Making Gold

[champion538]

Making Gold in World of Warcraft
This is currently just reposts of many useful things I have found to make money in WoW. I do not take credit for any information currently posted.



First off, get AUCTIONEER at Auctioneer addon for World of Warcraft! This cannot be stated enough. Auctioneer is vital to your success at making gold.

Herbalism, Mining, and Treasure Chest Locations
This is a repost of front243’s post with the Cartographer database of herbalism, mining and chest spawns. There is also another database guide under the Herbalism route section.
“First of all credits to Boydon on the WowAce forums for making this database.

The database has 9293 mining nodes, 12099 herbalism nodes and 4429 treasure nodes for a total of 25821 nodes.

Download here:
wowhead DB v09062007.zip

Original Thread can be found here:
Wowhead Mining, Herbalism and Treasure Exported Database Thread.

You will need the Cartographer, Cartographer_Mining, Cartographer_Herbalism and Cartographer_Treasure addons which are found here:
WowAce downloads

The database zip-file needs to be extracted to your WTF\Account\Accountname\Savedvariables folder.

For those that are afraid of keyloggers the zipfile contains no executable files, only WoW LUA-Database files.”


Herbalism Routes
The Skettis elite trees can drop Felweed, Dreaming Glory, Mana Thistle, Terocone, Ancient Lichen, and Black Lotus. They can be tough to solo for some classes so having a friend may be necessary. Also, when doing Skettis dailies keep an eye out from dead trees for easy herbs.
Repost of many former posts on this forum.
You can also head over to Slave Pens to farm for Ancient Lichen. At 70, you will be able to avoid aggro and grab the spawns in the first and second rooms.
Repost?
Now I could not find any outland herbalism routes so I will include a short guide to make your own!
Props goes to: World of Warcraft Gold Making Tips
“Here's what to do:
1. Go to http://www.wowace.com and get the WoWAce Auto Updater. http://www.wowace.com/wiki/WowAceUpdater
2. Once you've installed it, you can choose which Ace addons you want. Choose and install:
* Cartographer
* Cartographer Data
* Cartographer Herbalism or Cartographer Mining or both, depending on your Professions
* Cartographer Routes
3. Once in the game, you should see a small 'Screw' icon on your minimap. Click that and choose Cartographer from the list of addons (other Ace addons will appear if you have them installed).
4. Configure Herbalism/Mining to display how you want it. You'll know it's working correctly if you open your map and see a ton of ore/herb symbols all over the place. (Unless you're in a city, obviously....then just chose a zone that should.)
5. Add and configure Routes from the Routes screen. I walk through that below. Before you do, I recommend you change the global setting of the Route size to the minimum (I think it's 10). The default is like 35 and puts quite a thick line on your map that can actually block you from seeing the spawn points.
Routes:
1. From the configuration screen (which you get from clicking the Screw icon), choose Routes, Add.
2. Give your route a name. Start with something like "Netherstorm Ore All".
3. Choose the zone of the map the route applies to. (ie: Netherstorm for the example)
4. Click the Data dropdown, and then check on all that you want to find. For now, let's start with all of them (Fel Iron, Adamantite, Rich Adamantite, Khorium). If you can see your map, you'll see that it basically draws a line from every spawn point to every other spawn point. Not very helpful. That's why the next step is so important.
5. Optimize! I choose the 'Extra Optimized' option, and optimize in the fore-ground. (doing it in the background lets you keep playing WoW while it calculates the route...I just prefer to let it get the route done faster.)
TA-DA! You should have the most efficient (shortest) route that will circuit the map and hit every spawn point along the way!”
Instead, make a route based off of which herb(s) you are going after and now you have your own custom guide.

Mining Routes


Adamantite
http://wowconfidential.com/wp-conten...des-route1.JPG


Fel Iron
http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/2570/felironhb3.jpg

Daily Quests
Daily quests are easy ways to make gold.
Here is the list of all of the daily quests: (easy quests are bolded)

Skyguard Daily Quests

Fires Over Skettis
Requires: Skyguard neutral, Threat From Above complete
Where: Sky sergeant Doryn at Blackwind landing
What to do: Take the charges on your flying mount and bomb eggs on Skettis rooftops.
Reward: 11.99 gold, 350 Skyguard rep

Escape from Skettis
Requires: Skyguard neutral, Threat From Above complete
Where: He has 3 different spawn points. Look at the map linked.
What to do: A very short escort, two special mobs spawn
Reward: 11.99 gold and two mana potions or 3 healing potions, 350 skyguard rep

Bomb them Again
Requires: Skyguard neutral, Orgi'la neutral, Threat From Above complete, Orgri'la opening chain complete
Where: Skyguard outpost in Blade' edge
What to do: take the bombs and destroy stacks of fel cannonballs. Beware, the cannons will shoot at you and knock you out of the sky.
Reward: 11.99 gold and 15 apexis shards 500 Skyguard rep, 500 Orgri'la rep

Wrangle more Rays
Requires Skyguard neutral, Orgri'la neutral, Threat From Above complete, Ogri'la chain complete
Where: skyguard outpost in Blade's edge
What to do: Get the rays down to 20% and use the rope to catch them. You can return to the gnome to deposit rays each time if you don't like them flying around you spazzing out.
Reward: 11.99 gold, 15 shards 350 skyguard rep 350 Ogri'la rep


Ogri'la Daily Quests (some are shared with the skyguard)

The Relic's Emanations
Requires: orgri'la neutral, orgrila chain complete
Where: Orgri'la plateu
What to do: Use an apexis shard to play Simon Says up to the 1.5 hour buff and return to Orgri'la.
Reward: 11.99 gold, 15 apexis shards, 250 Orgri'la rep

Banish the Demons
requires: Orgri'la honoured
Where: Forge camps north and south of orgrila
What to do: Use the crystal to summon a portal, and kill demons near the portal.
Reward: 11.99 gold, a grab bag (for the darkrune event) 250 orgri'la rep


Netherwing Daily Quests
All Netherwing quests require 300 riding skill to start. You must also first complete the chain Kindness -> Zuluhed the Whacked to unlock Netherwing.

A Slow Death
Requires: Netherwing neutral
Where: the goblin in town
What to do: kill and shadowmoon valley animal and take the fel glands. Go to the groups of peons and set the meat down. Avoid wandering repair bills.
Reward: gold 250 Netherwing rep

Disrupting the Twilight Portal
Requires: Netherwing honoured
Where: The twilight ridge in nagrand, Orc camp in shadowmoon valley
What to do: go to the twilight ridge in nagrand and kill 20 twilight mobs
Reward: gold 500 Netherwing rep

Dragons are the Least of our Problems
Requires: Netherwing
Where: dragonmaw foreman
What to do: Go into the mine and kill nethermine flayers and ravagers
Reward: gold 350 Netherwing rep

Nethercite ore / Nether pollen / Netherflayer hide
Requires: netherwing neutral, requires mining / herbalism / skinning (only getherers may complete these quests. Those with two gathering professions can do two)
Where: Taskmaster Varkule Dragonbreath
what to do: bring him 40 ore, 40 dust or 35 flayer hides. Each are gathered from island and around dragonmaw fortress.
Reward: gold 250 Netherwing rep

Netherwing Crystals
Requires: netherwing neutral
Where: Taskmaster Varkule Dragonbreath
What to do: kill any mob on netherwing ledge for crystals. Give him 40
Reward: gold 250 Netherwing rep

The Booterang - Cure For the Common Worthless Peon
Requires: Netherwing Friendly
Where: Orc under an awning, near the fighting pit (east side of town?)
What to do: Discipline 20 peons
Reward: Gold 350 Netherwing rep

Picking up the Pieces
Requires: Netherwing Friendly
Where: Gotten from Mistress of the Mines
What to do: Gather 15 Nethermine Cargo
Reward: Gold 350 Netherwing rep

The Deadliest Trap Ever Laid
Requires: Netherwing Revered
Where: Gotten from elite NPC in the Aldor/Scryer towns.
What to do: Defend the Aldor or Scryer towns (your faction) from a Dragonmaw attack
Reward: Gold 500 Netherwing rep

Not So Friendly Skies
Requires: Netherwing Neutral
Where: Gotten from the goblin, I think
What to do: Gather 10 Netherwing Relics off the Transporters flying between the Ledge and the Mainland
Reward: Gold 250 Netherwing rep


Honor Hold Daily Quests

Hellfire fortifications: Alliance
Requires: Honor Hold neutral
Where: Warrant Officer Tracy Proudwell in Honor Hold
What to do: Capture the Overlook, The Stadium and Broken Hill. This is a PVP objective and will flag you for pvp on a PvE server.
Rewards: 1 Gold, 3 mark of Honor Hold and 150 Honor Hold rep


Thrallmar Daily Quests

Hellfire Fortifications: Horde
Requires: Thrallmar neutral
Where: Battlecryer Blackeye in Thrallmar
What to do: Capture the Overlook, The Stadium and Broken Hill. This is a PVP objective and will flag you for pvp on a PvE server.
Rewards: 1 Gold, 3 mark of Thrallmar and 150 Thrallmar rep

Doing all 10 of your dailies per day nets over 100g plus drops. They are an easy way to make gold and reputation.

Random items
I found that Imbued Netherweave Tunic (Thottbot World of Warcraft: Imbued Netherweave Tunic) and Imbued Netherweave Robe (Thottbot World of Warcraft: Imbued Netherweave Robe) are great money makers on my server. Each sells for around 19-20g. They both disenchant into Large Prismatic Shards which are around 23-25g on my server. Every time I see either of these on the AH for less than the price of a Large Prismatic Shard, I buy them, DE them, and sell the shard for a profit. This may not work on your server but, there are many items like these that may.




*If you would like to add any information, PM it to me and I’ll add it if it’s a reliable way to make gold.*
**This is a work in progress. More stuff will be added and existing stuff will be tweaked based on my experiences.**





AGAIN MOST IF NOT ALL INFORMATION IS REPOSTED. I DO NOT CLAIM ANY OF THIS TO BE MY OWN.

[shadowbladex]

lol, Auctioneer is totally crap..

[Kyletheman]

I used to have auctioneer until noobs starting posting Tough Jerky in there for 999 gold and other stuff so it got screwed up prices.

[champion538]

Hmmmm. I haven't had any significant problems with Auctioneer and blatant overpriced items. You should be able to judge if an item is really worth 999 gold or not to bid. :P

[ferius]

Common sence tough but good job

[champion538]

Yea most of this is common sense at the moment. I put up the easy stuff while procrastinating on an essay. I intend to add more in the future.

[0eyvind]

Common sence, but great job anyway. Thanks

[jordy5000]

the daily things are nice thanks

[0eyvind]

Good job. Using both Mining route and daily quest line. Thanks for sharing