Making Money (Gold)
I’ll start off by saying that I’m ok at it but it’s still not very fun. However, there are some easy ways to do it.
The first is Daily Quests. Each one will award you with almost 12 gold. Where are these Daily Quests completed?
- Skettis (Terrokar Forest), associated with the Sha’tari Skyguard
- Ogri’la (Blade’s Edge Mountains), associated with the Ogri’la Ogres
- Shadowmoon Valley, associated with the Netherwing
There may be others, but I do not know of them. However, you can do up to 10 of these Daily Quests per day. This will award you with almost 120 gold per day. Factor in the non-quest-completion-related money you get from doings these (picking up trash drops, cloth, greens, etc) that’s a decent amount of money. It’s a slow-paced run at the 5000g needed for an epic flyer, but it would get you there eventually.
Also, you might want to consider your professions. Crafting professions typically do not garner you very much in funds. Jewelcrafting is decent, I hear, but it’s not very consistently rewarding. People are in constant need of new gems due to new gear upgrades, but prices do fluctuate in my experience. Mining, however, is. The adamantite and fel iron veins scattered throughout Outland will get you some decent money per hour scouring the lands for them.
For Adamantite farming, I highly recommend Nagrand during non-peak server hours. When I get home from work, if I set out to do some mining, I can get about two full stacks of the ore in approximately one hour. I lately have been prospecting it for hopeful rare gem drops, but this is proving less and less profitable. Selling ore as-is will yield decent funds.
The other gathering professions are not quite as good. Enchanting, specifically disenchanting, is nice, but requires magic items to fuel your income. Herbalism is ok I hear, but I have not tried it yet myself. Finally, skinning, as easy as it is, will not yield very much for your gold supply.
Basically, the best and easiest way to make money in WoW is to kill things. What I think I will have to do is level up mining and enchanting on my warrior and just run around the world killing everything in sight. Devote an hour or two per day to this mindless activity. I still, in the two years of playing WoW, have found no sure-fire quick way to make money. The first couple people to level the Inscription profession in WotLK will probably make some decent money, much like the early Jewelcrafters probably did. But as it stands, your best bet is to farm, boring and tedious it may be.
September 3, 2007 at 6:39 am
the irony of selling the ore is that the reason it’s a good money maker is that people use it to prospect.
September 4, 2007 at 6:03 am
Herbalism does good by me. I almost had all the money I needed for my Charger when I dinged 60 and the majority of that came from killing things and selling herbs that no one else wants to farm… (Oh the irony of being able to afford my Charger by selling Arthas’ Tears to other Paladins for their Charger quests.)
September 4, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I have my Hunter as a LW/Enchanter while my Warrior is a Skinner/Miner to support the habits of my Hunter – I tend to give away enchants, especially to guildies, instead of asking for anything in return. I have never found Skinning profitable as my Leatherworking requires so much leather, but Mining has been profitable, and has supported my Warrior a lot when he needs armor or weapons made. Since the addition of gems and primal motes to the Mining, it has only made the profession more profitable. On Cho’gall you can buy Felsteel for 10g each while buying the base mats would cost you 25g per each Felsteel bar you wanted to make. Strange, huh?
September 4, 2007 at 3:37 pm
So I did the math…
If you prospect a stack of adamantite ore, that’s 4 prospects. Every prospect has a 15% chance of finding a rare gem (each gem having a 2.5% chance of being prospected, with 6 different rare gems to find). 15×4 being 60%, that’s basically a 60% chance of finding one rare gem in a stack. And since some rare gems sell for as little as 20-25g, you are losing money by doing that in the long run.