Classic Mage Goldmaking Guide: The Best Ways to Make Gold (2024)

Earning gold is an incredibly important part of Classic WoW and will be veryimportant for many things. There are large purchases that you will want tomake, such as getting your epic mount or getting better gear from the auctionhouse. You will also have lots of reoccurring purchases, such as consumablesfor raiding and PvP. The bottom line is that gold is important, both forquality of life and for getting important items to help your gameplay. One ofthe most important things to do once you hit Level 60 for the first time, oreven before that, is to work to establish a gold making source.

In Classic, there are no passive combat bonuses for choosing specificprofessions. This means that you are free to choose whatever you would like.Despite this, professions can be incredibly important for lots of things, and it isimportant to consider the possible benefits before choosing. Some professionsare great for making gold, while some are more suited to helping you in actualgameplay.

Especially at the start, materials will be expensive. This is especially truefor minerals, herbs, and skins that come from higher level zones and enemies.Mining, Herbalism, Skinning,and Fishing are all great choices for gold making, and should belearned early during the leveling phase, so that you never have to return to low-levelareas to increase your skill. Keep in mind that keeping your Mining and Herbalismskill relevant as you level, will require you to spend more time in an area thanwhat would be ideal for speed leveling. Gathering materials before hitting the levelcap will also help you level crafting professions that use those materials.

Tailoring, Leatherworking, Blacksmithing,Enchanting, and Alchemy can all be quite profitable,as long as you level them early and search for rare recipes. Tailoring, Blacksmithing,and Leatherworking can craft good gear, some of it best in slot. Meanwhile, Enchantingand Alchemy can make consumables, which are especially relevant when raiding andin PvP. Due to the short duration nature of Alchemy's potions,this is an especially relevant profession for gold making. Engineering can alsomake some interesting gear and relevant consumables, but those are generally onlyusable by engineers, which limits its usefulness in gold making.

One of the best ways to make some gold with little to no effort is by craftingrare items that are bound by cooldowns on how often they can be crafted.

This is the case with Refined Deeprock Salt for Leatherworking, Mooncloth for Tailoring and Arcanite Bar forAlchemy.

While the cooldowns ensure that you cannot get a huge amount of gold this wayunless you have multiple characters, it also ensures that the crafted items willsell at a premium relative to their material components.

Certain vendors, such as Ghok'kah, sell very valuable recipes, or evenraw materials, on a limited stock, which slowly replenishes over time. Being aware of this and reselling the recipe and materials to other players cangenerate high profits, although it is difficult to buy these items consistently.

Mages are amazing farmers in WoW Classic, as they can pull a huge amount of enemiesand kill them all by themselves, without dying in the process. Spec into theAoE Grinding talent build and learnabout the AoE Grinding rotation beforeyou attempt the farming methods suggested below!

While describing every single possible farm spot in the game is out of the scopeof this guide, you will generally be searching for spots with many enemies and littleto none competition, ensuring that you can gather a lot of enemies without externalinterference. Also, these enemies should be able to drop valuable items for yourtime investment in killing them.

Naturally, the requirements of a perfect grinding spot are best met inside dungeons,where no outside interference is possible, and ensuring you get full respawns instantly,each time you reset the dungeon. The only limitation is that you can only run 5individual dungeon lockouts per hour before the game will not allow you to createnew instances of the dungeon anymore, so plan accordingly.

Dire Maul East will generally be the best gold per hour farming spot for herbalists,depending on herb prices on your server. For the non-herbalist Magesout there, Zul'Farrak is an almost pure gold farm (especially if you convert the Mageweave Cloth you get into bandages) and will typically pull ahead inthe long run.

Dire Maul Eastis one of the top places for Mages to farm in WoW Classic, especiallyif you are a Herbalism, as you will be able to loot multiple Dreamfoiland Gromsblood spawns every run, on top of the loot from kills and themultiple librams (precise locationscan be found in this reddit thread)in the area.

While most Mages will focus on farming the lasher area rightafter falling down, you can actually solo the entire dungeon as shown by Zqi inthis detailed video,in which case having Mining is amazing, as you get access to multipleRich Thorium veins after the final boss, which can contain extremely valuable Arcane Crystalsand Blue Sapphires.

Zul'Farrakis relatively easy to farm, and you can even start while leveling, as shown inthis video, by Ebbnflow.

At Level 60 you can follow the same logic to do much larger pulls, as shown byGracious in this video(can also try ScumbagRay's technique, as displayed here),thus netting you even higher Gold Per Hour!

This macro will help you mass delete the trash items you get during your farm:

• /run local items={[1520]=true,[9335]=true,[9333]=true,[9334]=true,[9332]=true,[1645]=true,[4599]=true}for b=0,4,1 do for s =1,32,1 do local id=select(10,GetContainerItemInfo(b,s)) if items[id] then PickupContainerItem(b,s) DeleteCursorItem() end end end

Maraudonis a great place to farm all kinds of valuable materials, but one of the easiest(and most profitable) farms is to enter from the Orangeentrance and run all the way to the Purpleentrance of Maraudon, picking upa ton of Ghost Mushroom, Blindweed and Mithril Ore alongthe way!

This method requires no killing of enemies whatsoever, only running / positioningto avoid pulling aggro through the dungeon. You can see it being masterfully doneby Timira in this video.

Once you have the Scepter of Celebras, you can teleport directly toInner Maraudon,past Celebras the Cursed. This is a great area for AoE farming, especiallyat lower levels where you can also get a lot of experience doing this specific farm.

AoE down the Deep Borer snake enemies in a few pulls and the Stolid Snapjawturtles afterwards. Since you can use Skinning on the turtles,that is a great way to make gold! There are also several valuable herbs and mineralsalong the way, making Herbalism and Mining agreat profession combo to have for this particular farming.

You can watch an example run here,by Exehn.

Blackrock Depths is a great dungeon to farm, because it dropsa lot of the most wanted pre-bis items in the game for most classes, such as Hand of Justiceand Ban'thok Sash, making it a very popular dungeon to run on the way to 60.

What is lesser known, is that you can easily solo farm these important items,or sell them to other players at level 60 by soloing the bosses / events involved!

This involves the use of a ledge in the East Garrison area, which will confuseNPC pathing and allow you to slowly take them down without taking damge,as shown / explained here, by Ebbnflow.

The Cathedral wing of Scarlet Monasteryhas a special characteristic that makes it ideal for quick and efficient MageAoE Grinding: whenever you aggro the final boss of the dungeon, Scarlet Commander Mograine,every single enemy inside the Cathedral will automatically aggro you.

This will cause 20+ enemies to chase you down from all directions. Activate Ice Blockas soon as your initial Ice Barrier is depleted, and wait for all of theenemies to stack up around you. Once Ice Block is over, it is time to begin yourAoE Grinding rotation, with Frost Nova and a new Ice Barrier to avoid spellpushback from Mograine. Once all of the regular enemies are down, it is just a matterof finishing off Mograine, Whitemane and looting everything before doing it all overagain.

Besides all of the vendor trash you get from each run, worth around 6 gold, youcan loot valuable bind on equip items and, if you are an enchanter, disenchant theloot for even more valuable materials to sell.

You can watch an example run here,by solipsist01.

You can boost your dungeon AoE Farming proceeds even further by bringing alongup to 4 other players (who will usually be paying you for the boost), who will bethere for the free experience boost from your kills. They will also be able to assistyou a little bit, making a huge pull, such as this one, by Skeletonbossin Zul'Farrakeasier to pull off.

One of the fastest ways to level / boost others as a H Horde playeris by picking up the quest Commander Gor'shak. This quest's follow up,What Is Going On?, will instantly spawn 7 elites to attack you inside the dungeon,which you can kill quickly with a good party or high level characters. You can thenabandon the quest and start it again at the NPC as many times as you want for aninfinite number of elites to kill.

Check out an example of this farm being done in practice here, by Asher.

Farming in the world is usually considerably harder than doing it inside instancesdue to the possibility of competition, but is still something to consider.

Elemental Fire is a super useful item, used to create Greater Fire Protection Potions.It can also easily be farmed while leveling and at level 60 in Searing Gorge, asshown here by Captain Raav.

Small Flame Sac is also a very useful item, used to create the weaker(and thus cheaper) Fire Protection Potions. It can also easily be farmedwhile leveling, as many of the dragon enemies that drop them are low level, suchas the ones shown in this video,by Captain Raav. Killing Sprite Dragons in Feralas is also a great way tofarm these.

While there are some elites in this zone that you should avoid pulling, thereare also plenty of non-elite melee humanoid (good for cloth and currency drops)enemies, that you can round up and kill for a quick profit.

You can watch an example run here, by O DB.

In the Northwest and Northeast corners of Silithus, you can find a lot of Dust Stormers,which are easy to kill (use Dampen Magic to nullify most of their damage)and drop valuable Essence of Air, among other less valuable items.

You can watch an example run here, by Speaknspell.Keep in mind there was an elemental invasion active at the time, which increasesthe number of enemies, but it should still be possible to get good farming done without it.