How To Farm Gold Quickly

WoW Classic brings back the simpler days of a relatively stable and contained player economy. This predictability can be a boon for people wishing to carve out their own niche in the game world. Without the need to catch up with the latest content, people are free to focus on doing what they want. Whether you want to play the markets, craft high-end gear, or purchase an Epic Mount, you will need Gold. Luckily, there are many well-documented methods of turning a quick profit.

Open world

Farming for currency and sellable items in the open world is the most straightforward option, but it is unlikely to be very lucrative in most cases. If you leave no corpse unlooted and remember to check out hard-to-reach containers (like the ones underwater), you can improve your earnings somewhat no matter where you are. Still, concentrating on certain areas is going to be much more efficient. The Plaguelands zones, especially Eastern Plaguelands and Hearthglen in the west, present relatively easy and rewarding mob farming opportunities for heroes of all classes while also letting them earn Argent Dawn Reputation. Felwood and Winterspring in Kalimdor are solid options in a similar vein despite the risk of being interrupted by PvP. Among other things, those sites are good sources of various fancy clothes that typically command a good price.

Dungeon farm

Dungeon farming is considerably more challenging, but even more lucrative if you can pull it off. Once you have climbed to level 60, you will be able to solo many otherwise difficult dungeons, making it trivial to extract their varied resources. The Righteous Orbs dropped by Scarlet Crusaders on the living side of Stratholme is one example of a unique resource, valued highly due to their use in high-level enchantments. You may find elemental enemies that drop the essence of their respective elements in many parts of the world. However, only places like Maraudon or Blackrock Depths offer sufficiently thick concentrations of those creatures for them to be effectively farmable. Among lower-level dungeons, the Scarlet Monastery stands out due to its high concentration of semi-valuable drops, making it potentially worth your while even on an endgame character. Bear in mind that you can currently only enter five instances an hour and thirty a day, limiting your ability to farm dungeons by resetting. Choose your targets well, wring as much as you can out of them, and find other lucrative activities to pursue between farming instanced content.

Gathering professions

Looting alone will only get you so far. Professions are indispensable for making large amounts of in-game money. Gathering professions, in particular, are vital if you are to fully profit from any of the previously mentioned farming opportunities. Skinning is the single most efficient one among them. Its chief advantage is that it does not distract you as much from leveling, allowing you to skin the monsters you kill. While it does require you to compete with others over the few particularly lucrative creatures, other professions have a similar issue with nodes. It also allows you to farm one of the most valuable crafting materials in the game – the Devilsaur Leather of Un’goro Crater, which is necessary to make some of the best pre-raid gear. Other than that, Mining and Herbalism may be more lucrative, but they will not give you experience. Still, both will find plenty of use in dungeons and high-level zones. Fishing is not really a contender next to other professions, but you can still profit from catches like Deviate Fish or Oily Blackmouth.

Production professions

Production professions are more complicated, typically requiring a greater investment of both time and money before they start to pay off. Nevertheless, their synergy with gathering and importance for endgame gearing can make them worthwhile. Out of those, Alchemy is the most consistently profitable choice, turning herbs and other ingredients into consumables that find use in everything from battlegrounds to the Molten Core raid. Leatherworking offers more versatile products than Blacksmithing, but the latter makes some of the strongest items in the game, including raiding gear. Enchanting is a wild card, reliant on recipes acquired from high-level areas and a steady supply of disenchantment fodder. That makes it a particularly popular option for alts, who can level with the help of rested experience and rely on your main for raw materials and formulae.

Important tips

• So far, this guide has talked solely about acquiring or creating various items, because farming and selling them is much more efficient than farming gold directly. Still, the question of how to best exchange your plunder and products for gold is a critical one. You may usually sell lower-quality PvE loot to vendors without any fear of missing out on greater profits. More advanced items and crafting materials are best sold on the Auction House, which requires you to pay attention to shifts in price. The best materials are always in demand, but you may wish to wait for the middle of the week to sell consumables, as that is when most of the big raids happen. Note that you cannot sell enchanted gear (as opposed to materials made through disenchantment) on the Auction House, requiring you to advertise through chat and meet with other characters “in person” to enchant their gear. While this may still be profitable with the right recipes, it is a more risky and effort-intensive proposition than what other crafting professions face.
• Perhaps the most important piece of advice for someone hoping to farm gold is to save. A penny saved is a penny earned, and with so many suboptimal ways to spend your gold, there are many savings to be had if you plan ahead. For example, try to avoid buying gear when you can loot or craft it instead. Pick professions that support each other, like Herbalism and Alchemy or Skinning and Leatherworking, to avoid having to pay for materials. Complete quests that increase your Faction Reputation to receive discounts with vendors, trainers, and flyers. If you don’t play a Mage yourself, befriend someone who does in order to use conjured food and drink items instead of buying them. Coaching can reveal even more ways to minimize your expenses. While they may seem minor, they add up over time, and eventually, your savings may be enough to buy you a Faction Mount.