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Introduction
Welcome to our ultimate gold guide section, there are plenty of opportunities out there for you to make gold, but we will only list the fastest and easiest method for any class.
We could list tons of different ways for you to earn money at lower levels but the truth is that the higher level you are the more money you will earn.
Time is better spent leveling up your character as fast as you can. It's better to level up your character to level 40 then start farming for your mount then level up to 60 and farm for your epic mount. Farming at lower levels will slow your profit down overall.
Quick General Tips
The number one tip that will save you hours of travelling is to create a secondary character (mule account) that will stay in the auction house (Orgimmar - Horde, Ironforge ? Alliance, or even Gadgetzan). Send your money and item to these characters by the ingame mail, relog with your mule account and then get them to buy/sell at the auction house. Remember time is money the more time you save the more money you make.
Pick up everything that a mob drops as every item has a value.
Familiarize yourself with items
Grey text item = Vendor Trash items. Its useless to anyone you can only sell vendors, but don?t underestimate it as grey items can still be worth a lot of coins.
White text items = Very common useful items, sometimes you can make more profit selling these in the auction house.
Green text items = Common quality items, some items are worth a lot more than the AH recommended price.
Blue text items = Superior / Rare quality
Purple text items = Epic quality
Auction House
First of all Download and install this free Auctioneer mod
This mod helps you by Giving you the average market price for all items.
Which profession the items are useful for.
Shows you vendor prices of all items, sometimes the market has too much of a certain item and you might as well sell the item to a vendor.
Shows you vendor prices of quest reward items.
This helps your auction house trading, as sometimes you don?t even realize you've sold an item under average price, where you should have made more profit.
Or if you overpriced an item which could lose your AH deposit when it doesn?t sell. This is critical with Green items like weapons and armor as the 24hour deposit can come at a very high cost.
The Auctioneer mod needs a database to be used effectively, after you install the mod visit the AH and do a full scan. This can take around 10-15mins to be completed. Try to do this every couple of days for the first two weeks of playing so you have a reliable database.
But scan the armor and Weapons section everyday to get the average market price for rare and epic quality items as they can be listed seldomly.
Remember buy weekdays and sell during the weekends. Most rich level 60 players play during the weekends for big raid meets and they can't be bothered farming.
Bags
Try to fill up all your bag slots, as more bag slots = more profit. This will save you time running back to the vendor to empty your bag. Don?t be afraid to purchase bags because all bags are not Soulbound that means you can use it then resell it when you decide to upgrade.
Level 1 ? Just use what you can find from mobs.
Level 9 ? Don?t worry about 6 slot bags, save up for 8 slot bags which are usually about 15s-20s each.
Level 18 ? You should have a full set of 10 slot bags costing around 40s each.
Level 30 ? Skip 12 slot bags and get a 14 slot bag which costs around 2g-2g50s each.
Level 45 ? By now you should have your mount and it is time to get a full set of 16 slot bags like ?Travelers Backpack? which is a random world drop from high level mobs worth around 18g-25g.
Helpful sites
If you havent heard of
or you?re missing out on the best tool for Warcraft. Both sites are similar but I find Thotbott to be more useful as it's faster and more user friendly. Thottbot is an excellent tool to do your quest and to find items, as it provides maps for item drop locations and where they come from.
Allakhazam is useful to find out an item ?Median Price? this helps you a lot when you?re trading Rare and Epic items, as the database you would gather using Auctioneer mod might not be sufficient to make your decision. You can also use this entire site instead of using the Auctioneer mod, but you might find that i'ts too time consuming to use the site all the time.
And curse-gaming.com
have the most comprehensive mod ui addons for WoW. Earning for your Level 40 Mount for level 1-40
Cost of Regular Mount
At level 40 the goal is to get at least 18g for mount training, and 72g for the mount itself assuming you have an Honored reputation with your faction. Total of 90g or if you can find someone that has a PVP rank 3 or above he can buy the mount for you for 64g saving you another 8g.
You receive a 10% discount if you?re honored with your faction and a Additional 10% discount if you have PVP rank 3 which is very easy to get at higher levels.
Cost of Epic Mount
After you have your first mount and full set of 16 slot bags, you?re set until level 60, ignore farming until you reach level 60 where you will start to save up for your epic mount which cost 800g if you?re honored and rank 3 or over.
Also note that a Frostwolf mount is available at 640g and rank 11 mount is available for 90g! But achieving rank 11 will require a lot of PVP in battlegrounds. Expect to spend at least 2 months of hardcore PVPing to reach rank 11. At level 60 earning 100g on an average day (3-4 hours) is an easy task. So you?re epic mount should be attainable in just over 1 week.
Join a Guild
If you have no high level friends, consider joining a guild early. Having higher level friends at lower levels is a great advantage. You may need someone to help you purchase your first mount at a discounted price of 64g, and a higher level friend would most likely lend you some money to get your first mount. It won't be a big deal to them 10-20g is very little money for a level 60 character but it?s a huge amount to a level 40. Borrowing money to purchase the mount will cut down your farming time, you can pay it back much faster than farming first then buying the mount.
Grinding vs Questing
Its been tested that grinding is more efficient for power leveling after level 35, but questing is more fun of course. Click here for power leveling guide past level 35.
Farming vs Profession for profit
Profession takes a lot of time and effort to level up. Leveling up your profession costs you extra time which could be more useful to level up your character instead. Unless you learned a very rare recipe, farming still earns a lot more profit than trying to sell the goods you made. Advertising your services in major cities can take considerable effort and you might not even earn, whereas farming you?re guaranteed a rate of xx gold per hour.
Farming also has the advantage of earning a ?Jackpot? prize when you find rare BOE and epic BOE world drop which sells for hundreds of gold. Where earning from your professions is likely to be a flat rate.
Best Professions for profit
Gathering professions such as Mining, Skinning and Herbalism are the best professions to complement your farming. Farming on areas that have a high demand of items that can only be gathered using your profession is the best way to maximise your profit. Picking up two gathering professions is one of the easiest ways to make gold.
Enchanting is also a good profession to complement your farming. Disenchanting items and selling the essence/dust/shards can give you more gold overall, and you can disenchant rare BOP items instead of selling them cheaply to vendors.
But Enchanting is not a profession for the faint of heart. It is for the hardest of hard core professionals. Part of being an Enchanter is learning all the recipes, and then outselling your fellow enchanters.
If you wish to make profit entirely from using profession. Herbalism and Alchemy with Fishing is the best way to go. Click here to read a complete guide on Alchemy.
Save 15g by Cutting Down Training Costs
By avoiding spending money on training costs you can save a lot of gold to get that level 40 mount. But justify it, some skills are of no use for your grinding, and offer a little amount of dps. Past level 20, the training costs are very expensive. You can live without them and it will save you about 15gold!
e.g. after level 20 as a Warrior don?t train these skills any higher
Hamstring, Rend ,Overpower, Shield Bash, Mocking Blow, Cleave, Slam.
Level 40 farming guide
From level 1 to 40
Do your quests as fast as you can using Thotbott.com to find quick solutions, quest management is important as you can complete several quests in one trip, Use thotbott to do a search for quests available close to your level and get them all. For new characters questing efficiently is by far the best way for you to earn money and level up at the same time.
Item rewards also saves you a lot of money from purchasing upgrades for your character. If you don?t need the reward, do them anyway and always choose items that have the most vendor value. Auctioneer mod will show which one is worth more to vendor instantly.
Always Buy recipes from vendors in the town/city that you?re in as you quest make sure you make frequent visits to all vendors to check whether they?re available buy them and sell them at the AH for at least double your cost. You'll be suprise that you can buy recipe from vendors at 10s then sell it in AH for 1g and it will sell. This is just because people are too lazy to travel to get them or have too much money to burn. During your Quest to level 60 you must take advantage of the vendors in certain city/town that you visited. Buy the recipe and resell them for over 200% profit. To view the complete list you need Microsoft Excel or XL Viewer which is free to download from Microsoft website.
And click here to download Vendor Recipes Guide.
Cut down on your training costs.
Always log out in a nearby town for rested experience bonus.
Once you?ve reached level 40 it's time for you to start farming Scarlet Monastery (SM) graveyard section in Trisfal Glade.
Scarlet Monastery (16-18g/hour): is located in Trisfal Glades horde territory but Alliance can access them as well. It?s divided into 4 parts Graveyard, Cathedral, Armory and Library.
Graveyard is best for farming simply because of mobs Unterred Spirit (26-32) these mobs have the same drop % rate as elite mobs even though they?re non-elite and very easy to kill.
It's been tested that in 1 hour of farming using average gear you will gain.
2g50s of money picked up.
60 Silk Cloth average AH price of 1g80s
10 Grey Armor/weapons average vendor price of 18s each = 1g80s
12 level 27-30 Green BOE items average AH price of 90s = 10g80s
2 Gems (Citrine / Lesser Moonstone / Jade) AH price of 50s each = 1g
Grand total of around 18g per hour
This is possible for any level 40 class, by ignoring the elite mobs and killing mostly the triplets of Unterred Spirit (26-32)
Before You start
Empty your bags leave all unnecessary stuff in the bank you need all the bag space you can get. Make sure you?re fully repaired and stocked up on food, water and other reagents required for your class e.g. (flash powders for rouges). Running out of reagents or food can cost your precious farming time.
Horde: Set your hearth to Brill.
Alliance: Set your hearth to South Shore. Takes a bit longer for alliance to reach SM than horde but using this guide it should only take you no more than 10mins. Read below for shortest route to SM.
Shortest route to SM for Alliance
From South Shore run North to Alterac Mountains, follow the road to Western Plaguelands, along the road in WPL you should reach Chillwind Camp and you can pick up a new flight path. From Chillwind Camp follow the road head North West see map.
Swim through the water, after you reach the other side of the water unfortunately you will run into at least 2 level 55 mobs that will most likely kill you, avoid them and keep running to your destination as best as you can. After you die return to your corpse resurrect and keep running to Bulwark you?re safe from any high level mob once you reach bulwark and run the rest of the way to SM. Allowing for 1 death it should take no more than 10 mins but If you?re in a PVP server it can take you longer if you run across to any Horde.
If you?re a Rouge or Druid this is ideal as you?ll be able to avoid dying quite easily. Safest way to travel is to go through Silverpine Forest, running on foot will take you at least 15mins without dying.
When you reached Scarlet Monastery
Go into the Graveyard instance, to reach the Unterred Spirit (26-32) area you only need to kill 2 elite mobs, and bypass the rest. Download this quick clip to show you how. Any class should be able to solo the Unterred Spirit (26-32) you just need to watch out for patrolling mobs. Keep an eye out for a rare spawn elite mob such as Fallen Champion (32-33)+ and Ironspine (28-33)+ they guarantee a Rare BOP drop and sometimes a Rare BOE drop which you can sell for tons of gold. This area is likely to have a chest as well, if it's not there it's most likely inside the building ahead, you can reach them by killing the mobs. The chest contains 1-2 random Green BOE to sell at AH. Once you run of Unterred Spirit (26-32) to farm, reset the instance in these steps.
Resetting the Instance
1. Stay inside the instance
2. Invite another player to join your group
3. Promote invited player to leader
4. Leave party
You will know that it has worked correctly when a message appears ?You will be ported out of the instance in 60 seconds? At this point leave the instance and come back in and the instance should reset.
When you finish
After about an hour it?s likely that you?re running out of bag space, its time to hearth back to Brill (Horde) or South Shore (Alliance). Sell all grey items to any vendor and head over to the mail box. Mail all items you wish to sell in the AH to your mule. Repair, stock up and head back to SM until you have enough.
Other Farming location for Level 40
Badlands (7-8g/hour) : Just east of Kargath Rock Elemental (36-3, these drop Elemental Earth which are worth around 1g each on most servers and they drop high value grey stones to sell to vendors. On an average hour you will earn 3g worth of grey stones vendor items, and 4 [Elemental Earth] which sell for about 1g in most servers.
Arathi Highlands (7-12g/hour) : At Circle of West Binding farm the Burning Exiles (33-39) , these drop Elemental Fire which is worth 1.5-3g each depending on how active the level 60 players with doing high level raid instance such as MC and BWL. Try to sell these during the weekend when most people do raids. Its also depends on the popularity of the area, you?ll find other people farming the area during peak times.
On an average hour you will get 4 [Elemental Fire] and 15 [Burning Pitch] which only sells to vendors for 86s.
The average earning for Badlands and Arathi Highlands is not very high but take into consideration that you gain a lot of EXP at the same time until you?re about level 44. So you?re farming and leveling at the same time.
Alterac Mountains (10-14g/hour with Skinning): At Growless Cave farm the large population of Mountain Yeti (30-33) and Giant Yeti (32-34). With your skinning they can drop a variety of Leather and Hide. [Heavy Leather] has the highest drop rate, and if you?re lucky you can find [Large Fang] which is very valuable in the AH.
In an average hour with skinning you will earn:
1g60s of money picked up
60 [Heavy Leather] average AH price of 7s each = 4.2g
35 [Medium Leather] average AH price of 3s each = 1.05g
18 [Heavy Hide] average AH price of 15s each = 2g70s
4 [Medium Hide] average AH price of 5s each = 20s
8 [Large Fang] average AH price of 40s each = 3g20s
Any level 40 class should be able to kill and skin these yetis non-stop, if there?s other people in the area also killing the yetis usually they?re questing and you can skin their kills. For level 40 with skinning this is better than going all the way to SM since it?s very close to Tarren Mill and South Shore. Zero downtime is the key you should at least be able to kill and skin a yeti every 30 seconds that will get you at least a variety of 120 leather/hides total.
Level 60 Farming guide
Power Farming Scarlet Monastery (35-40g/hour): Yes SM Graveyard is still one of the best places to farm even when you?re level 60 because you can do it at a much faster rate. Zone in and kill every ?Unfetered Spirits? and any elite mobs that are guarding the chest.
On an average run you will get:
30 [Silk Cloth] average AH price of 90s
6 Grey Armor/weapons average 30s each = 1g80s
6 level 27-30 Green BOE items average AH price of 90s = 5g40s
1 level 27-30 Rare BOP items average vendor price of 35s
1g80s of money picked up
Grand total of 10g minimum per run
A level 60 player can do this entire run in less than 15 mins depending on character so that?s a minimum 4 runs an hour for 36g/hour. A paladin can do this run the fastest by agroing all the enemy then use Shield and Consecration doing 5 runs an hour is achievable with an AOE class.
Recent patch have reduced the number of times you can enter an instance to a maximum of 5 instances an hour. This won't affect this farming technique at all as doing more than 5 runs an hour is quite difficult.
You might want to skip grey vendor trash items and pick up only green items as the trip time spent unloading your goods can add up.
SM Power Farming Tips
Gear selections is important, the idea is to kill as fast as you can. Try to stack up on as much as offensive gear as possible, e.g. having extra Stamina is worthless as you can recover quickly with bandages. Having more Strength, Agility or Intellect and Spirit is far more important.
Shift-Click to loot. Most items stack, sort all unwanted at the same time later, key here is to save time and loot as fast as you can.
Minimize downtime. Sometimes you don?t need full health to carry on.
Focus DPS on all mobs. Don?t bother focusing your damage to kill one mob at a time as killing them all at the same time is always faster even though you end up with less HP but that?s easily recoverable with bandages.
Western Plaguelands Heartglen and Eastern Plaguelands Tyr?s Hands
(25g/hour) or (35-55g/hour + Mining):
** update patch 1.8 have reduced the spawn time of Heartglen mob and Tyr's Hand from about 5mins to 15mins. So it's not as good anymore unless there's few people in the area.
Farming level 54-57 Elite in Heartglen Hands in an hour will earn you on average 35-55g/hour with Mining. These elite's are very easy to kill one at a time, you must interrupt their healing and you should be able to farm these continously.
7 Grey Armor/Weapons average vendor price of 1g each = 7g
2 Green BOE items average AH price of 3g = 6g
40 [Runecloth]
12g of money picked up
Grand total of 25g/hour
Heartglen have 5 spawn point for Rich Thorium Veins. But only a maximum of 2 will spawn at the same time. Tyr?s Hand also has these veins which make this an ideal place for miners to farm. But it depends on the popularity of the area you?re farming, you might have to compete with other farmers to reach the vein first. If you?re the only one farming the area which can happen sometimes, your potential profit sky rockets.
The rich thorium vein spawns every 15-20mins and they always spawn those 5 points so remember to patrol for the veins every 10 mins. Its often that you get an [Arcane Crystal] (worth around 20g on most servers) an hour if you have control of both veins.
Both Heartglen and Tyr?s Hand are the main spots for chinese farmers farming gold for real money. If you?re in a PVP server this can make things a bit difficult, but the chinese farmers depending on side won't mix with each other. They will either farm at Tyr?s Hand or Heartglen. E.g. if you?re Horde and Tyr?s hands have Alliance chinese farmers you can go farm in Heartglen with the Horde chinese farmers and vice versa if it?s the other way around.
Earn 300-350g selling 1 enchant formula
On your way to heartglen you will pass a tower on your right with lots of Scarlet Spellbinder (52-5 they are the only mob that can drop [Formula: Enchant Weapon - Crusader] beware that these areas are farmed regularly so you might have some stiff competition but occasionally there's no one there, and since it's on the way to heartglen anyway it doesnt hurt to stop and kill them, the drop rate is very low if you wish to farm these continuously you earn on average 10-15g an hour from gold and [Runecloth]
?Essence of? Golds
Essence's (Essence of Fire, Essence of Water, Essence of Air, and Essence of Undeath) sell very well at any AH on any server.
Essence of Fire Un?Goro Crater/Felwood (25-45g/hour with Herbalism) : At Fire Plume Ridge you will find Living Blaze (50-55), Scorching Elemental (49-54) and if you?re lucky sometimes there is an even called Elemental Invader which spawn Baron Charr (57-5+ and Blazing Invader (52 ?56) which have higher drops of [Essence of Fire]
In an average hour of farming you will get:
2 [Essence of Fire] - each sells at 9g = 18g
4 [Heart of Fire] each sell at 80s = 3.2g
4 [Elemental Fire] each sell at 2g = 10g
12 [Mountain Silversage] - sell in stacks of 5 for 4g = 9.6g
2 Level 49-55 Green BOE Items average AH price of 3g each = 6g
Grand total of around 45g/hour
You can also farm Entropic Horror (51-55) in Felwood just south of Irontree Woods. These have the same rate of drop as the elementals in Un?Goro and it?s a much less populated area.
Essence of Water Felwood (20g-50g/hour with Herbalism): Toxic Horrors (53-54) in Irontree Woods have almost a 7% chance to drop [Essence of Water] , they also drop [Globe of Water] and [Elemental Water] but they have very low value. Depending of the popularity of the area you can get 4x [Essence of Water] value at 10g each and make up to 40g if you farm during off-peak hours. The worst you will get is 2 [Essence of Water] an hour, with herbalism you will make even more at an extra 8-10g an hour harvesting [Mountain Silversage]
Azshara (25g-50g/hour with Skinning): Blue Dragonspawn (48-51)+ in Azhara are easy to kill and very profitable if you have skinning to get
-Drop anywhere between 5-20s
-Drop junk weapons/armor that vendors between 50s-2g
-Can be skinned for [Worn Dragonscale] and [Blue Dragonscale], and since 1.8 they sell alot more on AH.
-There is a chest that spawns in a random spot in the area every 10 min.
-Drop major healing/mana pots
-As Elite mobs they have higher rate of Green weapon/armor drops.
Silithus Thorium Veins (Rouge + Mining): Ooze Covered Rich Thorium Vein in Silithus are always located in the hives areas, As a miner you can detect these veins even if they're underground, so you don't have to go down in the tunnels in search of them. As a rouge these are especially profitable, as the Thorium Veins are everywhere but hard to reach for other classes because of the elite bugs that are guarding them. As a rouge you can stealth past most of the mob and reach the veins deep inside the hive. Each hive can spawn up to three Ooze Covered Rich Thorium Vein in the area and the mobs in the first two hives are easily soloable, if you think you're really good and up for the challenge the third hive on the bottom right corner of the map has lots of thorium veins as well, but most farmers avoid this area because the mob are elites 58-60 which is a lot harder to solo unless you have really good gear.
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