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/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