Gold farming

[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/hour

I 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.