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Dungeon Dive: 100 Runs of Sunwell Plateau (61-70)

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Well, the latest runs of Sunwell have not been kind with their drops, nor have their sales been that interesting – but the real question is, what has the GPH been. This is 3.5h of ‘work’ farming Sunwell Plateau (no named, just trash) on my level 61 speed druid.

  • Total approx gold earned (runs 1-70): 919,000g
  • Actual amount of gold earned from sales to date: 167,739g
  • Actual amount of GPH: 47,925g
  • Value of items listed on the AH: 102,972g

A few new things to note here. Number one, I’ve decided to vendor anything with less than a 200g value, which has cut the amount of trash I’m putting up significantly. Number two, the last few runs were done over the Christmas holiday, and the RNG deities did NOT play nice. You can see from the screenshot above that the ‘value’ of my 10 runs, is 13,77g – with only one ‘interesting’ item that dropped. That is my lowest run yet. I was hoping to get lucky with a schematic or two, but that would not be the case.

We’re nearing the end of this little challenge, and I’m sure I’ll find something interesting to do for the next one. I feel like 47.9k gph is still a respectable amount considering the effort required, but it’s not something that’s instant as these items did take time to sell. If you combine it with professions, or other dungeons, or even just world quests, it makes your overall gph a lot more attractive.

As always, happy gaming – no matter where you find yourself.

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A List of Addons to Help with Gold Making in 10.2.0

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These are the addons I currently use to help with gold making in Warcraft, updated for 10.2.5. They’re not in any sort of order, it’s just what displays in CurseForge. Keep in mind there’s no requirement to use ALL of these addons, especially if you’re not doing things like professions. This is just my current list (I also have other addons for other activities, which you can find listed). These addons cover a wide variety of gold making, ranging from professions, farms, mission tables, and even AH flipping.

  • Tradeskillmaster – a complete AH overhaul suite, it allows me to create custom strings to price items for sale on the AH. There is also a bunch of crafting / restocking capabilities, but I no longer use TSM for these due to performance issues.
  • Auctionator – This gives up to the minute information about auctions, and comes with some fantastic plugins also listed.
  • CraftSim – A powerful tool for Dragonflight crafting.
  • WorthIT – Using TSM pricing sources, this addon can tell you if a particular farm (herb, mining, etc) is “worth it” for you to go after. You can also create your own farms and track your gold per hour earned. They also have a few guides if you’re not sure where to start.
  • World Quest Tracker – Used to track all those quests worth gold.
  • TLDR Missions – Used for Shadowlands mission tables (a must have)
  • Routes (and Routes Import/Export) – Used in combination with Gathermate2 for harvesting information
  • Rematch & Rematch_TSMPetValues – This modifies the pet window and allows you to see the value of your pets at a glance.
  • Profession Shopping List – You can track recipes / reagents and import them into Auctionator
  • Point Blank Sniper – A plugin for auctionator, create shopping lists and search your AH for items to snipe
  • Master Plan – Modifies garrison mission UI
  • LootAppraiser – Gives information on looted items (uses TSM price sources)
  • Journalator – A plugin for Auctionator, this tracks craft orders (and everything in between)
  • GatherMate2 / GatherMate_Sharing – A farming overlay.
  • FishingBuddy – Track your fishing gph.
  • FasterLoot – Does exactly what it says.
  • Call To Arms – Queue for dungeons / raids when the satchel of participation is rewarded for some extra gold.
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[Unpopular Opinion] There’s no wrong way to make gold

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One of the things I’ve always loved about making gold in world of warcraft, and the gold making community, is that there are MANY different methods of making gold – and despite what some would have you believe, there is NO wrong way to make gold.

There ARE more optimal methods – that doesn’t invalidate your method. The important thing to keep in mind when it comes to making gold is whether or not YOU are enjoying the process. Whether or not YOU are seeing the gains and achieving the goals that you have set for yourself. Are you learning? Fantastic. Keep it up.

What everyone else is doing, how everyone else is making their gold – that doesn’t matter. Even if you find a method that you enjoy, and then you adapt it to your game play style – that’s good! Do that. Do what works for you, and stop trying to look down on folks who are perhaps not quite at the same level.

I am never going to be the person who can suggest the most optimal method of making gold. I am not a min/max player. I love making gold, but I also consider myself to be incredibly casual, with disabilities that come into play affecting both my mobility and sight. A large portion of my gold making comes from being in the right place at the right time and some pure dumb luck. What I hope for the new year is that people (gold makers, in specific) continue to support and uplift the community around them, encouraging new gold makers to pursue their passion within the game – WITHOUT looking down on them or reprimanding them for their methods if they don’t align with their own. We all have our own value on what time is worth to us and it’s going to change person by person. That’s OK.

  • Note: That does not mean you should shun or avoid advice from other gold makers, either. It doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. There almost always is, and it is definitely a good idea to listen to more experienced gold makers in the community. That being said, whatever method you decide to try is absolutely valid, and you shouldn’t feel bad about it if it’s not the most optimal.
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[Casual Gold Making] How Much GPH is Dragonflight Fishing?

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It’s time for a new challenge! Thanks to inspiration from this reddit post, along with talking to a fellow gold maker CanadiaTV, (be sure to check him out) I decided to see how much gold you can casually make from fishing – starting with Dragonflight. I decided NOT to min/max this activity, so I have NOT taken everything from the reddit post into account. I’m sure you can up that gph slightly by min/maxing it. Below is the gear I’m sporting.

  1. Khaz’gorite Fisherfriend (rk4) enchanted with + Perception
  2. Master’s Wildercloth Fishing Cap
  3. +5 fishing gloves

I am also using a lure for Islefin Dorado.

I’m using the addon ‘Fishingbuddy’ to track what I catch. I’ve been fishing by the Dragonscale Basecamp because it has the LEAST amount of ‘extra’ stuff in the fishing table. Each hour I cast between 210-250 times, so for the purpose of this post, we’ll say I’ve been fishing off and on for approximately 15 hours (3898 casts so far). I do about 2h of fishing every 2 or 3 days, Moving forward I’ll post statistics for every 2h of fishing, just to keep things neat / tidy.

In 15h my total gold earned is roughly 94,162g which puts GPH at around 6,277g – this could be SLIGHTLY higher / lower if recipes are selling well on your servers, on mine I haven’t gotten any ‘good’ recipes of note in 15 hours of fishing. It’s also important to note that you should be selling when islefin dorado is in demand – that means from the weekly quest in Emerald Dream, as well as when raiders are looking for the fish. It’s not fantastic GPH, but it is pretty relaxing, requires almost zero brain power, and can be good to do if you’re watching TV or if you’re like me and sometimes have limited mobility.

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Dungeon Dive: 100 Runs of Sunwell Plateau (51-60)

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Another week, another 10 runs of Sunwell Plateau under our belts! This marks 3h spent in the zone (30m each group of 10 runs), and in actual gold earned from sales (plus raw gold drops) my 61 speed druid is looking at a total of 155,999g which means the GPH is 51,999g – not too shabby for a single character running a single dungeon. You might remember that the last run rewarded VERY little, hence the lower GPH this week. It all depends on RNG and what sells vs. what does not sell. Here’s the overall stats to date:

  • Total approx gold earned (runs 1-60): 905,389
  • Actual amount earned from sales to date: 155,999g
  • Actual amount of GPH: 51,999g
  • Value of items listed on the AH: 137,451g

Last week we only had 44k worth of items on the AH, so it’s nice that we added a few items of note this week (two schematics, one for goggles which are used in an achievement). This isn’t the best gold farm in the world by any means, but it is nice and simple with a low barrier of entry.

Keep in mind you may be able to make more / less gold on your own server, the items I’m selling are NOT commodity, therefor they ARE server specific. I’m playing on a high population server in NA, and prices are quite all over the place (usually on the lower side of things) but sales are far more steady than if I were on a low population server. You’ll have to try different methods out, and see what works for you.

Doing SOMETHING to make gold in game is at least a better option than doing nothing at all (if you’re going after gold, at least). As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

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