I’ve ALWAYS sucked at farming gold. My toons have like 5k average on them. I tried googling ways to make gold and compared it to the AH and what not and none of them seem to make any sense. What are some decent ways to make gold for the average player?
AH is the dead area to be honest…
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I got new clue how I personally landed with 150,000 gold so I can’t tell you. (Other than having alts for every profession and making my own stuff without having to buy it off the AH)
Most gold I get comes from loot I sell in solo raid runs. But since they nerfed the OP gold you could get from them recently, I have to start thinking of other ways.
I want to do so via professions, it just makes sense, but usually people would beat me to the punch or by the time I’d finally get around to it, prices have gone down.
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Easiest AND most efficient gold farm is to buy wow tokens.
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I like running LFR, so it is not really “farming” for me, but if you run alts through it and just use the tokens for gold, you get 3k per week per alt. It adds up as long as you are not trying to get the best gear for the alts.
Howdy! I’m not a gold farmer by any means, but started my gold making process back towards the end of BFA.
Back then I did a lot of herbing and mining, and I still do to this day. I’ve found funny enough, people will buy just about anything from any expansion from herbing and mining, so if you want a casual slow way of making some gold, that’s how I do it. You won’t get rich in a day, but it is a start.
Another thing I just recently did, starting in DF, was I already had an alt army to my advantage, so I made sure each toon had their own set of professions. With the gold I had made from herbing and Shadowlands (lots of raw gold in general there), I leveled each persons professions from classic to DF, and sold the items I made. This is a good way to get some bulk items up on your AH.
Otherwise than that, professions are something I have used and still to this day, love just herbing and mining.
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I heard that in moonguard some people work in th0e lions inn basement and charge for things 
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If you pay attention to what is needed for leveling past expansion profs for current use (like what do engineers need to level up cataclysm eng enough to use a loot-a-range tc.), you can focus on what will always sell well.
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Or let me be more specific. Not necessarily gold farming to make millions like some people. Like a routine that doesn’t take FOREVER to make enough gold to pay for monthly sub.
That place is disgusting and should be promptly shut down.
On topic: Fishing, OP; the good old fishing farm will never let you down.
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This is good advice ! will have to keep that in mind
Gathering: Pick things up, put on AH
WQ: pick the ones that give 600g and do them. Includes dragon racing
Tmog: the long game, find BoEs worth 1000g or more and put on AH
I dabbled in gold farming, but I couldn’t get the coins to sprout.
(goblin male /silly)
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K first go to Dragonflight. Then Scour for Tuskar Boxes and Disturbed Dirt and Expedition packs these have gold making items and a lot of them. It just takes learning where they are and developing a farming tactic, start in Walking shores and go through all the areas. It is simple I have made so much gold this way and never had to use the AH.
The key to gold farming is persistence. And time.
It takes a lot of both.
Gold Farming is a play style, like running M+ is a play style.
We have to wait and see what shakes out in WW. Right now, things are in limbo.
But back in DF, the dragon races alone were worth about 10K per week, and that’s the single, most simple thing you could do. But it takes time to run even that little bit of content. It takes persistence to be pig headed enough to do it every (twice per) week.
If you ran nothing but all of the dragon races each week, for the entire expansion, that’s almost 900K gold.
The gold is out there, there’s just no “get rich quick” schemes outside of a lottery BOE drop in the first few weeks of the expansion.
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I don’t farm gold, I do play lots of alts though and that allows me to accumulate a lot of gold.
On Retail: I dunno when they’re nerfing WQ quest rewards, but on any given week, if you see the Dreamsurge is happening on a specic zone, wait until the buff that doubles gold gains is up to do any gold quests (magpies). You can line this up with an army of alts and leave them with 1 more requirement left to do a clean sweep in as little time as possible.
Dragonflying races were still rewarding 500 ish gold per.
(this advise might be dead on today’s reset, dunno) At the beginning of the expansion, if you don’t care about skilling up cooking, just sell all your meat and fish.
For an average player who may not want to dabble in AH, just doing gold WQs each week (which is actually twice a week due to the reset on Friday) is a probably the best way to farm gold.
You can choose to them on as many alts as you feel like, and the gold is a pretty decent compared to the time spent in my opinion.
Farm Throne of Thunder 25 man heroic each week on multiple alts. Each toon should get like 4-5k gold, and do world quests that give gold. With enough alts you can rack up gold pretty fast. Sell/farm old materials that are going for lots on the a/h. Farm Raids like Antorus for BoE items that sell for very high. ( the leather orb shoulder pads are a big ticket item )
Could also wait for TWW and get on top of farming and profession stuff asap, make consumables for early key/raid pushers.
I wouldn’t suggest transmog farming, first of all it’s extremely boring to farm the specific items, and assuming you do get one of those big ticket items you are looking for you are 1: going to be fighting people who constantly undercut you, and 2: you will be waiting a long time for those items to turn a profit, losing money in listing sales in the process.
I also wouldnt trust any “get rich quick schemes or youtube videos” chances are they always leave something out. Like the transmog farming videos not explaining it could take months to get the right item and then months to even sell those items.
You’re on a classic character, so I’m not sure what you have available, but here’s what I do.
- LFR for healer goodie bags, includes runes, which sell for 1k a piece much of the time.
- Heroic dungeons for the same.
- herbing and mining early in the xpac
- sometimes fishing
- dragon races and gold paying world quests
- crafting sometimes, when the market is lively.
I don’t like grinding things, nor doing any of the above continuously, but doing whichever is available and fresh in mind at the time.
That said, making the 320k gold a month for a token for time; expect to put a lot of hours into the process.