I don't farm too often (I have little reason to seek out more gold - no other 70's and nothing to buy), but in the last 3 days I've made a little over 1k gold farming DM on my druid. I've been suprised at how much gold I've made too because I was mainly shooting for goblin reputation and not really looking to make gold. The only real reqs to doing this (in either DM or one of the other 60 instances, such as strat) is a 70 and high enough enchanting. Being able to stealth to each of the bosses helps speed things up though, I'm sure.

Old enchanting mats (large brilliant shards, greater eternal essence and illusion dust) still go for a lot on my server and will usually sell within a few hours as long as I undercut the AH a bit (8-9g per 1 lbs or 1 gee, 20g a stack for illusion dust).

Not exactly farming gold, but farming Aldor rep tokens (which can be sold) is best done in the Arklon ruins, just near Area52. The hounds here have the highest drop rate for Marks of Sargeras, with a decent chance for Fel Armaments as well.

This is obviously only good for non-mana classes, since I believe they have a mana burn.

My personal favorite place to farm is Fire Elementals in SMV. Great drop rate, great respawn rate, and you don't have to worry too much about competition or other mobs.

Outside of raids, I play about 1 1/2 to 2 hours every day. I'm presently sitting on approximately 22,000G.

Interested?

Here's the strat --

POINT ONE: Auctioneer - or how I maximize my Gold/hour while not even looking at the computer screen:

I'm going to go ahead and disagree with the OP on the usefulness of auctioneer, especially in its current format.

His main objection seemed to be the time it took for a scan - I start a scan in the morning before I hop in the shower, hit jump when I get out (to avoid the AFK), and let the scan finish while I'm shaving/making breakfast. The other objection was auctioneer underpricing items - the new market price functionality is MUCH better than the old version with its auto-undercut.

Additionally, the bottom scan feature lets you pick up some AMAZING deals on stuff that you normally wouldn't search for - and it is automated as well. You can even alt-tab while the bottom-scanner is running. The mod will even start remembering your preferences (although the first few times, you're gonna HATE that doorbell sound when it finds Green Hills of Stranglethorn Page 647 for 18 copper less than expected - but like I said, it eventually learns your preferences).

Another new feature sorts all items that you are searching for based on per-item price and gives you a percentage approximation of that item being over- or under-priced based on your historical scan data. For example, say I need to buy some Netherbloom to make Fel Mana pots. I search for Netherbloom and auctioneer shows something like the following:

Netherbloom 6 42s/per 42% of expected
Netherbloom 20 74s/per 74% of expected
Netherbloom 1 95s/per 95% of expected
Netherbloom 5 1.21g/per 121% of expected
(etc.- point being it automatically finds the best per-item price for you, and puts it in a convenient list.)

My pedigree with auctioneer: At the end of WoW 1.0, I was in a raiding guild in Naxx (not clearing, wiping a lot) and STILL managed to bring over close to 4,000G when TBC came out. That was almost entirely due to the (old, bad version) of auctioneer (and also due to the fact that very few other ppl on my server were using it). I'm presently sitting on over 20k gold, and most of that is due to auctioneer (new, better version). I farm about 1 1/2 to 2 hours a day, and raid 5 days a week, so I'm nowhere near poop-sock levels of grinding elementals.


POINT TWO: Farming - or how I maximize my Gold/Hour while holding the mouse. (Main=Herb/Alch Hunter, Alt=Tailor/Chanter 'Lock)

1. Have the main do the 6 dailies in BEM and Skettis. 66G/day, takes about 45 minutes
2. Have the main herb the Talonsworn Forest-Ragers in Skettis while doing the dailies (if it is contested I'll do a lap or 2, if uncontested 4 or 5). VariableG (10-70)/day, takes about 10 minutes, also allows me to make all my own raid consumables.
3. Have the main transmute Primal Earth to Water. 10G/day, takes about 30 seconds. Lucky me.
4. Have the alt do his Tailoring Cloth spec (for me, Shadowcloth) with AH'd mats. Avg of 12.5G/day, Avg of 3 minutes/day (flying out to SMV)

TOTAL: 128.5G/day on average, for about an hour of actual effort. Of course, there are MASSIVE diminishing returns here - but I certainly like 1 hour for 128G better than 2 hours for 160G. Then you add in the Auctioneer stuff that required 0 effort or time and...well...that's how you end up rich. Right!


POINT THREE (Optional): As noted above, SOLOmance can be quite profitable as well. I go on the alt and DE everything. That can get you from 25G-45G/Hour depending on drops, and how much I'm paying attention. Also no competition for mobs.


POINT FOUR (Optional): Buy in the morning, sell at night. That's an auto-win . The exception to this is Saturday morning - that's when a load of alts and lower-levels are on and grinding up their profession skills. Dump all your ore/cloth/leather etc. on the AH late Friday or early Saturday.

As Affliction my favorite spots are the manaforges in Netherstorm. Lots of elves...generally low competition, lots of netherweave, good cash, Sunfury signets, greens to DE etc.

EDIT: Why did I say Blade's Edge?

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Farming for lichen is in no way limited to those classes. My warrior does it just fine with a little timing. If you can solo the bog packs you'll get more spawns as well. I can average about three stacks of lichen every two lockout rotations making it a bad investment of time. Back when lichen was crazy prices it was better.

Before I stopped playing, I ran a test on my lock (Demosac specced, with full tailored gear + preraid stuff) in skettis. Killing/herbing trees, and killing elementals, I ended up with 100+ stacks of assorted herbs, 8 stacks of life, 7 stacks of water and 34 greens that were DE'd.

Not a bad day (1.6k, primals for all of barrs resist gear that I never got nethers for, enough potions to last for a few months of raids), but something that will redefine boredom.
I watched a collection of News Radio DVD's while doing it!

On Barr, I would just fly in circles around Nagrand for hours on end; made a ton on ore, and have enough gems left to gem up full tanking and healing sets until next expansion (assuming I log back in :p). I do, though, have a character used solely for jc'ing/de'ing and one used for only alchemy and cloth transmutes, giving me a tiny bit of an edge (The two tradeskill rule, made for people like me, never actually affects people like me :p)

That's 9600 duels. If a duel takes 3 minutes in total then he would have spend every minute of 20 days only dueling. Any source? I find it hard to believe.

I find it hard to believe 9600 of those people would actually pay the 50g. Heh.

Is it confirmed that that is the gold cap then? I wouldnt mind a screenshot of it either. (doesnt have to be that paladin, some guild bank would do aswell)

How I leveled my fishing from 100 to 300. Of course I couldn't bring myself to sell them and have since been a ninja in every raid for about 3 months straight.

I've found (as a holy pally) the best way to make money is simply to be diligent with dailies. I was able to grind out my epic flyer over the course of a few months by doing every daily I could every day. It was a bit lackluster, and took a while, but it is entirely possible to do. I've since leveled my mage to 70 (finally) and found that farming Primal Mana in Netherstorm is the quickest way for me to grind money, faster even than Elemental Plateau unless its completely deserted.

Another useful thing I've been doing to increase my cashflow is Prospecting all the Adamantite Ore I get, cutting and selling the blue gems, then transmuting the greens (and a few primals) into Earthstorm Diamonds. I have a nice supply of the +18 STAM metas waiting in the bank for when Season 3 begins to take advantage of all the PvPers buying new helms.