Let’s not become a Wall Street wolf, okay?

Making gold in World of Warcraft can be quite a hassle. In most places that you go to look for tips on making gold, a lot of people will point to the auction house. However, this takes skill, socializing, and sometimes even timing is a key component of efficiently utilizing the auction house to make gold. And Gold is the lifeblood of World of Warcraft too. Whether you’re repairing gear, buying mounts, respeccing talents, or grabbing consumables for raids, you’re going to need gold so you can’t afford to ignore it. In this article, I seek to tell you different ways of getting gold that don’t use the auction house.

If you want to avoid all of this hassle entirely and just want to purchase WoW gold, you can! Thanks to our great friends at PlayHub. This drastically expedited some of the least fun aspects of World of Warcraft. But regardless of you buying all the gold in the world, knowing these tips is crucial to playing WoW efficiently.

Is the auction house that bad?

The auction House can be intimidating. It’s filled with undercutting wars, fluctuating prices, and players with massive gold reserves and market manipulation tools. While it can be profitable, it’s not good for beginners. That’s why we’re going into the best ways of gathering gold by just playing the game!

Professions

Just because we’re avoiding the auction house doesn’t mean we won’t sell items at all. Gathering professions are very useful to gathering resources that you can either vendor away your items or trade them to different players through guild chat, circumventing the auction house entirely. These professions are:

• Herbalism
• Mining
• Skinning

The prices aren’t as good, but honestly it’s not that different from the most optimal prices, and you skip all the hassle that the auction house presents.

A very useful tip I can give you is to try out the third party tool “GatherMate2” to see where different resource nods appear on the map and gather more efficiently.

Old content

Old raids and dungeons are an excellent way to grind gold in a relaxing way. You can even solo them if the raid is old enough. Bosses drop lots of gold, and you can sell drops to vendors.

Among the best raids to grind gold, you can try:

• Warlords of Draenor raids are short and yield good drops to sell for plenty of gold.
• Cataclysm and Mists of Pandaria dungeons are among the easiest, play them with your brain turned off and listening to some tunes!
• The raids in Legion are tougher, but if you’re strong enough, you can still solo them.

A full clear of an old raid can get you around 3,000 to 5,000 gold per lockout in loot to sell to vendors and boss gold. Bonus: you’re also actively grinding out some rare mounts and transmogs along the way if you don’t have them yet!

Dungeons

Playing random runs will yield plenty of gold, and it’s specially easy to get into a random group if you play any support or tank class, as that’s the most looked after classes. If you have enough free time to play a lot of dungeons in a session, you will make a lot of gold, as each run will give you hundreds of gold per finish and loot to sell to vendors.

Battle pets

Battle pets is a Pokémon-like game mode you can play in WoW, where you gather different wild animals and fight other trainers. After some time, you get daily missions you can accomplish to get gold. You can even sell rare pets to other players. You can even get badges, and upgrade items that you can trade with other players in exchange for gold. It’s one of the most diverse ways of making money in the game, although it’s also one of the slowest ways. However, I know a lot of people who are big fans of this game mode and like to farm gold with it!

Daily world quests

Once you hit max level, the game gives you daily and weekly activities that offer gold as a direct reward. These include:

• World Quests that give gold outright.
• Callings, which give gold or gear that can be sold.
• Reputation rewards that unlock vendor items or account-wide perks that indirectly help with gold making.

These quests don’t give you a lot of gold by themselves, but you can make around 2,000 to 4,000 gold per day.

Orders

The Crafting Orders system that Dragonflight introduced allows other players to request items through a work order system. You only need to have a crafting profession like Blacksmithing, Alchemy, or Tailoring. You don’t interact with the auction house at all, as this is direct player trading. The way this process works is that you accept a request, use either your or their materials to craft a specific item, and then get paid for your hard labor. Some crafting orders pay hundreds to thousands of gold. No undercutting wars and no auction fees. One of the most relaxing ways to make gold there is. If you like this kind of “work games”.

Selling at vendors

Sell every single piece of gear you pick up and don’t use. You will be surprised at how much money you can make right now by just sorting your inventory and selling some stuff you won’t ever use. There’s even third party tools like “Scrap” to auto-sell junk intelligently without missing high-value gear or accidentally selling a high value collectible. Selling green gear yields around 15 to 25 gold per item. Blue yields 50 to 200 and epic gear gives the most out of them all. I’m sure if you look into your inventory for a few minutes, you will find plenty you don’t use.

Spend smart

The best tip to make gold in World of Warcraft isn’t any of the ones listed above. It’s to know how to spend money. If you’re bleeding more money than you make, you won’t see any profit.

Don’t spend on consumables you don’t need. Repair gear at the cheapest vendor like guild repairs if it’s available. It’s vital to enter a war economy mentality. Specially if you’re saving for a specific mount, item, or raid fee.  A penny saved is a penny earned!

In conclusion

Being a stock market entrepreneur in the auction house yields a lot of money, but it’s not the only way of making it. Some of us prefer to make our money adventuring like the game intended. By focusing on consistent, repeatable methods like world quests, dungeon farming, gathering professions, and mission tables, you can build a steady gold income without ever listing a single item. Always remember you can ask for advice from your guilds or friend group, if they’re more experienced, as it can always happen that they know something you don’t regarding making money in a smart way. You will be surprised at how much gold you will make by just enjoying the game your own way!