Top 10 Best Farming Spots in WOTLK

Don't forget to pick up the best farming trinket in the game.

1. Fire Revenants of Stormpeaks

Eternal fires remain the most expensive eternals on most realms, second possibly to eternal lifes and airs on a bad day, doubling their eternal cousins on a good day. Since wintergrasp can be a little hairy for farming these in such a crowded location, I therefore recommend either farming them at the spot in this video or in a cave north of the location. The spawns in the cave are weaker but also drop far less crystallized fires.

When selling eternal fire (if you don’t make use of the eternals for transmutes or other money making endeavors) be sure to break it up into the crystallized version first for additional profit. I can sell crystallized fire one at a time for far more than 1/10th the cost of a eternal fire.

There is a mining node and herb node along the edges of the forge.

2. Mammoth and Worm Meat of Storm Peaks

If you have cooking then this farming spot is a literal gold mine. Even if you don’t you’ll make plenty of gold selling the meats to cooks and if you happen to have skinning all the better! The packs of mammoths are in two groups, one on the west and the other on the east side of the gorge. Be sure to check for these packs frequently and when neither are up be sure to run into the cave for a ton of closely packed worms.

A miner, engineer or herbalist can also benefit from looking for nearby nodes here. Look for the frost chips as well for rep turn ins.

3. Never Ending Neutral Ghosts of Icecrown

Go to the location specified in the video and just sit there waiting for the dead heroes to run to you. They are neutral so you can take on as many as you feel you’re capable at one time with no additional mobs to worry about in the vicinity. Be sure to not stand too far south or they will disappear before you can aggro them. Once agrro’d they will no longer be capable of despawning.

There is a lichbloom as well as a saronite node in the area which you should look out for if you have those professions as well.

4. Gorillas of Sholozar Basin

This is viewed as one of the top skinning locations as well as providers of chilled meats. The gorillas are tightly packed even moreso than the worms and mammoths of stormpeaks but their meats are not as valuable. I was able to pick up an arctic fur about every 25 minutes here.

5. Shadow Revenants of Wintergrasp

Best place to find crystalized shadow by far, and if you have 310% flying you can easily skip from revenant to revenant for about 3 crystalized shadows per mob. The wandering shadows have a decent chance to drop one as well. Scattered mining and herbing nodes are in the area so be sure to watch for them while farming. I use the eternal shadows in belt buckles and titanium plating on my blacksmith.

I apologize for no video on these mobs, but you will find them just north of the eternal life mobs in wintergrasp which are in the southwestern corner of the map. Youtube decided to choke on the video but if you subscribe to my channel I will have it out within a week once I solve the issue with my recording software.

6. Nescent Valkir

The infused essence is a 100% drop rate, 75 silver gray which falls off these mobs. There are also protodrakes which you can skin and humanoids which drop some cloth and relics of ulduar in the area. Not sure on mining/herbing nodes. There is also a trinket you can find on these mobs which will sell for quite a bit of gold.

7. Rhinos of Borean Tundra

Good farming spot but not for the leather as it comes in scraps from these rhinos (takes 5 scraps to get a single borean leather), but the real draw here is the Rhino meat which sells for a ton even if you don’t cook it into rhino dogs. I know there are some gold clover nodes in the area, not sure on the mining nodes but they would be cobalt.

8. Trapdoor Crawlers of Zul’Drak

Iceweb Spider Silk is used in spell threads by tailors and I was able to get about one per minute on a crappy geared level 80 shaman. Imagine how fast you’d pick these up two shotting the mobs on your pro hunter.

Talandra’s rose and cobalt nodes are scattered around this farming spot.

9. Scions of Storm

This spot was at one point the number one farming spot for engineer/miners in WOTLK. The fact that the mobs were flying around made it really easy for hunters to run around owning the place. Sadly the best drop on the scions, their relics of ulduar, are no longer worth anything this late in the expansion. Now the real draw to this cave are the engineering and mining nodes as well as the eternal airs found on the Scions of Storm.

I use eternal airs for my enchanting business.
 
10. Forgotten Depth Slayers and Carrior Fleshrippers

Great spot but you have to have not completed the quests in the area to have access to the mobs here. If you forsake the quest line however you will be rewarded with incredbily easy to kill mobs that drop lots and lots of nerubian chitin. The chitin is used for epic and rare quality leg armor kits which sell for plenty of gold. I am not sure about how many mining or herbalism nodes are in the area as I’ve never farmed in this phase with a gathering character.

10 Ways to Level Efficiently

Why should you be leveling?

When cataclysm arrives the new level requirement for maxing out your professions is going to be level 75. With the current lull in wow content why not level your toons in order to prepare for making tons of gold in cataclysm?

Here are 10 ways to increase the leveling efficiency of your toons...

• 1. Use the best enchants on your bind on account equipment but don't enchant your other gear unless it's with excess materials and you are an enchanter trying to get skill ups.
  
  
• 2. When you reach outland and northrend use uncommon quality gems to socket your quest or dungeon rewards.
  
  
• 3. Pick at least one trade skill which benefits from the dungeon finder: Enchanting, Mining, Skinning, Herbalism or Tailoring (level 70+ dungeons). Try to keep the tradeskill from falling behind your current dungeons as you level.
  
  
• 4. Sell everything you can on the auction house to keep from having to farm or do anything besides leveling.
  
  
• 5. Get speed to boots asap on your character.
  
  
• 6. Get at least four netherweave bags for each leveling toon.
  
  
• 7. Stick to one character for several hours at a time. Constantly switching toons will prevent you from getting in a "groove." It's ok to switch and play different characters but try to stick to one per playing session.
  
  
• 8. Get vendor items to allow for your special spells such as rebirth or greater blessings.
  
  
• 9. Gear your character for optimizing your role in a dungeon. If you are a dps get gear which allows you to dps for as long as possible without stopping. For a priest or mage that could mean lots of spirit gear. For a tank you'll want defense and stamina. For a healer you'll want intellect and spirit. Gear correctly for your role and you'll find yourself having a lot more fun.
  
  
• 10. Join a Guild. Guilds will give you access to tons of high level characters or even players at the same level as you are. Being able to group up and easily communicate with teammates through ventrillo or other voice chat services will greatly improve your gaming experience.

Care to add to this list in the comments?

Hiring Warcraft Gold Writers

Time to take the next step...

Running Just My Two Copper has been the greatest experience online I've ever had but it's time I stopped kidding myself that I'm capable of doing this all on my own.

Just Kidding. You should see the look on your faces, priceless!

But seriously, Just My Two Copper is looking for talented writers for both weekly and daily columns in order to add even more value to the site. These posts will be in addition to the ones I write on my own, so readers here will be treated to a similar experience to sites like wow.com. A posting schedule will also encourage visitors to come more than once per day which will mean more community growth and discussion.

See Current Openings for Availability

How will this work?

In order to allow for a better reading experience, once the new authors are incorporated into JMTC I will be adding jump tags to all articles. This will cut off posts at a certain point and add a little "Read more..." link to each one. Since there will be as many as 4 articles in a single day, readers will now be able to scan through and pick the ones they want from the front page instead of browsing the archives.

Setting this up could prove to be quite a time sink on my part but I think doing this now will better prepare JMTC for the cataclysm expansion and the insane amount of information which will come from it.

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Blogging Carnival - 20 Strategies on Turning 1000 gold into 2000 gold

The wow gold carnival for September is finally here! Sit back, relax and enjoy the epic pwnsauce that is this month's collection of articles which I've gathered from around the blogosphere. These bloggers will bravely attempt to answer the question: "How to turn 1,000 gold into 2,000 gold?" Let's see how the following twenty blogs tackled this topic and please be sure to comment on the posts. Pass the kodo kabobs please, hungry orc over here! For links to past and upcoming carnivals, as well as how you can join, click here.

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When you finish reading all the posts, be sure to leave a comment here with which was your favorite and why. One lucky commenter who leaves an intelligent comment will be randomly chosen to receive a free Dominate Wow Gold Guide.

Miss Mediocre

I did some research on my own server between the Horde and Alliance, and was going to detail how you can make a good chunk of gold by selling cross faction, but there are undoubtedly people already doing this on your server, as there are on mine, which does cut back the amount of gold you can make. You will still likely make a profit, but with actually going and buying the pet, then transferring it over to the other faction via the neutral Auction House, then reposting it on the new faction’s Auction House, all with the possibility of  being undercut, it’s almost too much for me, and I am a very patient person. Instead, I decided to just focus on just three pets! [ Read More... ]

Serious Business

Well, the obvious thing was to make sure I had some professions levelled up so I could get some use out of these long forgotten alts, but that takes gold and/or time. I’m married, I go to school, and I still raid. So, as many Goblins before my I found a niche market to exploit that allowed me to make reliable amounts of gold with minimal investment, and I could do it while sitting on the couch watching a movie with the wife… [ Read More... ]

Raimondas the Insane

You’re a new level 10 player in World of Warcraft, and you barely have a copper to your name after training all your new abilities. How in the world are you supposed to make any gold in this game? How did that level 40 druid afford a 15,000 gold chopper while you’re still wearing cast-off rags? Today I’m going to show you how to put 2,000 gold into your empty wallet at level 10. [ Read More... ]

High Latency Life

Yes I broke 2,000 gold, and I still have auctions in the Auction House. For those that still are scrimping for gold there is no excuse, for a little more effort you too can double your gold in no time. [ Read More... ]

Capped by Cata

There are a lot of ways to answer this question, and I participate in a lot of them. However, I wanted to write something that is a little bit different. If I was starting from scratch, or had the time to sit down and play, this is what I would be doing.

If I really only had a 1,000g on my account this is exactly what I would do. I would try to raise more capital so that I could buy in to the titanium ore market because right now, on my server, it's like the Saronite Shuffle on steroids.

To raise more capital to buy into other markets I would take myself to... [ Read More... ]

Blinging Wow

I think that this question can be broke down into two separate paths depending on what a user has available to them. Let's take a look at both strategies, which are both very viable.

If you fall into this category you are looking at any options available to make gold because you just simply can't take the gold you have and invest it into materials to craft items to sell. So let's look at the options available to you. [ Read More... ]

Wow Mentor

There are many items that you can buy to resell at higher values, some low risk and some high risk.
One of the ways I find that works is to aim at those levelling and create things thats a nice boost to the player buying although don’t forget the crazy pet buyers who will almost always pay the amount you set. [ Read More... WARNING SITE CONTAINS MEMBERSHIP OFFERS FROM SITE OWNER]

Wow Gold Stimulus

My favorite way to make that amount of gold pretty fast is to find cheap items to disenchant on the Auction House and then turn around and list the mats I get or use them to make scrolls and list those. In my experience, just re-listing the mats will get you 1000 gold faster than making scrolls though. [ Read More... ]

Just Another Goblin

This is the best ways I feel you can make gold with your professions without farming for materials (if you haven't noticed I'm not really into farming but if you have a gathering profession then feel free to use it to support you) to get you started. I hope these helped... [ Read More... ]

Follow the Gold Road

What I was going to do was talk you through how I would go about doing this for each of my professions, tell you which addons I use to help and provide you with a shopping list of mats to meet the orders I'll set up; basically run you through the routine for each of the professions I use (or have used). That would turn into a post of epic proportions, so instead I'll be doing a multi-part series, kicking of with tailoring. [ Read More... ]

Cold's Gold Factory

I would utilize my Miner/Engineer, then my Alchemist, and finally my Blacksmith to create the end product.  Engineer makes the exchange with Frozo fast and easy, but anyone can do it.  If you have a Miner/Blacksmith you can do this with just the Alchemist and the Miner/Blacksmith.

My Miner/Engineer would purchase all the basic raw materials (32 Frozen Orbs, 22 stacks of Saronite Ore, 8 Eternal Shadows, and 8 Eternal Earths) in Dalaran and then trade with... [ Read More... ]

Zug Gaming

When WoW introduced achievements it brought a whole new type of “grinding” with it. Players love completing achievements, and one fun one that a huge portion of the WoW population engages in is the rare vanity pet collecting. These pets are attained through a wide variety of places, but for our purposes we’re going to just focus on the ones we can purchase. This strategy may sound simplistic, and it is, but it’s insanely effective, profitable, and a speedy way to go from 1,000 to 2,000 gold. [ Read More... ]

Ivanas Gold Adventure

After the introduction of patch 3.3, Emblems of Triumph drop everywhere, and people use them to buy Epic Uncut Gems, or Crusader Orbs. Along with that half the server will farm ToC every single week, this makes Crusader Orbs appearing on the Auction House in much larger supply, and much lower prices.


Usually I will buy Crusader Orbs whenever they go below 90g each, but for this I will make the assumption of having to buy all materials straight from the AH at that time.

What I do is simply to craft... [ Read More... ]

Neckar Unrivaled 

This is how I’m going to make 2000 gold. As of this post, this is what I believe will work even given the factors of server and if your on a low pop or high pop. In general, even playing 1 full hour each day, farming and spending a good half hour after listing auctions, one should be able to get 2000 gold in no time at all. [ Read More... ]

Common Copper

At first I was disgusted by these players, I said and kind of still stand by something I said before; buying gems through honour ruined the JC market. Yet this is how you can easily make profit and go from 1000g to 2000g in 1 day/week if you're willing to put some time & effort in it. [ Read More... ]

Wow Harbor

I recently leveled my Blacksmith to the maximum level, while leveling I ended with 8 of these.
I put them on the Auction House for 35g each, and all of them sold 9 hours later.
You need the following to make this:

• 2 Saronite Bar
• 1 Titanium Bar

Now I assume you have the following professions like I do: Mining, Alchemy and Blacksmithing.
Lets do some math: [ Read More... ]

Krust's Gold Corner

I'm going to assume that readers don't have access to rare recipes, but that trainable recipes can be obtained by asking on trade chat and offering a tip. Also, there are a couple of items (eternium rod and enchant chest - major health) that I suggest going to the npc who sells the plans and buying the plans so you can bring them to your crafter. [ Read More... ]

Missbanks

When you are at 1k gold you are at a delicate point, you don't have that much gold to spend and you have to think about every investment so you don't lose all your gold. You don't have enough money to spend on levelling a profession so I would say the smartest way to get to 2000 gold is by flipping and using the professions you already have. [ Read More... ]

One Likely Story

I do not own every epic recipe.  I only have the two most popular of each cut and even those struggle to sell.  So right now I am sitting on 60 tokens.  Dragon Eyes’ are selling for 100g each.  Should I pull the trigger and just buy/dump them all? [ Read More... ]

Euro Games Radar

The issue with starting with 1000g is that it isn't enough to run my usual daily routines. My snatch list for example usually in me buying 4-6k of stock every day. This amount also means that flipping high value items isn't viable. There are a few pets and rare recipes worth 1500-2000g that I would buy up if I saw someone advertising them for 1000g in trade chat. However if I did that in this challenge I would run a very high risk of not being able to sell that item or being victim to a market crash that causes the item to devalue below what I originally paid for it.
What we need to look for is... [ Read More... ]

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RP Servers Can Make More Gold

One of my bank alts on her lunch break.

Are you on an RP server and trying to make some wow gold?

Perhaps you think that it's harder because less people are in high end arenas and raiding?

Well believe it or not I envy you because you can make gold off some of the most ridiculous items which I would struggle to sell consistently on any PVP or PVE server (not saying you shouldn't sell them though if you are as well!). Thankfully quite a few bank alts enjoy the latest fashions even on non RP servers. That being said, the advantage definitely goes to RP servers because they can literally turn gray vendor trash into a ton of gold as there are more buyers and more demand on the RP realms.

Some of My Favorite RP Sellers

The following is a list of 15 vanity items (by vanity I meant there is no purpose for them except to look cool) I have found to sell for large profit margins.

• Sleeveless Tshirt
• Pitchfork
• Rusted Pitchfork
• Farmer's Shovel
• First Mate Hat
• Diamond Tipped Cane
• Stylin' Jungle Hat
• Lovely Black Dress
• Simple Black Dress
• Rich Purple Shirt
• Tuxedo Pants
• Tuxedo Jacket
• Tuxedo Shirt
• Haunted Memento
• Deckhand's Shirt

Remember to add the vanity items you think are profitable to your snatch list!

Care to add your own items to this list? I purposefully left a handful of popular ones out (like tailoring and seasonal)! Feel free to comment and help each other out :)

Think: What holiday is coming up after thanksgiving?