10 Best World of Warcraft Gold Farming Strategies
Here’s a compilations of World of Warcraft gold tips and strategies that I believe every WoW player should know. I have gathered them from my personal experience and they have served me very well in the past.
1. It’s been mentioned many times, but if you are just starting the WoW, your first character need to take on gathering professions. In my opinion, Mining and Herbalism are two of the most profitable at this time.
2. Auction every single item that is not gray. Mass mail everything to an Alt to save time.
3. All the green items that you find should be saved and mailed to an alternative character, when you have collected bags full of them, you should tip (generously) an Enchanter to disenchant them. Shard and Dusts are selling at an incredible rate and I can only foresee even better outcomes when the Wrath of the Lich King comes out.
4. Get addons: Auctioneer, Gatherer, Atlasloot, TitansPanel (or FuBar). This provides some very useful additional information that the default UI does not offer.
5. Supply your goods from your gathering professions to crafters in top guilds on your server. Doing this will guarantee sales and you eliminate the Auction House cut.
6. When Mining, keep in mind that Silver and Tin shares a spawning node; Gold and Iron shares another one; and the same applies for Truesilver and Mithril. For example, if you are only looking for Gold Ores, you MUST mine all the iron nodes as well because this will increase the overall Gold Node spawns.
7. Like Jewelcrafting, I foresee Inscription to be big in the Wrath of the Lich King. Get this profession if you already have characters with maxed gathering professions.
8. Watch the Blizzard calendar and pay attention to in-game events. Certain items will be in very high demand in certain times of the year. A fortune could be made by purchasing or farming these items in bulk prior to the event.
9. Understanding World of Warcraft Economy. Not as complicated as the real world economy, but it follows the same basic principle: supply and demand. You need to look for items that are low in supply and high in demand.
Let’s look at this example, on a Realm like Mal’Ganis where it is dominated by raiding guilds, the demand for certain items (pots and flasks?) will be very high, if the supply cannot match the demand, the price will rise to balance things out.
10. Enjoy the game, there are so many methods to make decent amount of gold in WoW, you just have to pick one and be as efficient as possible with that one method. After all this is a game, you are here to have fun!
These 10 Gold Tips have certainly helped me tremendously in World of Warcraft, I hope it does the same for you.