I’ve created another video explaining how to download and configure the Routes and Gathermate Addons.

In case you missed the original video, I show how to use the addons to create the SHORTEST PATH between all known spawn points.

The original video was a bit grainy. I’ve used a better video capture program this time, and added a few steps that (hopefully) will answer many of the questions that I received about it.

Here’s the video.

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If you are stuck with Blacksmithing and Enchanting, you probably don’t have much luck making gold, and you should go level two gathering professions.

That being said, I know of one guy who makes a little with the following strategy.

Buy:

1x [Eternal Earth] 5-8g
1x [Eternal Water] 4-6g
1x [Eternal Shadow] 4-6g
4x [Saronite Bar] 1.5-2g (total 6-8g)

= [Eternal Belt Buckle]

you buy mats for 19-28g and the buckle sells for a minimum of 50g going up to 100g on weekends.

Thats up to 81g (-auction fee) profit per buckle.

Here´s another one, buy:

7x [Saronite Bar] 1.5-2g (total 10.5-14g)
2x [Crystallized Air] 0.5g (total 1g)

= [Deadly Saronite Dirk]

disenchanting this gets you 1x [Dream Shard]

you invest like 11.5-15g and the [Dream Shard] goes for like 19-29g on my server

So, typically Blacksmithing and Enchanting are horrible for gold-making, but this tip might at least help you make a little with it.

I recently learned from somewhere on the internet about this ‘really hot spot’ in Storm Peaks where you can farm 1000 gold per hour.

The location is 77,63 in Storm Peaks, and it’s called Fjorn’s Anvil.

I should have known better, but I decided to give it a good, honest try.

It seems that the location has been nerfed in several ways.  The drop rate is somewhat nerfed.  Mainly the respawn rate is nerfed.  Not to mention all the elite level 80 mobs walking around among the Revenants (which is what you’re trying to farm).

Now, the elites drop over 1g each, but they have 50K hp.  If you can cruise through those with ease, this might be a good spot for you.  As a mage, I can kill them, but I have to burn cooldowns, which means I can’t just melt through them.

So, once again a gold-farming ‘hot spot’ turns into a myth.  I firmly believe that Blizzard is constantly monitoring areas like that.  They are striving to keep the game balanced…the minute a ‘hot spot’ appears, they find out about it and make the change.

UPDATE: This post = teh FAIL! So…I never completed the quest chain here…I had moved on to Icecrown. Thanks to the folks who submitted the comments letting me know that the elites go away once the quest chain is done.

So I spent two hours completing the quest chain to get it clear. Here’s what I discovered:

1. the respawn rate is, indeed, insanely high. You can chain pull non-stop. Very nice.

2. they do, indeed, drop a decent amount of Crystallized Fire and Relics of Ulduar. Nice.

3. they are not immune to fire. Nice.

I’ll go back and do an actual test (30 minutes speed killing, total up the loot drop), when I get a chance. For now, I retract the ‘Nerf’ cry…it seems like a decent place for people who can kill fast and don’t have gathering professions.

UPDATE #2: 30-minute test.

I did straight killin’ for 30 minutes. I’m a mage, so I can kill fast and furious. A few times I had some down-time due to having killed everything and no respawns. For the most part, though, the respawns were so quick that it kept me killing non-stop. There was one other player there…a hunter. We pretty much just left each other alone. He kept to the path leading to the anvil, and I worked the anvil and surrounding area. That just adds realism to the test, I think.

After 30 minutes I had 29 Crystallized Fire, 26 Relics of Ulduar, 22g in gray vendor trash, and about 30g in DE-able greens. (The DE value of the greens is about 30g total.) Prices will vary according to your server. On my server, that’s about 100g in Crystallized Fire and 30g in Relics. So…160g-ish in 30 minutes, or 320 gold per hour.

It seems reliable, consistent, and that was, as I said, WITH someone else there. A couple of other people dropped by and left. I’ve seen 3 people farm it…the respawns seem to speed up.

It’s not as good as gathering professions, but if you can kill fast and don’t want to give up your other professions, you might take a look. Just be sure to do the quest chain (starting at K3 – check WoWHead) to clear out the elites.

There’s an easy-to-use addon called “Lil’ Spark’ys Workshop” that lets you find profitable recipes that you have.

It calculates cost of materials based on either Auction House or Vendor prices (or can pick the best of the two).  It adds up the cost of all the materials and then compares it to the Auction House sale value of the crafted item.  It flags items that can be crafted and sold for a profit.

Obviously this requires that you also have an auction house mod that captures average prices.  It can use the AH prices from Auctioneer, AuctionLite, AuctionMaster or Auctionator.  As long as you have one of those, it can correctly identify profitable recipes.

You can download the addon at curse.com: Lil Sparky’s Workshop

Running daily quests is a great way to make gold, especially for folks who have non-gathering professions or classes that don’t kill fast enough to make farming profitable.

The advantage of daily quests is three-fold:

1) completing them earns faction reputation, which usually provides high-level rewards,

2) they are a consistent way of earning a known amount of gold (and the gold earned is usually at a higher rate for the time invested in it),  and

3) they are repeatable (obviously), so you can master the techniques needed to complete the quest quickly, and earn good gold (and rep rewards) over and over.

Technically there is a fourth advantage:  many of the quests can be lumped together and done at the same time.  This REALLY ups your gold-per-hour rate.

There is a new Daily Quest addon that tells you exactly how to complete each quest.  It provides map waypoints to point you in the right direction, and it teaches you how to group the quests so you can run them concurrently.

If you find yourself either needing to farm up some reputation for a reward you’re after, or you just need good, consistent gold at level 80, you need this addon.

It literally puts a waypoint arrow on your screen when you select the dailies for a given zone (or for a given faction), and you simply follow the on-screen instructions.  It is as close to automatic gold as you can get without using a bot (and getting kicked out of wow!).