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If we look at TBC Classic, Skinning was majorly profitable until you got to Outland and instantly lost all value; in WOTLK Classic, Blizzard corrected this mistake by making skinning one of the top professions to gain gold fast.
Skinning requires a skinning knife and to kill a beast mob. Once you’ve looted it, you can proceed to skin the mob for leathers and the most sought-after item, Arctic Fur. Arctic Fur is used to purchase recipes for Leatherworkers in the late game and is pivotal for crafting components. You can expect to sell Arctic Furs at an incredibly lucrative amount, along with the bonus of making heavy Borean leather from regular Borean leather.
During the release of WOTLK Classic, many areas will be overwhelmingly popular, and for a good reason. These spots are brimming with huge possibilities to quickly make a lot of money. Let’s go over a quick list of popular spots and why players tend to gravitate towards them:
Follow the list above to gain gold quickly from farming trash mobs and selling all greens/blues on AH for enchanters to disenchant gear.
Professions in WoW has a long history of being great money maker in WOTLK professions play an even larger role in gaining a huge amount of currency quickly. We will go over a few of the top money-making professions here to help you correctly choose your gold farming journey.
Extra gold for doing quests at max level. Level 60 (non-expansion owners), level 70 (TBC expansion owners) or Level 80 (WotLK expansion owners) characters now gain money instead of XP for turning in quests. This was done to encourage them to continue completing quests in the endgame. The exchange rate is 6 copper for each XP that the quest would otherwise have given (for example, a quest yielding 14150 XP gives you 8 gold 49 silver extra); however, repeatable quests are exempt from this rule and will not yield additional money.
Do all the quests in all of the zones. Do dailies every day. You can probably farm all that money in one day depending on which professions you have. If you have mining just fly around sholazar until you get enough ore to sell. If you can find raid groups that don't wipe it is also good money. Each naxx run is around 200g.
Paladins and druids are considered to be the best for a few different reasons. If open world farming, druid flight form requires no casting time, and paladins have crusader aura which gives a 30% speed buff to mounts.
If farming old instances, druids and pallies are both capable of big pulls and self heals if things get dicey. Given the choice, I rolled a druid because of kitty stealth form. Sometimes gatherables spawn in caves with mobs, and as a druid I can stealth in and get them rather than having to fight my way through as a paladin. Then there are other things, like on my druid I was an enchanter and needed to farm old content for certain recipes I needed. Me and my brother could both pop onto our druids, stealth through Karazhan, and take down the bosses with me tanking and him DPS/healing in his caster gear. Druids are just all around the better pick for farming in my opinion, and that’s why when I returned after a 10 year hiatus I rolled a druid no questions asked.
If you want to farm gold without boosting, all you have to do is play the mission table on a dozen chars. A big up-front effort to level them, stock up on followers and a bit of anima, but then it's almost an effortless gold printing machine, you just have to start missions 2-3 times a day, and you're good. It's self-sustaining, raw gold + materials you can use or sell on top. But even the raw gold part is a decent income.
All dungeons yield very little but Hellfire Citadel is a favorite among gold farmers when vendoring everything. I've done it and tried it, but it's just not for me. It takes a very long time.
Callings give 2k gold in 10m or less. Korthia gives 3-10 vrystals of you can stomach it, going for 1800g each on my server. Ore and herbs are great. Daily alchemy shadestone is 2k profit.
As the title suggests, Herbalism is the top money maker for WOTLK Classic. With the introduction to Inscription as a profession, players with the profession will need to grind herbs to make inks for glyphs. Herbalism is also the sole provider for Alchemy elixirs and flasks, which is sought out for its late game use throughout Raiding. Herbalism will see a massive spike during WOTLK Classic, and it’s for a good reason due to the endless amount of gold farming possibilities. As a bonus, herbalists will be able to farm eternal life, which sells for a large amount and is needed for almost all other professions at some point. We highly recommend taking herbalism as it is the top money-making profession during the WOTLK classic.
Mining has always been a ‘gold mine’ in World of Warcraft; honestly, it makes sense. Most professions use raw ores to make end game gear, and it is widely used in Jewelcrafting, Blacksmithing, Engineering, and even Leatherworking. Taking mining during WOTLK Classic is a no-brainer as you will have an endless demand for your raw materials, making it a solid second place for the best profession to take for money making.
Throughout original WoW and the early expansions, fishing was never more profitable than during WotLK. All of the best buff food comes from fishing. And to catch all of it you don’t need more than the professional skilled up and some cheap lures. While I don’t expect it to be the best gold per hour, it’ll undoubtedly be the most relaxing and the easiest to do while chatting with friends or watching videos.
1. Fish bot everytime your PC is open, except ofc when you want to raid or do other things with your account than fishing.
2. Always keep a good supply of lures in your bag.
3. Cook Musselback Sculpin into Grilled Sculpin and sell them on AH for 35-40g , cook Bonescale Snapper into Grilled Bonescale and sell them at vendor for 60s each or use them while grinding , cook Dragonfin Angelfish into Blackened Dragonfin(you'll need Northern Spices, you can buy 10 for 1xDalaran Cooking Awards, and if you have friends you can buy the Northern Spices from them - 50g/10spices is a very good price) and sell them on AH for 190-200g - I own the food market on my server and I sell them directly to buyer with 180g, depends on how often they are buying from me; you'll often get Pygmy Suckerfish , you can talk to a friend alchemist and craft Pygmy Oil (I sell them for 120g/stack, with 1pygmy suckerfish you can get 1-2pygmy oils)
Alchemy is an awesome way to make money in WoW. As we've said before, some businesses are proactive, requiring you to invest time and money in order to make profits. Some are reactive, allowing you to use a cooldown to craft something that's in demand for smallish volume of sales at high profit. Alchemy is unique in the sense that it allows you to both! You can craft and sell potions, flasks and elixirs, and you can transmute an epic gem once a day and Titanium Bars without a cooldown since patch 3.3.
Also, we mentioned Eternal Life farming before as a Herbalist, however, there are actually a whole set of Eternals that could be farmed for selling since they are used in lots of recipes across different professions, therefore gathering it might prove extremely profitable.
Crafting Professions don’t make nearly as much as the gathering professions listed above, but in WOTLK Classic, they can earn you a pretty penny if you’re running an alt with the gathering professions and craft gear. Each piece of crafted gear can fetch you upwards of 5k+ gold per item depending on its stat value, which is why the crafting profession will make this list, but only as a side benefit.