How do you guys farm your gold?

[Fragmad]

Yeah, how do you farm your gold?

I do Sunwell and Ogrila dailies, and when they are done I might go to Death's door in BEM and farm Aldor rep items (they sell pretty high atm).


I was thinking also, would 5x fishing make alot of money? You could pretty easily fish on 5 chars at once. ^^

[Maz]

Suvega's Method ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=63711#post63711')

[opt]

im upto 19,000g and i must admit..im starting to get a bit bored.
I do 2x SSO dailies, 2x Sketties dailies, 1x PVP daily 1x Instance daily & instance for the rest of the night.
But yeh gets boring

[Ken]

im upto 19,000g and i must admit..im starting to get a bit bored.
I do 2x SSO dailies, 2x Sketties dailies, 1x PVP daily 1x Instance daily & instance for the rest of the night.
But yeh gets boring

With my solo 70 I did dailies too at first ... but then I saw that doing quests and mining+prospecting gave me a lot more money per hour. It's even better with an epic mount.
I didn't sell the ore, but prospected blue gems out of it. That gave me more money than selling the ore.

[Tonuss]

I was at 14,000 gold until I spent a bunch on some items for my shaman and am at... about 11,000 combined now (two 70s). I don't farm gold very hard, I will do between 3 and 7 dailies in any given day, or as many as 15-16 on rare occasions. Even so, if it gets to be a chore I just stop for a few days. I also made around 2,000 gold selling the enchanting mats from the items I was DE'ing while boosting the alts. Heck I may have made 2,500 by now, dunno.

The only real expenses I have coming up are the level 60 mounts for my four alts (~2500?) and the level 70 mounts (~3500?). And I plan to leave most of the quests available for the alts to do at 70, and those will bring in enough gold to cover the mount expenses and then some. Blizzard has given players pretty much every option available to gear up and get the things they need while spending very little gold, and at the same time they have made so many ways to make gold by the bucketful. I am planning to have at least 10,000 gold on hand when the expansion goes live, and may have as much as 20,000 or more. And I plan to be very very cautious about spending it, unlike the past.

[Mercurio]

I do dailies when I need to (the easy SSO ones - about 6-7 of them) on one or two of my sets of my 5 level 70s. So that's about (6 quests x 10 toons) 60 dailies done in about an hour when I want to , not bad.

Still, I only do them when I need the money. Saving up for WotLK? No thanks. We are getting only 11g or so per daily now. At 80 we'll be getting 50g or so? And Bliz will make the stuff you want in WotLK based on the 50g per daily rate.

Why work really hard now to save up cash that won't be worth much in the future?

It's like living in a hyper-inflation nation in Africa where you better spend any money you have on bread today because every week you save your money is worth 10% less.

You have 3 options in WoW at this point: 1) gear up your 70s, 2) make/save gold, or 3) level up alts. All the work you put into the first will be completely worthless when WotLK comes out. Working on the second will be hugely devalued when WotLK comes out. Working on #3? That's something that you'd have to put the same time and effort into later when the expansion comes out. Pretty obvious to me from an ROI (return on [time] investment) perspective.

That all said, I'm enjoying heroics about half my play time because ... well, it's just fun today. ;)

[Drizzit]

You have 3 options in WoW at this point: 1) gear up your 70s, 2) make/save gold, or 3) level up alts. All the work you put into the first will be completely worthless when WotLK comes out. Working on the second will be hugely devalued when WotLK comes out. Working on #3? That's something that you'd have to put the same time and effort into later when the expansion comes out. Pretty obvious to me from an ROI (return on [time] investment) perspective. Even with option 3 you are screwed too because what they will do is decrease the xp required to lvl 2 months after WotLK comes out. I wanted to make a new too so i made my hunter. I get him to lvl 60, a week later i find out that the xp required is now reduced. So all that work that i did i could have cut in half. So maybe get all your alts to 20 because they might keep the 1-20 xp range the same.

They say that your geared shouldn't get replaces with lvl 70 greens when it comes out. They are aiming for lvl 75 to replace your purples with greens. I think that they realized that everyone got pissed that the best purple in the old land was replaced with a green from the first quest.

[Tonuss]

Why work really hard now to save up cash that won't be worth much in the future?
The three or four thousand gold that I had when tBC went live turned out to be very useful. The 10/20,000 that I'll have at the start of WotLK may or may not be useful, but I'm guessing that I'll be better off with it than without it. I do agree that it's not a good idea to grind it out, especially since you can do a few dailies each day and build up a decent amount of cash by that time.

[OzPhoenix]

I just do dailys on my Hunter when I could be bothered. Shaman team has around 3,000gold on it right now. So long as they have enough to buy their standard flyers bang on 70 I'll be happy, and they can then save up the dough for their Epic flyers.

They've already got their normal land mounts, and the 3k should cover their Epic land mounts, so I think I'm right for now, so the Hunter just PvP's mainly.

[Crucial]

I'm a firm believer in NOT doing dailies for money (rep is another story) - IF you are at a point where you can farm heroics effectively. I've funded 5 epic flyers within a few weeks barely doing any dailies at all. That's 30k+ gold to put things in perspective. Dailies will give you rep and gold and a few other perks but instances will give you rep, gold, badges, loot, enchanting materials, primals, rare/epic drops, herbs (botanica is nice), ore, and you won't have to deal with people whispering you every two seconds wasting your time.

For example, I usually run through a good portion of heroics in a day an end up with close to 40 large pristmastics (every one you loot is still more profitable than doing a daily), about 20 void crystals, a ton of enchanting materials, 15-20 badges, and ton of other stuff. Just yesterday I had 2 of the Eight of Furies cards that sell for 250g (thats a nice bonus that no daily will ever match in a few seconds of looting). At the end of the day or week, dump all your wares on the AH and wake up in the morning with a loaded mailbox of gold. I know people like to say Dailies are the way to go but IMO its a lot more work for a heck of a lot less. That and doing the same dailies every day is extremly boring, at least with instances you can mix it up a bit or bring a long a friend to make things interesting.

[badashh]

I'm usually pretty limited on time, but I think the SSO dailies are the fastest way to earn gold. But if I had a team that could complete a heroic, I would be doing that daily first every time. Those Badge rewards are sooo sweet.

[kllrwlf]

Just do dailies. I was earning 145gold per toon x5 = 725 for a little over an hour game time. Right now, I'm sitting on about 6500g each toon.

Then again, I haven't bought my epic flyer yet... only because my dailies doesn't require a fast flyer, and I'm being cheap. Heard that when the next expansion comes out, the epic flyer will cost less.

[Los]

Then again, with the amount spend, you can do more daily's or do them faster and do other stuff.

[Ken]

Then again, with the amount spend, you can do more daily's or do them faster and do other stuff.

Exactly. If you have the money for an epic mount, you can make money a lot faster. Even if it's just for mining or so.

Of course epic flights will be cheaper after the expansion, but your gold will very likely be worth less too.

[xtobbenx]

I have just reached 70 so i havent really gotten into Heroics. But i lvled most of the time from 60 to 70 in 5mans and i must say that just normal 5mans gives alot.. Like steamvoult give the rep thingis that sells really nice.. and SL and mech gived rep to aldor etc.. I mail every thing that gets sold on AH to one bank chr that cash in a few hundreds each day from my lvling in the 5mans basicly. So going heroics must own like crazy :P

[Drizzit]

what lvl can you start doing the sso dailies?

[Sarduci]

70

Seriously though, if you guys are getting bored grinding gold - do something else! :D I was getting sick of grinding heroics, so I rolled a completely new team. And I'm having a blast.

There is more to WoW than 26,000g worth of epic flyers. lolWhat? More to life that collecting gold for epic mounts?? Huh???

*confused look*

*head implodes*

[Drizzit]

you get gold to get better gear. you get better gear to get more gold.

Is there really thing else to it?

[Evol]

So gold buys you instance spots, heroic badge tokens, arena points, honor points, raid spots? Huh?

No. Gold buys you really fast flying mounts. Thats it in the end game.

Well, there is the roughly 10,000 gold in mats needed to gem/enchant 5 toons every arena season/full gear upgrade cycle, if you're into that.

[Crucial]

you get gold to get better gear. you get better gear to get more gold.

Is there really thing else to it?So gold buys you instance spots, heroic badge tokens, arena points, honor points, raid spots? Huh?

No. Gold buys you really fast flying mounts. Thats it in the end game.Buying raid spots is not unheard of. Arena points ...well perhaps not as common now. Gold helps indirectly with all of those things, even if it just means repairing your broken gear from the last BT/Sunwell raid or purchasing flasks etc. Using gold to max out 10 different professions across 5 characters, upgrading gems/enchants on gear, upgrading bags. There is always something you can spend gold on and there will continue to be. End game is when you quit wow.

[Xar]

End game is when you quit wow.LOL, never looked at it that way but I have to agree. I do dailies on my 3 existing 70's, not to the point of doing heroics yet on my shammies but being able to never worry about consumables when someone asks me to raid on my priest is great. Pop a flask or two, eat pots like candy and buff foods and never worry about it is great.

Also, a friend at a local store told me he heard it will cost around 8kg to level a DK, not sure if that's true or what his sources were though. Not sure if that's for training or what but it might not be a bad idea to have an extra load of coin when the expansion hits.

[Lyonheart]

you get gold to get better gear. you get better gear to get more gold.

Is there really thing else to it?

So gold buys you instance spots, heroic badge tokens, arena points, honor points, raid spots? Huh?

No. Gold buys you really fast flying mounts. Thats it in the end game.
You can buy epic gems for your gear if you want now, lots of people who have had tons of badges, they don't use, are buying gems and selling them on the AH. Also gold buys you the ability to make some tradeskil stuff that you used to have to farm instances bosses for some of the mats( Primal Nethers, Nether Vortex..ect ) Gold is good !

I like to mix it up. I do all the quests on SSO island with 9 lvl 70s..My 5team then my original 4. Then ill do an instance and a PvP game or two with my new 70s. Oh and i still have most of netherstorm and all of SMV quest to do.

[Jaws5]

Hands down . lvl a toon to 70 (make it a paldin for 20 percent faster mount speed. Make him a miner and eng. fly around Nagrad make make 200-500 gold per hour getting airs , and ore and gems. Or get 5 good aoe toons and farm the hell out of normal instances in ouland.

I like the paladin way , easy to watch movie work on other things while farming

its that easy

[euthana]

What i plan on doing before Wotlk comes out is gettting 375 in all professions so when wotlk comes

that way a) im set for new stuff and b) prof mats from lvls 55 and lower may become scarce and overpriced lol

just my thought

..unless of course when you make your deathknights and they come with profs that match there lvl , if bliz is smart enough to do that ;\

[firest4rter]

On the topic of the future economy of WoW, all my 5 are with Aldor, I have stock piled Marks and Armament since hitting 70 and now have about 1500 marks and 50 Armaments. I am most interested in spending my time wisely up until the expac hits and will most likely boost another 4 toons to 70 to have some different DPS classes available to me. My other interest is stocking up on a reasonable amount of gold whilst I farm instances for fun.

The question: Should I just sell all my Aldor stuff on the AH as its fetching a good price at the moment. The only thing that I would really benifit from is the shoulder enchants and the neck from SSO, both of which will be of no use when I get to WOTLK.

Thoughts? I am thinking just cash it all in.

[Fragmad]

Where can I farm primals, where I won't run out of mobs?

[firest4rter]

I am pretty sure they will have new shoulder enchants at 80, I'll live with the honored ones for now. marks selling for 2g each on my server and arms at 30g a pop, I think im selling :D

[Gurblash]

How do you guys farm your gold?

In before Zin's "chinaman" comment.

Other than that I'm still working the level treadmill. 9 MOAR to go. I plan on doing mostly Instances for my gold as the rep/badges will serve me better than straight up gold.

[OzPhoenix]

All these good ideas and fun things to do at 70 again with a ready made 5 man team. Literally can't wait till I'm there. 48 now and churning through Azeroth as fast as I can.

[Toned]

70

Seriously though, if you guys are getting bored grinding gold - do something else! :D I was getting sick of grinding heroics, so I rolled a completely new team. And I'm having a blast.

There is more to WoW than 26,000g worth of epic flyers. lol
I make my gold from heroics :p

I'm 1 / 6 for CE exalted epic flyers g/f got the first one. 5 more to go.

[Con7ent]

It's definitely necessary to have gold: enchants, repairs, mount money, consumables etc. High level weapon enchants on my server are running about 500g now also. When you raise the question "what is it all for", and render it all as a vicious cycle of sorts it can technically make sense, and seem a bit futile... but for me I would have to say that my reason for playing is the sheer challenge I get from doing things that most other players can't or won't do. Whether it's success in arena, multi-boxing a difficult PvE encounter, customizing my playstyle/UI and things like that. From playing since release I've found that most people seem to weigh success in wow by the equips and items that they obtain, and all this does is lead to obsessive and counter-constructive tendencies as shown by the plethora of "dramas" that plague many raiding guilds, such as this one http://www.vqguild.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=553 as a recent example. Then excluding the minority of people who keep clear objectives about what they want to do with the rewards they obtain, what you have is a bunch of people raiding together all for the purpose of obtaining glittery loot simply "because it's an upgrade", or "it looks better than x". These people are like the proverbial kid in a candy store, surrounded by things he simply HAS to have. When this attitude is prominent in the guild, a lot of people will usually quit because in spite of their intentions, their guild is no longer playing like a team, they are playing as ego-centric individuals bound to 24 other people to get what they want.

Not to rant about raids, but basically my goals in game I have designed to revolve around my personal proficiency as a player, and not just on all the meaningless "perks" I can invest in. Playing this way has given me a kind of aesthetic appreciation for the game, especially when it comes to arena and multi-boxing.:D

EDIT: To farm gold if you're 5-boxing, do heroics if you can manage it. A lot of encounters take a lot of skill to 5 box because of the way you have to move etc. but when you master them and stop dying, you get huge gold return plus epix drops-

[OzPhoenix]

I like Con7ents view on things.

For me, the whole point to multiboxing is to do things I've never done before. For example, I have NEVER done a Heroic dungeon - still, after all this time, thanks to a long post-BC break and being in a small guild prior to multiboxing.

I've never had a single character sitting around in equipment that I can honestly call (by my own definitions to be sure) largely complete. Never done quite a few things actually - and that's why I mulltibox - and to get back to the topic, I need only so much gold as is necessary to fund that.

Sounds like the best way to do that is Heroics once I can master them, until then I'll keep grinding up and maybe do some of the dailies that give rep as well as gold.

[Mercurio]

Con7ent makes a lot of sense. (And I respect anyone who uses a warrior tank in heroics multiboxing - I've tried on my eppiced out warrior and find the "fun" part elusive).

Just ran a few more heroics today - looked at my main and he had 21 Primal Nethers. Wondered if I could do something useful with them and found them selling on the AH for 60g. Never thought of that - just a little bonus gold per instance. Guess I need to look at how much money I end up with from Heroics. I never thought about them as anything but Badge/Epic Loot options.

Maybe I can skip those SSO dailies alltogether and still pile up the dough. Then again, a few of them are so stupid easy...

[Con7ent]

Con7ent makes a lot of sense. (And I respect anyone who uses a warrior tank in heroics multiboxing - I've tried on my eppiced out warrior and find the "fun" part elusive).

Just ran a few more heroics today - looked at my main and he had 21 Primal Nethers. Wondered if I could do something useful with them and found them selling on the AH for 60g. Never thought of that - just a little bonus gold per instance. Guess I need to look at how much money I end up with from Heroics. I never thought about them as anything but Badge/Epic Loot options.

Maybe I can skip those SSO dailies alltogether and still pile up the dough. Then again, a few of them are so stupid easy...It would probably be easier for me if I had a pally to AE tank the mobs but from playing warr forever tanking is just like second nature to me now :P
I have to watch my CCs a lot though, especially since 3 of the toons I'm boxing right now are pretty new 70's and just have some pvp gear as epics.

I envy you though, AE tanking ftw ../forum/images/smilies/smile.png

[Kaynin]

Personally, I'm not a quester, at all. And definatly not a grinder. So I usually -suck- when it comes to making gold.

However, strangely, I can get myself to farm Stratholme Baron runs. I don't know, maybe it's the nostalgia, or maybe the uber small chance on the mount. But I can get myself to do it again and again. And I've been doing this many times now, and still don't mind going there. I have three epic flyers now, in a few days I'll have the last 2k gold required for the last one I need.

How? Disenchanting all loot and selling the shards.

Note: Sometimes shards don't seem to sell at all. I've had days I had like 150 lbs's stocked up on the AH (2000 gold worth on my server of lbs's alone. :P ). You can undersell them to get rid of them quicker, but don't undersell to much. It's a very up and down market, somedays no one looks for them, somedays tons do. Be sure to get the max out of your shards, don't be afraid to put them up again and again.They will sell! And putting up shards costs like nothing anyhow. xD

[OzPhoenix]

Personally, I'm not a quester, at all. And definatly not a grinder. So I usually -suck- when it comes to making gold.

However, strangely, I can get myself to farm Stratholme Baron runs. I don't know, maybe it's the nostalgia, or maybe the uber small chance on the mount. But I can get myself to do it again and again. And I've been doing this many times now, and still don't mind going there. I have three epic flyers now, in a few days I'll have the last 2k gold required for the last one I need.

I very much enjoyed going back with my 70Hunter into Scholo and Strath. Fun instances to solo they are.

[Kyudo]

To quote that guy in Robocop:

"It takes money to make money".

I'm saving for WoTLK now, I want to start ahead and stay ahead in the expansion in terms of gear, rep and professions. Dont have epic flyers on my guys yet, and probably wont bother till the expansion hits (speculating that the price will drop then). Making cash from a variety of craft professions and speculating on the gem market for once S4 hits.

If you have time to spare and want general cash inisights (non boxing), see this megathread on EJ:

http://elitistjerks.com/f15/t18064-art_making_gold/