A new expansion in World of Warcraft offers you the opportunity to quickly earn a lot of gold. We’ll reveal how you can make a solid sum fast.
World of Warcraft Midnight has launched, bringing a plethora of new opportunities to spend lots of gold. New transmog sets, expensive weapon enchants, and various crafting assignments can quickly deplete your gold reserves.
So that you don’t wander the streets of Silvermoon as a beggar NPC, we’ve gathered some methods for you to make good cash.
Farming Herbs and Ores
It’s the absolute standard tip that each of you has heard multiple times: Select the two gathering professions Herbalism and Mining with one character – of course in the current Midnight variant. This is a solid, ongoing income that you can benefit from forever.
If you don’t want to use your “main” for this, just play a secondary character that you exclusively level up through Herbalism and Mining. Invest an hour here and there, immediately list the collected herbs and ores on the auction house, and soon the gold will flow into your pockets.
Because fundamentally, the rule is: You will never earn as much money as you do at the start of an expansion with resources. This is because currently everyone wants to level their crafting professions like Alchemy, Engineering, or Blacksmithing.
Collectors can make a killing – depending on performance – earning between 50,000 and 100,000 gold per hour. This is an extremely lucrative business for an activity where you can watch videos or listen to podcasts at the same time.
Fishing for Transmog (and Fish)
Good gold can also be earned currently by fishing – at least in WoW: Midnight. Once you’ve learned the fishing skill, you can fish in all the waters of the new expansion; it doesn’t even have to be in schools. Because you have the chance that various special events may happen while fishing:
- You pull a transmog item directly from the water.
- A crate appears next to you while fishing, which you can loot.
In both cases, you can obtain epic transmog weapons with a low chance, like the ones here:
Prices can, of course, fluctuate depending on the realm. Currently, the weapon skins are worth between 50,000 and 300,000 gold on most realms. So it’s not quite as reliable as gathering other resources – especially since you also need to find a buyer.
Alongside that, you’ll also catch plenty of actual fish, which you can sell for small gold in the auction house or use for leveling the Cooking profession, depending on what you think will give you greater benefit or profit.
Acyclical Crafting
The final tip can generate extreme amounts of gold if you follow it in the coming days. Because now that WoW Midnight has launched, the vast majority of players are in the new areas experiencing quests or trying their luck through farming.
This also means: old content, which is regularly farmed, is underpopulated. So you can collect old transmog or specifically craft various housing items from old expansions by farming wood and the appropriate resources or purchasing them in the auction house.
Since most crafters are currently focused on the new expansion, you can dictate the price for individual items. Particularly in housing, some people are willing to spend a lot of gold on furniture – often not even looking closely at the price.
This method of earning gold, of course, requires a bit more planning and persistence, but it can pay off if you find a good niche where you can set up with housing items.
Can you earn gold differently? Basically yes. If you want to invest a lot of time and already have solid starting capital, you can try to join the auction house moguls and establish a monopoly on certain resources.
It may also be worth buying items cheaply and then selling them at a higher price. However, this comes with risks and requires both market knowledge and willingness to take risks as well as endurance. This is not suited for everyone who wants to guarantee quick money and is therefore only recommended if you want to play WoW more as an economic simulation.
The methods for earning gold are somewhat fewer this time than in previous expansions – or the one optimal method has not yet emerged. What we think of the Midnight expansion overall, we have explained in detail in this post.
