Quest and treasure hunt in The Broken Isles

Yes, questing has become quite the lucrative gold making activity. Not only are there so many quests to do in the sprawling new areas that make up The Broken Isles, but you can supplement your questing income with the treasure chests.

Going treasure chest hunting in between questing will net you quick artifact power and a nice chunk of gold that, best of all, did not require much effort at all. No matter how geared you are or your profession, questing and treasure hunting will earn you a steady stream of gold.

Race to 110 and go dungeon running

Power leveling to the new level cap will unlock the endgame dungeons and raids, which tend to provide the most efficient gold earning activities per hour. This makes it a highly attractive option if you really want to rake in a serious amount of gold while also getting your gear and checking off achievements in fighting the emerging Legion threat.

In Legion, some of the dungeons include the Black Rook Hold, a max-level dungeon in Val’Sharah that once served as an elven fortress but has been corrupted by a malevolent force. If you decide to quest in Stormheim, you can also try to clear the Halls of Valor, which lets you take on the Vrykul God-King and vanquish the pure Val’kyr that are superior to those found in Northrend.

Flipping level 100 greens

With the launch of the Legion expansion comes a soaring demand for dust and essence, which enchanters can only get from level 100 greens. This means that when you go through the motions of leveling your character, you should be selling the level 100 greens you pick up on the auction house instead of the vendor.

The prices can go as high as 200 gold per level 100 green, and with the popularity of Enchanting as a profession, this high price and demand will likely remain for some time.

This gold making advice is applicable to most players, except if you are an enchanter, in which case there is a very strong case to turn them into dust and essence for your profession needs. As an advanced tip, you can explore the use of mobile apps that let you post on the auction house at the right time because the price of greens tends to fluctuate rapidly, and could mean a large loss of potential gold income.

Soloing Warlords of Draenor dungeons and raids

A new expansion unlocks exponentially more powerful gear, letting you easily breeze through Warlords of Draenor dungeons and raids. A great gold making strategy is to solo these challenges and amass a large amount of gold that you get to keep instead of splitting with your group. Start with soloing easy dungeons and work your way towards harder dungeons until you are comfortable enough to take on soloing raids. Speed and clearing ability is key – stick to those you can run through without skipping a beat and you will see your gold making per hour go through the roof.

Profit from new professions system

Professions have changed dramatically in Legion. While before you simply had to pay for recipes when you were in town, now the trainers as you to gather certain materials or defeat certain targets in order to unlock additional recipes. How can you profit from this new system? Well, to compensate players with the harder recipe unlocks, the developers have implemented a recipe rank system.

Recipe ranks basically make you more efficient at making stuff, either by letting you craft the same number of items for fewer materials or getting a higher yield from the same amount of materials. As an example, having a one-star rank recipe lets you craft items at a relatively inefficient way, but when you acquire two-star or even three-star recipes, it can almost feel like you are crafting items out of thin air because of the low amount of materials required for each craft.

The additional recipe ranks can be obtained either by exploring the outdoor Broken Isles zones or as rewards when you dive into the dungeons of the region. If you’re feeling up to the challenge, you can aim to hit skill level 100 and player level 100 to open up profession world quests, which rewards higher rank recipes for your Legion gold making operation.

Sell your stock of pre-Legion mounts and pets

Have you been stockpiling on cheap mounts and pets? Then now is a great time to start selling them for a high profit due to the sudden scarcity of materials required to make pre-Legion mounts and pets.

Some of the enchanting materials that are used to create pre-Legion mounts and pets will be spent on the new enchanting recipes in Legion. This means the price of pre-Legion mounts and pets will rise up, giving you a very nice window to sell them for a sizable profit, especially if you bought the mounts and pets before at a very cheap price.

You should sell the mounts and pets sooner than later because once the enchanting craze tempers, then more pre-Legion mounts and pets will be made and bring their prices down.

For future reference, it is a great option to purchase mounts and pets as a long-term investment. Not only do their prices scale well even when a new expansion drops, but there is always a demand for them. The only drawback to this strategy is you would need a hefty amount of initial wow gold investment and also maybe have to go through the motions of spending for a guild bank.

World of Warcraft has just released its latest content update, Patch 5.3: Escalation, which focuses heavily on PvP changes. And like every new patch there will be a bestselling list of items that Gold farmers and grinders will want to stock up.

New PvE drops
Many gold farmers dreaded the arrival of the Escalation patch because it offers relatively less new PvE content. Blizzard is spending Patch 5.3 mainly to improve the balance and mechanics in PvP, including injecting a fresh battleground (Deepwind Gorge) and arena map (The Tiger's Peak) to keep the game's bloodthirsty gladiators happy.

This heavy focus on PvP seemed like it will bring on a dry spell to traditional gold farmers who get their wealth from farming new mobs and bosses for rare items. But those fears proved to be overblown.

The Escalation patch has introduced several new scenarios with respective heroic modes that provide shiny new loot. It is still too early to predict which of these will demand the highest prices at the auction house or AH, since it can take weeks for players to work through the content and determine the value of the new drops compared to the existing items. Many expect the rarest and most prized drops to start commanding handsome prices starting June, so just keep your eyes peeled for popular WTB requests in general chat and high-selling items at the AH.

Enchanting
Gold-making blog Just My Two Copper suggests that enchanting will be quite the money making profession during the initial phase of Patch 5.3. This is because with players racking up new shield heirloom items and new PvP weapons and cloaks, and the tendency of PvP fans to max out every potential stat in their gear to win their matches, they will spend a pretty penny on Enchanting boosts. Just My Two Copper expects direct enchanting fees as well as the costs of Enchanting materials to rise during the start of the patch.

Those who take advantage of this Enchanting rush will stand to earn a nifty profit. But the blog cautions that there is a short period of opportunity for profit, since frees and material prices will go back down once everyone has had their PvP gear pimped up.

New player gear
Patch 5.3, like all new updates, is attracting a throng of returning players, many of which will be undergeared and willing to spend Gold to catch up with the rest. While the profits might not be as lucrative as with the new items, there may be less competition here. The key here is scanning the market for in-demand leveling gear and producing the right amount to avoid getting stuck with an unsellable stack of outdated items.

So you're strapped for cash in World of Warcraft, and you need gold fast. Maybe there's an epic mount on the Auction House, or you're about to raid and need to finish enchanting your armor, or you're short on gold for glyphs. Whatever the reason, there's plenty of quick and mostly painless ways to farm up gold in WoW. Let's look at a few of the best ways.

1. Vale of Eternal Blossoms
One of the most profitable ways to farm in patch 5.4 is to buy Potions of Luck from the auction house and head to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. In the northwestern corner, specifically the Ruins of Guo-Lai and the Guo-Lai Hills, there's tons of mobs that can be aggroed in huge groups and AOE'd down. The Potion of Luck will increase your chances of finding loot on the monsters, and these mobs in particular drop good crafting mats, Skycrystals, motes of harmony, and Gou-Lai keys. Many guides tout this as the greatest way to farm gold; depending on your ilvl and clear time, you can earn anywhere from 2.5-7.5k an hour.

2. Pit of Saron (Heroic)
Any decently geared 90 can complete a Pit of Saron trash mob run in 3-5 minutes. Each mob in the heroic version has a chance of dropping a Battered Hilt, which sell on the auction house for around 10k. Video guides will show the best route to take to pull all the trash mobs at once if you're a class with good AOE; other classes can simply pull less mobs at a time and loot as they go. While this method is a little less reliable than farming Vale-- after all, you're left to the mercy of RNG gods-- it has a higher chance of huge windfall because you could get a multiple hilts every run. Pull the mobs, burn 'em down, and cross your fingers when you loot. On top of the hilts, there's plenty of vendor trash, BoP epics for enchanters, and even a trinket that turns you into a gorilla. You will have to have completed the Forge of Souls in Icecrown Citadel to access this particular dungeon, though.

3. Lost City of Tol'Vir
Another dungeon farm, this time in Uldum, Tol'Vir trash mobs drop loads of embersilk cloth. Stacks of this tend to sell for a tidy profit, though prices vary depending on the realm. A typical clear of the dungeon takes about 5 minutes, netting about 7.5k per hour in cloth, vendor trash, and various other drops like mats and BoEs. Pick up a Potion of Treasure Finding and farm to your heart's content! It's just as profitable on normal mode as heroic, too, making farming all the quicker and easier.

You see those expensive items on the auction house, and wonder how anyone could possibly afford them. Who has 30,000 gold to spend on a Vial of the Sands? Smart players are the ones that are buying these items, but luckily you've stumbled across this short guide that is going to let you in on some of their secrets.

Potion of Luck

If you have the alchemy profession, you've probably have seen the Potion of Luck. This item is fantastic for farming in Pandaria and can get you a lot of extra loot that you can turn around and sell. However, there's a better option that is more profitable.

The older brother of this potion originally came about in Cataclysm as the Potion of Treasure Finding, and is actually one of the best ways to make money. Since most Pandaria mats are constantly farmed, they usually sell for less than the Cataclysm mats. This makes using this form of the potion more effective for making gold. Not to mention that creatures die faster to level 90s since they were made for the previous expansion, making farming the treasure chests that drop rather easy.

Some of the items you can get are volatile elements, Embersilk Cloth, ores and herbs, and even bind on equip blues that sell for a bunch since they are below the level 85 PvP bracket. Your best bet is to find a place with tons of creatures with a fast respawn rate. There are several of these in Deepholm.

Play the Auction House

You should always keep an eye on the auction house and figure out what's in supply, and what's in demand. Focus your attention on materials, as these are the best money makers since nobody wants to go out and farm them while leveling a crafting skill.

Once you notice that there is nothing in stock of a certain material, go out and farm it. You'll be able to put it in at very high price, and people will actually buy it quickly simply because they need it.

Golden Fleece

This is an interesting Panderia trinket that will make you lots of extra gold. This drops off a rarespawn called Omnis Grinlok. You'll find him in the Briny Muck within the Dread Wastes. Even then, the fleece has a low chance to drop, but it's definitely worth farming for.

When equipped in one of your trinket slots, this items gives anything that would give experience or honor a chance of dropping gold in a small pile on the side of their body. It's a very good amount and really adds up over time. This would combine well with using the Potion of Luck for farming.

Basil Berntsen, the knowledgeable Gold Capped columnist and resident gold-making expert at WoW Insider, believes Darkmoon Cards can rake in the most profit for scribes.

In his year-end December 28 column, Basil posted his inscription gold-making guide and claiming that "inscription is one of the best gold-making professions in the game."

He went on to discuss in detail the time investment requirements and profit potential of three main inscription markets:
Darkmoon cards: Scalable time investment, massive profits
Glyphs: Massive time investment, low profit
Odds and ends: Minimal time investment, medium profit

Darkmoon Cards
With the most in-demand decks going for up to 20,000 Gold each, Basil believes that Darkmoon cards (12 of which when combined form a full deck) can earn scribes the highest possible WoW Gold. But he said that it takes intricate planning and logistics to really ramp up the Gold income from Darkmoon cards due to the constraints surrounding its crafting cooldown.

"'Going big' increases your production and decreases your waste. How does one make a lot of cards, though? Since they're tied to a daily cooldown, the options are to buy the cooldown from other scribes, or to have multiple scribes... If you plan to step it up and make decks, though, you'll need to either develop a network of scribes willing to sell you their daily cooldown, or make a bunch of alts into scribes."

Needless to say, only the most persevering players will be able to develop cultivate such a network or level up an army of scribe alts. Still, the profits are lucrative enough to make the effort worth it.

Glyphs
Unlike Darkmoon Cards, Glyphs are probably not worth the trouble. Not only does the Glyph market demand an excruciating amount of play time, it also promises a pittance of WoW Gold compared to the blood and sweat you put into it.

"The way the glyph market works on most realms is that there are a couple of people willing to put in the long hours who will have every available glyph posted profitably, and undercut within minutes of being undercut. They all reduce the price very minimally when undercutting, and the "competition" isn't about price, it's about who can relist more frequently.

"This is a very expensive way to compete unless you have unlimited playtime and have already done every other profitable action you can take. Every hour I waste relisting glyphs is an hour I can't spend managing the rest of my businesses or trying to catch up on my valor cap," Basil explains.

Still, for those who insist on fighting the uphill battle and diving deep into the Glyphs market, Basil has one parting advice: "Make sure you have the most efficient possible setup, and undercut really frequently."

Odds and Ends
For scribes who can't and won't go all in with crafting Darkmoon Cards, an attractive alternative is to also dip into the other "odds and ends" inscription items. Particularly popular and profitable are BoE shoulder enchants (both blue and purple rarity), Runescrolls of Fortitude and the pair of companion kites. And if players had to choose only one of these, BoE should enchants are "easily one of the best money makers, in terms of gold per hour" because of their consistent demand and persistently solid wow gold price