Farming Gold in WoW

If you want to make some quick Warcraft gold just by farming, these are some of the best spots and items:

The best low level farm spot is in Westfall on the western shore, near the windmill. There's a camp of Defias Trappers who drop linen cloth over 70% of the time. The big advantage of this spot is the remarkable respawn rate. It would be hard to kill them all before the first had respawned again. You can farm linen cloth very very quickly. Your biggest problem is having enough bag space.

A good mid-level gold farming spot is in Wailing Caverns in The Barrens. Mobs are mostly 17 to 20 elites. Most valuable drop is Perfect Deviate Scale which sells easily for a gold a piece.

Spider's Silk drops 1 in 10 times from Plains Creeper spiders in the Arathi Highlands. An ideal mid-level mob, these are around level 33 so could give some experience as well. Currently selling for a gold each on most servers due to demand from level 19 twink items of which it is a component.

Most of the other farm spots are geared towards higher levels. It doesn't make a lot of sense to farm WoW gold at lower levels since the drops are worth so much more from higher level mobs.

Some more of my favorites are:

Southsea Pirates in Tanaris. Mobs are mid-40s. Head to Lost Rigger Cove in the East of Tanaris. You get to the area via a cave tunnel on the western side of the mountain range. They drop Mageweave Cloth 34% of the time as well as good quantities of Silk Cloth. Volatile Rum is dropped at 6% of the time, or about 1 in 20 mobs. This will sell for 2 or 3 gold on most servers.

Jadefires in North West Felwood. Level 48 to 53 mobs. These drop large quantities of Mageweave Cloth as well as Felcloth.

Elementals in North West Silithus drop Essences of Air and Earth. Although these are high level they seem very easy to kill. Wait until you are level 55 for this zone, since ads are frequent.

105,000 Banned

Blizzard closed another 105,000 accounts during November:

In our continued efforts to combat cheating in World of Warcraft, more than 105,000 accounts were closed and over 12 million gold was removed from the game economies in Europe, Korea, and the US in the month of November.

They cite the use of bots to farm gold and items as the main reason:

The closed accounts were associated with activities that violate World of Warcraft's Terms of Use, such as using third-party programs that allow cheating, and farming gold and items.

It's interesting to see that bots are still being advertised on many of the WoW sites and, presumably, still being sold.

Youy have been warned.

Be a Deviate

Here's a good way to make some easy WoW gold from level 20 onwards.

Perfect Deviate Scale is selling for around a gold each on most servers. This is needed for the Deviate Scale Belt in much demand for level 19 twinking.

There is only one place this drops and that is Wailing Caverns. The mobs outside of the instance range from 15 to 17 elite. They drop Deviate Scale and Perfect Deviate Scale. If you can skin you will gather a lot more scales, both regular and perfect, as well as light and medium leathers.

The regular Scale isn't worth a lot but still sells for 15 to 20 silver or so. The mobs inside the instance will also drop the scales but I haven't found the drop rate to be any higher. If you are Alliance on a PvP server, then the instance is a good idea to avoid unwanted agro. For PvE servers you can stay in the caves. The mobs spawn fast enough to hunt continuously.

No more WoW downtime?

Blizzard have announced that they are testing live maintenance rather than shutting the server for several hours every Tuesday.

There is to be NO maintenance shut-down on Dec 26th.

Let's hope the weekly shut-down is now a thing of the past.

The Fastest way to Make WoW Gold

This isn't as much some secret way of making piles of WoW gold as an observation and advice.

I was wandering around Winterspring the other day with my level 56 hunter picking up a few herbs, killing the odd mob that got in my way. You know the stuff. As I picked each herb, and looted each mob, I was noticing the selling prices of the loot. Auctioneer has one great feature that tells me the selling price in the AH of any item. Just hover the cursor over the item for some great up-to-date pricing info. Most of the herbs had a selling price over one gold. Here I was picking up gold pieces from the ground. Free money.

So, what's my point? My point is that the really easy way to make gold is to be a high level. It hardly matters what you do as long as you do it in the highest level zones. Gather herbs. Mine. Skin. Kill humanoid mobs.

You may be struggling as a level 30 looking for a paltry 100 gold to get a mount. My honest advice is don't sweat it. Go level and the gold will flow. Get to 50+ and it's as easy as taking a walk.

Trouble leveling? No problem, two very excellent guides will get you there in record time. Download Joana's Guide for Horde and Bill Kopp's for Alliance.

Level to 50 in a couple of days and have all the Warcraft gold you need.

Gingerbread Cookies and Milk

Christmas has arrived in Azeroth. And with it, the regular quest to bring Santa gingerbread cookies and milk. If you've looked in the AH at the price of small eggs, needed for the quest, you will have noticed that they are selling for up to 1 gold each.

I started stockpilling these back in November and am very happy to fill the insatiable need for a gold a piece. You can farm small eggs easily in Westfall from the Fleshrippers and in Mulgore from the Swoops. These mobs are all around level 9 to 14.

Easy WoW gold for lower levels.

There's gold to be made if you think ahead to regular events and beyond. For example, you can stockpile snowballs now to sell later once they go off sale. These are used as a reagent in Summon Reindeer amongst other things.

The seasonal events for World of Warcraft are:

New Year: December 31st - January 1st in Stormwind and Thunderbluff.
Love is in the Air: February 11-15th in some major cities.
Hallow's End: October 18 - November 1 in Ironforge and Orgrimmar.
Feast of Winter Veil: December 15th - January 2nd in all major cities.

Wow 2.0 Auctioneer

Ok, I've decided I can't live without the Auctioneer addon. That may be a bit of an exageration, but I certainly can't play WoW.

I've downloaded the alpha version, complete with bugs, from here and will be part of their testing team. I'll let you know how it goes.

UPDATE: I've used it for a couple of days. Although it has a few bugs there are no major problems. No client crashes or anything. If you are an avid AH trader, go for it. If you are a casual user, I would wait until the official release.

I'm Getting Paid to Play Games!

I wish I had discovered this site earlier.

Now you can get paid just to play beta versions of new games. Only a few bucks an hour but it's basically free money as far as I'm concerned.

The game publishers send you a video game via regular mail. The games are for consoles as well as for regualr PCs but you get to tell them which systems you have when you sign up. You play the game for a few hours - they will generally say how long - and then write a brief report on the form they send. They basically just ask whether you liked the game, whether it was too easy/too hard and similar stuff.

It costs a few dollars to setup but well worth it.

LFG

Is it just me, or is the new WoW 2.0 LFG panel just about useless? It seems to work about as well as the meeting stones with the only advantage that you don't have to travel to the zone entrance to use it.

You sit there watching an empty screen for 10 minutes then somebody joins. They either leave the party immediately or mutter some excuse about having to feed the dog and then leave. Another joins, and then blames you for not being a priest/tank/mage and leaves. On the rare times you find more than 2 people it takes so long that the group breaks up before you ever get to the instance.

Now that they have taken away the LFG channel, we are forced to use the new interface or the general chat channel in the city.

Maybe I've been unlucky and nobody else was looking. Anybody else having any good results?

I want my addons!

As predicted, most of the World of Warcraft Addons are not working with the WoW 2.0 patch. My favorites, Auctioneer and Enchantrix will not be ready for a couple of weeks according to their site:

Due to the fact that many of our developers are extraordinarily busy with real-life concerns at the moment (such as exams etc), we are postponing the release of all 2.0 addons for 2 weeks after 2.0 is released on the live servers. (this will make it around the 19th of December)

What is this "real-life" they talk of?

Seriously though, it may be a wise move for them to let WoW settle down post-patch. I've no doubt there will be numerous emergency patches and rolling reboots.

Are you paying taxes on your WoW gold income?

You may soon have to according to an article in Znet.

"you probably haven't wondered whether the United States government will someday tax your virtual winnings from games played over the Internet. The real question is: Why hasn't it happened already?"

WoW Addons to break

With the upcoming patch to version 2.0, it appears that most, if not all, Warcraft addons will stop working:

WoW 2.0 represents a major change in the UI code, and as such ALL AddOns will need to be updated before they will work, if for no other reason than the Lua 5.0 to Lua 5.1 changes. Some AddOns will be more seriously affected, and a few will have to be redesigned."

which really sucks. Some of the addon programmers will update their code once they know what the changes are, but some may just find it's not worth the agro.

If you rely on addons, whether it be for trading the AH or in raids be prepared for some major grief over the next couple of weeks.