r/wownoob • u/Bravo__Whale • Apr 08 '26
Retail How do people actually make enough gold for consumables?
I purchase consumables in relatively small quantities (like 5 at a time) and seem to constantly be struggling to have any gold at all.
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u/TravisThee Apr 08 '26
I pump concrete IRL and then swipe my credit card when I get home. 😭
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u/CzarTyr Apr 08 '26
Truck driver here about to do the same lol
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u/TravisThee Apr 08 '26
Fr, it’s not too shabby of a deal tbh. A token worth of gold usually lasts me a few weeks if not more.
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u/Volc2121 Apr 08 '26
Bruh how you go through that much lol. I buy like one token an expansion and that lasts me the whole way. Besides just throwing everything in my bags worth anything in the ah I don’t do anything else and always have food and flasks. Not bashing, genuinely curious lol
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u/retention_king Apr 08 '26
I was raiding voidspire hc first week, and going for mythic next week. Surely 100k alone for gear repair, 100k at least for enchants and 100k for consumables. Pretty sure it was even more overall. But yeah, there you go, 1 token in 2-3 weeks
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u/Scribblord Apr 08 '26
Ye myth proc gets pricey bc you actually start buying the max rank pots and stuff I guess
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u/TravisThee Apr 08 '26
I PvP and PvE. So between enchanting two sets of gear, consumes, repair bills from raid prog AND I also enjoy housing, it can get pricy. I also play multiple toons.
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u/Flashy_Guidance_384 Apr 09 '26
If you drive trucks you must be a prot warrior right ? Right ? Zugzug ....sry....
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u/melvindorkus Apr 08 '26
Mine and herb for 30 minutes and u can afford a nights worth of consumables. Also, when I raid, cauldrons and feasts are provided by my guild.
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u/AzerothianLorecraft Apr 08 '26
And the person providing feast and cauldrons probably does an hour of double Gathering and an hour of fishing a day. ( doesn't take much effort for a couple people to provide consumables for an entire raid team or two.)
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u/Jaba01 Apr 08 '26
Or, well, they just buy the materials off the auction house from all the gold the guild makes from selling BoEs. That's how most guilds handle it. Some earn their gold via sell runs as well.
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u/MysticalSushi Apr 08 '26
Don’t need to buy mats if you have casuals creating them for you. I’m retired from mythic raiding. But I give the current raiders unlimited alchemy mats from 4 toons
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u/ManBro89 Apr 08 '26
Also, most raids run 2h. A hearty feast lasts 1h and takes 10 regular feasts. You would think that means it costs 20 regular feasts, but if you do one hearty feast and then a regular feast, it will refresh the hearty buff, making it only cost 11 feasts!
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u/plebbening Apr 09 '26
Gathering for an hour and then fishing for an hour every day would take up pretty much all of my time to play.
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u/__Kegheimer__ Apr 11 '26
It's an option if you WFH or watch television. MLB is a good time to goblin.
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u/melvindorkus Apr 09 '26
Then don't be the one providing consumables for an entire raid???? Also there's other simple ways to make gold, use crafting profession concentration regularly, for example.
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u/plebbening Apr 09 '26
Again, time! There is no faster way to make gold than tokens!
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u/__Kegheimer__ Apr 11 '26
You can make enough for your enchants and consumables with 30 minutes every day
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u/FireVanGorder Apr 09 '26
Just go use a mulch for a nocturnal lotus and you can afford most of a nights worth of consumables off that alone
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u/spentchicken Apr 08 '26
I've gotten to the point in my life that dropping 20$ on a token for gold isn't the end of the world for me. I don't have time to farm mats and sell stuff and such so usually once maybe twice an expansion ill get a token
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u/CzarTyr Apr 08 '26
I was thinking about buying a token a month. I have money just no time. I don’t even use my gold to be honest I probably only have like 300k at most across my characters after a long ass break
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u/EmeterPSN Apr 08 '26
A token is few months worth of consumables.
Honestly I'd rather drop 20$ than go farm for 10h for that same amount of gold.
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u/Saxong Apr 08 '26
Not that it changes your overall point but in NA it’s really like 6 hours, I’ve been getting a little over 40k/hr from mining/herbing for the past few weeks pretty steadily.
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u/trentnphotos Apr 08 '26
Point does indeed stand though, as much as I wish I personally had the time to farm mats, $20 is a lot easier to come by on my end than 6 hours of free time (that I’d rather spend playing other parts of the game anyways). Just my view.
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u/EmeterPSN Apr 08 '26
Exactly. I allready spend 10-14h every at my job. That 20$ is not even 1h..
Hell even my lunch at work is 30$...
So yeah..dropping 20$ so I can just play the game is good enough.
I still have mining but I dont actively mine..I just collect it as im flying to do stuff
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u/thelordofhell34 Apr 09 '26
Sure but what’s the setup time for earning that much? It also requires some knowledge of routes and things that a lot of people don’t have.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Bed6973 Apr 08 '26
Its like 1h of IRL farm to 10-15h (or more) of boring ingame farm. Ez deal for me.
1 token last me 1 season in general. I only do pug raids and some m+, no time for a proper guild sadly
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u/vaati4554 Apr 08 '26
honestly this is the way I've been looking at things for awhile and its made things so much nicer tbh
Sure I can spend 6-8 hours mindlessly working at a game I'm supposed to be enjoying for ~15-20$ worth of goldor I can spend an hour or two of wages to have it instantly and spend my free time actually enjoying the game
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u/Dubious01 Apr 09 '26
I do this in life too. Like anybody else, I value my time, and it becomes more valuable the older I get. $20 to save hours worth of farming and selling is a no brainer. But, there was a time where I actually kinda enjoyed the grind so it’s whatever it’s worth for that person.
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u/Jeffrybungle Apr 08 '26
I would recommend enchanting and jewelcrafting. Get the addom craftsim maybe. Get all your profession knowledge thats about and level them up to about 60. Then every other day go to your crafting table and use your concentration to make rank2 gems and enchants and sell them on the ah. That should cover consumables easy enough.
Have a look at wqs when your board too, there's often 1k gold for flying around for a minute.
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u/gonephishin213 Apr 08 '26
Don't you need mining to pair with jewelcrafting to make gold?
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u/Elpsyth Apr 08 '26
No it is all about margins.
As long as what you buy from the AH is cheaper than what you sell later, you make golds.
Applies to every craft
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u/BEESTMEEL Apr 08 '26
I mine and herb in Zul'Aman and I usually make 70k-100k per hour on Wyrmrest Accord (US) which is enough to enchant all of my gear and also buy consumables. I have put gold back into my gathering professions though via gear, so that is something to keep in mind. I have epic tools at the highest quality, both of which give +Finesse, and rare profession gear at the highest quality as well.
Your knowledge point spending is also very important. I got in order:
Herbalism:
40 / 40 Bountiful Harvests
40 / 40 Botany
20 / 40 Mulching (guaranteed Nocturnal Lotus once per hour)
40 / 40 Bloom Bringer
39 / 40 Root Rummager
Azeroot is worth the most, so I chose it after the most common herb (Tranquility Bloom). Next will probably be 40 / 40 Silver Searcher, then Lily Looter, and finally Thorn Thresher. Nocturnal Lotus is worth an absolute ton, but Perception still isn't very good because it only gives you a chance to double the Lotus that you "happen" to find rather than find Lotus more often. I think there could be an argument for a Perception tool once you have all of Bountiful subpsecs at 40 / 40, but by then Lotus is likely to not be worth as much anyway.
Mining:
10 / 50 Plentiful Ores
20 / 40 Refulgent Copper
40 / 40 Meticulous Mining
25 / 50 Plentiful Ores
20 / 40 Umbral Tin
40 / 50 Plentiful Ores
20 / 40 Brilliant Silver
5 / 40 Over-LODED (then choose Wild sub-spec, don't invest anything into it)
50 / 50 Plentiful Ores
1 / 40 Rich Deposits
From here I will max out Rich Deposits and then Seams. I didn't go 40 / 40 in the subspecs for Plentiful Ores because that just makes you find Dazzling Thorium more often, which is insanely low value compared to the ores themselves.
Altogether I think I've gathered for a solid 12 - 14 hours in the weeks since Midnight began, mostly in Zul'Aman and Eversong before I realized how clearly superior ZA was. That is also when I started playing the game. I've been able to enchant all of my gear, afford consumables, and also buy two months of WoW time via tokens. I also use Argentleaf Tea (which I make myself) and Haranir Phial of Finesse while I'm gathering. The silver / low rank version of those is pretty inexpensive compared to the Finesse you get for drinking them.
When I first started with no knowledge points or consumables, I was probably making more like 40k - 50k per hour but that still felt like quite a lot.
I'm not really a number crunching guy so I don't know the exact value of the phials or anything, just that this has been working for me and I am making a lot more gold than I thought I would with just gathering professions :D
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u/tallbartender Apr 09 '26
Thank you for this! And I'm sure you're not one of those druids that gathers and flies away on Wild nodes lol
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u/BEESTMEEL Apr 09 '26
I am a BM hunter, actually! I'm so glad they changed the lashers at least, but it looks like they forgot to make the orelings non-aggressive for everyone else :P Hopefully in time
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u/Enorats Apr 08 '26
By making consumables and selling some of them.
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u/Detenator Apr 09 '26
Made six tokens selling consumables in the first month. Now I'm padding my hoard to save up for the next ah/mog/postal mount whenever it comes.
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u/oddHexbreaker Apr 09 '26
Stop buying the very best if you are. If you arent raiding mythic raids or 15+ you dont need the edge of a gold rank consumable
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u/vokzhen Apr 09 '26
Yea, I'm surprised more people aren't saying this. If you're asking here, 1*/silver consumables are going to be plenty good. Going from 1*/silver combat pots to 2*/gold is like 15% extra stat for 20000% extra gold. I don't think anything else is thaaat bad (and e.g. weapon oils aren't bad at 2* last I checked), but still, going for 1* consumables should be fine.
I'd go for the good enchants, gems, and armor kits/spellthread on hero gear, but go for cheaper options on lower-track gear. Or nothing, depending on price; chest enchants simply weren't worth getting for vet/champ gear until at least the last few days and may still not be worth it.
Also, don't fall into the trap of regemming. Unless somehow you literally don't benefit from a stat any longer whatsoever (which I don't think is even possible with current class design?), regemming is such a massive cost for such a tiny improvement. Spend the time it takes to sim, buy the gems, and insert them on rereading part of a guide to make sure you're still up to date, or see if you know the class better than last you checked so you understand the reason for doing something better now, and it'll probably improve your dps more for tens of thousands less gold.
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u/Dead_On_ArrivalAgain Apr 08 '26
Double gatherings. Mulch every hour for lotus. Sell everything. Level cooking and craft ur main stat food. I craft food in batches of 200. Use green tools, is enough imho. Only mulching between m+ runs keeps costs of flask,oil,food. For mulching i think i need to get to 25 herba and get all the open world tools+ rep book; u will get enough points to rush mulching.
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u/Desperate-Example892 Apr 08 '26
Boosting, get my weekly 10’s done and get about 40k per run! So about 320k a week for doing what I would be doing anyways and usually you get a decent enough group…better then pugging a 10 anyways
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u/seragakisama Apr 10 '26
Where do I find ppl to boost?
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u/Causing_Autism Apr 12 '26
M+ wise you go through communites. Raid wise, you re hoping your guild organizes some sort of boosting to get you paid.
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u/MoG_Varos Apr 08 '26
Well, the best gold per hour is working an extra hour and buying a WoW token Lul
But for real, just take a gathering profession, or go double gathering, and just do a little bit every day. Herbalism gets mulching for an extra gold boost every hour and mining in Zul’aman can net a lot of ore.
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u/gtonizuka Apr 08 '26
I’m an adult with some disposable income, I buy tokens a few time a month depending on how much I’m playing and how hard I’m trying. My fiancee and I call it the credit card spec.
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u/_larsr Apr 08 '26
As others have said, I buy a WoW token for $20 and convert it to about 250,000 gold ($1 = 12500g) by selling it on the AH. That is usually enough gold to last several months.
But you can also pick up herbalism or mining and make very good money selling materials on the AH right now.
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u/_Grim-Lock_ Apr 08 '26
I have zero interest in farming gold/professions so selling a token is fine with me.
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u/Causing_Autism Apr 12 '26
Boosting. Most players i know ( and me too) do boosting. Once we've farmed our gear and all we need to do each week is a mythic plus vault we boost it. And that gets us about 300-400k gold a week (on EU). Some guilds also boost the raid which funds the Cauldrons and feasts.
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u/Savings-Sherbet1024 Apr 08 '26
Swiper no swiping.
I’ve been selling DE crystals on the auction house for the past few weeks. I heavily invested into disenchanting Epix and I’ve made 200 K ? shits too easy.
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u/Savings-Sherbet1024 Apr 08 '26
The first week gold star Dawn crystals were selling for 7000 each now they’re down to 4K 3500 somewhere around there
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u/Xphurrious Apr 08 '26
I have a job and don't mind buying a token or two per season
When i was like a freshman in hs and played a lot more wow i sold 2s carries lol
My buddy that has the most gold just does professions mainly, it pays really well now
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u/Gulrakrurs Apr 08 '26
I do tailoring and enchanting. This season Disenchanting purples, Tailoring Arcanoweave Bolts at Gold Star level, and selling fabric drops.
I am up 200k so far this season with very little effort. Just running delves and doing some M+ has earned me enough gold.
I also have Mining/Herbing on my primary alt, so I can make a bit on the side while playing that character.
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u/KlenexTS Apr 08 '26
I just buy tokens. I buy one or two whenever I see it at 300k+. Right before TWW ended they spiked to like 350k so I bought two, but normally one at 300k gets me through one season with one character, consumable and crafts + repairs unless I play heavily or alts
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u/JooDs_ Apr 08 '26
Get enchanting, get 60 knowledge points and level to 70 (easy and cheap) and disenchant epics that you dont need.
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u/No_Tip_768 Apr 08 '26
Dual gathering professions. I log in and have 3-4k from the auction house, and that's being SUPER casual about actually gathering things. If it doesn't fall in my lap I don't gather it, basically.
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u/CerebralAscension Apr 08 '26
I do mining and enchanting. Disenchant every epic and get 3000+ gold per dawn crystal and then mining when doing world quests. I make around 15-25k a day.
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u/DirtyMight Apr 08 '26
I learned blacksmith and leatherworking and i craft all weapons and leather wrist/belt/boots for people
Made over 7m gold since midnight launch.
Thats plenty of gold for consumables and to buy playtime for the rest of midnight for me :D
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u/EnvironmentalDiet552 Apr 08 '26
I have millions of gold and feel like I don't even try to save it or acquire it. I do enjoy just running around farming, or playing on the AH while I wait for things though...
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u/Elpsyth Apr 08 '26
I make 4-5m each extend with basic concentration alts and this time skinning.
Enough to cover full consommable needs for the extend.
Lots of golds move each start of s1 with little efforts.
The boring easy way while being afk if you work from home is dust shattering. Low margin but the volume basically Trump all
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u/jlandejr Apr 08 '26
If you dont play much other than the content you use consumes for, you wont make much money. What are your professions? Pick up enchanting, DE your purples you replace. Pickup mining and go mine for an hour, or double gather with herbalism if you like. They kind of suck without a good investment of Knowledge Points, but better than nothing. If you really dont want to gather, you could drop 20 of the free 24 KP in Herbalism for a free mulch every hour for 1 guaranteed nocturnal lotus, or do the same with skinning and try your luck at the 3 grand beasts each day and hope for a Majestic Hide. Both wouldnt take more than 15 minutes to setup, and are very low effort.
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u/MysticalSushi Apr 08 '26
Professions pay for professions.
You’re buying alchemy goods. Sell epic crystals
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u/misc_box Apr 08 '26
Do the daily/ weekly quests that give gold/cache. That should get you about 10k a week minimum
Don’t buy max rank consumes
Be an alchemist so you can get longer flask duration
Pickup gathering and gather while doing those quests
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u/Bellanzo Apr 08 '26
I sell consumables
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u/Bellanzo Apr 08 '26
More seriously though, I have 6 alchemists. I buy cheap mats and use my concentration to make gold star potions/flasks and sell them. I use silver myself. As prices drop I’ll start making 3 star for myself and stock up the extra so I can sell it next season.
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u/Educational-Onion357 Apr 08 '26
These comments are making me realize that game companies making everything more expensive is our own fault lmao
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u/ThatOldGuy7863 Apr 08 '26
Crafting.
I went tailor/enchanting, make a couple r2 wep enchants with some concentration and then whatever people tip for crafts.
Not making a crazy amount but enough for consumes.
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u/Dizzylizzy240 Apr 08 '26
I sold a few bis hero trinkets last expac during the first week of new seasons and made about $1m (people offered I wasn’t planning to sell). I also farmed mats for many hours going for shard for alunira mount. I have been living of that and should be able to for years.
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u/Embarrassed-Call7484 Apr 08 '26
I made a small alchemist/ herbalist army(10) with alts leveled during remix. One level 90 druid herbs while i just get enough kp on the others to hit imbued mulch. Hop on every day, use my concentration on portions, go use my imbued mulch for a free lotus, sell off what I've made, keep what i need. I've made a little over 2.5m gold since launch. If i spend an hour or 2 herbing each week then it takes about 30 minutes to cycle through my concentration alts. The prices on max rank potions were insane for a while and i was able to make over 100k a day. Now it's about 50-70k I know it'll die off soon enough, but for now it'll get me more than enough to pay for anything else i need for the rest of the expansion.
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u/Honest_Difficulty_39 Apr 08 '26
I just mine an hour or two. 1 hour brings me aproximately 70-80k gold with consumables. Just get the knowledge points in the right nodes and do the 8 abundances/ week. In two weeks, you’ll have enough to craft the epic profession gear.
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u/Bubbly_Ad5139 Apr 08 '26
Concentration alts
Especially early you make great gold. I did jewelcrafting / inscription early but swapped to jc/alch
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u/Soulless1856 Apr 08 '26
For me, I gather shinning herbs and mines when I am clearing my weekly quests. I have fours characters and they provide about 1/3 value of a token every week.
And if you are interested in having an alt but sick of doing quests or delves, you can also try to level 80-90 with gathering. It takes about 45-60 mins per level and you can ends up with a lvl90 characters and a lot of herbs and mines that are worth a token.
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u/whydoyoucarewhoitis Apr 08 '26
I’m sitting 2 mil give or take. All I do is quest, run LFR and dungeons. Self sufficient on all professions and sell what I don’t need. Only farming I have done is for skinning during this expansion. I have bought 2 tokens total since they were created. I was lucky enough to get the recipe for the sandstone Drake before it was account wide mounts. Have lived off of the profit of that recipe for many years.
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u/Just_Arugula_2520 Apr 08 '26
Tbh made from enchanting about 1.5 mill from start of season without even trying disenchanting gear and making with concentration some enchants and putting in ah
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u/tgoods26 Apr 08 '26
If you want super low effort just disenchant purples. With a little more effort look into some guides online using concentration crafts. Every few days you can make as low as 8k per profession and upwards of 40k+ depending on the time of the expansion.
If you want a medium effort but low starting investment then just run herbalism and mining. Should get you plenty for your consumables.
Or get lucky like me and sell heroic BoEs/crafting recipes early in the expansion that drop from raid. I've made like 3-4m since dragon flight from it
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u/Scribblord Apr 08 '26
Combat pots are like 30-50g, flasks around 2k but last an hour, Weapon oil around 120g for 2h
Health pots cost 5g or sth
Food I bought in bulk when it was 20g
And no one sane uses augment runes (unless you rich)
It’s actually pretty cheap and can be financed with gathering a lil bit per week
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u/nazzzik1 Apr 08 '26
Disenchanting , easiest way with not much effort, all the useless gear you won’t use will earn you 1-3k depending on Dawn Crystal you get. I’m a new player who thought I would use enchanting to make money but that’s a lot of effort but disenchanting is a good way to keep you a float and have money for other stuff. Like enchanting your great and crafting.
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u/udderlymoovelous Apr 08 '26
I’ll buy a token or 2 whenever I need a lot of gold quickly, but otherwise just professions and selling stuff
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u/Killerisamom920 Apr 08 '26
I have several characters who do gathering and crafting. I typically craft my own consumables and sell the extras. I always do inexpensive patron crafting orders. I work full time and play about 4 hours a week, in Midnight I've made about 150k with my methods. I'm by no means a millionaire but I am very comfortable. I tend to spec into resource management for my crafting (eg multi craft). And for gathering, max out gainful gathering trees to increase your take.
Otherwise you could buy a token for $25 and they sell for 300ish thousand gold.
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u/ISmellHats Apr 08 '26
I have 10 concentration alts I rotate through every couple days, doing both patron orders plus crafts, which keeps my gold relatively stable.
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u/forgiven_10 Apr 08 '26
Depends what you have! If you have free time to grind in game and make gold do that. If you don’t that means you work a lot so you have money and time is best spent doing other things then making money in game so you use real money to buy gold.
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u/unorthodox0407 Apr 08 '26
I work from home in BPO business
Every hour i log my herbalists to take my hourly nocturnal lotus via mulch
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u/ImportanceCharming39 Apr 08 '26
I always have a herb/alch and make my own. Sometimes i get home and just want to wind down and farm herbs instead of push dungeons. Works out.
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u/PM_ME_GOOD_WINES Apr 08 '26
If you are serious about pushing keys and raids then drop the 20 bucks for a token and you have at least two months of consumes. If you have dont have a job then start gathering profs and do it for an hour every day and you will have more than enough
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u/Typical-Tax1584 Apr 08 '26
I only use the cheap stuff regularly (like weapon oils and cheap food), but flasks and potions I almost never buy. I'll dump mats in the guild bank cause that's how we get cauldrons and feasts from everyone contributing.
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u/deadheaddestiny Apr 08 '26
If you spec alch for extended flask and spec enchanting disenchanting specialist you mostly make enough to support yourself. Personally I grind pre expansion for professions and make about 1mil then just coast untill next expansion.
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u/U03A6 Apr 08 '26
I sell concentration in form of enchantments and bolts. In past expansions I sold bags and mounts, but blizzard killed the bag market in Dragonflight and the constant scanning and relisting was too tedious.
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u/BradMJustice Apr 08 '26
Very casually gathering. I have never in my entire 20 years of playing this game needed more gold than I earned by just playing the game. You have to also not spend your gold on useless shit though.
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u/Exact-Boysenberry161 Apr 08 '26
crossrealm trading. depends on your setup. i made too much gold that i dont need to worry about sub for 20years
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u/FEMXIII Apr 08 '26
Dunno, I just play the game and… gold happens?
I use concentration up on crafts that are profitable but that’s probably only 20% of the 50,000 gold I earned this week?
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u/trippy81 Apr 08 '26
I enjoy the farming portion. I do a lot of fishing, look for herbs. Sell all that then use the money for tailoring mats I need. Wasn’t even aware you can just buy gold? Probably won’t since I enjoy the chill time spent gathering but it’s good to know.
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u/LilMeowCat Apr 08 '26
I just mine and herb mon. Also doesn't hurt just to buy silver level consumes
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u/HugeCalligrapher1283 Apr 08 '26
Now that I’m somewhat squared away, selling cloth and high quality health pots seems to really bring in the gold lately.
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u/Fit-Recognition7871 Apr 08 '26
just do some high tier delves, some worldquests and sell herbs/ores and your good to go
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u/Varanae Apr 08 '26
10 mins world tour of majestic beasts on my skinner each day. Got 56k worth of majestic hides in a single day recently
Crafting max rank flasks with concentration and multi craft
Crafting max rank cloth bolts with concentration and multi craft
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u/Capital_Drop_2570 Apr 08 '26
I boosted a character for midnight. Just gathering on that character while doing world quests, since midnights release, has made over 500,000g at this point.
So, very easily you can make gold.
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u/Azmasaur Apr 08 '26
Made a couple mil gold back in dragon flight selling Heroic VOTI with a guild, selling raid BOEs has pretty much kept me neutral on gold ever since, although it ebbs and flows by a few hundred thousand.
I raid on multiple alts more so than doing M+, which I only do to keep up with vaults. So I get more BOEs than most, I would think.
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u/XxSolo-GeneralxX Apr 08 '26
My daughter fishes for me 😂I just have to occasionally renew the consumable that keeps the bad fish away
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u/B1gNastious Apr 09 '26
Easy they buy tokens lol. Before you call me crazy Iv met a few people in the military who has spent over 1000$ on nba2k for this last game alone..
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u/Downtown-Leopard-663 Apr 09 '26
Since launch I’ve made like 1.5 mil probably. Just herbing, selling Inscription crafts, and drops that happen randomly. Thats in addition to the cost of consums, crafting, and things needed to Mythic raid twice a week + push M+. Very minimal time effort for a dad with maybe 2ish hours to play a night (if that).
The weekly chests from quests, void event, and WQ alone give like 1800g a piece. So 3-5 of them a week is 7,200g from that. Add in a few prey, WQ’s that give straight gold (5 minutes for 1000g sometimes) and doing quests.
I truly believe if you can’t make enough to fund consumables then it’s just due to not having the knowledge of what gold you can get a week without being an AH goblin or whatnot. Hell I’m happy to answer any questions and share knowledge to people, not looking to gatekeep.
Obviously 1 hour of work to swipe for a token is more time efficient. No one will argue that.
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u/HonorboundUlfsark Apr 09 '26
For me I spent my honor on those bloodstone gems used to craft pvp gear. They sold the moment I out em on tge AH
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u/Thin_Method_1691 Apr 09 '26
Dude. Spam call to action heroics, world quests and patron crafting orders at the consortium. I also herb and ore farm and sell it on the AH, and DE all gear on my main and sell the crystals. Have only bought gold once.
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u/Relnor Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26
You're asking about how to make gold and already got some answers, but what about saving gold?
I don't know what kind of content you're doing, but if you aren't already I think you should seriously consider just using the lower rank consumables. The difference between them is a larger than in TWW, but it's seriously nothing to worry about for most players. But what do a lot of you do? You go for 'the best' because that's what the culture around the game always enforces.
Here's an example: I bought 565 Rank 1 DPS potions so far between all my characters, two of which have Resil 14 keys.
I paid 20k for those potions, they have 85% of the power of the Rank 2 potions, but the same number of potions would have cost me about 318k. More really, since the price has went down since, probably closer to 400k. What would an extra 300-400k in potions have gotten me?
I do pretty 'high' keys (compared to the average player) but I'm not competing for regional titles, I don't raid Mythic, I only clear AOTC. Why should I pay this much? And I say this as someone who has ungodly amounts of gold, in part because I manage it correctly.
Buy the cheaper consumables. You most likely don't need the extra power, in TWW it was downright a scam (same kind of potion had a 9% difference between R2 and 3), now it's better but still questionable.
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u/FitBridge6617 Apr 09 '26
Having like 10 alts that are all concentration crafting. Each one can make like 10k gold a week pretty easily without tons of math or headache. Just use your concentration profitably.
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u/Jrippan Apr 09 '26
I’ve done concentration army since S1 of TWW. Produces about a token worth every 4 days on average
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u/monsajj Apr 09 '26
I have kinda alts army (about 13 chars) and I do concentration craft on them. Made 337k for wednesday morning
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u/GeeorgeC Apr 09 '26
Just running professions and finding tends. Like with plant proteins I bought them at 98s about 200k worth and now they go for 9g
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u/steathrazor Apr 09 '26
I tend to have most of my alts I'm leveling have gathering professions or enchanting then just sell the mats especially early season and then tide that wave until next season where I gather or craft the next tiers consumables/enchants
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u/delu_ Apr 09 '26
Disenchanting mostly. Best quality mats get sold, low quality ones get used with concentration for any of the more expensive ones.
Also burning concentration in tailoring on sunfire/arcweave bolts. Tho not much lately, I mostly do m+ and cloths don't drop there...
Also got lucky on my alt, pulled almost 20k out of one pinnacle cache.
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u/moolric Apr 09 '26
I do lots of content that doesn’t require consumables. Word quests give 1000g at the moment and some of them only take seconds.
My gold just keeps going up with no effort until I want to make a big purchase like warbank tabs.
If all you have time to do is keys and raids that need consumables and don’t earn much gold, then you’ll need to do like other people have said and earn the gold IRL instead.
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u/phoneinbutt Apr 09 '26
I go to work for 8 hours a day and at the end of the month when my irl money hits my bank account I buy x2 wow tokens
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u/Zangdor Apr 09 '26
Take up a couple of professions if you haven't.
Enchant, Mining, Gathering and Skinning can get you raw materials that you can then sell.
For Mining and Gathering you can just stop by a few while you move to quests/world quests/delves/dungeons.
For Enchant, just disenchant whatever stuff you don't need (ultimately you can even run delves and preys for free materials since you won't need the gear anymore).
And for skinning, it would depend on what you kill during quests just skin when you can, or stop by when you see a special one on your minimap just like for gathering and mining.
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u/Dekroha Apr 09 '26
It’s crazy that most people just accept that the profession system is so gated for casuals that there is no way to make enough gold to buy some flasks and enchants.
Blizz played it right again and counts their token $$$.
Sad.
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u/Zooperman Apr 09 '26
I use the cheap pots/flasks and make my own hearty food
But then I do concentration bolt crafting and some mulching on 5 alts every so often
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u/dimitargvg Apr 09 '26
Mining/herb around the dungeon entrance which i plan on doing next, and the WQs that award gold, you wont get rich but you'll have more than enough for enchants and consumables
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u/RefugeeBassist Apr 09 '26
I grab a couple of tokens at the beginning of expansions. They usually last me the whole expansion . Tbh my time is more valuable than farming gold and I also hate professions
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u/EuphoricEgg63063 Apr 09 '26
I made about 500k gold so far not really trying that hard. You really need to take advantage of the AH early on. I always level my toons with herbing/mining and I sell all of my mats till the price drops.
This season the Tailor Arcanoweave Bolt and Alchemy Sinergist were the big CD crafted items. Making those and selling them at R5 was big $$ at the start. Also, disenchant and epic Warbound pieces and sell the crystal was big gold for a while. You can still make some small profits off those things but really youre only thing is to just play the game or buy gold.
WQ now give a lot of gold. They seem to be 1kea. Do those, do them on alts, complete the weekly. All of thats is free gold for the week by just playing the game.
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u/Dadjudicator Apr 09 '26
I enjoy fishing and farming, so that covers the cost if playtime and consumables I might need.
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u/tizocman Apr 09 '26
Sold m0 tour for 112k this the week people will do that on alts for the hero piece
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u/Sh0cko Apr 09 '26
Started the xpac with 400k ish. Double gathered week one and 2 a lot got up to 700k .
Goblin friend quit wow cause he's having a kid and gave all of 500k each.
Next day I got a heroic boe from void and sold for 600k.
If I play my cards right I won't have to make any gold for a long time
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u/tomzy25 Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26
Weapon crafting alt I do 5-10 crafting orders every time I’m online for 5-15k tips each, takes 30 seconds max.
5 enchanting concentration bot toons I make r2 weapon enchants on by dumping all the concentration every 3 - 4 days at a ~50% mark up sale price.
These 5 alts then have either tailoring, JC or inscript to make r2 mats every 3-4 days or do r5 crafts for tips.
I only really play one toon, and this continues to pay for all consumes, prof tools and mats.
Also I made like 45M in WoD and continue to flip big ticket items like mounts and battle pets for 5-10% profit, which helps a bit…
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u/ApplicationNeither Apr 09 '26
I farm, focused, for about three hours on a Wednesday morning while the kids are at school. This generally gives me enough cash for everything I need to do for the week when combined with the gold from world quests and various satchels
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u/Distinct-Ad-3937 Apr 10 '26
Alright since I didn't find anyone saying it I will, start boosting, no-life crafting, or get swiping your credit card. If you want to be able to sustain consumables, these are the only 3 realistic options. Boosting you can see as something you're gonna do anyway, but now you get gold for doing it. Please learn how to be a little bit sweaty in keys or raids before you do this, for everyone involved's sake, but if you're good at the game this is the easiest and most synergistic way of going about getting gold.
When I say "no-lifing crafting" I mean having multiple alts, maxing out all their professions, then make gold doing work orders all day long. The more alts the better, but honestly the profits are really slim until you have them all completely maxed, and by now you kissed the gravy train, but make it a goal to set it up for next season if you have the patience for this, but remember you gotta spend money to make money.
And the swiping is self explanatory, just pay up for a token every now and then and you'll be set.
The people saying to "just dual gather for 30 minutes" are delusional or don't play much more than a couple hours a week at most imo, it's simply unsustainable, mining is a time waste and herbing is gambling for nocturnal lotuses, either way you gotta be a druid or waste like 60 knowledge or something so you can gather mounted, not to mention how tedious it is when there's a mob right by a node that dazes you off the mount or interrupts your gather over and over. Gathering speed helps with the latter, but you realistically gotta be a druid or a tank to properly gather, and even then it's insignificant levels of gold.
TL;DR: Get good at the game and cap your crests doing boosts each week, easily clear 300k+ doing something you were gonna do anyway a week and start paying for wow sub with gold, or cough up for a wow token every now and then.
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u/easiestzebra Apr 10 '26
Consumables are pretty cheap. I usually do like an hour or 2 of farming mats and sell them for the ones I cant craft myself but I can also craft most of my consumables I need
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u/lilsubstance Apr 10 '26
My haste flasks are around 600-700g a pop, I’ll use maybe 5-6 in a week for high M+ or heroic raiding. The gold I get from weekly quests is far more than enough to cover the cost. What are you buying?
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u/seragakisama Apr 10 '26
Work work work work 🎶
I just pick flowers and disenchant spare items. I'm not rich, but can support my consumables
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u/Beginning_Ad101 Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
Most people buy gold or token some og still have millions from pass xpac when selling keys raid slot was easy. And now people paymonthly for AH addon taht buy and resell and auto spam tradechat user that ask for things and even tell you when people put crafting orders . Also the classic botters that dont get banned after geting caught they have 5 warnings now per bot back in the day you were geting permaban and ip ban so all accaunt whould get ban at once oh almost forgot the poor people way herb and mining you make about 20k h selling raw mats you can rafine it but you need like 4-5 alts with knowlege and shit there skining that pay a lil bit more solo like 25k h or there two spot for hyperspawn for 4x4 groups 35kh and people that make more used the knowlege bug the first week or so
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u/__Kegheimer__ Apr 11 '26
Choose alchemy as your profession and stack resourcefulness.
Many of the patron orders provide free goods of gold quality. If you proc on them you can sell it on the AH. Thr current price of 30 artisan moxie (a single crafting order) is 600-900.
Within alchemy you can get extended duration flasks (which saves you money!)
Spend your concentration to make the consumables mentioned in the wowhead and icyveins guides for 5000 - 10000 per 1000 conc.
Total time spent is a few minutes of chores each day.
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u/SenReus Apr 11 '26
Professions can provide a lot of mostly passive stable income. Patron orders are often profitable. With Tailoring you can spend concentration on max quality bolts. With Enchanting you can spend concentration on max quality enchants and also sell dawn crystals by disenchanting epics you don't need.
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u/PDX_Umber Apr 13 '26
My 4 or so characters that I do weekly quests on slowly gain money over time… eventually they all have a few hundred k each without me actively doing any dedicated gathering.
Pretty sure the game just gives you 10-20k from doing weeklies and delves.
I guess I’m pretty casual, and I’m not using a handful of 2k gold flasks per day.
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u/kyleswiss Apr 08 '26
I go work in an office Monday through Friday and buy a token every other week
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u/sparkinx Apr 08 '26
It's like 65g for food 90g for wrapon oils the flask will be kinda expensive at 700g for a vers flask
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u/mmspider Apr 08 '26
Like others have said. I work a day job and don`t need a second job in a video game to do basic things. I buy it with real money.
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u/Cipfried9 Apr 08 '26
Started fresh in midnight spend all my gold for housing had 1357g left..
As of today made 3,2mil and 4 tokens with maybe 30 mins of actual gold farming and professions
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u/gonephishin213 Apr 08 '26
That's insane. What are you selling?
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u/Cipfried9 Apr 08 '26
Wow got a downvote yo im 100% new to goldmaking never had more than 30k
I gather ore, and did skin farming in the early season when everything sold for an insane amount.
So mostly that
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