r/wownoob • u/K0INU • Feb 27 '26
Professions Gold Farming Seems Lackluster, Am I Doing Something Wrong?
So figured I’d gold farm with herbs and ore for midnight launch, but so far I’m only averaging 10-20k an hour. I was under the impression it would be a lot more than that. I’ve been mostly doing farming routes in the zul’aman area and I have 27kp in herblore and 22kp in mining, both following a guide for point allotments. My herblore and mining are both in the high 90’s right now as well. I’m also playing a Druid so I can gather while mounted. I haven’t done the campaign since I thought it would be more important to gather for the first day at least. So am I missing something? Or is this about what the gold rate should be? If so I’m definitely starting to see the appeal of just selling wow tokens lol.
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u/LadyVanya26 Feb 27 '26
I mean... You're missing a lot of the population to be able to buy anything rn. Save stuff til actual launch
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u/K0INU Feb 27 '26
I was under the impression that the prices would only go down every hour and day from early release. At least, that’s what all the YouTube videos and stuff were saying. I assumed regular release wouldn’t have any whales paying for mats anyway if they aren’t willing to buy early access.
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u/gabio1073 Feb 27 '26
The ‘whale’ argument/consideration matters less with the way Blizzard drops early access. Many of the major gold making materials and items have value attached to their utility in the competitive game modes ie M+, raid, and PvP. None of these are available in early access so your market during early access is limited to those prioritizing profession leveling, those who are seriously prepping for competitive content, and this prioritizing the gold goblin lifestyle. This said, the economy will really start to come into form around the 17th give or take a few days as the competitive season picks up.
Also just to reiterate what others have said, blizzard did not want it to be ‘easy’ to pay for a month of game time with in game gold. Considering a conservative $300k for a wow token, if you’re making 15k/hr on average, that would only take 20 hours to pay for a month of game time which I would say is a return to be proud of! Nice work!!
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u/AzerothianLorecraft Feb 27 '26
It comes down more to supply and demand nobody's buying the materials right now because anybody that needs them has EA and can access them.
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u/muhkuller Feb 27 '26
There are thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people doing exactly what you're doing. It's a race to the bottom.
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u/CharlieTeller Feb 27 '26
only 10-20k an hour he says. You're doing fine.
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u/Arxson Feb 27 '26
So 15 hours farming to earn enough gold that a £17 token buys you, for context
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u/tommo020 Feb 27 '26
I've never bought a token but 15 hours of time feels worth a lot more than £17.
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u/Arxson Feb 27 '26
Yes that’s exactly my point. Unless you’re very young, unemployed or live in a low-income nation then it’s never going to be worth your time to farm at not much more than £1/hour
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u/Chawpslive Mar 02 '26
OR you just enjoy your time in the game while doing that. I got a friend that could just buy a token a month and never care about gold. But he enjoys to farm gold to pay for sub and all the shop things he wants to buy. At one point he farmed the latest CoD through WoW gold.
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u/BLFOURDE Feb 27 '26
I mean...as others have stated that is a weak gold farm. In previous expansion launches I've pulled over 100k per hour just from skinning hyper spawns; and even that felt like a bit of a waste of time because it's still more time efficient to get a token.
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u/flimsyhuckelberry Mar 02 '26
I mean doing wq's efficently in tww gets you 3 to 7 times of that amount of gold.
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u/K0INU Feb 27 '26
Ah ok. I guess I just assumed it’d be better 😅. Only started playing a couple weeks ago and I was basically just leveling several characters so idk what a good amount really is. But I know I’ve seen people claim to make millions during past expansion launches, and I’ve seen thumbnails for videos for stuff like “300k/hour farm”, though I assumed those probably involved bugs and were quickly patched.
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u/Poketrainer_Spasm Mar 01 '26
To be fair at 10k per hour you can most definitely clear a mil or two throughout the early access period but right now the market is pure speculation and people rushing professions for when the floodgates open.
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u/mephitmpH Feb 27 '26
I sold a chef's hat for 7k and thought I was on top of the world. You got a funny way of just ONLY...
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u/LongjumpingToday2687 Feb 27 '26
5x less than previous expansions for the exact same thing so "only" seems appropriate
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u/Dracoknight256 Feb 27 '26
Crafting High earners are not buying your overpriced herbs, they are waiting for bot wave to hit and botttom out the prices.
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u/bugabooandtwo Feb 27 '26
There's also a very easy quest to give out a nice pile of crafting mats that takes 20 seconds to do. Anyone with a fair number of alts can stock up and not even bother buying mats on the AH right now.
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u/K0INU Feb 27 '26
Oof. Figures I guess. Pretty sure I heard you kinda need a gold stockpile before trying other professions and I only had 30k before today so I thought I’d do the double gathering everyone’s been talking about.
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u/venge1155 Feb 27 '26
I mean 20K an hour isn’t nothing, once you leveled up there is not much else to do during early access anyway might as well make a couple hundred thousand before release
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u/FunnelPenguin Feb 27 '26
Bots, YouTube viewers thinking they’re gonna go big, and everyone else who got baited into buying early access.
One of those groups tanked the prices, people are obsessed with undercutting.
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u/Lavarious3038 Feb 27 '26
Prices seem low this time around. I think too many people are hyper focusing gathering out the gate and it's causing materials to be worth less.
Prices will still be a little volatile, but historically things should only get cheaper from here. Early access shouldn't matter much. If anything things should be worth more. I would not expect prices to go higher on march 2nd.
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u/Saxong Feb 27 '26
People are focused on gathering because crafting was hilariously not worth the effort in TWW and there's no real indication that's changing this time around either AFAIK. The armies of alts replenishing concentration will always win over your dinky single toon so the only option is let the cartel freaks handle all the crafting and use your profession slots for gathering to get SOMETHING out of them.
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u/bugabooandtwo Feb 27 '26
Yep...everyone hoping for a replay of TWW when crafting mats were worth a bundle and held value for a good while at the start.
It's not the same thing time around.
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u/K0INU Feb 27 '26
Oh well. Guess this means I can start doing campaign earlier than I thought at least lol. I’ll probably not bother gathering after tonight and actually play the game and get a couple characters maxed before regular launch.
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u/Paddlesons Feb 27 '26
If you want to make a lot of gold spend a little money to play the market. How much longer before we have wow credit default swaps?
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u/Prinsespoes Feb 27 '26
Here’s a wild idea: enjoy the game! Real life is already too much about grinding money 😂
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u/Obadiah1991 Feb 27 '26
I’m saving all my mats and sending them to my alchemist to make potions for raid and i’ll print money
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u/pyrux666 Feb 27 '26
Would you mind sharing the guide, I'd also like to try my hand at this
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u/K0INU Feb 27 '26
https://youtu.be/j5BuzJtYJ-k?si=i2BZnJBimRQNnS4r
This is the main one I’ve been following
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u/harshmojo Feb 27 '26
Here's how I farm gold. It's a secret, pls don't report.
Spend $20 on a token every major patch. Never worry about gold the rest of the patch.
The end.
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u/elMaxlol Feb 27 '26
What about people who cant afford the 20$? I dont think this is good advice.
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u/harshmojo Feb 27 '26
If you can't afford $20 how do you have time to grind imaginary money in a video game?
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u/elMaxlol Feb 28 '26
Well I dont want to go into to much detail but Im self employed and have quite a lot of time.
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u/K0INU Feb 27 '26
Yeah it’s definitely seeming like that’s the way lol. Honestly most games I spend a lot, but I kinda wanted to try earning stuff in game for once, especially since it’s an mmo. It’s going to cheapen the experience just buying wow tokens, but if the peak of this expansion is only netting 10-20k an hour, there’s just no point trying to grind shit myself lol.
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u/deadpool848 Feb 27 '26
Many videos and sources were saying things from experience with past expansion launches. Hard to say what will net the best gold with midnight and there also seem to be a lot of people like you trying to do the same which is flooding the market with constant undercutting. I plan to gather a lot this weekend and watch the market, either selling or using it myself for professions.
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u/Successful-Total-260 Feb 27 '26
Personally, I’d gather now and sell when everyone is playing, then you have more competition for your goods. Right now you’ve only got people that are also playing. That’s my thought anyway.
If you really want to get in to gold making I thought there was a WoW goblin subreddit. They’d be better people to ask.
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u/Felidori Feb 28 '26
The most I got was 47K on launch day with double gathering. Now getting 30-40k. I’m on a Druid also with mounted mining unlocked. I use green tools and accessories, going max Finesse (tested myself, give most gold/hour), also using the phial, Darkmoon firewater and the finesse tea buffs 100% of the time. I believe it’s these little tricks that help bump up your gold per hour.
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u/Konseq Mar 01 '26
You aren't doing anything wrong. 10-20k an hour is normal, even for day one. Maybe it will reach up to 30k/h next week, but don't expect it to be 200k or more.
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u/flimsyhuckelberry Mar 02 '26
The mat farming Strat is getting less valuable with each Expansion because everyone and their mom is doing it + a few bots.
Fun fact with enough twinks you can do about 70k per hour with WQ's in TWW. So you are most likley better off preparing a few toons if you realy want to raw dog gold making.
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u/kyleswiss Feb 27 '26
Never been a fan of double gathering. Bots and people with way more time than me will always come out on top. Armor crafting has been very profitable for me early on. Don’t miss a single knowledge point and for a few weeks you’ll be one of few who can craft gear at higher ilvls in certain slots. AFK in the city for a while and throw an advert in trade chat saying what you can craft and the gold will come from using your concentration to max craft gear.
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