Gold is needed in WoW Classic for all sorts of things. However, one class has a significant advantage when it comes to easily acquiring a thicker wallet: Rogues. We will show you how to make gold easily as a Rogue.
These tricks are worth it: With our tips, we show you how to easily get gold without much effort. Most of these tips are especially worth it from level 30 to 40, allowing you to easily scrape together the gold for your first mount without much work.
The tips mainly focus on requiring little effort from you and using your Rogue class abilities. You will utilize the advantages of the Rogue class.
These are not the absolute most effective farming methods, which are often more exhausting. If you’re not a Rogue or want to make gold in other ways, you will find 5 tips for farming gold in our guide.
Trick 1: Lockpicking for pocket money
This is how the trick works: As Rogues, you have the exclusive class ability to open the locks of chests and lockboxes. Only blacksmiths can do that with lockpicks, which come with some material costs.
The trick aims at you opening other players’ lockboxes, as they usually don’t have the means to open them themselves. Just stand in front of the auction house in Ironforge or Orgrimmar and offer your services in the general or trade chat.
Your advantage: You can ask for a small fee. Most lockboxes contain very valuable items, with which players can still make a profit. It’s best to charge between 5 silver and 1 gold.
How much you can charge depends on the server, your level, and the competition. If you’re the only Rogue, your services are more expensive. If the lockbox is harder to open, its content is more valuable. If the contents can be sold for a high price, players are more willing to pay more.
When is the trick worth it? We recommend starting this trick around level 35. At that point, your maximum lockpicking skill is 175, and you can open steel lockboxes already.
With a skill of 225 (level 45), you can open all currently available lockboxes. From here on out, you can offer your services to any player.
This is how you increase your skill: Lockpicking needs practice. With each level, the maximum skill increases by 5 but must still be trained just like weapon skills or professions. As Rogues, you have several areas available for training:
- Redridge Mountains: Alther’s Mill and Lake Everstill (up to about 150)
- Westfall: Merchant Coast (up to about 120)
- Ashenvale: Zoram Strand (up to about 150)
- Stonetalon Mountains: Windshear Cliffs (up to about 50)
- Desolace: Sar’theris Strand (up to about 250)
There are more areas where practice boxes are distributed. However, those listed here are quite easy to reach and should be sufficient to get you to 225.
Trick 2: Looting enemies
This is how the trick works: Another exclusive ability of Rogues is pickpocketing. You learn this fairly early, allowing you to loot the pockets of enemies while sneaking around them.
With this ability, you can easily collect copper and silver, items for sale, materials to craft poisons, and loot boxes that you can open for yourself.
Loating individual enemies is not particularly lucrative. However, if you go to an area with many humanoid enemies, you can collect a lot of silver or even gold within minutes.
When is the trick worth it? We recommend a minimum of level 30, preferably level 35-38 for this trick. The higher your level, the harder you are to detect. Enemies from level 30 and up carry significantly more money than those below.
Additionally, the looted enemies have a chance to resist your pickpocketing. If that happens, you will be immediately revealed and usually drawn into combat, which can easily lead to your death without explosive powder and “Vanishing”.
Here pickpocketing is worth it: A particularly lucrative location before level 40 is the Scarlet Monastery, especially the library and armory. The entire complex contains almost exclusively human enemies that you can loot.
The advantage in the mentioned instances is that the density of enemies is extremely high, allowing you to loot many pockets in a small area. Moreover, the instances are long enough that you can return to the start after emptying the last pocket and start over without having to reset the instance. The bags will have typically refilled in that time.
Trick 3: Sneaking and looting
This is how the trick works: The last trick revolves around your abilities to sneak and your combat skills. Both can be combined to quickly and easily access certain loot chests in dungeons.
You usually only reach these with a group when you are currently running the respective dungeon. And then you have four other players contesting the loot with you.
As a Rogue, you can simply sneak through the instance and to the next chest, which in many cases is only guarded by smaller groups or single enemies. Use your “Cooldowns” like Escape, Riposte, and Blind to take out the enemies and loot.
Theoretically, Druids could also use this trick. However, many chests are locked and require the skill to pick locks. Additionally, as a Rogue, you have the ability to “Vanishing,” which allows you to survive even when the fight doesn’t go well.
When is the trick worth it? Again, we recommend a minimum of level 35, preferably level 38 or higher, as from there you can fight without major issues, and with reasonably good equipment, two or three elite enemies.
If you know of instances where chests are located in easily cleared areas, lower levels can work as well.
Here a “break-in” is worth it: Even as a burglar, the Scarlet Monastery is your best bet, at least for lower levels. Especially in the graveyard, you will almost always find a chest in a spot guarded by either an elite enemy or a group of weaker enemies.
A second chest is located a bit earlier in the catacombs by Interrogator Vishas. However, there is also a group of four Scarlet Crusaders here, which are difficult to eliminate alone.
The chests contain useful items and equipment that can often be sold for almost one gold piece. Additionally, you have a chance in the graveyard to find rare enemies standing alone that will drop expensive loot.
Once you have looted the chests, you need to leave the instance and “reset all instances.” From that point on, you can simply repeat the trick.
As effective as these methods may be, they fit perfectly into the class fantasy of Rogues. Perhaps this is exactly what makes WoW Classic such a great fantasy world:
