Gold guide

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Best Ways to Make Gold Guide-
Eh not mine...

About

This guide contains the newest, most secret and best ways to fill your character's bags with gold for the current World of Warcraft version. You do not have to be level 60 to gain advantage from this guide. This guide contains lots and lots of different ways to obtain loads of gold, starting from level 1. Remember that every item has a different price in every realm!

Enjoy!


Methods that have this mark are hot stuff and might even get nerfed in the future! Don't miss these! ^^

General Tips

- If you want to gain lots of money starting from the beginning, you should choose mining and skinning as your professions. Fishing is also useful if you like it, though you won't make much use out of it until you have around 150+ fishing skill.

- Do not buy any equips for your character until you are over level 10. Quests will provide your items until then.

- Buy your backpacks asap! The bigger, the better.

- Do every possible quest! Especially ones that require grinding.

- Do not take Engineering or Blacksmithing as your professions.

- Pick up every item you find. Sell greys and other crap to vendors and sell white trade goods, greens and blues in AH.

- If you hold shift button while looting, you save a few seconds.

- When you sell stuff in AH, always put a buyout! This way you will sell faster. Also make the price a few silver lower than other people sell.

- The faster you kill mobs, the more money you will gain! So you should always fight mobs that are at least 1-3 levels below you.

- If possible, try to level your character by killing beasts and humanoids. If you are a skinner, you can skin the beasts you have slain. And humanoids will drop coins everytime.

- True money making starts after level 10! So do not waste your time by farming things when you are level 1. Concentrate on the exp until you are at least level 10! However, you will also gain lots of money even at level 1 if you choose mining and skinning.

Notice these before you continue any further!



- When I talk about prices, I mean buyout price.

- Prices vary, depending on realm, a lot!

- Everything is about luck! Sometimes you have to kill a monster 1000 times until it drops something cool, sometimes you have to kill it only once!

- Everything you will find here are meant to do solo, unless otherwise instructed.

- Gold in a hour is really hard to predict. Sometimes you will get 10g in a hour and next time you will gain 700g. Also, for example, Linen cloth sells for only 5 silver on some realms, and other realms might have it go for over 2 gold! So you should definitely check your AH prices before you decide what to do.

- I've given my personal score to every grinding spot. This is between 1 and 10.

- I have done these tips only with alliance.

- Serious gold making is time consuming, so you should have lots of time if you wanna become the richest! Also good luck is recommended! =D

- This guide does not contain the basics of WoW and other stuff like that, since this is just a money making guide.

Professions

[Engineering]

- Score: 8
- Recommended level: 1+
- Difficulty: Time consuming but easy
- Recommended profession: Engineering
- Gold in a week: 200+

Usually people thinks Engineering is a money eater due to the high cost to level it to 300, but you can also make money out of it in some realms. I have noticed that some elite PvP:ers in my realm loves to buy Small Bronze Bombs and Heavy Dynamites due to the fact that they are too lazy to make them. To make Heavy Dynamites you only need a wool cloth and some blasting powder which can be obtained from cheap stones. Small Bronze Bomb requires a bit more of materials but it's also better. You can easily gain 4-6g profit a stack, and even more if you farm your materials yourself. If you are gonna try this, you should first create only a stack or two and see if people likes it on your realm. You can also advertise their stunning advantages in pvp in channel /2 ^^

2x Heavy Blasting Powder, 1x Wool Cloth = Heavy Dynamite
4x Coarse Blasting Powder, 2x Bronze Bar, 1x Silver Contact, 1x Wool Cloth = Small Bronze Bomb

[Herbalism]


With herbalism you can do some nice money at later levels. For example a stack of Gromsblood goes for around 20g. There is also other valuable herbs in lvl 50+ areas so you should pick every flower up. Epic mount and stealthing abilities are very helpful in herb runs. ^^

Gromsblood's locations:
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/object.html?wobject=281 (Click View map)
Mountain Silversage's locations:
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/object.html?wobject=150 (Click View map)
Goldthorn's locations:
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/object.html?wobject=35 (Click View map)
Wild Steelbloom's locations:
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/object.html?wobject=15 (Click View map)

[Tailoring]

Tailoring can make you some nice gold too. For example, you can disenchant runecloth belts you have made and gain lots of dream dust, lesser eternal essences and maybe even small brilliant shards. To create one belt, you need 3 x Bolt of Runecloth and 1 x Rune Thread.

You can also make Mooncloth from 2x Felcloth. If you are under level 50, you should buy the felcloth from auction house. If you are over level 50, you can hunt the felcloth yourself. In this case, look for the felcloth part on the next page. You can easily make 10g profit/mooncloth if you use auction house since one can sell for even 20g. Only negative part in this is that you have to wait 4 days before you can weave another mooncloth and you have to swim in a moonwell at the same time when weaving your mooncloth. To access a moonwell fastest, ask a nearest mage to portal you to Darnassus. There is a moonwell in the same room where the portal goes.

[Skinning]

Only way to powerlevel this is to skin monsters that are skinnable. (beasts) When you have got a stack of skins, you can sell them in AH. Remember to check their current price first though! Best way however is to wait until your inventory is full and then visit a vendor or AH. Here is a list of items and their prices in my realm.

Name


Beasts level


Stack price

Ruined Leather Scraps


1


10

Light Hide


10


23

Light Leather


10


60

Medium Hide


20


90

Medium Leather


20


80

Heavy Hide


30


3 80

Heavy Leather


30


1 50

Thick Hide


40


1

Thick Leather


40


4

Chimera Leather


50


3

Devilsaur Leather


50


60

Frostsaber Leather


50


5

Rugged Hide


50


6

Rugged Leather


50


3 60

Warbear Leather


50


4 50

Core Leather


60


400

[Mining]

This is one of the best ways to earn some nice gold. Mining is extremely slow to level, but it's definitely worth it! Copper stage should be leveled in your starting zone (Elwynn Forest, Durotar etc.) and when you have earned 65 mining skill, you can start hunting for Tin nodes. Tin can be found from zones that are meant for level 10-20 people, such as Westfall, Darkshore and Barrens. Once you have reached 125 mining points, you should start looking for Iron veins. Iron can be found from several places, but the best spots are in Tanaris, Badlands, Thousand needles and Arathi Highlands. Nexts is Mithril, which needs 175 mining skill. This is a moneymaker, because it's used in engineering and blacksmithing. Best mithril spots can be found in Tanaris and Badlands. Last is Thorium! You need 245 points to dig this in a Small Thorium vein. Thorium can be found from every level 50+ zone, but there is once again some best spots! Western Plaguelands, Winterspring and Burning Steppes, remember those! You should check your server's AH prices for different minerals so you know what you should mine! Here is more info about mining.

Gems:

Gem


Found in


AH price (each)

Malachite


Copper


5

Shadowgem


Copper, Tin, Silver


10

Tigerseye


Copper


8

Jade


Tin, Iron, Gold


71

Lesser Moonstone


Tin, Silver, Iron, Gold


40

Moss Agate


Tin, Silver


60

Aquamarine


Iron, Mithril, Truesilver


85

Citrine


Iron, Gold, Mithril, Truesilver


50

Black Vitriol


Mithril, Dark Iron, Small Thorium


50

Star Ruby


Mithril, Truesilver, Small Thorium, Rich Thorium


1 20

Black Diamond


Dark Iron


10 (Price going down!)

Blood of the Mountain


Dark Iron


40

Large Opal


Small Thorium, Rich Thorium


2

Blue Sapphire


Small Thorium, Rich Thorium


5 5

Azerothian Diamond


Small Thorium, Rich Thorium


4

Huge Emerald


Small Thorium, Rich Thorium


3

Arcane Crystal


Rich Thorium


35

Normal and uncommon mining spots:

Mining point


Skill req.


Found in

Copper


1


Alterac Mountains, Ashenvale, Darkshore, Desolace, Dun Morogh, Durotar, Duskwood, Elwynn Forest, Hillsbrad Foothills, Loch Modan, Mulgore, Redridge Mountains, Silverpine Forest, Stonetalon Mountains, The Barrens, Thousand Needles, Tirisfal Glades, Westfall, Wetlands

Tin


65


Alterac Mountains, Arathi Highlands, Ashenvale, Darkshore, Desolace, Duskwood, Hillsbrad Foothills, Loch Modan, Redridge Mountains, Silverpine Forest, Stonetalon Mountains, Stranglethorn Vale, The Barrens, Thousand Needles, Westfall, Wetlands

Silver


75


Alterac Mountains, Arathi Highlands, Ashenvale, Badlands, Darkshore, Desolace, Duskwood, Dustwallow Marsh, Feralas, Hillsbrad Foothills, Loch Modan, Redridge Mountains, Searing Gorge, Silverpine Forest, Stonetalon Mountains, Stranglethorn Vale, Swamp of Sorrows, Tanaris, The Barrens, The Hinterlands, Thousand Needles, Westfall, Wetlands

Iron


125


Alterac Mountains, Arathi Highlands, Ashenvale, Badlands, Blasted Lands, Desolace, Duskwood, Dustwallow Marsh, Feralas, Hillsbrad Foothills, Searing Gorge, Stonetalon Mountains, Stranglethorn Vale, Swamp of Sorrows, Tanaris, The Hinterlands, Thousand Needles, Wetlands

Gold


155


Alterac Mountains, Arathi Highlands, Ashenvale, Azshara, Badlands, Blasted Lands, Burning Steppes, Desolace, Duskwood, Dustwallow Marsh, Eastern Plaguelands, Felwood, Feralas, Hillsbrad Foothills, Searing Gorge, Silithus, Stonetalon Mountains, Stranglethorn Vale, Swamp of Sorrows, Tanaris, The Hinterlands, Thousand Needles, Western Plaguelands, Wetlands, Winterspring

Mithril


175


Alterac Mountains, Arathi Highlands, Azshara, Badlands, Blasted Lands, Burning Steppes, Desolace, Dustwallow Marsh, Eastern Plaguelands, Felwood, Feralas, Hillsbrad Foothills, Searing Gorge, Silithus, Stonetalon Mountains, Stranglethorn Vale, Swamp of Sorrows, Tanaris, The Hinterlands, Thousand Needles, Western Plaguelands, Winterspring

Truesilver


230


Alterac Mountains, Arathi Highlands, Azshara, Badlands, Blasted Lands, Burning Steppes, Desolace, Dustwallow Marsh, Eastern Plaguelands, Felwood, Feralas, Searing Gorge, Silithus, Stonetalon Mountains, Stranglethorn Vale, Swamp of Sorrows, Tanaris, The Hinterlands, Un'Goro Crater, Western Plaguelands, Winterspring

Dark Iron


230


The Molten Core, Blackrock Mountain, Blackrock Depths, Searing Gorge, Burning Steppes

Small Thorium


245


Blasted Lands, Burning Steppes, Eastern Plaguelands, Felwood, Feralas, Searing Gorge, Silithus, Tanaris, The Hinterlands, Un'Goro Crater, Western Plaguelands, Winterspring

Rich Thorium


275


Azshara, Burning Steppes, Eastern Plaguelands, Silithus, Un'Goro Crater, Western Plaguelands, Winterspring

Prices of the minerals:

Name


Stack's AH price (Melted)

Copper bar


80

Tin bar


50

Silver bar


2 40

Iron bar


2 50

Gold bar


5 50

Mithril bar


4

Truesilver bar


6 50

Thorium bar


4

Tip: You can find mining veins near mountains and stones, so you should circle around maps' borders.

[Fishing]

Fishing is not so profitable anymore as it once was. Now only fishes that are worthwhile to fish is Stonescale Eel and Deviate fish. You should fish Stonescale Eels around 0:00-7:00 since these fishes do not like to eat in daylight. A stack of Stonescale Eels sells for around 20g. Next few pics contain the best spots to fish these. Deviate fishes can be found from Wailing Cavern and the pool outside of it. Wailing Cavern is in the Barrens. Cooked Deviate fishes goes usually for 90s each and raw 60s. The recipe can be found from these monsters: http://wow.allakhazam.com/item.html?witem=6661 Also, on some realms Firefin Snappers and Oily Blackmouths sell for 2 gold a stack.


One of the best spots to fish Stonescale Eels.


Second good spot to fish Stonescale Eels.

[Elemental Fishing]
- Score: 8
- Recommended level: 50+
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Required profession: Fishing 400+
- Gold in a hour: 17+

There are around 6 pools of elemental water in the shores of Azshara. You will get lots of elemental waters and Essence of Waters. There is only around 6 spots and to the best of my knowledge and only one or 2 of them is visible at a time. It is recommended to have over 400 fishing skill to succesfully fish these babies. So maxed out fishing skill + 100 lure and 35 from fishing pole should be good. Here are all the confirmed elemental pools:


White circle contains one elemental pool spawn point. Watch out for giants that patrol the area!

Kill For Gold

This is the best way to earn money so here is a list of different ways to make gold by grinding. Remember, if you are level 60, you will make the most money since you can kill faster and more efficiently. And if you are new to WoW, grinding means killing monsters over and over again. ^__^ If you are under level 10, the only way for you to make nice money is gathering professions, such as mining. Some of the end game tips are Rogue and Druid only because of the stealthing benefits.

Notice: Every realm has different prices for almost every item and they also change really often, so the price estimates you will see in this guide might not be the same in your realm.

[Formula: Enchant Weapon - Lifesteal]

- Score: 10
- Recommended level: 60
- Difficulty: Elite
- Recommended class: Mage/Warlock/Priest
- Gold in a hour: 500+ (With drop!)

You have to kill level 57-60 elite Spectral Researchers in Scholomance for the Lifesteal enchant formula. It has a 0.90% drop chance so you have to reset the instance many times before you find one, though some lucky people get it on their first kill. You will find lots of other valuable items here aswell, and every class can solo these if you know how to play your class and have decent gear. Spellcasters however do not need that great gear. There is only about 4 soloable Researchers in the first room so you have to reset after those. You need to kill some Risen Guards and Scholomance Acolytes and Neophytes aswell, but they aren't any tougher than Researchers and has great loot tables too. If you are under level 60, you will gain massive amounts of experience per kill, until this method also gets the nerf stick. Lifesteal enchant formula's median price is 700 gold, however on some realms it's only 200+ gold.

Tip: Have some potions and bandages ready and use cooldowns!
Tip 2: Save all scourgestones you find and return them to a Argent Dawn npc when Burning Crusade has been released for a massive exp boost!

Here is a video of a mage showing how it's done:
Video 1

[Winterfall Furbolgs]

- Score: 8
- Recommended level: 60
- Difficulty: Easy
- Gold in a hour: 10+

This is a good farming spot and you will gain various other things besides gold. Main reason to farm these is usually the reputation with Timbermaw Hold, as you will gain reputation with them everytime you kill a Winterfall furbolg. You will also obtain Firewaters which sell nicely. If there are other people killing the same furbolgs, your gold in a hour will drop dramatically. These furbolgs can be found in the eastern Winterspring, not too far away from Everlook.

Location:
Spot 1

[Golden Pearls]

- Score: 8
- Recommended level: 42+
- Difficulty: Easy
- Gold in a hour: 10+

If you are lucky, you might find golden pearls from clams. Best results will come from Big-Mouth clams in my hot opinion. I've noticed that Hatecrest nagas in Feralas drop these clams every second kill usually. Most of these can be found in a cave on a separate island, just south of Feathermoon Stronghold. Nagas in here will respawn before you even have cleared the cave so there is plenty to kill and the area isn't even populated usually so you can grind in peace. These nagas also drop lots of other items so remember to pick all up. You should open clams with shift button to save time. One golden pearl goes for 17g usually. Some people sell these even for 100g each and some for 5g so check your realm prices before selling one. Another spot to farm these is Shattered Strand in Azshara, though there is a lot less of them and they are level 50 ish.

Locations:
Spot 1
Spot 2

[Volatile Rum]

- Score: 8
- Recommended level: 43+
- Difficulty: Easy
- Gold in a hour: 7+

Pirates in Tanaris and STV drop Volatile Rum by a 6% chance. These are used in alchemy, in the Goblin Rocket Fuel recipe. One rum goes even for 2g in some realms if there aren't much of them in the ah. More normal price for these are 50 silver coins. You should not sell big stacks of these, instead sell them in stacks of 3 or so. The pirates will also drop silver coins every time and other items, such as treasure map parts. If you are a skilled mage with a nice mana pool, you can kill up to 15 pirates in less than a minute. If you are not skilled but are a mage, you should read our mage class guide which reveals the secrets of the skilled mages.

Locations:
Spot 1
Spot 2


[Tyr's Hand]

- Score: 7
- Recommended level: 60
- Difficulty: Elite
- Gold in a hour: 13+

This is the most famous grinding place, so expect to get corpse camped if you are in a pvp realm. Southeastern corner in Eastern Plaguelands has a church area with lots of scarlet crusade. Enemies in here are elites so if you aren't strong, this place is not for you. Like all other elites, these too will drop even 30 silver/kill and plenty of other phat lewt.

Location:
Spot 1

[Light Feather]

Nerf! Blizzard didn't like this and "fixed" it. :/ You can still obtain feathers, but not as much as before. This tip has been updated.

- Score: 9
- Recommended level: 12+
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Gold in a hour: 3+


One stack of these goes for 2-6g, depending on the availability of these. Westfall has lots of birds that will drop these quite often. Also Moonkins in Darkshore (Near Auberdine) will drop feathers, but not as much as birds. If horde wants to farm these, they should probably grind Windfury Matriarchs and every beast with wings in the Barrens. These are used for example in mage's Slowfall spell. Another good spot to farm these are the harpies in Thousand Needles, but lvl requirement is 30+ in there. They also drop Vibrant Plumes and cloths.


Locations:
Spot 1 for Alliance
Spot 2 for Alliance

Spot 1 for Horde
Spot 2 for Horde

[Linen cloth]

Nerf! Blizzard didn't like this and "fixed" it. :/ You can still obtain cloths, but not as much as before. This tip has been updated.

- Score: 6
- Recommended level: 13+
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Gold in a hour: 2+

Southern part of Loch Modan has loads of troggs that will drop 1-3 Linen cloths every 4th kill. You will also find green items quite often here. One Linen cloth stack sells for 30-50s usually.

I also recommend to farm Westfall for these, since almost every humanoid there drops these. Horde can kill level 6-17 humanoids, such as Southsea pirates in eastern Barrens.

Locations:
Spot 1 for Alliance
Spot 1 for Horde

[Wool cloth]

- Score: 8
- Recommended level: 20
- Difficulty: Easy
- Gold in a hour: 8+

You will gain lots of Wool cloth when you kill level 15-25 humanoids. Alliance can kill Defias guys and gnolls in westfall. Horde can kill some harpies in northern Barrens for example. You can get over 2g from one Wool stack when there aren't many up for sale in AH. This is a very good moneymaker at lower levers. You will also find many Linen cloths and horde will also find Light Feathers when farming the harpies.

Locations:
Spot 1 for Alliance
Spot 1 for Horde

Wool cloth in the Stockade/Deadmines/Shadowfang Keep

- Score: 9
- Recommended level: 45+
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Gold in a hour: 14+

You will find loads of Wool cloth from these places also. The higher you are in levels, the more efficiently you can clear these instances which means more gold! You will also find at least 2 chests from these places. Stockade is in Stormwind, Deadmines is in Westfall and Shadowfang Keep is in Silverspine Forest.

[Arathi Highlands]

- Score: 7
- Recommended level: 30+
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Gold in a hour: 4+

Arathi Highlands provides a Farm for both Alliance and Horde. (Dabryie's farm, Go'Shek farm) These farms contain about 30 humanoids which will all drop 1-4s and loads of Silk. If you know some AoE spells you will double your money in a hour.

Locations:
Spot 1 for Alliance
Spot 1 for Horde

[Dark Whelplings]

- Score: 9
- Recommended level: 40+
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Gold in a hour: ?

You can grind level 40 dragon babies (Scalding, Searing Whelp) in the eastern part of Badlands and southern Dustwallow Marsh. These whelps have a 0.08% chance of dropping a Dark Whelpling pet, which sells for 50-200g in AH.

Locations:
Spot 1
Spot 2


Do you have the heart to sell her?

[Mageweave cloth]

- Score: 9
- Recommended level: 50+
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Gold in a hour: 12+

You can grind furbolgs in southern Felwood. These will drop 1-3 mageweaves every 3rd kill. This area has about 45 furbolgs so you can easily obtain up to 100 mageweaves in a hour, and 10 gold from looting money.

Also wastewanders in Tanaris will drop mageweave every second kill, and lots of green recipes that should be vendored cause people don't like them! :P Recommended level for this place is 40+.

Locations:
Spot 1
Spot 2

[Scarlet Monastery]

- Score: 8½
- Recommended level: 50+
- Difficulty: Easy
- Gold in a hour: 10+

In SM you should just hunt down the chests. You will find freens and blues really often from these. The chests are sometimes locked so you should do this with a Blacksmith or Rogue. If you are fast, reset your instance everytime you are done, concentrate only on Graveyard, Library and Armory, you can loot up to 8 locked chests and 10 normal chests in a hour. You can also kill bosses and rare mobs in these instances if you are a enchanter. Scarlet Monastery is located in the blighted forests of Tirisfal Glades.

[WPL, Felstone field]

- Score: 8
- Recommended level: 55+
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Gold in a hour: 30+

Western Plaguelands has a place called Felstone field, which is filed with undead. You can easily obtain up to 15g in money loots here. You will also find lots of Runecloth and sometimes Traveler's backpacks and other yummy items. There are also many other fields so you should pick one that does not have any other players! There is also a graveyard near Uther's Tomb which is filled with level 50ish undead. This area is overcamped usually.

[Elementals]

- Score: 8
- Recommended level: 55+
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Gold in a hour: 15+

1. Un'goro's volcano in the middle of the map has Living Blazes and Scorching Elementals which will drop Essence of Fire quire often. One essence sells for 6-20g

2. Eastern Plaguelands has elementals also. These are named as Plague Monstrosity, Plague Ravager, Blighted Surge, Discordant Surge and Blighted Horror. These will drop Essence of Water every 20 min or so. Essence of Water sells for 6-20g also, as do all essences except undeath.


Location:
Spot 2

3. Felwood has Toxic Horrors which will also drop Essence of Waters. This place is usually overfarmed so you should choose some other spot perhaps. There's also Warpwoods and Irontrees near these mobs. Warpwoods and Irontrees will drop 2-10s, rare herbs, potions and Living Essences quite often.

Location:
Spot 3


Irontree Wanderer


4. Silithus. You can fight Dust Stormers and loot their Essence of Air every 20th kill. If you are lucky, you may witness a little event which will cause Whirling Invaders to spawn. These are almost the same except they have higher drop rates.

Location:
Spot 4

5. Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes has some elementals which will drop Elemental Earths and Essence of Earths every 25+ kills. You can easily obtain 2 Essences and 5 Elemental Earths in a hour if you are alone.

[Elementals at lower levels]

- Score: 7
- Recommended level: 35+
- Difficulty: Easy
- Gold in a hour: 8+

Arathi Highlands has water, fire, air and earth elementals which will all drop items related to their element. (Elemental earth for ex.) All of these will sell for 1g each. Earth elementals are the best though imho, and can be located just southwest from Refuge pointe.

You can also grind Enraged stone elementals in southern Badlands which will drop lots of gray vendor stuff which will gain you a nice pile of gold. These will also drop Elemental Earths from time to time. This place is one of the most grinded places so expect company!

[Dire Maul]

- Score: 10+
- Recommended level: 57+
- Difficulty: Nightmare
- Recommended class: Priest, Mage, Warlock, Hunter
- Gold in a hour: 20+

In Dire Maul west you can take advantage of monsters bad ai. In front of Tendris Warpwood is a ramp which has 2 sides.

1. Pull a monster to the ramp and jump to the side.
2. Shoot the monster until it comes too close.
3. Jump back to the ramp and now jump to the another side.
4. Mob(s) will take the longest way there. Shoot it and jump down once it comes close again and go to the other side again.
5. Repeat until the mob is dead.

Caution: As of 1.11, Ironbark Protectors will use entangling roots spell, which will immobilize you, so proceed with caution or skip these completely. Mages however have no problems. *cough* Blink *cough*

You can clear the whole first room in DM west and the tunnel after Tendris by using this trick. If you are under level 60 you will gain levels like mad. Every mob drops around 6-40 silver and also greens and blues really often. You can gain over 200g in a run if you are even a little lucky. After patch 1.11 elementals in here will drop Savage Frond and Core of Elements like mad. I've made around 1200 gold in a hour here, but it was before Librams got quite useless.

[Crusader]

- Score: 10
- Recommended level: 55+
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Gold in a hour: 15+ (without drop!)


Nothern Western Plaguelands has a tower on the right side of the road. The tower has 6 Scarlet Spellbinders and one annoying fly (You know who I mean when you grind this place for 4 hours. grr.) Spellbinders have a 0.17% chance to drop the Enchant Weapon - Crusader which will sell for around 230-450g. You can find the tower by taking the road to Hearthglen. With this method I gained over 1600 gold in just 2 days, though I had to kill over 500 spellbinders, but they are easy and fun to kill so it shouldn't be a problem. I also got lucky and got a Krol Blade! Only minuses are that there is only 6 Spellbinders in this tower so you have to wait for them to respawn and this place can be heavily populated in some realms, so if there is someone in the tower stealing your binders, do /rude , leave and go back at night time (if possible) when less people are playing. =) Oh, there also spawns a chest in the downstairs from time to time, so don't miss it!

This is my loot list from 567 Spellbinder kills with a level 60 Rogue:

Traveler's Backpack
Runecloth x 384
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Crusader x 3
Aquamarine
Emerald Helm of Defense
Thorium Lockbox x 2
Star Ruby
Krol Blade
Three of Warlords x 2

+ A lot of white and gray items that sold for 60 gold to npc and over 40 gold as money loot.

Location:
Spot 1

[Guardian Stones]

- Score: 7
- Recommended level: 60
- Difficulty: Elite
- Gold in a hour: 30+

Stone Guardians are level 50-61 elites and drop Guardian Stone by a good 19% chance. They also drop Essence of Earth quite often. One Guardian Stone sells for 5-40g, depending on the realm once again. If your realm has high price for the stones, you should definitely try this.

Location:
Spot 1

[Encrypted Twilight Texts]

- Score: 9
- Recommended level: 55+
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Gold in a hour: 15+

There is many Twilight cult members in Silithus. These will drop approx. 20-30 Encrypted Twilight Texts in a hour which will sell 1-3g each. These are used to boost your reputation with Cenarion Circle. These same cult members also drop green Twilight Cultists equips which will sell for 1g each. You might also encounter the Twilight Prophet who will drop over 8 texts each time! She is elite but at least a mage should not have problem with her and her bodyguards. (Sheep her and aoe the guards) ^^

Location:
Spot 1

[Devilsaur Leather]

- Score: 7
- Recommended level: 60
- Difficulty: Elite
- Gold in a hour: 15+

Devilsaurs in Un'goro drops Devilsaur leather which are used in Tribal leatherworking. You can gain 300-700g in a week here if you have tribal lw. Otherwise you should just sell the leathers for 2-8g each.


Location:
Spot 1

[Larval Acid]

- Score: 7
- Recommended level: 55+
- Difficulty: Easy
- Gold in a hour: 15+

Eastern Plaguelands has many Carrion Grubs that will drop Larval Acids by 5% chance. One bottle sells for 8-15g. You should also kill all bats you encounter since people will pay for their eyes.

Location:
Spot 1

[Felcloth]

- Score: 10
- Recommended level: 50+
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Gold in a hour: 20+

Western felwood has lots and lots of demons which will drop insane amounts of Mageweave, Felcloth and Runecloth. Many other items are also dropped by these. A level 60 poor equipped Rogue can take 10 demons in one minute. One Felcloth sells for 2 gold usually.

Location:
Spot 1

[Giant Eggs]

- Score: 8
- Recommended level: 55+
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Gold in a hour: 10+

Almost all higher level birds drops these. Most of them are dropped from Winterspring's Owlbeasts and Deadwind Pass's Sky Shadows. Also the owls in Felwood drop these a lot. One stack goes for 3-7g. These are used in recipes and in the Artisan Cooking quest.

Location:
Spot 1
Spot 2

[Mature Blue Dragon Sinew]

- Score: 8
- Recommended level: 60+
- Difficulty: Elite
- Gold in a hour: 10+ (without drop!)

Winterspring has level 50+ Elite dragons (Cobalt Scalebane, Mageweaver, Wyrmkin etc.) These will drop Mature Blue Dragon Sinews by a low 0.10% chance. These will sell for 100-600g in AH. A decent Rogue can take these down easily, especially Mageweavers. Casters will also have no problems with these.

Location:
Spot 1

[The Eye of Shadow]

- Score: 8
- Recommended level: 60+
- Difficulty: Elite
- Gold in a hour: 13+ (without drop!)

Southern Winterspring has elite Hederine demons which will drop The Eye of Shadow by a decent 1% chance. This eye sells for around 300g in AH. These elite demons can be taken down by a caster quite easily.

Location:
Spot 1

[Mother Smolderweb]

- Score: 8½
- Recommended level: 60
- Difficulty: Easy
- Recommended class: Druid
- Recommended profession: Enchanting
- Gold in a hour: 20+

Druid can sneak to Mother Smolderweb in LBRS. Once you are in her corner, cast Starfire. When she comes closer, sleep her with hibernate. Move away from her and cast starfire. Now sleep her again and repeat until she is dead. If you run out of mana, let her sleep longer. This spidey drops lots of nice items, such as tier 0 druid boots. If you have enchanting, you will double your gold earned in a hour. =)

[Black Lotus]

- Score: 7
- Recommended level: 55+
- Difficulty: Easy
- Needed profession: Herbalism 300
- Gold in a hour: 14+

A few zones have Black Lotus plants. One Black Lotus sells for 8-25g. These are rare so prepare for long journeys!

Locations:
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/object.html?wobject=341 (Click View map)


Consider yourself lucky if you run into one of these!

[Blood of the Mountain]

- Score: 8
- Recommended level: 55+
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Required profession: Mining 230
- Gold in a hour: 20+

These can be found from Dark Iron nodes. Good place for these are the Burning Steppes. One Blood of the Mountain sells for 30-60g. These are used in some quests and plans. BRD is also a good place to mine these, and I will include a in depth guide for it in the next version.

Locations:
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/object.html?wobject=262

[Ghost Mushrooms]

- Score: 7
- Recommended level: 50+
- Difficulty: Easy
- Required profession: Herbalism 245
- Gold in a hour: 20+

In the Hinterlands you will find the Skulk Rock. There is a cave which is filled with Ghost shrooms. These will respawn every 10-15 min. This cave has also many Oozes which will drop Ooze bags really often. One bag can contain up to 20 silver and some other items, such as potions. There is also a second spot for these mushrooms in south hinterlands. Check the map for exact locations. Dire Maul and Maraudon contains these also.

Location:
Spots 1

[Incendosaur Scales]

- Score: 9½
- Recommended level: 50+
- Difficulty: Easy
- Gold in a hour: 30+ (Prices going down!)
- Location: Click here!

Below Searing Gorge is Incendosaur's nest. You can find it by entering one of the entrances in the wall. These lizards drop their scales really often! You can also skin them. You can easily obtain up to 200-300 scales in a hour and sell them for 10-40g / 100 ea, again, depending on your realm prices. After 1.10 their spawn time has been reduced greatly so you don't have to wait for them to spawn so much anymore. These scales are
used to boost your reputation with Thorium Brotherhood.

[Icy Chill]

- Score: 7
- Recommended level: 50+
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Gold in a hour: 10+ (without drop!)

Anquished Highbornes in Winterspring will drop Formula: Enchant Weapon - Icy Chill by a 1% chance. This formula sells for around 10-50g. These monsters are easy and plentiful.

Location:
Spot 1

[Burning Steppes]

- Score: 8
- Recommended level: 50+
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Gold in a hour: 15+

A little north from Morgan's Vigil in Burning Steppes is a mountain that is occupied by fat ogres. Eastern side of the mountain has a cave entrance. Inside there is 2 spawn points for a chest. This chest spawns every 10 min, so you can loot up to 6 chests in a hour. Every 3rd chest contains a green or even a blue inside. You can also grind the ogres in the cave while you are waiting for the respawn. You will gain lots of runecloth here. Also if you are miner, you can find thorium and dark iron nodes in this cave.


This is spawn point 1.


This is spawn point 2. Point 1 is just forward from this position.

[Bannok Grimaxe]

- Score: 8
- Recommended level: 60
- Difficulty: Easy
- Recommended class: Druid, Rogue
- Gold in a hour: ?

In LBRS you will sometimes encounter a rare orc called Bannok Grimaxe. He will spawn in one of the tents just before Mother Smolderweb. His spawn chance is only around 7% so you will need to reset your instance a lot if you plan to farm him. You can solo him easily since he is really weak. Just be careful not to aggro his buddies and the nearby patrols. You can get some fat loot from him, such as the following. ^^

31.75% Chiselbrand Girdle
28.59% Demonfork
26.29% Backusarian Gauntlets
6.61% Plans: Arcanite Reaper (AH price about 200-400g)

[LBRS chest hunting]

- Score: 6
- Recommended level: 60
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Recommended class: Druid, Rogue
- Gold in a hour: 10+

There is a chest in LBRS that is just waiting to be opened. It's located behind the ogres in the ogre platform after Mother Smolderweb. (Just next to the bonfire during the summer event) the chest has a 50% chance to spawn so it will not be there always. There is a patrolling ogre so wait until he moves away from the chest. This chest contains always at least one green item. Here is a rogue that shows how it's done (Not hosted by me so I can't guarantee a working link): Link

[Uldaman chest hunting]

- Score: 6
- Recommended level: 60
- Difficulty: Easy
- Recommended class: Rogue
- Gold in a hour: 20+

There is a chest also in Uldaman, but it is almost always locked, so a Rogue is preferred. This chest is located near Annora, number 6 in the map below. There are many non-elite scorpions guarding this chest but they shouldn't be a problem. This chest contains at least one green item usually and sometimes even a blue. There is also a second chest in the instance sometimes. It's just left and down from number 7 on the map below. There is about 6 non-elites guarding this one also, and a elite Stone Steward patrolling the area, but can be avoided easily.

[Un'goro]

- Score: 7
- Recommended level: 50+
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Gold in a hour: 10+

There is a gorilla cave in Un'goro that is a decent place to farm and exp at level 50+. Remember to pick every item up and sell them. Also remember to sell Un'goro soils in Auction House. A stack goes for 3-7g.

Location:
Spot 1

Auction House

By using the AH you can gain really nice amounts of money! This trick needs some money to work however. What you should do is buy for cheap and sell for higher! I've found many people selling high level epics for around 100-200g and then I have bought them and sold for 200g profit. ^^ You should download an addon called Auctioneer and with it, search auctions that will gain you profit. You can find Auctioneer from this url: http://auctioneeraddon.com/

Auctioneer also tells the vendor price for every item, so if you have completed a quest and don't know which one will give more money when sold to npc, this helps a lot!

Sell all trade goods, greens, blues and purples in AH (With a buyout!) unless you have use for them. Sell all useless grey and white items to vendors.

Other Tips & Tricks

[Runecloth in Burning Crusade] New!

This is not 100% sure, but in case it is, it can gain you a nice bit of gold in the near future. Runecloth will also be used to increase your reputation with new factions that Burning Crusade brings. This means people will storm into AHs and buy all Runecloth from available and go boost their rep with new factions. (For Blood Elf and Draenei mounts!) However, reputation gaining will be made easier so Runecloth will not be the only way to boost rep. In any case, you should keep extra stacks in your bank.

[Soloable instances]

As you get closer to level 40, you can start clearing some instances alone, such as Wailing Caverns and Deadmines. I recommend you to get the enchanting profession if you plan to farm instances a lot, since most of the items you will acquire are Bind On Pickup so only way to make good money out of them is disenchanting. You will get nice amount of gold from enchanting dusts and shards in the ah, especially from higher level items. Other soloable or partly soloable instances are:

Maraudon (60+)
Scarlet Monastery (50+)
Blackrock Depths (60+)
Blackfathom Deeps (50+)
Gnomeregan (60+)
Razorfen Downs (60+)
Shadowfang Keep (50+)
The Stockade (50+)
Uldaman (60+)

If you don't know anything about a certain instance, you should download the Atlas addon from
www.curse-gaming.com. I will create a step by step guide into soloing the instances above when I have the time and the expansion pack has been released.

[Money from enchants]

With enchanting you can obtain a nice amount of gold, especially with over 250 skill. I am not gonna list all the enchants and where to get them and things like that in this guide however. And its impossible to guess their prices. Some of the enchants that you should sell however are Agi/Str/Int, Lifestealing, Demonslaying, Beastslaying, Crusader and Fiery Weapon. Enchanted Thorium is the best however. It needs only one Thorium bar and 3 Dream dusts. They cost little over 1gold and the enchanted bar sells for 2-3 gold! If you aren't a miner, buy a few stacks of thorium and loads of dream dust and put the enchanted version of them into the auction! I've noticed that this does not sell very well, so you might have to wait a bit! This is extremely good for those persons that don't have time to kill 2000 monsters to get a epic item. All this needs is a few minutes and after that you are free to do whatever you want.

[Mage]

With mage you can earn some pocket money by going to a far away place, such as Tanaris or Silithus and advertise your teleporting service. A good price for a teleport to a capital city is 50 silver. Though you can ask even 3 gold from leet lvl 60 people.

Some mages sell their conjured waters and food, so this can earn you some money too, but only if you have the highest rank of waters and bread.

[How to make over 500g when you are under level 10!]

This is time consuming, but easy! Here are the steps that I followed. First I leveled my human char to level 6, learned mining and then I went to the mine just south of Goldshire in Elwynn Forest. This mine is full of copper nodes and kobolds! These kobolds drops 3 copper every 6th kill or so. There is also a few chests in the mine usually. I started beating up kobolds and mining the mining spots until my bags were full. I got lucky and found a backpack from a chest so I could carry a bit more than usually. Now I went to the town and smelted the ores and after that to the auction house and waited until there wasn't almost any copper for sale. If there's lots of it and you have money, you should buy the cheap stacks and put your expensive ore for sale instead of them. If you don't have money, you should dump your ores to the bank and go mine some more. Usually after 21:00 there is a lot less copper for sale so I could easily get 2 gold from a stack in my realm. Now I had all my copper in auction and they sold almost instantly. After this I bought bigger bags (14 slot bags, 3 gold each) for my char from Auction house and went back to the mine. You will also gain experience by killing the kobolds in the cave, and the faster you kill them, the more copper you find. Do not pick up anything except copper and green items so your bags won't fill up so fast. You should use loot filter addon so you can safely shift loot cause looted corpses will respawn faster. If you don't get bored running from the mine to the AH continuously, this is a very good method! =) I stopped at 300 gold because I didn't know what to buy with all that gold at those levels!

If copper does not sell well on your server, this method is quite useless!

Horde can also use this method, but I haven't tested it. I've heard that there are insane amounts of copper and tin in Durotar, more than any map has, so that would be my spot! =)

[Even gray items might sell!]

There is also gray items that are valuable. Here is a list of the low quality items that are used in Darkmoon Faire quests. The higher the monster is in levels, the more chances it has to drop one of these items. But note that for example, not all bears drop Torn Bear Pelts.
For more info, check out allakhazam's item lookup: http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/itemlookup.html

Item


Dropped by


Stack's AH price

Glowing Scorpid Blood


Scorpions


8

Small Furry Paw


Lions, Panthers, Tigers


2

Evil Bat Eye


Bats


8

Vibrant Plume


Birds


4

Soft Bushy Tail


Wolves, Hyenas


3

Torn Bear Pelt


Bears


1

[Buy for cheap, sell for outrageous!]

Here is a list of NPCs that sell wanted recipes and other items. You can make lots of money from this method. Usually one NPC sells 1-4 of one item and once you have bought them they will reappear in it's inventory in 30min-48 hours, depending on the item. Note that some merchants require you to finish a quest or have a certain reputation before they sell anything to you! If you have problems locating a certain NPC, use the search field in here: http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/moblookup.html

Alchemy:

Item


NPC


Qnt.


Sell Price


AH Price

Elixir of Demonslaying


Nina Lightbrew - Blasted Lands
Rartar - Swamp of Sorrows


1


90


5

Elixir of Shadow Power


Maria Lumere - Stormwind City
Algernon - Undercity


1


90


5

Elixir of Superior Defense


Kor'geld - Orgrimmar
Soolie Berryfizz - Ironforge



1


1 30


3 80

Fire Protection Potion


Jeeda - Stonetalon Mountains
Nandar Branson - Hillsbrad Footh.


1


13


4 90

Free Action Potion


Kor'geld - Orgrimmar
Soolie Berryfizz - Ironforge
Ulthir - Dustwallow Marsh
Vendor-Tron 1000 - Desolace


1


18


2

Frost Oil


Bro'kin - Alterac Mountains


1


25


5

Frost Protection Potion


Miao'zan - Durotar
Drovnar Strongbrew - Arathi Highl.
Glyx Brewright - Stranglethorn Vale


1


20


4

Great Rage Potion


Ulthir - Darnassus
Vendor-Tron 1000 - Desolace
Hagrus - Orgrimmar


2


20


1 50

Major Healing Potion


Evie Whirlbrew - Winterspring


1


36


5 50

Nature Protection Potion


Miao'zan - Durotar
Bronk - Feralas
Logannas - Feralas
Glyx Brewright - Strangleth.
Alchemist Pestlezugg - Tanaris


1


20


2

Shadow Oil


Bliztik - Duskwood
Montarr - Thousand Needles


1


15


3 25

Superior Mana Potion


Ulthir - Darnassus
Algernon - Darnassus


1


1 20


3 90

Transmute Mithril To TrueSilver


Alchemist Pestlezugg - Tanaris


1


80


2 95

Tailoring:

Item


NPC


Qnt.


Sell Price


AH Price

Admiral's Hat


Crosby - Strangleth. Vale


1


70


7

Azure Silk Cloak


Brienna Starglow - Feralas
Jun'ha - Arathi Highlands


1


15


2 50

Black Swashbuckler's Shirt


Narkk - Stranglethorn Vale


1


15


2 30

Crimson Silk Cloak


Super-Seller 680 - Desolace
Xizk Goodstitch - Strangleth. Vale


1


12


1 50

Crimson Silk Robe


Vizzklick - Tanaris


1


50


2 50

Dark Silk Shirt


Sheri Zipstitch - Duskwood
Super-Seller 680 - Desolace
Mallen Swain - Hillsbrad Foothills


1


11


1 60

Enchanter's Cowl


Super-Seller 680 - Desolace
Xizk Goodstitch - Strangleth. Vale


1


10


1 40

Felcloth Pants


Lorelae Wintersong - Moonglade


1


1 60


5 15

Icy Cloak


Ghok'kah - Dustwallow Marsh
Micha Yance - Hillsbrad Foothills


1


15


3 50

Lavender Mageweave Shirt


Borya - Orgrimmar
Outfitter Eric - Ironforge


1


40


1 90

Mooncloth Robe


Shen'dralar Provisioner - DM


1


4


9

Runecloth Bag


Qia - Winterspring


1


1 20


7

Runecloth Boots


Darnall - Moonglade


1


2


6

Runecloth Gloves


Qia - Winterspring


1


1 60


5

Runecloth Robe


Darnall - Moonglade


1


1 20


6

Tuxedo Jacket


Outfitter Eric - Ironforge
Millie Gregorian - Undercity


1


50


2

Tuxedo Pants


Outfitter Eric - Ironforge
Millie Gregorian - Undercity


1


45


2

Tuxedo Shirt


Outfitter Eric - Ironforge
Millie Gregorian - Undercity


1


45


2

White Wedding Dress


Mahu - Thunder Bluff
Alexandra Bolero - Stormwind


1


90


3

Other items:

Item


NPC


Qnt.


Sell Price


AH price

Gromsblood


Vi'el - Winterspring


3


10


1

Felcloth


Vi'el - Winterspring


2


80


2

Ancona Chicken


Magus Tirth - Thousand Needles


?


1


5

Cat Carrier (White Kitten)


Lil Timmy - Stormwind


?


60


6

Cat Carrier


Donni Anthania - Elwynn Forest


?


40


3

Prairie Dog Whistle


Halpa - Thunder Bluff


?


50


4

Expert First Aid - Under Wraps


Deneb Walker - Arathi Highlands
Balai Lok'Wein - Dustwallow Marsh
Ghok'kah - Dustwallow Marsh


2


1


3

Expert Fishing - The Bass and You


Old Man Heming - Booty Bay


2


1


3

Wild Steelbloom


Kixxle - Wetlands
Antonio Perelli
Lhara - Mulgore/Elwynn Forest
Jeeda - Stonetalon Mountains
Montarr - Thousand Needles
Bernard Gump - Stormwind
Maria Lumere - Stormwind


2-4


2


60

[Addons are your friends!]

There are many awesome addons that will improve your gold making skills and playing in general. Here are my personal best choices and the urls to them.

Auctioneer
Download: http://auctioneeraddon.com/
Makes using auction house a lot easier. Read more from the Auction house section in this guide.


Loot Filter
Download: http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/a...ot-filter.html
With this you can easily filter crappy items and other unwelcome things. This saves a lot of time! Once you are in game with this, type /lf to specify what items you don't like.

Mobinfo 2
Download: http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/a...mobhealth.html
This saves and displays all the info about the mobs that you have slain. This also records all the loot that monsters have dropped, making it easier for you to see what mobs have dropped most of the items for example.

Gatherer
Download: http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/a...-gatherer.html
Records all herbalism and mining points, also chest locations and other usable items. These will then show in the map and minimap.

Mapwow
Download: http://mapwow.com/
This is not an addon, but this is still extremely valuable! It shows every object in the outdoor maps and where to find them! It's like google map. ^^

[X-Gogeta]

God ****ing damn .... thats long.

Good job on finding it though , never seen it before .

[EthanLopez]

Nice Guide

[DjKuja]

This is a direct copypaste from my gold guide which is protected by a copyright. If you read the copyright information found in the guide, you can clearly see that it violates the copyright if you spread any of the guide's content like you are doing now. I recommend you to remove your post, general_salsa, or face the consequences. Assuming admins in here give out criminals ip information. If not, perhaps the fbi or local police will change their mind.

[general_salsa]

Hey sorry for copying your guide. Someone delete this post

[Detzett40]

This is a direct copypaste from my gold guide which is protected by a copyright. If you read the copyright information found in the guide, you can clearly see that it violates the copyright if you spread any of the guide's content like you are doing now. I recommend you to remove your post, general_salsa, or face the consequences. Assuming admins in here give out criminals ip information. If not, perhaps the fbi or local police will change their mind.

First of all the guide isn't really worth any money considering that basically all it tells you is to kill mobs, loot them, sell looted items, and get 2 gathering professions. All the other add info i could find easy at alakazam. Second I think the FBI has better things to do then track down somebody for copyright infringement because if they didn't have anything better to do then I'm positive that free music sharing sites would be hard to find, but they aren't.

[Banksey]

This is a direct copypaste from my gold guide which is protected by a copyright. If you read the copyright information found in the guide, you can clearly see that it violates the copyright if you spread any of the guide's content like you are doing now. I recommend you to remove your post, general_salsa, or face the consequences. Assuming admins in here give out criminals ip information. If not, perhaps the fbi or local police will change their mind.

C'mon don't be hating :P . I'm sure plenty of people would still buy(?) your novel