I’m curious how people are making gold these days. I used to just farm old pets while transmog hunting and sell whatever I found. But that seems less than optimal these days and I don’t understand how people make money selling old transmog (the time it takes to sell is absurd to me).
Every time I try to google up alternatives I’m met with either scams or outdated info. So it’s hard to keep up. I’m not looking to buckle down and become a full time gold goblin. I just want to not have to balk at the idea of spending any large amount of gold (BMAH mount, Warbands tab, ect.). Perhaps that’s unreasonable (and that’s okay if it is, I honestly don’t know).
Plus it’s always interesting to see what the community does, because it’s often all over the place and nice to pull ideas from others.
Wow token usually keeps me afloat for a few months. Sometimes I’ll buy an extra for a gold sink like leveling professions or leveling a char through bgs (replacing AH greens every 10 levels)
World quests for gold on a few toons nets an easy few thousand gold for barely any work. I also don’t really spend much gold. Sitting at about 1.2 million going into TWW. Oh, also run some old raids for mogs and sell everything. Also nets a few easy thousands as well.
I don’t actively work on it these days. Most probably just comes from quests, both leveling and world. I have a lot of alts. I make a reasonable amount from selling mats too I imagine. In TWW im just gonna farm and sell. I can’t be bothered trying to craft. My dk, who was my main in shadowlands, is also still sitting on a decent fortune from what I made on the mission table.
I used to sell carries, now I just buy WoW tokens, the truth is that making money in game is slow and tedious,
I’d say the best way to make money in game is to sell mythic+/raid carries, I used to make around 50k for each dungeon carry and 100k~ for each heroic carry. It pales in comparison to just buying WoW tokens though.
Blizzard has removed a lot of the ways a casual player can make large amounts of gold. Mission tables are gone. Professions have become another endgame level grind if you want to make a lot of gold. Selling pets can still net some gold but it’s slow. It’s only really good right when new pets are added to the game, and you need to be one of the first few to get them on the AH.
I’m still riding on gold I made from mission tables and pets in past expansions. I sold enough pets to break even in DF. It really seems like they want only the full time goblins to make a lot of gold now.
It’s a dumb design choice imo, since casuals are still the majority of the playerbase on a percentage basis. Like, it’s not even close
Those “top 1% of the top 1%” RWF Mythic players that the dev team designs raids around and such are such a tiny tiny group… yet it seems most of the “good” gold-making methods (selling carries, buying WoW tokens, selling high-end profession stuff, etc) are catered around them nowadays
Obviously a solo-casual player is not going to be in a position to sell carries for millions of gold or whatever, and has less access to the “rare” high-end profession stuff, etc
There are lots of DF quests that give 500-1,000 gold and almost all the dragonracing purses have a little over 500 gold. Seasons 2 & 3, I did those on my main and about five alts and netted close to 100K gold per week. In Shadowlands I used to buy low and flip-to-sell high commodities on the AH, but with the influx of farming bots and the throttling of how quickly you can auto scan, post, and cancel auctions, that doesn’t seem as productive in DF as it was in SL.
The Wowhead Economy series of articles might be useful, but they might not be how you want to spend your time (at least those would be up to date and not scams; issue #337 from 28-Jul-2024 linked below).
End of an expansion is difficult to make gold except for like world quest gold (or selling carries if you are in a high end mythic raid guild).
Early in an expansion both gathering and crafting professions can make a lot of gold. Gathering is simpler and more consistent for making gold, but you can get RICH if you are able to put in the time and get a bit lucky with crafting.
