During the Winter Veil festival in World of Warcraft, you can easily make gold – even in 2017. With Ice Cold Milk, Small Eggs, Gingerbread, and Mounts from Wild Gifts, you can quickly acquire the precious metal!
During the holidays, there are limited-time events in WoW. Just that alone makes experienced WoW economic experts raise alarm bells. Where there are restrictions, there are items that hold a higher value.
The Winter Veil festival of Azeroth also offers several opportunities to rake in gold. While the removal of the Elixir of the Blitzdenker has made this more difficult, it is not impossible! With two methods, you can still snag some coins.
Culinary Arts: Ice Cold Milk for Cash!
In the culinary arts, there are four ways to acquire gold:
- Ice Cold Milk
- Holiday Spices
- Small Eggs
- Gingerbread
The last two are either tied to farming work or investments, while the other two rely on players’ laziness.
The easiest method to earn gold during the Winter Veil festival is to buy Ice Cold Milk and Holiday Spices from merchants. These are available for just a few copper coins each: Milk from any innkeeper, spices from all Gnomish traders.
In the auction house, however, you can demand a multiple of that (depending on server size). The profit is only a few copper or silver coins, but it becomes profitable with volume.
Beating Drake Hawks and Collecting Small Eggs!
The somewhat more difficult way is to farm Small Eggs. You can best obtain these from Wild Drake Hawks in the Immersang Forest or from Large Flesh Rippers in Westfall. Each egg sells in the auction house for up to several gold pieces.
If you are able to cook, and it is worthwhile on your server, you can bake Gingerbread directly from the eggs and sell them in bundles of 5.
The reason for the popularity of these items is the quest “Delicious Treats for Old Father Winter,” which must be completed every year during the festival in Orgrimmar/Ironforge. However, many players do not plan or are lazy, and the auction house is closer than the next innkeeper, so they are happy to drop a few coins for other players.
The Garrison: Grumpus’ Servant in Wild Gifts
A somewhat time-consuming method of gold farming is the Garrison, introduced with Warlords of Draenor. Every character with a level 3 Garrison can complete daily quests here, which offer up to 5 “Festive Supplies” as a reward.
With these supplies, you can buy decorations and other items from Izzy Firecracker in the center of your Garrison. More importantly, you also receive Wild Gifts from the Goblin lady.
Until recently, you could also obtain Elixirs of the Blitzdenker from these, which was the main source of income. However, since they have been removed, there is now only one reward that is important to you: The Servant of Grumpus.
This epic mount is the rarest item in the gifts. If you complete all quests with all available characters and collect the gifts every day, you may have some of these creatures in your inventory with a bit of luck.
Then it is time to wait. Because holiday mounts sell best after a while, when fewer people are offering them.
