This week we take a look back at Shadowlands Mission Tables and how they can be still utilized to make gold. We also have guides on cross realm trading in retail and vendor shuffles in Classic Hardcore. There is also the small matter of the soaring NA token price and making gold in Wrath Classic. Whatever your gold making preference, we have you covered!
My name is Samadan and I’ll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!
Making the Most of Shadowlands Mission Tables
Remember these? Mission tables were a great way of leveraging an alt army and using the mission tables to effectively print gold. Shadowlands was the last time we saw these in action and while the direct gold rewards may have been removed, there is still gold to be made using them. CanadiaTV has put together a great guide explaining why…
That being said, this will a text guide so you can choose your preferred format.
Main gold source
The main source of the gold comes from polished pet charms. You will get between 100 to 150 per week per table. With these, you can buy 60 different pets that can be sold on the auction house.
Link to everything you can buy with pet charms
You can also get items to level or upgrade the quality of your pets. Which means you could buy a lvl 1 pet for cheap and sell it for a lot more as the level 25 version. I use this method a lot and make lots of gold from this. The trick is to go for higher sale rate pets.
Link to the most used pets in battles that i use to see what pets sell the fastest
I will do a more in depth video on Polished pet charms soon as i make a ton of gold from those.
Raw gold opportunities
There is a weekly quest quest called “Replenish the reservoir” which asks you to get 1000 anima. If you are renown 80, this will give you 1600 raw gold every week. You don’t need to get out of your covenant as you get anima from missions !
Another source of raw gold is paragon boxes. As you do reputation missions, you will eventually ( takes a long time if you only do missions ) get to exalted. Once exalted, every 10000 reputation will give you 3500 raw gold. So from this point, every 1000 reputation is basically 350 raw gold . These boxes also contain mounts, pets and toys if you are a collector !
For the gold missions, i wouldn’t do those unless you already have tons of anima. This could be a way to dump your extra anima. I would suggest checking everything you can do with anima first before doing that !
Materials
The first “material” is veiled augment runes. These are slowly going down from time to time but for a very long time, i could sell them over 50 gold each ( currently about 30g on NA and 50g on EU ) and their sale rate is amazing. 90% of the time i post them, they sell. I get about 20 per week per table so this can end up becoming a lot of gold with many tables.
For crafting materials, herbs and zereth mortis are the best ( with the addon we’ll see later, you can select which type of material you want to send missions for ) . Be aware that these cost a lot of anima so make sure to manage your anima well before sending those ( more about managing anima later ) . They give about 70-150g of value per box roughly.
Requirements
If you never played shadowlands, you’ll need to get to renown 80 before being able to use this method. Here is a link to how to get there.
Once renown 80, you will also need the character that gets the table to be level 60. Your character with renown 80 will need to have 2000 gold as well.
How to set this up
This will be a more condensed way as it is in text format. More details are available in the video if you are struggling.
Get on your renown 80 character and purchase 4 broker mark of distinction in Oribos Here . Once bought, you can mail them to the character who wants the mission table.
You need to start the shadowlands questline to eventually get to choosing a covenant ( you can skip the maw and Zereth mortis intro with red text option ) . You then want to join all 4 covenants with the covenant you really want to join last.
While in each of the covenant, you will use a broker mark of distinction. This will get you 60 renown with the covenant, 2 mounts, 1 ensemble, 1000 anima and more importantly, 1 wisp of memory to level a companion. Once the items are in your bags ( this can lag ) , you switch covenant and repeat the process until you joined all of them. For easier missions, Night Fae seems to be the best covenant . You can then start the intro questline. Only do the “main” quests with the emblem on them. Don’t do the side quests.
Once you have done your soulbind quest, you will now have a companion ( don’t do the other soulbinds! ) . If you have more than 1 companion, you need to switch covenant . Use your 4 wisps of memory to get your companion to level 55 ( right-clicking a wisp will open the companion interface ) .Your troops will also be level 55. That’s because your troops will be the average level of companions. So if you get your only companion to level 60, you’ll have max level troops. Next section will cover how to get from 55 to 60.
Renown
If you get to renown 76, you will get a total of 2 more wisps and that will be enough to get your companion and troops to level 60. Here are some of the best ways to get renown :
- Zereth Mortis campaign takes about an hour to get to renown 76 this way and you get some anima as well
- Shadowlands raids : You can 1 renown for your first ever kill for each boss
- Torghast : Starting at layer 9, last boss will give a guaranteed renown ( don’t accept followers in there until your companion is 60 )
- Callings and weekly quest : These are very slow but if you are missing a few, that can work.
Once you get your 2 wisps, use them on your companion. Your companion and troops should now be level 60. You can now accept all the companions you desire including the ones from soulbinds.
Future tables
From then, you’ll receive account bound tokens that gives experience to companions . You get these from missions. This will remove the need to get renown. Simply collect these tokens if you want more tables without farming renown to save a ton of time !
Addons
Mission report button plus will upgrade your dragonflight minimap button. You can select any of the mission tables from the past with it.
Tldr missions is a great addon for automating the process. In about 5-10 seconds, it will completed missions and send new ones. To know how it works, you can check the video at 8:45 .
Anima management
Sending missions costs anima. That being said, there is anima missions so if you don’t send too many missions, you’ll never have to farm anima. You can choose the type of missions you send with tldr. Make sure to send campaign missions as they will unlock better missions.
Conclusion
Hopefully this was helpful. If you have questions, don’t hesitate to answer them here or on twitch where i do wow goldmaking.
I would truly enjoy some feedback as well. I’m trying to get better at making videos and if you find ways where i could improve, i would really like to hear it !
Happy goldmaking!
It’s great to see mission tables getting some attention again, I really liked them as an alternative gold making method. It’s one of those things where the time investment is in the setup. Once there, the rewards are consistent and quick.
With Dragonflight there are no mission tables, but similar gold in things like Dragon Races still take time to complete. It’s more akin to farming where you are simply exchanging time for money.
Guide to Cross Realm Trading
Penguin2gt is back with another cracking video going through the ins and outs of cross realm trading..
This video goes over how to use Cross Realm Trading to increase your goldmaking drastically! Whether you are a beginner and just want to sell bags, or you are an advanced goldmaker who wants to resell expensive transmog and mounts! This technique is great for everyone!
It’s been around for a while now as a technique since cross realm trading was opened up. Not many make use of this extensively due to needing two accounts, but it serves as a solid technique of spreading over several realms for non commodities.
NA Token Getting Close to EU Levels
While there is little to spend gold on in the game and external promotions and other battlenet games are on the horizon, the token is usually inflated. Typically, NA and EU have followed each other in trends, but with NA usually quite a bit lower.
However, of late the price of the NA Token has been creeping up to EU levels …
Graph courtesy of wowtokenprices.com
I think a lot of it has to deal with the average wow player not really needing anything that costs to much gold. No leggos to replace with higher ilvl ones, no giant gold sink mounts, so now people that do want gold only have to buy smaller amount of tokens to get the gold to buy things like pets, toys, mounts, or tmog for collection so it just makes the problem worse over time. That coupled with the fact that this game constantly has sales in the shop and the dragonflight has at this point been on sale more than it has been regular price also leads to higher wow token imo.
How high do you think the NA token will go? Will it surpass EU for the first time?
Hardcore Classic Vendor Shuffle
One I missed earlier in my rounds but recently came to my attention is a great channel – Warcraft Champion which covers gold making in WotLK Classic and Hardcore Classic. One of the videos that particularly caught my attention was this little gem covering vendor shuffles …
They are very close to the magic 1,000 subscribers needed for YouTube monetization, so please do make sure you subscribe!
Making Gold in WotLK Classic & GPH
An interesting question was raised this week regarding different gold making methods in Wrath Classic …
I have an assignment for a college class that I’m doing and it’s on the economy of Wrath classic. So I’m trying to collect methods to make gold and their gold per hour in order to put in a nice spreadsheet and explain them and how they work. I would greatly appreciate if you could put down any way you make gold or know how to make gold and the gold per hour (even if its a ballpark estimate). (Also if you have a source for it besides yourself adding that would also be greatly appreciated)
And with it of course comes a plethora of some great gold making tips!
2 selling various items crafted by professions and having undercut wars with 20 different 3rd world gold farmers and bots
3 flipping items – technically the most gold per time spent
5 gdkps a week, 10k -30k per character. 50 – 150k a week. Hours vary on the raid. Togc is only an hour. Ulduar was 2-3 hours at it worst. So 5 – 15 hours a week. Icc is going to be like 4-5 hrs per raid but I’m only raiding on 3 characters to start. The payouts should be 20k-30k though, if not more.
For raw gold I know that the Fallen Heroes in Icecrown are quite good, but I’m not sure what the g/h is.
Solo instance farming is very strong depending on your class. Botanica is good for this and there was a long post a few months ago about someone making 500g+ per hour farming Uldaman and selling cloth/BoEs on the AH.
Each boss in a raid will get you about 10g in raw gold. That should work out to about 50g/h.
*I’ve not included the suggestion to use profession daily cooldowns as those are being removed soon.
basically you buy ores you can prospect into gems, which you then make into jewelry with the jewelcrafting prof to then disenchant them into materials that you can sell on the Auction House. this requires that you buy the ores (or gems) when they’re priced low, and sell the mats high, tho the main benefit of this method is that enchanting mats dont pay the posting fee of the AH, so you can take as long as you want to sell the mats
There’s some great tips here and now is a great time to level up and make some gold even if it’s for nothing more than adding gametime to your account. There are lots of different opportunities in WotLK Classic.
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
