These are the actual methods I use to make gold in wow. I see too many people in my guild that complain about how they are always broke. Yet they still do very little to figure out how to make money in game. When in fact it is very simple to be rich. There is no get rich quick scheme but for not that much time per day you can make boat loads of money.
I know some of these methods have been posted before, the reson why I am making this guide is to do three things. 1) Show you gold making methods put together in one place, 2) Actual methods that work and are worth your time (too many methods that are posted here just are not worth your time), 3) Provide screenshots of how I do it.
First things first lets talk about some common sense things you can do to make money. Dailies! But the reason I bring this up is to show you the best place to do dailies. Every day I focus on Sons of Hordir dailies because these mobs drop more vendor trash than any other dailies area. Secondly most of the mobs drop Relics of Ulduar which a stack of 10 on my server sel for 25-35g. The other big reason which I am going to show in a bit is that there are three farming spots in Storm Peaks that I use so it cuts down on travel time. You can go straight to farming immediatly after doing your dailies. This helps maximize your profits.
The first method I use to make money is using my heroic emblems to buy scarlet rubys. If you’re like me and don’t have anything to spend your emblems on this is a perfect way to make quick cash. You can buy this at Cartier & Co. Fine Jewelery, in dalaran, from Harold Winston for 10 emblems. On my server these rubys sell for 65-80g.
My next method is buying weapons on the auction house and disenchanting them. Since I didn’t want to invest the cash to max out enchanting I only leveled it to 325 skill. By doing this it will allow me to disenchant level 50-60 greens. What I’m looking for is greater eternal essences to sell on the auction house. These essences are still very needed for those looking to level their enchanting. So what you will need to do is search the auction house for item level 51-55 weapons. These are the only greens that will give you a greater eternal essence. You are looking for items that sell for 12g or less. 3/4 of the time it will disenchant into 2 essences! On my server these essences sell for 13-24g. At the very minimum you are doubling your money but usually people put buyouts on these for 3-4g!
At the time I took this screenshot there was very few green weps on the AH. Usually there are around 4 green weps when I check that sell for under 12g. I’ve bought up to 10 in one day and resold 20 essences.
Now lets get to my farming spots, I have three spots in the storm peaks. 1) Snow Drift Plains 24,48. Place is swarming with Stormriders who drop crystallized air. They have a very good drop rate and there is rarely ever anyone in this area. So you shouldn’t have to worry about much pvp or competition. In 40 mins I can pull 10-12 eternals out of this area.
2) Fjorn’s Anvil, 76,62. Mobs are called Seething Revenants. Drop crystalized fire, relic of ulduar, greens, and a lot of vendor trash. In an hour I can pull around 5-6 eternal fires & 50-60 Relics. Downside is a lot of people farm here so there tends to be competition and pvp.
3) FrostFloe Deep, 62,41. A cave that is filled with mobs called wailing winds. This is my favorite spot. NO ONE farms this on my server. Only horde know about it because there is a quest giver in the cave. Other than that there is never any competition for me in this cave. The mobs have a super fast respawn rate and have what seems like double the drop rate for crystallized fires than Fjorn’s anvil. I can farm this for an hour and easily get 12-15 eternal fires.
Now when choosing whether or not to farm fire or air check the AH on an alt. I keep an AH whore camped at a main city so I can check prices. So which ever eternal is going for a better price, eternal fire or air farm that item. Currently fire is selling very well on my server for 28g. I’ve seen it as high as 38 recently so you can see how you can make a lot of money quickly.
These are the methods I use and I hope these will benefit you as well. I’m sitting just above 3k gold but I just blew 10k gold on my dk that just hit 80, mount, gear, professions, etc. With these methods there is NO reason why you can’t make money. I spend 1 to 2 hours per day making 600 to 1k gold.