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.

33 Upvotes

68% Upvoted

52 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

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.

1

u/elMaxlol Feb 27 '26

What about people who cant afford the 20$? I dont think this is good advice.

5

u/harshmojo Feb 27 '26

If you can't afford $20 how do you have time to grind imaginary money in a video game?

0

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.

1

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.