I want to preface this by saying that this is a beginners’ gold guide. There are plenty ways to make gold and these are a few of the ways to get started.
All of these gold farms have been found throughout Youtube/Reddit and other sources. I just put them all in one place. Links at bottom.
Useful Addons: GatherMate2. Auctionator/Auctioneer/TSM. ClassicVendorPrice
Most basic farmsComplete quests at max level. Just like in any other version of WoW, completing quests at max level rewards more gold. This is an easy way to hit 20+ gold fairly quickly. The tradeoff however is not having these quests available when it’s time to level for phase 2.
Skinning/Mining/Herbalism while leveling. Easy way to make some spare gold with minimum effort required.
Selling quest items. There’s a few quests which require basic white items dropping off of mobs. (
Redridge Goulash). Farm them and sell them!
Fishing, Iron Bound Trunk/Mithril Bound Trunk. These contain items/materials that are not obtainable in any other way than through fishing right now, such as greens with a higher vendor value, mageweave cloth etc. Link to locations at bottom.
ProfessionsTailoring/Blacksmithing/Leatherworking. Bags are in high demand. Greens/blues with good stats are in high demand. Have a look at your servers auction house to see what is worth crafting. Browse through the different BiS-lists for the classes and pick a profession with items you find there.
Enchanting. Enchanting materials has a high value. You can either have this profession solely for disenchanting items and selling the mats, or sell the enchants yourself. Have a look at what enchants are the best for each class and advertise your services.
Alchemy. This obviously goes hand in hand with herbalism. Everyone will need potions and elixirs. Either buy the herbs off of the AH, or go out and farm them yourself. Easy profit!
OthersQuest items, ’secret runes’. (
https://www.wowhead.com/classic/news/secret-rune-vendor-found-in-ratchet-season-of-discovery-336527)
To be able to purchase these runes you must complete three turn-ins.
24 Fish Oil, 20 Dark Iron Ordinance, 16 Shredder Turbocharger.
The Fish Oil is easily farmed in Wetlands right outside Menethil Harbor. Just kill murlocs. The murlocs also drops Iridescent Pearls, which sells for quite a bit.
The Dark Iron Ordinance drops from Dark Iron Dwarves, elites in Northern Wetlands. These are obtainable in a raidgroup and the drops seem to be personal, meaning everyone in the group can loot them.
The Shredded Turbocharger is an item you harvest from Shredder-mobs using an engineering item. Guide at bottom.
Mage AoE farming. Mages has great AoE utility and can farm mobs faster than any other class. Using this to your advantage you can farm a ton of cloth and greens. Link to 1 of the spots at bottom.
Humbert's Helm. This is a leather headpiece sought after by all agility-wearers. It is pre-raid Best in Slot and goes for quite some gold. They drop off of elite mobs in southern Hillsbrad Foothills. Link at bottom.
Selling quest items:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8b3VbN7KbE&t=1sFishing for trunks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6HgLrSlxpQMage AoE spot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Tat6bh9KI&t=1sSecret Runes Items:
https://www.wowhead.com/classic/news/secret-rune-vendor-found-in-ratchet-season-of-discovery-336527Humbert's Helm Spot:
Dun Garok RiflemanHi all, this is a guide on how to make decent money fishing in Dragonflight. So far I have made over 1m gold just fishing in between Solo Shuffle queues. SO, the first thing we need to understand is stats.
Fishing Skill:Higher fishing level
does make a difference in what you catch. At BiS, we should have 182 fishing in the Dragon Isles, which is almost double the normal cap.
Perception:We will be aiming for 22% perception (or 200 + 20 from Evoker passive). It won't make a huge difference to what you catch, but it is still a very important stat as it will increase your fishing income significantly. It will grant us a 22% chance to gain extra Coins of the Isles whenever we catch one, which are one of our main goldmakers.
Islefin Dorado Lure:This makes a difference only in pools without large loot tables. More on this in the next paragraph.
Location:You may assume we want to go Ice Fishing or fish at the River Holes. You'd be wrong. I'm not sure how Blizzard f***d up their spaghetti code like this, but your
stats and lures make a much larger difference in pools with smaller loot tables. Most fishing waters have a massive loot table of junk, which seems to really lower the amount of profitable casts you make.
We want to fish in the Dragonscale Basecamp in Waking Shores. This little area here has zero junk in the loot table, and all of the things we want for some reason.
Money Makers:First of all, most fish are irrelevant to us. The ones we want are:
Islefin DoradoThese are selling for almost 200g a pop on some nights, and you can fish a lot of them quickly here. This is your MAIN money maker
Draconic Recipe in a BottleThis is our second main money maker. It contains various Dragon Isles recipes which can sell for over 10k gold each on the AH.
Soggy Clump of Darkmoon CardsThese are nice to get but not really a huge focus for us.
Gold Coin of the IslesThese are very rare but big money makers. They can be exchanged for an Immaculate Bag of Treasures from the fishing vendor, which can contain even rarer recipes than the bottles and sell for over 20k each, and they almost always contain a bottle aswell.
Silver Coin of the IslesThese are what we want to be focusing on. The bags that are bought with these usually contain bottles, which is what we are really after. It's a waste to spend your Silver Coins on a Gold Coin unless you want the Otto mount, the Silver Coin bags are the most optimal since they are not hard to obtain and you can obtain many of them in one session.
Copper Coin of the IslesUse these to buy Silver Coins.
Race, Consumables, and GearFirst of all, we want to do this on an Evoker for the 2% Perception bonus.
The gear we want is:Nat's Drinking Hat (+8) or DF Fishing Hat (+6)
Khaz'gorite Fishing Pole (+15 skill, +110 Perception)
Boots of the Bay (+10)
Random <50ilvl gloves with Enchant Gloves - Angler (+5)
Enchant Tool - Draconic Perception (+40 perception on pole)
Sharpened Tuskarr Spear (+5)
The consumables we want are:Kalu'ak Figurine (+15)
Scalebelly Mackerel (+5)
Captain Rumsey's Lager (+5)
Trawler Totem Toy (+4)
Heat-Treated Spinning Lure (+10, unnecessary if using Nat's Drinking Hat)
Islefin Dorado Lure
Crystalline Phial of Perception (+50 perception)
Oversized Bobber (makes it easier to click)
This will bring us to 22% Perception, 182 fishing skill if we keep our buffs up. Having this high fishing level in a pool with a tiny loot table like the Dragonscale Basecamp seems very overpowered, I'm not sure how the math there works..
Finally, since the items are all current content, the items all sell relatively quickly so you can see a lot of gold come in without waiting months for auctions to sell.
