Insane Gold Farming part 2

"How To Make 500, 600, even 800 gold per hour in WotLK"

For a collection of the best updated gold tips, check out Hayden Hawke's Gold Guide

Here is one of the fastest ways to make gold in Wrath of the Lich King. Also check out the first part of this guide, mote farming for the Burning Crusade, though that may not work as well anymore.

This method is not for everyone, since there are some requirements, but if you can do it then you will earn insane amounts of gold in no time. The requirements are: 

1. You need to be a miner, preferably 450 skill
2. You need to be an engineer, at least 350 skill
3. You need to have an epic flying mount 

What you will do is farm ore and crystallized elements with those two professions, using your epic flying mount to move rapidly between locations.

In case you don’t know, engineers can make a device called Zapthrottle Mote Extractor which is used to extract motes in Outlands and crystallized elements in Northrend from gas clouds. With certain engineering items you will be able to see the clouds on your minimap. Tracking clouds does not interfere with tracking mining nodes, so you can do both at the same time. Here are the items that allow you to see the clouds (use one of these only):

1. Ultra-Spectropic Detection Goggles
2. Any epic engineering goggles that say "Shows the location of all nearby clouds on the minimap."
3. Belt-Clipped Spynoculars

Combining gas cloud farming and mining will bring in extraordinary profits. Here’s a map of a good route in Sholazar Basin: 

I tried it for 60 minutes (timed) in Sholazar Basin at around 5 p.m. server time — i.e. with lots of competition — and will say I was very pleased with the results:   

I’m still SHOCKED what that comes out to! 850g in one hour!!!

I took most of the prices from http://wow.allakhazam.com ; they are averages across all servers. However, some of them seem a little high, like titanium ore selling for almost 10g each. But even if 850g is on the high side, it is evident that you can comfortably make 500-600 gold per hour.

After doing this test run, though, I realized that Cobalt ore is actually higher priced on many servers than saronite ore. So you might earn more by farming in a lower level zone, with less competition! And that may in turn bump your true earnings upwards of 800g per hour.

To increase your earnings you can even use engineering or smelting to craft some items worth more than the raw materials. Examples might include smelting ore into bars, smelting titansteel bars, crafting scopes and ammunition. Just be aware that crafting actually takes time, and time = money. So it may be more profitable to dump the raw mats on the AH so you can spend more time farming.

This is a great way to farm for holy paladins, holy priests, resto druids, protection warriors and all other specs that can’t farm mobs fast. There are no repair costs either.  

Don’t be afraid to try this even if you don’t have an epic flying mount. You’ll earn a lot on an epic ground mount or normal flying mount as well.

The addon I use to import the location of mining nodes and record the location of gas clouds is called Gathermate and Gathermate_data.

Can you imagine how lucrative this was in the first month after WotLK’s release, when prices were triple what they are now?