Introduction
MoP Classic is right around the corner with the release date of 21 July. We will be revisiting the legendary isle of Pandaria and exploring all kinds of old memories. Some players might even experience it for the first time. In this specific guide, we will give you some tips and tricks on getting gold inside Pandaria and even utilizing some old techniques and content to add some shiny currency to your characters!
Requirements
There are not many requirements, other than having a maximum level character. Once you hit level 90, you will have access to the majority of good farming pieces of content, including questing, old dungeons/raids, some current content, and professions.
Here we’ll run through some important factors and things you need to know regarding the gold farming spots and the best ways to optimally get the most out of any farm!
What’s new for gold farming in Pandaria
On top of all the zones, we’re having some interesting new farms to explore. With quests also giving some good gold, they will give you good starters once you arrive in Pandaria and hit the max level. One of these things is Halfhill Wisley. You can do the following things there:
Depending on your profession, you can grow herbs, ores, and motes, and use these items to get some gold by selling them on the Auction House.
Each plot can contain 50-100g of crafting materials, meaning you can also utilize it for the crafting professions.
There are also daily quests that can give you some fast extra gold on top of all the farms that you can do. Making sure that you do them is important, but of course, make sure not to get too overwhelmed by them!
There is also a new item that is located and drops within Pandaria zones. Spirit of Harmony early can make a difference for you and give you a lot of gold once you get a bunch of them and use the Auction House to make a pretty decent amount of gold.
In the future, once Timeless Isle and Isle of Thunder are released, there will be some interesting farms available. So even if it's not available from the right go, knowing this for the future will help you be ahead of everyone and get to it as soon as it's released!
- Timeless Isle: Chests and Elites can drop very valuable items.
- Isle of Thunder: Rare Elite mobs can drop Blue BoE items that can be sold on the Auction House.
There are also Heroic dungeons, as well as the normal versions that you can do often. You can get some raw gold from Heroic completions, on top of some extra materials such as cloth that can drop off the mobs inside the instances. Utilizing this feature, or in general, dungeons, can be quite helpful in achieving more gold by just playing.
With Heroic Dungeons, there are also BoE runs that you can join. In these groups, you will be killing lots of trash mobs inside the Raids in Pandaria. There is a chance for a rare BoE item to drop, and if you’re lucky and get this expensive item, you can suddenly earn an insane amount of gold quickly, which can turn the tide immediately!
General Gold Farming Tips
So now that we’ve covered the specific new additions in MoP zones, we will still be covering some of the farms that are located within the Pandaria Isle, but of course, these are the usual traditional farms that people can always farm, not just in older expansions, but newer ones as well.
Profession Gold Farms
Every time a new expansion launches, new ores and herbs, as well as other materials, get added to the pool of crafting. These materials are the ones that are used to craft the “current content” gear, consumables, and other things that are related to the progression of your characters. Using professions early and making sure to utilize this feature as best as possible is key to your success. Trying to max out your profession early will be the best strategy in this gold farm. The following professions are the most efficient and generally best to have:
- Mining
- Herbalism
- Alchemy
- Blacksmithing
- Skinning
- Engineering
As mentioned, this is especially good early in the expansions. My favorite and personally, once I always take are Herbalism and Mining, early, you just play the game and collect any node you see. With this, you sell them on the Auction House. Prices are usually very high early on, meaning you profit from high demand quickly and make tens of thousands of gold swiftly!
Farming old content for gold
With Pandaria, old content is finally becoming far easier and accessible than previous expansions. Even if you could do that previously as well, it was sometimes a bit harder. With Pandaria (As the expansion progresses), you will also be able to solo some RAIDS. This way, you can utilize the raw gold that items and bosses drop, selling them to vendors and making the most out of the clears. This also applies to the dungeons, where you can even farm some of the older materials that can be found within certain instances.
Ulduar, Icecrown Citadel and Firelands can get up to 400 raw gold dropped from bosses alone, not including the items that you can vendor after you obtain them, meaning that you can have so much gold farmed, and with multiple toons, you can be swimming in gold with just this method in a few months.
Auction house manipulation and knowing the market
This one is a bit more advanced and requires you to have some experience. Each realm will have a different market, and somewhere, items will vary in price. Understanding what’s most profitable and what can bring you much gold is a big factor in providing a fast and good income. This can also be applied to the manipulation, or more so, having a monopoly on some items. You can see what items can be sold for much more money than they’re being sold, and if you do have a good amount of available gold, you can purchase the entire stock and then SELL those items for the price you set.
Once you understand the market and see what’s the most profitable item, consumable or whatever, you can know where to put your focus. Add-ons that can help you get this achieved far more easily are TSM (TradeSkillMaster) or Auctioneer. They can help you track the items you want and make sure that you follow the prices and surges properly.
Some of the materials can also be sold for far less. But when these items are crafted into the potion or any other consumable, this is where the profit can be earned. This is not as common and hard to notice, but once you get the hang of understanding the market, it can help you a lot.
Final Thoughts
That concludes the best tips and tricks that can get you rolling in gold early in Pandaria. Hopefully, this will give you some understanding and help you reach the gold you want to have and be comfortable in the new version of Classic WoW. Once the Mists of Pandaria finally disappear, and we can reach the isles, you will be ready to explore this amazing piece of the continent and utilize all the knowledge and tips in no time!