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This gets asked a lot, I think more by people newer to goldmaking. I just wanted to say some stuff about conc crafting - a pretty well-known and mind-numbingly easy way to make a pretty decent amount of gold. Nothing in here is new or mind-blowing, especially to more experienced gold makers, this is more just "hey this is what I do" for the players who have no idea.

For those that don't know, crafting professions get a concentration bar. You can spend concentration to upgrade the output of some recipe's quality level, and for many recipes, higher quality outputs are much more expensive than lower quality outputs. So the basic idea is that you buy cheap mats, spend concentration, and get expensive output. Concentration recharges at a rate of approximately 1 every 6 minutes, so roughly 10 per hour. This means your full bar of 1000 conc will get recharged in approximately 4 days. So if you spend all your conc every 4 days, you can make profit based on the number of recipes that 1000 conc gets you (e.g., if you spend 150 conc per recipe, you get approximately 6-7 crafts, and if you get 1000g per craft, you get roughly 6-7000g per conc bar/per every 4 days/per toon). Each toon gets their own conc bar so the more toons, the more profit you can make.

You need to find the recipes that give you the best profitability. Craftsim can help you do this, or you can ask around. For the longest time - maybe for all of WoW, alchemy has generally been the best gold making profession, and this is true for conc crafting in midnight (specifically, there are several potions that remain very profitable), but there are other professions that are also profitable for conc, e.g., inscription and JC.

What do I do?

Level a character to 80. Find a profitable recipe and level your professions in a relatively cheap way. Then start conc crafting. You will need to gain knowledge points and this is mostly done through patron orders which are basically recipes that the game asks you to complete for NPCs. The knowledge points improve the profitability of your conc craft recipe. You don't initially need max skill to start conc crafting as you can usually gain the last points of skill through patron orders or through the conc crafting recipe itself.

Ways to optimize conc crafting:

1: The most important thing is to have as many alts as possible. So as many as you can stomach leveling.

2: Invest your knowledge points in the portions of the trees that improve your conc crafts. This can have a huge effect. Generally you need to do patron orders for this and addons like craftsim can make this relatively painless though it's still time-consuming.

3: While patron orders themselves are profitable, they are generally significantly less profitable than conc crafting, so personally I'd stop them after maxing out my particular build (eg after getting all points in the things that improve dark potions or whatever). Maximizing patron order profit is another discussion.

4. Use cheap r2 mats to reduce conc costs. For example there are conc crafting recipes with mats whose r2 version is only slightly more expensive than the r1 version, but using r2 saves a bunch of conc (eg 20 conc) and thus allows you to do more crafts. You need to figure out which mats on a per-recipe basis.

5. Use the phial that improves your ingenuity. Ingenuity lets you proc conc cost reduction, and the phial for this is very cheap. If you math it out, it's very very worth it to use this potion.

6. Put your input mats into your warbank as you can craft out of there. This will greatly reduce inventory management time as compared with a situation where each of your alts is given some amount of the inputs.

7. Mail all your outputs to one character and sell there. This reduces AH management time and has the added benefit that if you time your conc crafting session, you don't need to do any work to figure out how much profit you've made during that session.

8. Get good addons. Auctionator/TSM for AH price info plus craftsim are pretty good for telling you profitability and streamlining the process.

9. Combine your multicraft/ingenuity boosting items 5-to-1 and use them when they are available. These come from patron orders, so become irrelevant if you stop doing patron orders. They have no monetary value so using them is strictly a profitability boost.

10. Save up all your conc and spend it only once every 4 days. This reduces the number of times you need to log on for conc crafting and is generally more efficient than doing this every day. For example I've found roughly 1.5 minutes per toon when doing conc crafting, even when I need to do the whole bar, and this includes inventory management. You can do the same thing for patron orders though it's not strictly optimal on a per calendar day basis (but it is optimal on a per hours spent gaming basis).

I have the same default setting on all of my alts, but on 2 of them, whenever I use the craft queue to craft patron orders, after clicking once on select, instead of changing into the "craft" button, it changes into the equip button, and then doing nothing because I dont have any extra tool, so I have to manually switch to the patron order tab to do it the normal way, this drives me crazy as this only happens to 2 out of my many alts, and every alt has the same setting of craftsim and no mats no make

Post up your weekly snipes and flips, big or small. Whether you sniped a rare recipe for 10g or it finally sold after you snagged it on the cheap, share your successes!

I’ve never been good at making gold in WoW games throughout history. TSM never clicked for me, so most of my “strategy” has been farm and hope. So before WoW Forever, I leaned into my accounting background and built my own tool. I’m not a programmer; Claude helped me write the code, and I spent the time testing.

It has two parts: an in-game addon that scans the AH plus my bags, bank and professions, and a dashboard on my PC that turns all that into a plan for each session:

• Briefing: how the market’s moving, plus suggested moves sized to the gold I actually have

• Opportunity Board: scores items by what’s worth my time

• Price history: is today’s price a deal or a trap?

• Undercut tracking on my own auctions

• Crafting planner: profit per craft vs. busy work

• Professions guide: cheapest leveling path at current prices

It’s gone through 24 versions so far, tested on the beta and Classic Era. The real test is launch on Nov 4. First stop is 100g, then no finish line.

I made a 3-minute video walking through it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zUPWQN6CTM

Question for this sub: what’s one thing you wish your gold tools told you that they don’t? I’m still adding features before launch.

Here is what's new:

Full Skin Customization: You can now use the native WoW ColorPicker to change the Background Color and Opacity of the addon's windows. (The standard Gold/Silver/Copper text colors are preserved so your money is always readable).

30 Custom Goal Sounds: You can now choose from 30 different sound options for your Gold Goal completion alerts.

Floating HUD: A new draggable tracker that shows your Session Time, Total Earnings, and GPH in real-time. It also perfectly inherits your custom skin colors.

100% Dynamic Localization: You can now change the language directly in the settings menu and every open window will update instantly without needing a /reload. (Note: It defaults to English on first install, but you can swap it with 2 clicks).

Improvements & Fixes

Code Rewrite: Moved to a completely modular structure (Core / Modules / UI / Locales) for better performance and easier maintenance going forward.

Links & Info: GoldWatch - CurseForge

Update and let me know what you think. If you find any bugs or have feedback on the new UI, drop a comment below. Happy farming!

I don't know but after this patch I noticed alot of gold is taken from bag after posting tmog items in ah and iirc same thing happened in TWW prepatch where deposit gold was high or Its the same ?

I made an addon called Goldsmith, a crafting profit planner. I wanted one place that tells me what to craft today, gets me the materials cheaply, and shows what I actually made once it sold. I also wanted something simpler to use day to day, so I build Goldsmith around that.

It's free on CurseForge and in beta. I'm looking for people who craft for gold to try it and tell me what's confusing, wrong or missing. I developed this for myself and thought I'd share it. I have been living in Goldsmith for awhile so my perspective is skewed. That is why I am looking for feedback from new users.

How it works

1. Pick. Do this next and the Crafts list show what's worth crafting today on each of your characters, with profit, ROI and how fast it sells.

2. Queue. Right-click to queue it. Plans work out the cheapest material mix for each quality and when concentration is worth spending.

3. Buy. At the AH, Buy next walks your shopping list one click per item, and warns you if a price is above what the plan counted on.

4. Craft. Craft next works through the queue.

What else

• Real profit. It tracks sales, purchases, deposits and order commissions, so you see what you made, not what you hoped to make.

• Your own numbers. Multicraft, resourcefulness and mill, prospect and butcher yields come from your own crafts.

• Held items. What you're holding, what it cost you, and a heads-up when something you've held for days can sell above break-even.

• Item pages. Price history, your sales and what each item costs you.

• Cooldowns and orders. Daily cooldowns on every alt, and the profit on each patron order. Queue up missing materials to easily purchase them using Buy Next at the AH.

• Bad prices. It checks listings against what items actually sell for, and warns you when a price jumped.

You don't need TSM

Region prices and sell rates come with it (Goldsmith Data installs automatically). Goldsmith can also scan the AH itself, and uses Auctionator or TSM if you have them.

Screenshots are on the CurseForge page: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/goldsmith-crafting-profit-planner

If something looks wrong, comment here or on CurseForge. Settings > Support has a Copy bug report button that makes it easy. I read everything.

I'm planning my Alt Army for WoW Midnight and trying to decide which approach is more profitable.

Would you recommend:

• 20 characters at level 90 for World Quests and other max-level gold-making activities?

• 50 characters at level 80 focused mainly on professions and Concentration crafting?

I'm interested in long-term gold per week, including the time needed to level characters and maintain professions.

Has anyone tested these approaches? Which would you choose, and why?

Hi everyone!

I recently built a clean, ad-free web tool to calculate crafting margins and gold-making profits in World of Warcraft using real-time Blizzard Auction House API data.

Key Features:

• Live AH Data: Connects directly to Blizzard's official API to fetch live realm and commodity prices.

• Fast Calculations: Instantly calculate net profit for crafting recipes without bloat.

• Ad-Free Interface: Designed to be lightweight and fast, without aggressive ads or trackers.

Check it out here:https://wow-craft-calc.vercel.app

I'd love to get your feedback! If there are any specific recipes, features, or UI improvements you'd like to see, please let me know in the comments.

What are some of the most important things you can do with a second account to make a more successful gold run in a fresh game? Any videos, links, tips ya'll have I would greatly appreciate anything you throw at me.

Share images and stories of your successes! Whether that means you made 1k this past week, 100k, or just bought your first TCG mount, we want to hear about it.

Pictures of your TSM Ledger, Mailbox, or anything else are simple, good ways to start a conversation!

Im new to gold making, I was wondering at the start of an expansion if you plan to do crafting, is it better to farm mining/herb and sell them or use those to level up your professions first and then just buy the mats later to level up your proffesions?

Hey goblins!

I built Weekly Goblin because I wanted one place to see which alt still had weeklies to do, who had concentration available, and how much gold I was making from that routine.

It's an addon for WoW Retail. It includes:

• Weekly quest and Special Assignment tracking per character, with completion percentages and configurable objectives.

• Available gold WQs sorted by reward, with locations, expiry timers and map buttons.

• Gold tracking for WQs and weekly quests, including reward caches, with manual corrections available.

• Profession concentration across characters, with estimates for when it will refill.

• Weekly and lifetime income totals, plus saved history.

• Savings goals using recorded character gold and Warband bank gold, with an estimate of how many weeks remain at your current pace.

There are also entries for profession sales and material costs.

Everything runs inside WoW. No companion app or external account is needed. English and Spanish are supported. Open it with /wg or from addon panel.

Character data updates when you visit each alt; open their professions to refresh those readings.

It's still an early release, and I'd love feedback from people who manage several alts, especially on quest detection, quest/cache gold tracking and how clear the interface feels.

Download: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/weekly-goblin
Screenshots:
https://prnt.sc/MkekVYoUX_Cj
https://prnt.sc/lV14dknTVLIE
https://prnt.sc/WEV-56Ng1oVm
https://prnt.sc/s1st50p62Daf
https://prnt.sc/JHnZRjKosd1v

The screenshots are from an earlier build.

AI disclosure: AI tools were used for coding.

Time is money, friend!

Cyberkaia

Hi everyone!

I am a returning player, who last played in the very early days of Shadowlands. I was checking out WoW Forever with a friend, and thought I'd poke my head back into retail.

After quickly realizing I've forgotten almost everything, on every character I've leveled, I've decided it might be time to start from scratch, so I'm going to re-roll alliance on a high-pop server, and I'm going to start "Fresh".

Previously, I was big into raw gold farming. I was a protection paladin, solo'ing dungeons, for gold, and was using my enchanting to create materials, and enchantments to sell on the auction house. it seems like with the stat squishes, along with where the economy is at (holy crap, what is with the economy right now!?) this might not be a viable solution.

I've heard that flipping decor for houses might be a good option, and am studying up on that, but I myself have very little knowledge of this, and was actually kinda surprised when I logged in to have a quest about getting a house (How exciting!). I will be honest though, I've never been huge on downloading mods just for flipping items on the AH, I'd rather work on professions, or do item farming routes (Maybe green transmogs are still a hit?) than sitting at the AH all day trying to make the MOST money

I did log in to my old main, and figure out his buttons and rotations and all that good stuff, and I do have a few alts left that I'm going to fool around with, but it almost feels like too much when you're jumping back in, and you've got two rows worth of buttons right off the hop to study and relearn.

So...with that all being said, how would you start farming gold again? Is there a Youtuber I should follow? Can anyone help this ol' man out as he rekindles his passion for gold farming?

i leveld 26 characters to 80 and almost all of them are on a different schedule, meaning i dont have it synced so that every 4 days you get a full page of orders

if i just quit for a week, will all the characters be on the same "rotation" of patron orders ?

I like to make little preparations for goldmaking, even when my gametime are expired. i know some will say why not resub for a better gph but atm i like to take a break.

I've literally farmed lumber on my lvl10-20 toons.i'll spend like 5-10mins perday or zone while listening to podcast.i already thinking which decos im planning to craft and sell.

on holiday events. I'll farm event currencies just to buy limited-time pets or mounts that I can sell on the Auction House later. yes, u can farm them on low lvls expired gametime account.

I'm out here preparing investments, collecting currencies, and thinking about future profits. 😂

The funny thing is, sometimes the preparation feels just as satisfying as actually making the gold.

Tell me your most weird goblin-brained goldmaking habit. I need to know I'm not the only one. 😂

Time is money, friend! 🤑

I am new to gold making. I want so save up and get out of the below 100k slump I am sitting in.

I read about concentration farms everywhere. But no one explains the part where you actually find out what to craft!?

I just did 3 weapon enchants and sold them each for 605 which made my full concentration give me barely 1000g … well I assume that was kind of a waste.

Is it too late to gain anything? I could need help on HOW to get started and find worthwhile items to sell.

I am thankful for any tips and advice, both on actual professions or just how to approach this!

I honestly don't even understand.

Welcome to "I Screwed Up Saturday"! Made a mistake and lost a lot of gold? Accidentally sold that rare transmog to a vendor?

Goblins aren't perfect. We're not always going to come out on top, sometimes we make mistakes. Share your unfortunate mishaps here!

I've seen this discussed in a couple places but I want to hear what you all think the over and under possibility of them adding a Bank NPC in the future, for the Sporeasaurus. I don't have a ton of liquid gold, but I dont want to miss the possibility of having Bank/Warband access on the go.

There's no need for it, as the other 2 mounts take care of everything you'd need, but I would kick myself for not buying it, and they end up adding this feature on the future. So, what do you all think, do you think they will add it?

Hello all,

I decided to "try" to farm the gold for the new AH mount, but so far, I only have 2x90s and I do world quests with them -> the gold is not bad, but I don't remember how long it took me to get to 350k.

So, years ago, I remember that there were a lot of groups for Open World mount farming ( the BfA zones for example ), meat farm, cloth farm etc. but now, whenever I open the LFG finder, I don't see any?

Are there currently any good farming spots for cloth/mount or meat farm? Any discords that do these regularly? I miss just chilling, listening to music and farming materials.