obscenely low bids on them. I picked up a Blue weapon for 50s that sold for 45g one time.
After the short term auctions I look at buyouts. I also verify how easily sellable something will be and how many are currently listed on the AH.
All told, my 15-30 minutes a day is netting me a handsome 50-100g per day without the need to have my real playing time dominated by the need to grind out stuff for gold.
Sylythn Nov 17th 2006 10:12AM
I don't have a secret, I go broke every two levels... Though my enchanting materials sell pretty well.
Pougen (Earthen Ring) Nov 17th 2006 11:27AM
I gather all week with all my toons and send to my bank alt. Then, on the weekend, when everyone is online, I put it all on the AH using Auctioneer.
Gunn Nov 17th 2006 10:44AM
I farm DM west with my warlock pal and my mage. We can clear the courtyard in approx. 25mins completly. Then leave and reset.
We're earning on average 80gold an hour. But then again we're leet. If a blue item drops we make 100gold an hour.
We're epic geared and burn the enemies down before they can touch us.
If I'm by myself and I need money. I farm cultists in Silithus. Auctioning or selling everything.
cappyoak Nov 17th 2006 11:01AM
Find an herb Especially the ones that make superior or above mana and health pots, on the AH with less than a screen full of items, and buy them all. The re-list 1/2 of them at 3x what you bought them for with a long list time, then list the other half and 2x what you bought them for on a 2 hour list time. Then if you're an alchemist, go farm them, check the ah frequently to buy all the new listing others put up until they fall in with the new pricing.
Keep an eye on the price of the potions you are affecting too, and when you see them come up and price use the additional herbs you bought at the lower cost to make those potions. (works especially well when get alchemy exp for making those potions) I recently made over 100 gold profit doing this over the course of a weekend.
Druid dude Nov 17th 2006 11:23AM
I have a few ways, none are near the 50-100 golld an hour like the DM West thing mentioned above (gotta try that!) though. But they still give me that warm fuzzy feeling that comes from absolutely destroying a LOT of mobs!
My Fury Warrior can plow through all 4 wings of SM pretty fast solo. I kill everything, not bypassing any trash. Each wing is usually good for 15-20 gold, more if any decent blue BOE's drop.
Not so good anymore, but my Hunter is great at killing cultists in Silithus. Used to be you could seel each Text for about 1 gold, and the robes etc for just under a gold. Prices on both have gone down a lot lately since people aren't as hungry for CC rep items these days.
Another favorite spot is the elite Dragonkin in Azshara, especially if you are a skinner. Good cash per mob killed, leather and scales, with an occasional chest. If pearls are selling well, the Nagas nearby are densely packed and set up perfectly for speed grinding 3-4 mobs per minute.
And lastly, Felstone Field, its a great grinding spot. Runecloth, Scourgestones, half decent cash, high mob density with a fast respawn rate.
Wartoad Nov 17th 2006 11:46AM
Thorium runs in South Winterspring and Burning Stepps. The occasional Arcane Crystal makes it all worthwhile at 20g a pop right there. I usually get one every other night, I've had 3x drop in one night. Cha-ching for 45 min work.
Kel Hoof Nov 17th 2006 11:49AM
Buying and reselling off the AH used to be a viable way to earn some cash but, not its not very effective due to the lack of demand for BOEs and other items. Epics that used to go for 500g are now going for 100g, at least that's how it seems on Crushridge.
I suspect that buying and reselling of goods will become viable again because there will be high demand for even greens as some are better than current endgame gear. Also if one is trying to save up now for the flying mount in the future, you would be wasting time. In the expansion it seems like at level 70, one can accumulate gold at a much faster rate. At level 70, it seems that you can do a couple quests to get 100g easy and in the same amount of time it takes to get 15g now from quests at level 60.
Gold will be worth less in the expansion than currently because 100g will be a lot easier to get at level 70 than at level 60.
aziraphale Nov 17th 2006 11:50AM
I'm a miner, so I normally hit up Silithus and get some ooze-covered thorium veins looking for those sweet, sweet arcane crystals that I can sell for a good 22g a pop. I can normally get 3-4 on a good outing, but once I got really lucky and hit 2 crystals in the same vein!
Ben Podgorski Nov 17th 2006 11:56AM
When I was in the early levels, I absolutely controlled the market for copper. a stack of copper bars usually went for about 80s, so I sold a few to make myself a nice starting profit. Once I had enough to fund me endeavor, I bought out all the copper bars listed. I reposted them at 1.5g. Every few hours I'd check back, buyout and repost. by the end ofit all, I had more gold than someone level 15-20 could ever dream of.