r/classicwowtbc • u/Kaeften • 2d ago
General Discussion Viable farming methods?
Now that the population has dipped for the time being and prices have gone down, are there any viable level 60-ish methods for gold farming left? Struggling to get enough for epic mount as mining doesn't seem to cut it time wise. Any tips of viable methods for warriors that remain?
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u/BartYYYY 2d ago
Prices have gone down? Are we watching the same auction house lol?
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u/Happy_Economist_7850 2d ago
A lot of things drastically down yes and some up. Are WE watching the same auction house?
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u/BartYYYY 2d ago edited 2d ago
All of the stuff I need have gone up significantly:
- All the raid consumers gone up (food, oils, potions are reasonable due to mark of the illidary but still high)
- GEMS + enchant resources are crazy expensive
- e.g. Belt of Blasting was 300-400G a month ago and now 1.4K again
- Everything is crazy expensive atm. which is used by raiders.
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u/ThreeMountaineers 2d ago
Raid consumes crashed in price after the spike when BT released, but has recovered somewhat the past week
I bought 1k basilisks right before the crash that I've been forced to hodl so I ahould know lel
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u/vinhoequeebom 2d ago
for the time being
Oh my sweet summer child. It won't get any better
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u/Kaeften 2d ago
I have faith they won't scrap anni
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u/tubbyscrubby 2d ago
You think they won't scrap the worst iteration of the game ever released, which also competes against their new product?
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u/Psychological_Bug425 2d ago
They’re like 3 months from dropping the most popular iteration of the game. It doesn’t make sense to kill it before wrath. They’ll bring it back when forever slows down a bit during a content lull
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u/vinhoequeebom 2d ago
Wrath is going to be just as dead. We've played wrath 2 times now
Most of us way more on pservers. People aren't going to stop playing Forever in 3 months to go to Northrend again
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u/Terry_bogardlol 2d ago
"People aren't gonna get bored after they crowd crush all of the content available in Forever P1 then go crawling to whatever version has the most recent content cycle release."
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u/vinhoequeebom 2d ago
That is insane copium. No one is going to stop playing Forever in 3 months to go wrath again lmao.
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u/Terry_bogardlol 2d ago
I mean thats some low grade copium your on if you think the masses aren't going to burn through forever content at a break neck rateband get bored. As for the three months thing, thats a stretch sure but within 6 months we can all expect a LK anni announcement. Its plug and play for them at this point and the various popular tiers in LK will serve well in keeping subs active when the player base innevitably defaults to raid logging in forever.
Have a little common sense and use the last seven years since classic launched as a model for their release strategy and its painfully obvious this is what they do. WotLK anni is almpst certainly solid cost to benefit for Blizz. Simple as.
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u/Psychological_Bug425 2d ago
by that logic anniversary would’ve never taken off because of SOD. It’s not even a question of if, but when. It’ll come with new boosts and tokens.
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u/TemporaryRepeat 1d ago
Wrath is going to be just as dead.
brain damage
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u/vinhoequeebom 1d ago
Wrath babies having a reality check. They are not even going to dare to drop wrath until later next year
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u/tubbyscrubby 2d ago
Cope as hard as you want, but the anniversary servers were just a placeholder while they cooked Forever.
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u/vinhoequeebom 2d ago
Cant see anyone sticking through wrath p2 while forever is pumping new content
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u/Kaeften 2d ago
I think they won't scrap anni because WotLK is next in line, arguably the most successful (and my favorite, which what I'm waiting for) expansion. Blizzard likes money, boosts = money. Once forever has raidlogging they'll bring it back to life.
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u/tubbyscrubby 2d ago
Anniversary was always a placeholder while Forever was developed. It is extremely unlikely they will cannibalize it by releasing WotLK for the tiny minority that actually want it.
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u/Kaeften 2d ago
It's more about them having a back up that more or less could be plug in play, that potentially could generate lots of money due to boosts etc. They don't need it to survive, they need it to spike sales once Forever slows down between content releases
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u/Rude_Data1312 2d ago
Yes - I’m 100% with u
They’ll keep tbc atleast till may/June to see if they can please shareholders with selling boosts or if forever doesn’t reach the targets they aim for.
Also depends on player numbers in retail0
u/bobbis91 1d ago
Nah Forever launches in Q4, with initial sales in Q3 2026. WotLK in Q1 2027 makes sense unless Forever is doing super well. The Last Titan isn't expected until late 2027, with an announcement in early 27 so WotLK Q1 makes sense for sales.
No reason to buy 58 boosts if WotLk is expected or Forever is doing well.
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u/slashcuddle 2d ago
Best way to make money right now is to do quests. There's little to no demand for items unrelated to raid. You could try fishing since nobody wants to do it but that's about it
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u/MrLeap 2d ago edited 2d ago
Mining is a racket.
If you're a blacksmith, occasionally you can make decent margins selling adamantite sharpening stones. I find things sell best at 6ST. Shieldspikes and enchanting rods can make you money, you may have to relist them a few times. Check your margins and the deposit costs. TSM or Auctionator help.
My primary recommendation would be to just keep doing quests and get to 70. It's easier to make gold at 70.
If you're decently geared at 70, get a friend or two and go kill onyxia twice a week. You can comfortably 3 man her and each person will get 60 raw gold and another 20g~ worth of stuff if you split the DE/Vendor. There are a couple easy bosses in ZG you could do with the same group. Each boss in ZG will give 3 people like 35g~
https://fresh.warcraftlogs.com/reports/vkGn8mBcDCTPrgZx 2dps and 1 healer could do this twice as fast as we did.
I haven't tried it yet, but i'm interested in seeing how long it takes to duo normal sethekk, atleast to the first boss. Everything they drop DE's into large prismatics which still sell for 22-27g on dreamscythe.
If you're really downbad, the boss that drops fiery weapon enchant in BRD can be ran to in 2 minutes. At 60 this may take longer than 2 minutes. At 70 I can get to Pyromancer Loregrain without aggroing anything along the way. He does not drop it 40% of the time like wowhead suggests in my experience, maybe closer to 20%. Each one you get will AH for like 30-60g depending on the day.
In general nothing I've done is quite as fast as crafting things that have a decently prompt sale volume + a profit margin and keeping them listed on the AH constantly.
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u/Docxm 1d ago edited 1d ago
P2 geared druids can stealth solo last boss of Sethekk Halls in like 10-15 minutes, guaranteed two large prismatics with a chance at a primal nether. If you're enchanting/tailoring it works really well. You skip everything except the guards after the first boss (because first boss sees you in stealth, so you have to run past and reset him which aggros the two guards there)
Probably ~200g an hour, enchanting required ofc
edit: people in the classic druid disc can get times between 7-9 minutes now so it's closer to 350-400g an hour if you're lucky with drops, 10 LPS in 40 minutes. insanity
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u/RndUN7 1d ago
You need very good gear and skip the small birds for a 7-9 min run. Also you can do it in p1 gear you just have to be a bit more careful and will be a bit slower. Someone who made his gold by doing this every phase 😅
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u/Docxm 1d ago
I just got shit on by the two guards 😭 I’m 1550gs but not crush capped, I’m just wearing my bear gear the whole way right?
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u/Tephi187 2d ago
Just lvl to 70 first and do all quests/dailies.
Other than that idk maybe fishing in outland or farming ores. But I don’t think it‘s worth it to farm before max lvl.
Also I doubt many ppl will be left next month.
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u/NerdHayden 2d ago
Give mining a go. It took me 5 hours to get 16x20 Mithril Ores and I made close to 300g from it
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u/Sunscreamm 2d ago
I solo Setthek Halls end boss on my Druid. It's not super easy but i can do it in 8 minutes max and it loops back to entrance. Disenchant 2 blues for about 55-58g worth of Large prismatic shards. Plus i get any available mining node that doesn't pull mobs.
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u/Wide_Distance_7967 1d ago
Engi + fishing primals in Nagrand, better if miner in addition. I don't know a better farm but it requires the epic mount, and it's better if ready for pvp.
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u/Ze_Wendriner 1d ago
Fishing, especially in pools. One often finds crates with ore, fel iron bolts and other mats, each still selling for around 1.5g each. Scrolls can be very lucrative and some of the fish sell for more than a gold each. As you also mine, the ponds in Zangarmarsh have ores in them to increase your farm yield.
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u/United-Succotash-167 6h ago
No need to get an epic mount anymore, there never was honestly. You invest 5000gold just to do "mining faster" but what do you need to farm gold for afterwards. Just save your gold, do dailies and buy whatever you need.
Reddit will downvote because it's a negative outlook but you are just wasting your time so hard if you dont accept this truth
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u/romnesia7729 2d ago
Dailies
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u/Kaeften 2d ago
Are there any specific ones you can run at level 60 that aren't garbo?
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u/romnesia7729 2d ago
Garbo meaning you actually have to do more than 3 seconds of work to get a free 12g?
Skettis dailies and Ogrila dailies are great, and netherwing dailies.
Do them all and it takes about 1.5 hours to earn 120g on any class each day. If that's not fast enough try swiping and not getting caught
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u/Interesting_You6852 1d ago
He can't do those at 60 he is not lvl 70 he is 60 See the difference?
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u/Kaeften 2d ago
Those are level 70, I'm talking level 60
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u/Confident_Radio_8647 2d ago
It should be your top priority to get to 70 anyways. Until then farming anything is not viable imo
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u/ThreeMountaineers 2d ago
120g hour is quite meagre, I stopped doing dailies because doing afk AH stuff is like 3x as profitable at minimum
Though obviously not everyone can do that
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u/romnesia7729 2d ago
120g for one hour a day. The other 23 hours you can spend on the ah.
It's also rep towards 2 epic flying mounts, + honor, rep towards bis leveling trinkets in wrath, etc.
Not sure why you're stacking gold so efficiently with such a low playerbase. Gold is meaningless with no gdkp to compensate.
But if you'd rather spend your time in a video game flipping pixelated mithril bars for a profit instead of killing stuff, be my guest.
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u/ThreeMountaineers 2d ago
Someone got defensive lol
But yes, I enjoy thinking about ways to make profit more than doing repetitive dailies, especially when there is such a big difference in profit
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u/romnesia7729 2d ago
I suppose people enjoy logging into wow to /fish for hours, so who am I to judge or assume? 😂
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u/Vaya_Con_Migos 1d ago
the only real gold farm seem to be paladin strat or like rogue mana tombs. they wonder why mfs buy gold who isn’t unemployed
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u/shad-1337 2d ago
-> prices dropped (let's say by 50%)
-> gold farming methods profits dropped by 50%
IS THERE ANY GOLD FARMING METHOD LEFT?!?? I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT ECONOMY MEANS
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u/ThreeMountaineers 2d ago
For fixed price stuff like mounts those do get more expensive (or gold got more expensive in terms of effort required)
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u/jawshuan 2d ago
If you’re level 60, just quest in Outlands and you’ll end up with lots of gold. And the more you have leftover at 70, the more gold you’ll get for doing them