The latest patch of World of Warcraft brings some people a real windfall of gold. The reason for this is housing.
A new update in World of Warcraft always means that new earning opportunities arise to eliminate gold worries in one fell swoop for the next few months. This is currently possible, as when it comes to housing, players are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of gold pieces. Those who know how to take advantage of this can currently earn a fortune.
How can you earn gold? All crafting professions received new recipes with patch 11.2.7. For all professions, there are two decorations available for crafting from each expansion. The necessary resources for this are mostly incredibly cheap at the AH – after all, they are outdated items that hardly have any use anymore. Only one resource needs to be farmed manually: wood.
Wood is the key factor: The limiting factor in crafting decorations is currently wood. Once you have picked up an axe from the housing area, you can go gather wood in all expansions (except Warlords of Draenor currently). This is bound to the warband and therefore cannot be sold in the auction house.
Those who want to craft must therefore go farm wood themselves. However, this is exceedingly simple and can be easily done “on the side”, for example while watching a series or following a stream.
Expensive decorations cost hundreds of thousands of gold coins
How can you earn a lot? If you take a look at the auction house and simply filter for decorations, you will see a lot of items. Many of them have a price that falls into the high 5-digit or even low 6-digit range. These are particularly impressive decorations or those that consume a lot of resources.
But even with the cheaper decorations, you can make a lot of money if they are items that are frequently needed in larger quantities. Fences and vials are often bought in bulk, as they are usually needed multiple times.
Just check what your profession can craft and what is currently being offered in the auction house.
What is also an option are dyes. Many furniture items in housing can be dyed – with nearly 80 different colors. These are crafted by alchemists or scribes. You learn the recipes normally from the teacher.
First, you need to break down various herbs into their dye pigments and then you can transform these into many colors at the dye table in the neighborhood.
If you still have old herbs sitting in the bank, you might want to consider whether their time has now finally come to be used.
Cortyn says: In the last few days, I’ve earned a few hundred thousand gold “on the side” by crafting Nightwell and Containment Cells from Suramar. This was also badly needed to recoup the general costs of housing since decorations are also extremely expensive from vendors.
However, for those who don’t get too lost in housing like I do, it is currently quite easy to earn a more than solid sum and should be perfectly prepared for the next expansion Midnight. After all, you need a bit of gold to unlock the new transmog system in its entirety.
