So I’m pretty sure most WoW players have arrived at the same conclusion I have… Gold farming sucks! Unfortunately, enchants, gems, talent respecs, and epic fliers don’t pay for themselves. After knocking out a few hundred Scarlet Monastery runs at 60 for my epic ground mount, I was pretty much farmed out. When I found out I was going to have to do more of the same to get a flying mount in The Burning Crusade, I was kinda choked.
When I hit 70, I had made enough gold to cover the cost of my normal flying mount, but I knew that the next 5000 gold was not going to come as easy. Psychologically, the only reason that first 1000 gold had been so effortless was because my focus was on power leveling to 70. When you’re paying attention to a leveling guide, you don’t really notice your gold per hour ratio. I figured if I wanted to actually keep enjoying the game, I had to figure out some way to minimize the amount of time I spent on Elemental Plateau killing Storming Wind-Rippers for primals while still getting a steady amount of gold flowing in.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I picked up that WoW Gold Secrets guide, and one of the techniques I found in there involved auction house arbitrage. I implemented a few of the tips in there, made some purchases and relisted them, and then went to do some Arathi Basin. A few games later, I was capping the Lumber Mill when my screen started to fill with “A buyer has been found for your auction of _________”
I worked it out and it turns out while I was killing Alliance in AB, I was making around 40 gold per hour. Nothing amazing, but considering it took me about 20 minutes of auction house browsing, I was pretty happy. Since then, I’ve gotten about 75% of my gold from auctioneering, with the rest divided between doing a few dailies, finishing quest chains that interest me, running heroics, and mining (or herbing, depending on which of my toons I’m playing) while I explore Northrend on my epic flier.
Anyone else have a favorite way of keeping the gold rolling in without actively farming?