Gold farming

[FIra]

Can anyone help me figure out the best method of making gold with my 5 accounts? I'm rolling with 5x deathknights.

I'm assuming dailies but meh their boring.

[JasonB87]

Run normal instances and de everything, sell the mats or enchants. Kill onyxia every week 160g I think plus enchanting mats. Go kill stuff in karahzan. Seen it soloed by 1 DK, 5 should make it easy mode.

[Starbuck_Jones]

Its called farming for a reason, there is no way to make it quick, fun, or easy.

[Hachoo]

I think the best way to make it the least painful is to break it up. Do dailies in icecrown sometimes, run some instances and sell the mats from DEing items (or make scrolls and sell them on the AH), play the AH game and buy low sell high, finish quests in zones you haven't completed yet, etc.

[pythos]

Well my team is only in the 30's so take this for what you will, but I started with almost no money on my team. At this point (lvl 33 now) I have bought all Netherweave bags for 4 Shamans (roughly 9g each) and I just bought 4 mounts at level 30 and my Shamans have all their spells(lvl 30 almost broke the bank...lol). I'm instance boosting so I loot everything and use the junk greens to DE and either raise Enchanting to sell the bigger shards. I have an auction toon with all Netherweave bags that are always full of stuff I'm selling that I've picked up from instances. I usually loot everything while instancing until my mains bags are full. At that point I just skip looting. At the end of the night all the junk greens go to my auction toon and all the shard stuff goes to my Enchanter. I just make sure the stuff I'm selling is the stuff with "good" stat combos. The other stuff gets sharded. At my level a good green goes for a couple gold which isn't a big deal. But you sell 40 greens and it add's up. I could just imagine what it's going to be like at level 60 and up. Throw in the occassional BoE blue item that goes for 25-40 gold and I'm not really having a problem with money. Getting ready to buy first guild bank tab as well. I'm really looking forward to hijacking the higher end bag market once my tailor gets up there in skill. The amount of cloth you get from instances is freakin insance. I'm waiting on level 35 because my tailor/enchanter cannot move up to the next skill level until then because of all the cloth I get and level up the skill so fast.

So yea...I'm just going to plan on all my money coming from the instances I do, since that is all I do. Being a DK team I hope you've gone back and raised a profession on at least one of them. I'm doing Inscription on mine. It sucks but lookup herb/mining guides and just spend a couple hours farming mats and it will pay off. As said earlier...it's called farming for a reason.

[Owltoid]

I'm finding that there are a decent amount of daily quests that can be completed with X just as easily as with one. Many of the quests you can get complete on all toons if they're just parked at the turn-in spot. Leave the slaves there and go do the required task (such as returning three shredders). 5x the gold for the same amount of time should lead to a decent bank.

[Ualaa]

For the quests where only 1 has to do them for multiple getting rewarded, I'd still have all of them on follow... just for the extra killing power or protection from ganking. The only time I'd personally have only one do something, is if that toon has a faster flying mount then the others.

The daily quests which can be done once, ie mostly killing quests, but where all of them receive the reward will be the best gold for your time invested. Figure out a circuit to take the dailies you enjoy doing the most. After that, farming is generally more gold per hour then non-efficient dailies/quests. Of course, if you have more then one team for dailies, running the worthwhile dailies on additional teams will beat farming.

[Nostromos]

Its called farming for a reason, there is no way to make it quick, fun, or easy.I normally watch a movie or some other DVD while farming on 5 DKs. Kinda makes a few hours fly by. :P

[Multibocks]

Are your DKs level 80? Curious to see their armories =)

[Nostromos]

Are your DKs level 80? Curious to see their armories =)They are level 73, I farm with them while I watch TV/movies and then I switch to my Shaman/Holy Priest/rogue group to level. I'm in a very small guild with no Holy priests.

[FIra]

Kinda late on this, but my guys are level 80 xblight then a b c dblight on vashj. I've done ony and some AQ. I just hate traveling there.

the enchanting disenchanting thing is a good idea.

[Tonuss]

Get Auctioneer, learn to use it, and you can make a lot of gold without spending much time doing anything else. It takes some diligence at first, but over the long haul you spend less time trying to make gold, while making a lot more gold.

[Moorea]

Get Auctioneer, learn to use it, and you can make a lot of gold without spending much time doing anything else. It takes some diligence at first, but over the long haul you spend less time trying to make gold, while making a lot more gold.I'm burned out of auctioneer - it takes a *lot* of time actually; need to constantly scan; list; buy; sell; resell; relist... time that can probably be spent doing dailies or some other way to get money (or just fun!)... auctioneer is great to turn your first 5g into 100 or 200g but after that it's a chore; imo - recently it seems selling ores is the way to go (like 7g for 1 gold ore (used to be <1g)) - I made about 1500g by getting my DK from 1-350 mining and selling it all but that took a long while; so not sure about gold/hour

[wizofid]

There are so many ways to make gold that each person really has to figure out the type of thing they like. I have not found any magic forumlas but everything comes back to the wow economy for your server. Sometimes I can mkae more money spending an hour with my pally in SM farming small radiant shards (22/hour sett at 8 gold each = 170g/hour), but if the ore/herb prices are up its more efficient to use a gatherer type mod and do fly/gather runs. I have a druid that is a maxed herbalism/miner that I use exlcusievly for this. Epic bird form is the most efficient for gathering as it is instant cast and you can even herbalize in bird form. You can break 250g/hour this way if the prices are up. But the real key to making lots and lots of money is to minimize your time investment. This requires some thinking, but once you have it things can happen quickly. For me, I sell craftables on the AH including enchants, elixirs and gems. I have a spreadsheet that tracks teh raw cost of materials to the actual cost to produce the product, then have a column that detects expected profits if sold at market value. I have a "do not sell less than" price for each item and if the market prices are plunging (usually due to some newb selling for below cost) I just don't post it. I also do not use my own gathered matts for this process (this is important) because if they are a high cost on AH it is better to sell the matts, but if they are low cost is is more efficient to buy them and convert into a high cost product. For example, if you have an enchant that goes on armor vellum II, I will only mill plants that are at 0.50 g a piece to get the violat pigment needed to make the vellum. I will ony buy arcane dust when it is under 18 g a stack, etc. Every day I buy cheap materials (only takes a few minutes) then once a week I take 1 hour and mill -> pigment -> vellum, then enchant 100 or so enchants across the board. (I have calculated the ones with the most profit). For example, I can produce a Gloves - Blasting for 10 gold, but it sells for 32 gold, making it a 22 gold profit per item. I have a character that maintains an enormous inventory of enchants and I usually have about 40 listed at AH on every day. Every morning I wake up and find hundreds of gold in my mailbox. I do the same thing with elixirs. Elixir of spellpower is an automatic 40 percent return on materials. Cuts on gems also have an almost guarenteed return, but the market is more volatile. The trick to making money is consistancy. Even if you made 300 gold a day (and it can be much higher), thats 9000/month and yet most people never have that sum.

Now if I could just stop spending....

[Biz]

Anyone remember back in original WoW when you could farm those elite chimaeroks for big time gold if you had more than one character? Are there any non-instanced locations like that at 80?

[Dominian]

Anyone remember back in original WoW when you could farm those elite chimaeroks for big time gold if you had more than one character? Are there any non-instanced locations like that at 80?

Im not aware of anything but flying mounts just destroyed thoose rare epic locations that is so hard to find!!

[FIra]

Yeah I remember back in vanilla wow the Crusader enchant was hot money, as was Righteous Orbs. Even after BC hit RO's we're still selling well. Maybe I'll look into that again.

[Tonuss]

I'm burned out of auctioneer - it takes a *lot* of time actually; need to constantly scan; list; buy; sell; resell; relist... time that can probably be spent doing dailies or some other way to get money (or just fun!)... auctioneer is great to turn your first 5g into 100 or 200g but after that it's a chore; imo - recently it seems selling ores is the way to go (like 7g for 1 gold ore (used to be <1g)) - I made about 1500g by getting my DK from 1-350 mining and selling it all but that took a long while; so not sure about gold/hourI admit I wasn't thinking in terms of pure gold/hour, for that perhaps daily quests are the way to go. My hunter just hit 80 and he is still doing normal quests plus dailies, and it's not hard to get 150-300 gold in a night's worth of playing.

I like Auctioneer for the opposite reason you stated-- once I'm set up, I spend relatively little time dealing with it, and I'm making money while not spending time trying. I run a scan every day or so, when I'm not playing the game (watching TV, eating a meal, etc), then do a quick check for possible bargains or opportunities. The downside is what you state, that if you really want to increase the rate at which you earn gold, you have to do tons of research and sit there for quite a while scanning items and taking notes. I'm sure that's very lucrative, but not the way I want to spend my free time. It's a trade-off, I don't make as much gold as I could, but I don't go nuts either.

Right now I mostly use it just to auction off the stuff I get from mining and DEing. Any BoE items I get on my hunter get sent to my shaman, and she either DEs them or passes them on to my auction alt for auctioning. Same with mining, though I am also leveling up blacksmithing and engineering so I still use up most of it. On the other hand, when I was leveling the hunter from 62-70 I wound up with a truckload of tBC ores and bars and have been slowly auctioning those off. Adamantite bars still sell for a decent premium on my server. In any event, Auctioneer also helps out with that, now that it has several add-ons that give lots of item info wherever you happen to be.

[FIra]

What I'm wanting to do Is maximize total gold gains with 5 characters. It would be silly to farm something 1 person could farm at the same rate. Maybe I'll get enchanting up and try some level 70 instances. What sucks is that It may appear to be dailies that would benefit me the most, and I hate dailies due to being burnt out on questing. I do like the ony runs and the AQ/zg runs.

I do gotta say low level instance farming is super easy with 5 deathknights that can do howling blast and hungering cold.