WoW Guides For Gold

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.