Running old instances profitable?

[zenga]

To take a break away from the boosting I ran stratholme last night with my 5x 80 team for the achievement. It didn't take that long to complete (about an hour i guess, took a smoke break or 2 and 1 recovery break from the stuff i was smoking in between). Anyways, I looted off all corpses. Placed all the stuff worth something on AH, sold the rest to the vendor. All sb blues were sold to vendor as well (can't disenchant that yet) and went to bed. Just woke up to find a nice 400 gold in my mailbox from AH sales. With what i've sold to the vendor and what's left on the AH, thats about 6-700 gold in total. When my dailies are done, no way i can make that amount of gold so easy in about an hour.

My point is: all drops in level 30-60 range seem to sell way better than outland+ greens/blues. On my server it's like instant sell vs a week or 2 sell/no sell. In the end i prefer to sell 10 items for 4 gold each instead of 1 peace for 40g.

That being said i was curious about other opinions/experiences. Which non endgame instance is the most rewarding to farm, .. etc.

[Littleburst]

It gives some nice gold, but there are better ways. like dailes and possibly even lvl 80 dungeons might reward more.

[Gadzooks]

If you have an enchanter, BC dungeons are a good gold source - DE everything and sell the mats, cloth, and rep items, and convert the badges into stuff you can DE or sell (primal nether). I did some sightseeing on my team, did about 3/4 of BC's dungeons (thank god you get credit for normal doing Heroic). Magister's Terrace is a good, fast, easy badge run, with a chance at the Phoenix and lots of purps to DE.

[HPAVC]

You really need to be in tune with your market for DE'ing old instances.

That said, I find Kara pretty profitable (zomg cloth), but damn thats a lot of looting if your doing full clear.

Its really nice if you have 70 twinks or friends with twinks since you can get the seas/tier items there and obviously roll over Mag for the chest token for them as well as some tokens.

ZA is a good place as well for that, is quite profitable for the time spent. The items there look pretty bad ass as well.

[zenga]

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(thank god you get credit for normal doing Heroic)

can you explain this a bit more pls?

[Gadzooks]

can you explain this a bit more pls?

When you clear a dungeon on Heroic, without clearing it on normal first, you get the Heroic AND the normal achievement. That way, you don't have to waste time on normal mode.

[zenga]

Ah oki. I was a bit confused with 'credit' and the afore mentioned 'badges'. Currently i don't see any use in achievements for myself however. Afaik they don't kill for me or give me gear :P

[David]

I`m running a weekly kara, loots are around 600g (gold pickups and greys). I`m DEìng greens and purples.

Besides that I do 8easymode pvp dailies with 10 chars. Takes 30minutes to get 800g that way.

[noidentity]

Farming old instances are always profitable, I love farming MC, the old world mats and rep items that you can farm from there are awesome. The epic pattern drops also sell for lots of gold since a lot of people have the "gotta get them all" attitude with them.

[zenga]

Is it btw possible to 5 box classic raid content @ lvl 80?