I’m seeing posts about people reaching/almost reaching gold cap and just other gold related posts in general and I guess I never really thought about how much gold stuff really is on the AH compared to classic.
I have never played much retail until recently and am just getting around to maxing my first warrior (am currently 57) but it just baffles me how good a lot of people know this game. I shouldn’t be surprised considering it’s been out for what? 20 years?
Anyway- what are some of these methods people are using to farm gold during shadowlands? I mostly played classic but have been having a lot of fun with PvP on retail and would like to earn some gold to pay for cool mounts and transmog items by farming during Q timers.
Everyone is convinced you can’t make money with inscription but you can make 200k in a few hours from tomes/codexes/missives. All trainer recipes. Ignore the trinket stuff entirely unless it’s in the first month of an expansion. Don’t take up alchemy or anything that makes legendaries as the primary gold maker. They’re all money pits. Everyone needs alchemy for raiding so they have an alt with it or level it cuz people say it makes tons of gold so what really happens is everything is sold below mat cost. My suggestion is to herb for yourself a bit until you make some decent gold and then save the expansions herbs in your favorites on the ah and buy in bulk when they’re sold super cheap. Don’t sell at a loss. Hold onto something for a day or two and the price will stabilize.
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I will never understand why players say inscription doesn’t sell. I made my Brutosaur gold entirely off of it.
i am glad people are convinced it doesn’t make gold. more gold for us! i got my wife into it too now so now i make less gold “yes, honey. i won’t repost until your stuff sells.” 
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The problem with any advice about gold making is that is extremely dependant on your local server market. What might sell really well on mine might be a bomb on yours, and visa versa.
I use three tools: the TradeSkillMaster add on (which is a godsend), the Undermine Journal website and 12 years of gameplay which has provided my characters with a huge range of professional recipes/patterns/plans etc. The fact that I enjoy making gold helps.
Just remember - assess advice based on your own market, not someone else’s. If someone says, Inscription is a huge money maker (which it can be) go to your own AH and check and see just how well it does. For example, Shadowlands Tomes. On my server a Tome of the Still Mind sells for 349g. I can’t tell what server you are on, as you are posting a classic toon, but on another US server, say Nazjatar, they are selling for 440g. So the prices can vary by a considerable mount. And then you have to assess whether the crafting cost makes the end item profitable if you take into account the value of the herbs and the resulting inks.
But I would suggest that you check out what ores are doing well and collect those (Undermine Journal is a help there as you can view the value of all ores across the server) and there are other addons people like, asuch as Worthit. Oddly, sometimes you can make a pretty penny off what is called shuffling. Buy ore and turn it into bars, buy cloth, make certain items, disenchant them for the enchating materials, buy certain herbs, turn them into inks, use the inks to buy other inks and sell those, etc. If you do it in real amounts, you can make real gold.
There are lots of ways, as many ways as there are types of players who enjoying playing the market 
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I have a friend that goes into groups and farms in classic places for gear to sell for mog. They got their longboi that way.
Find a market and corner it. Personally I sell pets (mainly archeology ones) as collectors spend top gold on them.
Accumulating is hard
I like to spend it as soon as i have it
I see shinies and i want them 
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There are a lot of different ways. I’m no where near gold cap but I do fine. My approach is the long haul. Just play the game doing things you find entertaining. Pick up mining and herb and then off the mats. If you have a few characters balance in enchanting and alchemy. Alchemy can do fine for enchanting enchant your stuff and sell off the mats that you don’t need.
If you pay a little bit of attention you can find niche markets, I found a good one for engineering, I know right who would have thought. But it makes sense. Paying attention you can buy cheap sell for a bit more, I rarely ever do this though.
So play the game, sell stuff off and DON’T buy anything off the AH especially gear! Geeeshhh you cannot make gold spending it on stuff like gear. You can get that for free playing the game.
The best way to make gold in this coaching (if you don’t play the AH) iff add just to have multiple toons do the daily callings. At 16-2000 gold per day per toon, it adds up. Add the emissary boxes and you’ll have lots of gold. I make about 20k per toon per week just doing that and gold missions.
most of the cool mounts and transmog come from playing the game, not from buying stuff from the auction house.
Or we just played at the right time. By the end of WOD i had 7 gold capped toons. This is because the Garrison Ship Yard missions were extremely lucrative, “5k gold every 8-12 hours,” and you could run them on your phone. With 10 max level toons getting 2-3 of these missions done every day, the gold just rolled in.
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Amen to that first month. During BFA AND Shadowlands I made over 2 million gold pure profit just buying herbs/cards off the AH and selling Darkmoon decks.
I guess it would be cool to be rich for 226 BoEs or whatever, but overall I don’t see what the fuss is about. I basically never farm or go out of my way to make gold, especially now that I’ve quit raiding and don’t need to waste money on raid mats. Seems to me the only thing I need gold for is legendary bases.
I occasionally skin, and I’ve bought a couple wow tokens cause $20 is worth less to me than hours and hours of my time. Perhaps someone can explain to me the benefit of having oodles of WoW gold.
i get a wild hair sometimes to make a ton of gold and then spend it all on transmog. like i spent a ton on some rare BoE boots with a horrendously low drop rate, for my warlock. completed a set. gold for the sake of gold is pointless. i’ve made millions over the years. but once i reach 200k-400k i spent most of it and then start again. it’s fun to craft/sell/make tons of gold/buy things i want. but i don’t do it all the time. i don’t see why anyone would. lol
Sadly despite my vast wealth, I’m a horder in game. I’m the type who has 14 nukes for the Fat One at the end of fallout never having used them, (except maybe 1 to see how good it is) then just nukes a town over and over.
That’s is what some players do for fun
Play the ah, see how much gold they can make
Nothing wrong with it
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Some people just do all the 3 callings in SL with several chars each day.
If you have 9 chars you can each day make the 3 callings with 3 chars, so they always reset. 7k gold per day for 2,5 hours play.