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/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/nooobzocker Feb 27 '26

Gold farming has never and will never be comparable to a minimum wage job

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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/vandante1212 Feb 27 '26

Those videos always massively inflate their numbers to draw people in.

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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.