What are some good ways to multibox for gold

[thedreameater]

The spider mount at 2m is amazing but I am more interested in my boxing accounts to pay for themselves via farming gold. I havent boxed for years. What is the best way to box for gold?

Thanks!

[Lyonheart]

2mil? Thats nutz!

[JohnGabriel]

2mil? Thats nutz!

I see a few forum posts with people thinking its just a "placeholder" price. Will legion mobs really drop enough for the average person to farm 2 mil gold? The mounts are something like 100k in WoD.

[thedreameater]

I see a few forum posts with people thinking its just a "placeholder" price. Will legion mobs really drop enough for the average person to farm 2 mil gold? The mounts are something like 100k in WoD.

It's crazy. We'll see. I hope it's placeholder ... but I kinda don't. It would be rad to run around on a mount no one has.

[Fat Tire]

I see a few forum posts with people thinking its just a "placeholder" price. Will legion mobs really drop enough for the average person to farm 2 mil gold? The mounts are something like 100k in WoD.

Just to be clear, I agree that the Mad Merchant isn't going to serve as a very effective gold sink. But that's because he isn't intended to be one in any meaningful sense. Gold sinks, in an MMO economic sense, are primarily things like repair costs, the Auction House tariff, and a range of useful expensive items that still fall within the price range of many guild banks and gold-rich players. In this case, a handful of very wealthy players may dump a large portion of their gold reserves into this one vendor, but that's ultimately a blip in the grand scheme of the WoW economy.

If we wanted to drain as much gold as possible out of the economy using these items, we'd be pricing them differently. If the Blackfang Widow cost 200k, I'd wager that far more than 10x as many would be sold. Inflation is a concern, but that's a battle that will be waged on many other fronts. This is just a crazy merchant. The point of the items is to be ludicrously expensive, just as the point of something like the Time-Lost Proto Drake is to be ludicrously rare (if you think about it, a multi-day respawn that shares a spawn point with a more common variant and has a zone-wide patrol is pretty insane...). Some of the vendor's details may be tweaked, and there's been very good feedback in the thread on the relative attractiveness of the different items, but the 2mil price tag for the mount is not likely to change.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...5664?page=3#54

[Hor]

Garrisons and Shadowmournes. Using RAF I have one of each class on each of my five accounts, the attached server is full of death knights that I granted levels to. I run those DKs through ICC every week, a couple per week. I take a pair of locks for the initial SM quest stuff, to get them through blood queen. I then run them with a Hunter afterward (my Hunters all have Jaina's portal item), so my AH alt always has a couple of mounts, etc ready to sell.

With my "main server" guys, I do garrison stuff for gold. Gold missions take a few minutes per day while boxing. I have switched everyone to Tailoring + another profession. I make bags, those still sell well. But also, they'll sell nicely once Legion drops and everyone's wanting bags for their Demon Hunters. I also run the Inscription Hut, I do the daily and keep work orders on it. Once per week I make cards and flip them. I send the daily tickets from the Scribe hut to my AH alt to combine and vendor.

Additionally, you might want to run the JC hut, but I find it's just not worth it half the time. Unless it's Ore or gem cuts, the return isn't good enough to bother. Trader's building is also a must, get the Fur for bags, or Dust to sell on the AH while the selling is good. Herbs have dropped a lot, so I generally just buy a boatload cheap and mass mill them. Salvage Yard is also necessary, those crates are still generating a decent amount of cash.

Coincidentally, these things are still going to be generating gold in Legion, missions won't have gold coming from them. BUT you'll still be getting resources that can be traded in for gold from the Trading Post (the sacks).

There's also the Cata raids, those are decently lucrative but I haven't been bothering with those since I got in Alpha and had less time to play live.

[Wubsie]

Well, currently there are multiple things that can make you gold fairly easily. Here are some of the ones that have been lucrative for me. Word of warning though: It is worth noting that the expansion is drawing to a close and most likely the demand for the mats I farm will drop, dragging the prices down with it.

1. Cataclysm Raid Runs
The gold the bosses drops is based on the difficulty and raid size setting and the number of characters in the raid instance. On 25HC this is around 125g per toon + loot items (I would say the average is about 80g of vendor value). So, for example a 5-box would earn about 700g per boss. With a total of 27 bosses available this would mean about 19k from the bosses + whatever you pick up from trash mobs. Other raid tiers do not drop nearly as much gold, and I would assume this will get nerfed eventually as well.

2. Barns
A building in your garrison that allows you to go trap beasts that you then use for workorders that give leather/fur and savage bloods. As you can trap for a party of 5 at the same time (1 trapped beast = 5 toons get "tokens"), this scales nicely for multiboxers. Also the active time to keep the work orders rolling is fairly low. I do these on 2x teams of 10, and I still average about 40k every 4 days.

3. Felblight
Personally I'm not aware of any very good way of farming it, but killing Supreme Lord Kazzak weekly will net you 10 felblight per character on average. Depending the realm these go for a decent price. On my realm they go for about 80g each (2x10x10x80=16000g per week).

4. Tanaan Rep Tokens
The 4 rares in Tanaan Jungle (Deathtalon, Doomroller, Terrorfist and Vengeance) have about a 10% chance to drop a rep token called Medallion of The Legion. On my realm these go for around 3-4k each (used to go for like 15k... good times). I've spent a few lazy Sundays camping the spawns and I can usually catch all 4 in about 2 hours while watching Netflix.

5. Pet Farming
There are absolutely loads of battle pets in the game that go for absurd amounts of gold. Some are harder to obtain and some are silly easy for their price.

6. Boosting
Yes, yes, we know... No one likes the boxer booster. But if you can get someone to pay you 100k gold for a boost in Colosseum. It might be hard to pass up. *Wink* *Wink*

[thedreameater]

WOW! What an awesome community! Such fast and great replies. Thanks everyone! Now ... picking my classes is the next decision. DKs will probably be my go to, but I must figure out how to box with IWT. A question I'll ask elsewhere.

Thanks again!!!

[emitchell109]

Heard that gold cap in legion is going up. So I assume that will be the price. If not close to it.

[Hor]

The spider mount isn't meant for the average player, just as raid mounts and PVP mounts are meant for average players either. They require some sort of concerted effort. This one just requires you be someone who's focused on making gold. I still think it should've been a Cow with a "Cash Cow" achievement. But I'll take it.