Welcome to ‘In Search of Fortune’, a monthly series where I discuss my gold goals and in-game money making strategies.
Recently, I’ve been playing quite a bit of other things (check out What I’m Currently Playing) and WoW has been getting less attenion in general, let alone gold making. Despite that, my last month hasn’t been a terrible step in building my fortune – 591,029g profit according to my TSM. I’ll break that down a little and give a couple tips as to how to many simple things can make a decent amount of gold without much extra effort (such as command table missions).
Where Did My Earnings Come From?
Realistically, around 400k came from AH flipping. I can average about 15k per day just buying and selling. While not trying to push for anything, I do one buy scan then I post every item once. Anything that TSM doesn’t try to sell that day goes into the bank or to an alts mailbox (to come back in 30 days). If you’re wonder how 15k x 30 days works out to 400, it doesn’t – there was a few days I didn’t even log in to AH and earn some WoW gold.
The Easy Part – Mission Table & Callings
While my AH flipping feels easy to me, for some it just doesn’t work out, so, this might have appeal for others. The callings from your covenant are worth about 1500 in vendor gold each day. That isn’t incredibly efficient in itself, given that they can take 10-15 minutes between travel time and completion. However, they do give extra perks such as conduits, rep and even gear. Additionally, the way to make them more efficient is to wait until they group. If you’re -mostly- doing them for gold, then don’t bother until there is two in the same zone, it’s the torghast quest, or it aligns with some other objective such as the world boss. Today I was able to do the Revendreth world boss, the world quest in the same area while waiting for the boss to respawn, and only had to do one additional WQ to get a total of 3k gold, some anima and the boss I was going to kill anyway.
Mission tables have proven quite lucrative as well. This value will drop over time, because right now I get a mission table quest for 3-4 augment runes every day that sell for 1k-1.5k each and those values won’t last. More consistent are the 300 gold missions that tend to spawn 3-6 times per day (possibly depending on how active I am sending them out). That’s nearly 1-2k per day per character from pure gold + up to 3k-4.5k additional for the runes (as of now, at least). Most days I get 1-2 quests for enchanting mats which always have 1-2 epic crystals in them and that’s another 400-1600 gold per day as well. Add in random blues and other less valuable crafting mats, the mission table can easily net 5k-10k per day per character. Admittedly, there’s some initial time investment here if you want to get alts up to par to do these missions (and get enough followers to do them in bulk), but for characters you already play and do Torghast on it’s essentially free gold.