Gold in World of Warcraft has always been important and probably will remain so. We’ll tell you how to convert Anima into Gold in Shadowlands.
WoW: Shadowlands is in its final phase, even though another season is still upcoming. But slowly, the next expansion “Dragonflight” is beginning to appear on the horizon, which will demand many resources from players once again – including Gold.
Currently, everyone still has the opportunity to convert their excess Anima into Gold.
If you’re looking to efficiently farm Anima, in case you haven’t obtained all rewards yet, we explain it in detail in our Anima farming guide.
How do you convert Anima into Gold? This is possible with the mission table in your respective Covenant Sanctum. There, you can send your followers on missions that reward you with various loot. This ranges from direct Gold rewards to crafting materials, pet followers, or reputation tokens.
So, you either receive Gold directly or materials that you can list on the auction house to earn a little extra.
This becomes especially lucrative when you can start missions with just a few clicks and don’t even have to think about it because an addon takes care of the task completely – namely “TLDR Missions”.
How does the addon work? Actually, the missions were designed so that you need to position your units somewhat tactically in order to come out victorious and claim the rewards.
However, the addon “TLDR Missions” takes on this work for you and even runs simulations to find out which team is most likely to win a mission. With just a few clicks, the teams are then assembled and sent out.
Here you can download TLDRMissions: Link to download TLDR Missions on Curse
If the addon is installed and loaded, you can access it via the small “TLDR” button on the mission table interface.
You only need to set which missions you want to complete once per character. We recommend considering the following aspects:
- Gold (pure profit)
- Pet followers (to buy pets that can be sold in the AH)
- Reputation tokens (eventually grant Paragon rewards with Gold)
- Crafting materials (can be sold in the AH)
- Equipment (can be sold directly to the vendor)
If you wish, you can of course still collect other rewards, such as additional follower XP or more Anima.
At first glance, this may not look like much, as a single mission yields only about 200 to 400 Gold. However, if you make the process as efficient as possible and also spread it over several characters, you can easily save a medium six-figure gold amount before the next expansion starts.
To complete your missions and re-send the followers, you need a maximum of 30 to 60 seconds – the loading screen probably takes longer than the actual sending of the adventurers.
Additionally, the method is scalable. You can complete table missions on several characters simultaneously and thus multiply your profit.
Since the missions usually take several hours, it’s sufficient to send your followers once or twice a day to convert Anima into Gold effortlessly.
However, you should keep two important things in mind:
- If you switch your Covenant, the current table missions will be canceled. They won’t continue when you switch back to the Covenant. Those who frequently switch the Covenant with one character should rather use the method on other characters.
- If your characters no longer have any Anima, you can send them some from your main character. In Oribos, at the vendor “Au’Dara” next to the flight master, you can purchase the item “Container of Anima of the Traveler” for 1,000 Anima and send it to your other characters, ensuring there’s always enough Anima available everywhere.
Why should you do this now? Most players have already purchased what they want with Anima. Even though there were seemingly endless rewards in the form of transmog sets or mounts at the beginning, they are slowly being exhausted.
No matter what gameplay content you enjoy, there is a steady stream of Anima that ends up in the Covenant reservoir and is not needed.
Therefore, it makes sense to convert the Anima into Gold or resources with the mission table before this option disappears. In Dragonflight, there will be no mission table of this kind, and Blizzard is known for drastically nerfing the mission tables of older expansions, making them barely worthwhile.
In other words: All Anima that you do not convert into Gold now is somewhat wasted and will be significantly less valuable later.
Are you already converting your Anima into Gold? Or have you long since run out of Anima to do that?
