10.1 is nearly here and we take a look at the Glowspores you can get in Zaralek Caverns. We also look at the worst ways to make gold and celebrate players maxing out their specialization trees. Plus we discuss Cooking as a steady gold maker.
My name is Samadan and I’ll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!
Zaralek Glowspores
With 10.1 just around the corner, it’s time to dust off your dual gatherers and make some nice gold! Penguin2gt has you covered with this video..
This revolves around collecting the new Lambent variant of herbs and Metamorphic variants of Ores which will give a certain number of Glowspores. The nodes can also be Overloaded to produce more Glowspores.
If you’re thinking of doing this on an alt, makes sure you’re already level 70 and have completed the campaign for 10.0.7
Of course, we don’t know what the price will be of these Glowspores, it will all come down to the levels of supply and demand.
Worst Ways to Make Gold
Now, normally we are all about making gold, but this topic certainly highlights that sometimes trying to make gold can be incredibly inefficient.
What are the WORST WAYS to get gold that you know of?
My “suggestion” was the hell and supreme time sink of converting Grime Encrusted Objects in Gnomergan and selling the mats on the AH.
What is your worst or most painful way to make gold in WoW??
The suggestions that followed were both amusing and insightful …
- Level a faction-unaffiliated pandaren character to max level by herbing and mining on the Wandering Isle, and vendoring all of it because you can’t access a mailbox.
- Someone recently posted about having 50 alts and doing gold WQs for every single alt. I think I would rather throw my computer away than spend the ungodly amount of hours it would require to make gold doing that.
- Put all your inscription knowledge points into making darkmoon decks at the start of the xpac. Just to find out the hard way that no one is using them and will be using them, 60 points later.
- Mailbox dancing
- Grinding boars in Elwynn while listening to Live to Win.
- Create a character, sell starting gear, mail the copper to your main, delete character, rinse and repeat.
- Old content daily quests
- Going around and doing all the pet battle dailies
- Investing in materials to make profit for after relic of the past comes out
- Crafting an item then selling them at a loss.
- Buying 80,000,000 ultramarine pigment on the auction house for 1s, and reselling them at 2s.
- Herbing with UI disabled.
- Creating a rogue and exclusively pickpocketing to make gold
- Sit at SW/Org, sign guild charters, leave guild, repeat.
We’ve all made mistakes while learning to make gold. It’s how we learn and grow.
I remember starting my own gold journey and trying to sell farmed transmog on a low pop server as a first start. The results were so painfully slow I quickly abandoned it for Enchanting (back when you could make profits in Legion).
What did you do to try to make gold before realising there were better methods?
Maxed 630 Jewelcrafting
First, we reported on a player maxing out Engineering, now we have someone maxing Jewelcrafting! Those that have dedicated a large amount of time to farm Knowledge Points are now reaching a point of maximum specialization…
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Was a long grind of farming Dragon shards. Just want to Thank Dirtgod for his tips n tricks and motivating me to continue the grind!
Farmed Dragon shard from Rares, Dirts, Satchels, Treasures, etc. it is a long grind
I kept track of Dragon shards starting 2/23…Here are my rough findings:
- Rares 55
- Dirt 54
- Satchels 18
- Treasures chests- 17
- Misc (M+, raid, weekly quest, etc.)- 6
Did you stick to one area or all over the isles? – Mostly all over, but I feel I neglected waking shore more than the rest, usually just hitting up rares and not so much dirt there. I have some nice routes around Azure, Ohn”ahran Plains, and Thraldraszus and have memorized almost all the spawn points. Dirt overload.
I feel like the last couple weeks I was getting more from rares than dirt and other things. but then some days would be only 1-2 all day hard farming and not crafting…
I would do most rares up to 4.6 mil health solo ( a couple that are 10 mil were ok solo but freinds prefered lol) and as a resto shaman. Nokhudon hold, Brackenhide Hollow, and the storm spot jsut south of camp nowhere in Azure. Plus all the random ones around the map and would hang out at obsidian citadel for a few.
Congratulations Jînxx, that’s quite an achievement! Obviously, this takes an extreme amount of dedication and time, so is not realistically feasible for most players. Thankfully, it’s not absolutely necessary in order to make some gold with specializations. You will still need to spend time advertising and growing a customer base though.
Gold Making with Cooking
Cooking is often overlooked as a profession, especially now with the region wide Auction House, it can be hard to make a profit.
With cooking I’m making around 30k/day. I could do more with a bit more time invested (I don’t have chef’s hat yet, but soon) and more market analysis but for now I have one question in mind : How to properly sell food ?
I’ve seen two ways for now :
- Standing at the AH for hours and selling stacks of of X food to stay competitive : whenever it’s cut, *hop* an other stack is put on sale and so the first of X food on sale are mines.
- Selling a big chunk of of X food for 48 hours and doing something else while it maybe sales.
I’m mostly doing 1), its pretty time consumming but at the end of the day I have sold everything. It has the advantages of making actual golds at the end of the day and not the theoretical 30k over 2 days if the market doesn’t crash until then. But I’m curious about the 2nd strategy : does it work ? Does it work *well* ? Does it requires more market analysis ? Or just luck ? Sometimes I see people selling 5K of a food that does not sell that much I wonder if they will ever sell any of this (mostly because I cut them right after with 60 of that food and it doesn’t even sell).
I’d love the read all your experiences about making gold with cooking and your stretegies and thoughts about it !
By this post I’m not looking into making more golds but I’m looking into making it more time efficient (therefore making more golds over time).
(I’m grindind the dailies for chef’s hat)
To explain some of the recipes that are making gold, Penguin2gt has a video here …
I like items like this as it gets me through the lean times when I don’t have bigger sales going on.
Of course, if you are serious about cooking, don’t forget your chef’s hat!
Further Reading
Most of this information was discussed and originally posted on the /r/woweconomy subreddit or in the accompanying Discord Server.
I hope you found this useful and If you have any suggestions or feedback, please do say so in the comments below..
Until next time, Happy Goldmaking!
Samadan
