Guides For Gold

As my main gets closer and closer to level 70 (only 500,000 experience to go), I’ve been running through all of the quests in Terokkar Forest. At level 67 and higher all of these quests are pieces of cake and result in fast experience and nice rewards and loot.

Anyway, what I learned rather quickly is that there is a market for Arakkoa feathers at the Auction House. Wowhead’s average buyout price is 1g per feather but on my server it is more like 1.5 - 2g per feather. Since a nice chunk of the Terokkar quests involve the Arakkoa it doesn’t take long to build up quite a collection of their feathers to sell.

I’ve been selling them in blocks of 10, instead of the maximum of 20, for about 18 - 20g depending on the competition. They’ve sold every time and I highly recommend you try it out for yourself.

I’ve been leveling up my main in Nagrand lately and I came across a decent spot to farm for Motes of Water. I’m sure there are other, even better, locations to do this but I had a lot of success in this particular spot so I thought I’d write a post about it.

My “secret spot” is the large lake northeast of Garadar and immediately south of the Throne of the Elements. Here’s a map to make things clearer:

I was getting Motes of Water from the elementals at a pretty good clip. It helps if you have something that will give you water breathing though.

Skinning is one of the easiest ways to make money in WoW regardless of your character’s level. Once you reach the low to mid 60s there’s a great opportunity to get Thick Clefthoof Leather from all of the varieties of Clefthoofs in Nagrand.

On my server, Greymane, right now Thick Clefthoof Leather is going for between 150 - 200g a stack. Single pieces are around 6g (which is twice the buyout listed at Wowhead).

Of course the drop rate on these is pretty slim but on the bright side you will get a lot of Knothide Leather which is an easy Auction House sell.

The current event, the Midsummer Fire Festival, is a great way to make some easy gold. I just ran through a few of the daily quests and visited about 10 of the fires spread around Azeroth and Outland and in short time I had made close to 30g.

There’s a pretty concise set of quest guides for the Midsummer Fire Festival over at WoW Insider right now if you need help. The event ends on the 5th of July so you have plenty of time to run around WoW and clean house on these easy gold quests.

I’ll warn you right from the start that this technique requires a little teamwork between you and a friend. The idea is that while some pets sell well on the Auction House the quickest to sell, and the rarest, tend to be pets from the other faction. I play Horde and when an Alliance pet (like an Owl) shows up on our Auction House it doesn’t usually last very long.

So there’s an opportunity here for any low level characters looking to make some money. The amounts you’ll make probably aren’t big enough for higher level players to worry with. If you’re still interested, here’s how I do this.

First, create a new character on the opposite faction. You can either grind this character out to make enough gold to start buying the more common pets or you can have someone donate the gold to you. Eventually you’ll have enough gold to start buying pets to sell.

Once you have a pet ready to sell you need to get it to your character on the other faction. This is where teamwork gets involved. You can’t send items through in-game mail to characters on the other faction so that is out. So you’ll need to use a neutral Auction House. The problem here is that you can’t buy things on the Auction House that another character on your account is selling.

The work around is simple but takes coordination. You need to list your pet on a neutral Auction House for a few pieces of copper and then have a friend with a Horde character purchase it right away before anyone else does. Then that friend can mail it in-game to your own Horde character and you’re good to go.

I’m more of a PvP player and so it’s taking me some time to get my main to a high level. With the impending start of Arena Season Four on June 24th though I’m hustling to hit level 70.

The reason? The Merciless Gladiator’s Pursuit gear will be sold for Honor when Season Four starts. According to the gear’s page on WoW Head the costs in Honor for this set will be as follows:

Merciless Gladiator’s Chain Gauntlets
10500 Honor
20 Alterac Valley Marks

Merciless Gladiator’s Chain Helm
14500 Honor
30 Alterac Valley Marks

Merciless Gladiator’s Chain Leggings
14500 Honor
30 Warsong Gulch Marks

Merciless Gladiator’s Chain Spaulders
11250 Honor
20 Arathi Basin Marks

Merciless Gladiator’s Chain Armor
14500 Honor
30 Arathi Basin Marks

Total:
65250 Honor
50 Arathi Basin Marks
50 Alterac Valley Marks
30 Warsong Gulch Marks

There’s no word yet if the matching weapons for this set, the Merciless Gladiator’s Crossbow of the Phoenix and the Merciless Gladiator’s Decapitator, will be sold for Honor as well but I’m hoping that will be the case.

My name is Nance and I’m the new owner of Guides For Gold. I wanted to take a second to update everyone on my plans going forward with this blog.

As the site’s new owner, I’m going to continue to provide quick tips on the quickest and easiest ways to earn gold in World of Warcraft. At the same time, I’m a very casual WoW player who enjoys the PvP game so I’ll be writing about that quite often as well.

Over the course of this week I’ll mainly be doing maintenance work on this blog by building some more content pages and formatting older posts to play nicer with the new theme.

This is WoW Guide on buying low and selling high at the Auction House.

Today, we’re going to try and buy things in bulk and sell them off separately for a cheaper price. I am going to use Primals for this example as I find these the most profitable. All you do is search for every single primal in the Auction House and scroll down to the places where they are sold in stacks of 5 or 10. Now compare the prices with the Primals being sold separately. For example, if you see a primal being sold for 25g and a stack of 10 for 200g, buy the stack of 10 and then relist them separately at 24g each (or whatever you choose).

I just chose Primals for this example but you can use this for any item such as shards, essences etc.

This is a WoW Guide on making more money than what you would normally make when farming for Primal Life. Before you attempt the guide, check the price of Primal Nether in your AH, the price varies greatly from server to server so this guide only works on some realms.

In regards to my previous post on Primal Life Farming, instead of just selling the Primal Life in stacks at the AH, why not use the Primal Lives farmed to make a Golden Spellthread with the Tailoring profession? All you really have to do is buy a couple other mats such as Primal Nether.

So let’s do the maths…

Say 10 Primal Lives would normally sell for around for 20g on your server, that would mean if you sold it just as Primal Lives in the AH, you would make 200g.

Now say you sell it off as A Golden Spellthread. This requires 10 Primal Lives, 1 Primal Nether (this price seems to vary between servers, 50g for mine) and 1 Runethread (50s). That would cost you 250.5g. Now sell off the Golden Spellthread for 395g and make 144.5g extra just a little extra work!

Need some quick extra money? See how this guy gets 11k gold, full epic PvP and epic flyer now!

This is a free WoW Gold Farming Guide on farming Primal Life, having Herbalism helps too.

In this guide, you will be farming on Talonsworn Forest-Ragers in Skettis. These mobs respawn quite fast, just go around the lake and back killing them all.

I kill them in around 2 minutes each and they drop around  3-5 Mote of Life each. I get around 10 Primal Life an hour by farming these mobs, I also get quite a few stacks of herbs like Dreaming Glory and Mana Thistles.