Maxed out gold making at the beginning of expansion and supplement the token cost with pre paid cards. Can get them cheap ~$8 per month for a year. I bought several 1 year game time cards off ebay for $90-100 or 60 day cards for $15-20. I certainly didnt want to be spending a majority of my play time grinding gold.

Even though I havent played legion at all, my wifes still plays wow and I am considering starting back up again. This is what we used to do.