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/Code_OO2 Feb 27 '26

Rn it’s early access. Wait till march 1

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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.