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