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What's the best way to make gold?
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Post by
Ultimatium
So, i would like to start a thread about gold making. As it is right now, i have mostly been farming some of the old cataclysm raids, such as bastion of twilight, which gives about
700 gold
, firelands, which gives about
900 gold
and blackwing descent, which gives about
1000 gold
. Is there anything else i should do?
Also, i have been crafting and selling
Rethu's Incessant Courage
, which sells for about 50,000 gold.
Garrisons: They used to be good in WoD but doesn't seem to give much gold anymore.
Post by
Nexsa
Garrisons are a great way. LvL 3 Inn and 7 to 10 followers with 100% increased gold trait. Also the trading post any level. Use them resources to buy stuff that can sell on the AH or be used to make stuff to put on the AH.
Post by
Adamsm
Run the Cataclysm raids on Heroic 25 man; you can rake in 6k gold after doing all 4.
Post by
lankybrit
Some of the advice in my guide (in my sig) for making gold with alts also applies to a single player. Check it out.
Post by
jarycu
Some of the advice in my guide (in my sig) for making gold with alts also applies to a single player. Check it out.
Brit's guide is awesome, highly recommended.
If you can build up your garrison(s), you can make gold on autopilot. Doing nothing but running missions on my 4 L3 garrisons, I make 2k-4k per day (depending on RNG). I have all profs maxxed except for LW, but I rarely do anything with them as I'm making more than enough just through the missions.
I did go through 2 days ago and put an L3 barn and L3 salvage yard into all of my garrisons, and they're beginning to add to my gold output now, so that'll just give me more money for later.
Post by
rabican1
It may seem odd, but the most important thing to do when you want to earn a lot of gold is to not care about earning a lot of gold.
1. Don't buy from the AH, only sell on the AH. A better plan would be to avoid the AH all together.
2. Have 25 followers maxed out in all respects, and have as many treasure hunters as you can.
2a. Also have as many scavengers as you can.
3. Have a level three salvage yard and Tradeing post.
4. Constantly churn your followers. Send them out at all times. Do every mission.
4a. Get yourself Master Plan or Garrison Mission Manager, or a good follower mission manager add on, and make sure your chances of success on each mission is 100%.
5. Collect your gold, garrions resource rewards and salvage bags and boxes.
6. I vender everything that drops from the salvage boxes and bags. Even now and then I get a 650-670 purple that I will send to an alt or a guildee. If you have the time or energy you could AH many of items you get from salvage, but I just can't be bothered. I used to DE the drops and try to sell the mats, but I found that to just be a waste of time.
7. Do this on a number of Alts. I have five.
I make at least 25K a week. AT LEAST. I have had weeks were I made closer to 50K.
Also another good mod to have if you have a lot of alts is Altaholic. It will help you properly pool all your alt resources.
Post by
Ultimatium
Well, i pretty much only play one character, so alts are not an option.
Post by
rabican1
7. Do this on a number of Alts. I have five.
I play one character, so that is not an option.
Don't worry that won't last.
Post by
Ultimatium
Some of the advice in my guide (in my sig) for making gold with alts also applies to a single player. Check it out.
Which of the suggestions specifically?
I just found out that I had 7 days of free gametime, so I am going to see if I can obtain enough gold for a token in a week. Currently, a token costs 48,000, would it be realistic to obtain that much gold in a week?
Post by
PTsICU
I just found out that I had 7 days of free gametime, so I am going to see if I can obtain enough gold for a token in a week. Currently, a token costs 48,000, would it be realistic to obtain that much gold in a week?
48,000/7= 6857 and change.....may as well say 7k/day to be safe.
Can you make 7k a day? I have no idea.
One character it will be much harder IMO, but I think it is possible if you play a lot and are willing to really work. Do all you LFR for the week. Do old raids for extra gold. Do all your dailies in tanaan and apexis dailies. Craft and sell on the AH what you can. And do not spend money at all on anything not absolutely needed. Use your extra garrison resources, if you have a trading post, to purchase mats and sell mats not needed on the AH as well.
If you were to have some alts at max level, this would be much easier, as the garrison still can provide a lot of gold over a week just from missions and such.
Post by
lankybrit
Some of the advice in my guide (in my sig) for making gold with alts also applies to a single player. Check it out.
Which of the suggestions specifically?
You can run old Raids, do follower missions etc. All I'm saying is that it's not quite as lucrative as doing it on tons of alts. If you're only playing one character, run the Raids at the highest difficulty you can. Also, make sure to do your Garrison Mine and Herb Garden and do your profession stuff and sell upgrades etcs.
If you're doing Tanaan Jungle now, you can farm Felblight for a pretty penny, or try to get that Mediallion that increases rep (off rares) that goes for a bunch on the AH. If you're only playing one character, you have time for some dailies that bring in the gold too.
Post by
1497887
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Post by
d1a2h3
First and foremost de non weapon blues even as non enchanter you can use peoples enchanting huts. And they post them in group finder but this changes average soulbound blue drop from 4-10g to 40-80g doing dailys and having salvage yard a easy 8-10 blues.
Treasure hunter trait on followers is amazing even with major nerfs I get most missions over 100g. Use a inn to get treasure hunter trait and increased gold missions. Pet battles the charms from dailys can buy non soulbound toys and pets sell them for 3-4k. Plus 2-5k for pets that drop from bags in older expansion dailys.
Supreme lord kazzak world boss 8-16 felblight per kill every single hundred alt you have can go out get a tag and make 5k.
Last but not least pay attention many many times I have thought maybe I should vendor this green. It has often turned out to be low drop rate desirable transmog and I make 5-20k. Find a niche me personally I have found particular pets and toys not a lot of people post on server takes me a couple minutes time but I make a couple k here and there. Or like alot of garrison missions bring back toys mounts that are not soul bound meaning you can sell for tens of thousands.
Me personally I make 3-5k per week pure gold per toon along with with another 5-10k per day in auctions. Not including major luck items like mounts or anything special I may get.
Now professions may not seem worth doing daily cooldowns with most of items taking long time to sell and very low value. Sorceress stuff sells well still normally covers value of mats. For daily cds ect any crafted items are normally bonus gravy on top.
As for selling trade chat is friend big items can take a while to sell and get undercut/devalued quickly. Me personally got a mount from garrison mission first day of new patch. Instead of posting in ah (saw most posters reposting all week) I sold first day offering 10k discount. But I actually made money by getting buyer quickly because within days it was worth half of what I had gotten for it.
Post by
Ultimatium
So I'm thinking about playing again sometime soon. I see that some people have collected a ton of tokens, so they don't have to pay for subscribing. Would this be realistic if I get my garrison going? Currently, its level 3.
Post by
Wombat62
So I'm thinking about playing again sometime soon. I see that some people have collected tons of tokens, so they don't have to pay for subscribing. Would this be realistic if I get my garrison going? Currently, its level 3.
pretty easy on one toon to get enough each month for a token .
Solo these raids at 25 man heroic : ALL cata raids, naxx , ICC, Aulduar, TK , BT, hyjal Kara . Kill everything in them , dont skip trash , vendor most things , AH only pets and cloth drops ( though I find turning netherweave into bags and selling them better then selling that cloth.)
Do your dungeons and current raids as usual . go to tanann and kill stuff, if you have a gathering profession use it in tanann to get felblight ( fish any pools you see in Tanann as well ) . Do kaz for felblight each week
Your garrison : churn your missions when you log on and before you log off , If you have a JC building do teh daily . Get as many followers with treasure hunting as you can and do any gold missions that come up with them . do other missions that give you saleable items ( mount , champions honour , savage blood etc ) as your next priority .
do your garrison mine and herb garden each day as well as teh work orders for them . once a month sell all teh herbs and ore you have gathered to teh respective trader and get primal spirits for them , use teh spirits to buy savage blood from the spirit trader and sell tha on Ah ( not sure about your realm but on mine they are more expensive then felblight ) . your garrison should include , Enchanters hut ( DE the blue mog lvl 100 gear for you spec you get from salvage, they sell for only a few gold and the dust sells for much more ) and salvage yard at level 3 . the other building is up to you but I would suggest a JC hut. max out the rest of your garrison ( except for pet hut unless you are into it )
most important thing when making gold is DONT BUY STUFF you dont really need .
by doing this I have made over 2 million this expansion , I have also spent well over a million. It is just so easy to make gold in WoD
Post by
Ultimatium
I was mostly thinking about obtaining a bunch of tokens, so that i don't have to worry about paying for a subscription. It's 63,246 gold for a token right now.
currently.
a token costs about
Post by
lankybrit
I was thinking more about obtaining a whole bunch of tokens, so I don't have to worry about paying for a subscription... a token costs about 63,246 gold currently.
Then just use the advice of how to get one token repeatedly, until you have enough tokens.
Post by
Counterclockwork
To answer your question: Yes, you can earn that much. Will it be easy? Depends on how much time you're willing to put into farming. I was able to get roughly 28k in the last 2 days and only about 300 of my 850+ auctions varrying in pets, transmog, mats, and so on didn't sell either to put that into perspective.
Almost any guide you run into that involves the Auction House will recommend an add-on called TSM (TradeSkillMaster) something to consider, helps save immense amounts of time with putting things in the Auction House. I would highly recommend the youtuber
Oldbess
as well as the subreddit
/r/woweconomy
. There's lots of other guides and resources out there, but these two have proven the most helpful to me.
Mounts, Pets, and Transmog are your main gold suites though of course you can gain through many means. Prices all vary per each server but you can search what the values of them are on
The Undermine Journal
website or add-on. It's a very useful resource I highly recommend personally.
Garrisons:
Followers: Re-Roll Traits to "Treasure Hunter", multiple times for larger amounts. (missions will result in 500-1000g)
Naval Yard: Give Boats the Tuskar Fishing Net for a chance to get the Sea Turtle.
The Jewel Crafting Daily as suggested by
Wombat62
is very useful and recommended if you have the profession.
Other Gold Resources:
Asmondgold's Guide on How he makes money in WoD
: Quickest, easiest, simplest ways to learn.
WTBGold's Youtube Channel
: Not my favorite, but definitely worth mentioning.
VicornVids' Youtube Channel
: Unenthusiastic voice, but great information offered overall.
Post by
Ultimatium
I just subscripted again, so im trying to obtain enough gold for a token, so I don't have to spend money on this game again. The quest to obtaining the plans for a salvage yard seems really long, is it worth it?
So far i have been playing for a few days. I started out with about 3k gold and I'm currently at 4,2k gold. At this rate I'm probably not going to be able to make enough gold for a token...
Post by
lankybrit
I just subscripted so I'm trying to obtain enough gold for a token, so I don't have to spend money on this game again. The quest to obtaining the plans for a salvage yard seems really long, is it worth it?
Yes. You get gold from questing too.
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