Warcraft Millionaire

Personally I'm happy if all my alts have their epic flying mount and enough gold for some decent purples. There's one guy however who has made it his goal to become the first Warcraft Millionaire with a million WoW gold spread across all his alts. He's pretty close with 800k+ at the time of writing. You can see how he does it (mostly AH trading) by clicking here.

Free WoW Gold

This post isn't a secret way of making thousands of free WoW gold. Sorry. But it is some advice on exactly what you need to do to end your WoW poverty.

I was wandering around Nagrand the other day with my level 70 Warlock, picking up a few herbs, killing and skinning the odd mob that got in my way. As I picked each herb, and skinned each mob, I noticed the selling prices of the herbs and hides. The Auctioneer add-on has a great feature that tells me the average selling price in the Auction House of any item. You just hover over the item for up-to-date AH pricing info. Many of the herbs had a selling price over 2 gold. Thick Clefthoof Leather sells for 3 gold a piece. I was literally picking up gold pieces from the ground. Free WoW gold.

So, what's my point?

My point is that the fastest way to make gold is to be a high level. It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you do it in the higher level zones. Gather some herbs. Mine. Skin. Kill elementals for motes. You may be struggling as a level 40 looking for 100 gold to get a mount. My advice? Don't sweat it. Go out and level and the gold will come easily. Get to 60+ and it's easy.

Trouble leveling?

No problem, three very excellent guides will get you there in record time. Download Joana's Guide for Horde, Zygor for Alliance and Horde (in-game) or iDemise Leveling Guide (Alliance and Horde) and level to 80 in a few days and have all the gold you need.

Patch 2.4 Release Date

Official release to the live realms of patch 2.4 looks to be Tuesday, March 25th.

The patch file is 251 Mbytes, so if you are on a slow connection, be prepared for a long download.

Blizzard haven't announced this officially but I suspect the only announcement will be when we log in on that day.

Level 65-70 WoW Gold

Here's another good gold grinding spot for levels 65 to 70.

The Voidspawn around the edges of Oshu'Gun in Nagrand seem to have almost no HP and are very easy to kill quickly. They drop cash, Netherweave Cloth and Motes of Shadow, often 2 at a time. They also spawn as quickly as you can kill them.

Easy 100 gold an hour grinding plus great xp at 65.

For the best collection of WoW gold making tips for all levels, see Valkors Gold Guide.

Buy WoW Gold?

If you have a higher level character, over 60 say, it's easy to do a spot of grinding, or to use one of the gathering professions to make a decent amount of Warcraft gold.

But what happens if you only have a level 40 character or lower? Yes, you can work the AH for some gold and can easily make 30 or 40 gold for an hour of effort, once you know your way around. If this is enough for your needs, great, but what if you need 1,000 WoW gold to create a BG twink?

Some of the gold sellers are now offering 1,000 WoW gold for less than $50. This means you are effectively working for $1.50 an hour or less.

Would you take a job for $1.50 an hour? Even the crappiest job will pay far more than this.

If you would, or you enjoy the gold making process, then carry on. I don't personally buy gold because I enjoy the process of making my own WoW gold, so the time spent doesn't really matter to me.

If the whole gold-grind thing is boring to you, then you may want to consider buying WoW gold. This is against Blizzard's TOS and could get your account banned. I've never heard of this happening, but there's always a first time. To date, they've just gone after the gold sellers.

The trouble is there are a lot of dodgy sellers out there that will take your money and never deliver the gold. Try chasing some guy in China for your $50. You have to be really careful who you buy from, both from the point of them delivering anything, and in their professionalism in delivering the gold without a GM noticing. A friend, who does buy WoW gold (and has a full set of purple gear on every character), told me that Guy4Game deliver the goods. They have 24 hour English-speaking support and a toll-free US phone number.

Don't tell anybody I told you, ok?

Darkmoon Faire Gold

The Darkmoon Faire is in town and here's a great way to make 40 gold quickly and easily at any level.

Lhara sells Fel Lotus for 4 gold. She only has two at any one time but these will easily sell for 25 gold in the AH. I'm not sure of the reset time on these, so I just check every hour. You can usually buy around 8 a day, giving an easy profit of 160 gold a day.

For even more gold, she will also have Thick Clefthoof Leather and Black Lotus, both of which will sell in the AH for a big profit.

For the best collection of WoW gold making tips for all levels, see Valkors Gold Guide.

Running Shadowfang Keep for Gold

This is a great way for a level 45 and higher levels to make about 150 gold an hour by running a lower level instance.

The Assassin's Blade sells for 500 gold or more on most servers. It's in high demand for twinking level 19 rogues. This dagger can drop off any mob in Shadowfang Keep, but I've had most success with Archmage Arugal, the main boss in Shadowfang Keep. This instance is really intended for a group in their mid 20's. The mobs are 19 to 26 elite.

A level 45 should be able to run this entire instance in 30 to 45 minutes, depending on level, and will come away with packs full of blue and green items on every run. Since the items that drop are intended for high-teen characters, even the greens are in high demand as level 19 twink items. I've seen even average greens looted here sell for 15 or 20 gold.

If you can disenchant, you can DE enchanting materials from the BoP blues. If you have skinning, almost every mob is skinnable for an even higher return.

Rouge or Druid? Sneak in and just kill the boss.