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Idle Gold Making - Wowhead Economy Weekly Wrap-Up 269
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12.03.2023 в 13:01
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Hello! Welcome to the 269th edition of the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up!
This week we look at possible easy gold making methods to do while waiting for other things while also lamenting the lack of Brutosaur on the BMAH. We also have an important message from Manthieus as to why keeping up Knowledge Points is important for future markets.
My name is
Samadan
and I'll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!
Gold Making while Waiting
Many players might not specifically want to go out of their way to make gold, but would like a little bit of side income to get while waiting for other content like dungeons or PVP to help pay for consumables.
Hi all! I'm sorry if this has been asked before.. Is there a decent gold making way to do during queues in solo shuffle? I basically only play pvp and start to run out of gold (enchants for alts etc), and mining and herbing used to be decent gold income (decent enough for me). But these days it barely brings home any gold
Any tips for easy gold income?
I'd love things like farming mobs or whatever...
There are a number of things that can be done relatively easily
Gathering
- While the net gains of this are much diminished from when the expansion first started as mentioned in the question above, it is still relatively easy to pick up a few nodes as you travel and sell them near instantly when you get to an Auction House. As you progress your specialization tree, things get more efficient. We covered this in a bit more detail
last week
.
Races & Gold World Quests
- The World quests for flying and gold are a significant amount and can be done relatively easily.
Doing the four biweekly dragon flying quests will get you 4k/week. The other world quests (I do gold only ones) can net you about the same. Get a WQ add-on to make it easier to check at a glance which quest you want to do and easy money while you wait for queue. Not huge money but it adds up.
They will be on the map as long as you have progressed the campaign far enough to unlock them (not that far if you leveled doing the campaign). There are four which reset on Tuesday and Friday.
I can't remember which add-on I use for world quest but there are three main ones if you look on curse.
It isn't great gph but if you are just looking for some pocket cash it works. I do it on four characters each week while doing other things on my second monitor and haven't had a problem paying for gear, consumables, enchants, repairs, etc.
You won't be hitting gold cap or paying for a subscription this way but for a small bit of time it works
I make maybe 25-30k/week this way alone without counting my professions and other activities
In order to unlock world quests that reward gold, you need to be a certain ilevel and possibly unlocked some of the camaign.
From my own anecdotal experience, it's a combination of ilvl and rep. It'll give your character what it "needs".
If I'm capped on rep, and the quest typically gives rep, I'll get gold instead. My characters not capped on rep get the rep reward. If it's an item reward and my character has a high ilvl, I'll get gold instead. Seems like trinket rewards always give the trinket, no matter your ilvl. Low ilvl characters will see the item reward instead of gold.
I don't know if this is actually how it works, but it's the pattern I see.
Tailoring Cloth Shuffle
- Tailoring has a few mechanisms for converting cloth into other materials as well as cooldowns.
Tailoring shuffle breaking down Frostbitten cloth into awakened frost has netted me a handsome chunk that I can make almost passively while waiting around or while on break at work.
(My tree) I believe, at the time, it was 15-20 in textiles, and 30 in spinning.
10-20k an hour idle has been very nice to me. I can run 42000 cloth in an hour with the Aerated Phial of Quick Hands. Usually get about 1650-1700 Awakened frost out of it. I spend about 50k-60k on cloth right now, and sell the the awakened for about 45g a piece, give or take. About .5g for r2 and r3 thread as well.
I have the rousing on my hot bar so that I can just spam click/press 1 and convert
Iceberg Gaming
covered this particular Tailoring trick
last week
Farm Rares for Drops
- This is more useful with alts parked in certain places to cut down travel time, but can be done in a circuit while waiting for queues. u/zeusamorim recently got a great drop witht the High Society Top Hat Recipe ...
Just dropped the infamous recipe, it's going for 1,5million gold with a 0.05 sell rate (via TSM) on our AH. The hat itself goes for ~33k gold, but has a higher sale rate (0.14). What would you guys advise me to do? Sell the recipe or learn it and sell the hats?
How I got it:
Had 4 alts camping the rares from cataclysm. I logged on them every day (once a day) for 2 weeks (missed a couple days btw). Dropped today on a 46 rogue on Azralon(US). Rogue didn't have Tailoring (is a Engineering/Alchemy alt for golems and vial of the sands).
Edit:
As for the rares, I placed an character in the spawn points of:
Akma'hat - Uldum (this was the one that dropped it for me)
Garr - Mount Hyjal
Julak Doom - Twilight Highlands
Mobus - Abyssal Depths (already had my druid parked nearby, camping Poseidus)
Xariona - DeepHolm
Tackle Boxes
- Scattered throughout Dragon Isles and available once you hit 27 Renown with Iskaara Tuskarr are
Tuskarr Tackleboxes
.
AverageJ
has put together a great little video showing what to expect when looting 500 boxes ...
As you can see, there are plenty of options when it comes to making the best use of moments spent waiting. My personal favourite is to always be working towards some larger goal whether that's rep or recipes or something that unlocks further down the line.
Still no Brutosaur
Those trying to get the
Mighty Caravan Brutosaur
on the BMAH are still having trouble finding it ...
since july 14 2021 theres being no brutosaur in the bmah , seems blizzard wont acknowledge this . anyone seeing any brutosaur in the bmah ?
While still not a great result, there is a small and sneeky way you can track its latest time up.
Dataforazeroth.com tracks achievements and collections of players. If you browse to the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur page, you can see the last time someone aquired this mount was Jan 12th 2023.
https://www.dataforazeroth.com/collections/mounts/1039/mighty-caravan-brutosaur
One day that will be me...
The source is unknown, could be a box, could be the BMAH, they could even technically still have had it in bags and not learnt it since BFA. We don't know, all this is tracking is the last time someone gained the mount.
Let's do some math! Most likely source is a container.
There are 150 realms (unique realms connected and standalone) in US. Assume the same in EU.
There is a BMAH container every day? That's 300 sold per day.
It showed up 52 days ago, that means 15,600 containers ago.
That's lower than a 0.0064% drop chance.
If a single person bought every container on every realm to get that mount since January 12, they would have already spent 15,600 x 200,000g each (average) = 3,120,000,000g (that's OVER 3 BILLION gold) and will not have received it yet.
I'm probably not going to waste my gold on containers hoping for a drop that rare.
It's a real shame the Brutosaur was removed in the first place, it made such a great target for gold makers alike. However, at this stage I'd be happy for it to appear on the Trading Post to give people a chance to get it!
Don't Give Up on Professions
Manthieus
has a very interesting video this week explaining why it's imperative to keep your professions going even if gold is slim right now ...
The main aspect of professions, a bit like Legendaries last expansion is that if you keep investing (in this case time rather than money) you are in a much stronger position to leverage future opportunities than you are if you keep swapping or give up on collecting Knowledge Points.
It's still not too late, but in the case of Knowledge, little and often regularly will reap rewards in the long game.
Further Reading
Most of this information was discussed and originally posted on the
/r/woweconomy
subreddit or in the accompanying
Discord Server
.
I hope you found this useful and If you have any suggestions or feedback, please do say so in the comments below..
Until next time, Happy Goldmaking!
Samadan
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