Hi guys, how can I make a decent amount of money without being an AH slave?

[calinass]

There seems to be three options that I know of, and I would like to know which one is honestly the best for someone who is a tank (as in, can't do much dps to mobs). With that in mind, here are the three options

1) Dailies, Timeless Isle, Farm, Isle of Thunder...etc

2) Professions, which leads to....

3) being an AH slave

I am SURE that being an AH slave is probably the best efficiency in gold/time, but......no. I can't do that and I dont have the economics to back me up. And by that I dont mean gold (well, I dont have much of that either...), I mean fundamental theories and shit.

I dont know what to do...

The "shuffle" seems interesting, as I have both maxed mining and jewelcrafting if I recall correctly....just not on my main account.....which sucks...because I find monk tanks even slower questers than DK tanks iirc.

[AutomaticBadger]

To be honest I found that doing the remaining quests from levelling to be a good starting point. After that it pretty much devoves into either using one of the lazy proffessions like doing the daily cool down for alchemy or making enchants and get the mats from lfr or just buy them. That or do daili

[Deleted]

If you have alts or not using it at the moment, always use your farm.

The amount of gold it gives is more than you think

[calinass]

If you have alts or not using it at the moment, always use your farm.

The amount of gold it gives is more than you think

Which is? I dont even know if my farm is fully set up. Those dailies are boring...

[Einsz]

Find a spot to grind, get potion of luck, announce in trade wts 85-90 3-5k per lvl depends how many ppl offer such service on your realm takes around 20-40min for 1 lvl depends on rested xp

[calinass]

Find a spot to grind, get potion of luck, announce in trade wts 85-90 3-5k per lvl depends how many ppl offer such service on your realm takes around 20-40min for 1 lvl depends on rested xp

perks of being a tank, I cant kill shit fast...

[Consata]

Depending on the time you want to invest you could try CM boosting. Finding a team shouldnt be hard if your a monk tank.

[calinass]

Im not well geared for CM's, Im only i519..

[Badpaladin090]

I say pick up Golden Moss and Golden Fleece trinket. A little bit of camping can get you both of them. That let you every 5 minute kill mobs and get extra gold. Work out for me to be 600g to 700g a hour. After the effect procs, I mining then ore shuffle. I make a steady 1600g a hour all said and done.

[sargior]

go solo black temple. vendor all the gems 5g a pop, vendor all the boss loots. de all the greens or just vendor those as well.

Go solo onixyia 10m. lvl a new character. I make atleast 5k going 85-90.

If you have enchanting run every single lfr for gold bags and disenchant the gear you dont need. I never go farm gold and am always sitting at least 40k account wide. I also just make sensible buying decisions, saving gold is gold you dont have to earn.

[Mormolyce]

Honestly I wouldn't bother with the ore shuffle, every man and his dog shuffles so margins are slim (or negative).

Find a niche to sell in IMO. I still make quite a bit from tailoring bags, eng mounts and BS reborn weapons.

Im not well geared for CM's, Im only i519..

Technically anything over heroic blues is geared for CMs as they get scaled down. You just want to get as many sockets as possible and swap out your legendary meta gem for a normal one.

But you need experience to sell runs.

[Ryuji]

As boring as it sounds, use your farm. Make crops that give you stuff for Alchemy to transmute into living steel and then turn that living steel into stuff a blacksmith can make or something else with it.

Use Engineering stuff to make Jard's Energy sources and make the pets. The mount won't sell well.

If you have a Blacksmith, make the 522 weapons. Takes a while to get them made but they usually sell fairly well. Do the same for the BoE stuff you can make when 5.4 hit, like the 553 stuff. Same for tailoring and leatherworking. With tailoring, keep making Royal Satchels. People always need living steel belt buckles from a Blacksmith. People always need flasks from an Alchemist, etc.

[Instructor Soki]

Im not well geared for CM's, Im only i519..

Gemsockets and being properly itemized and maybe proper trinkets are all that matter.
Your gear is scaled to 463.

[blackblade]

perks of being a tank, I cant kill shit fast...

Pull stuff, get vengeance, aoe it down.

Honestly, with 500+ gear you'll be killing stuff reasonably quickly considering most of the mobs in the world are tuned for like 460 gear. Esp with a BrM monk (KS, RJW and BoF). If you're not killing quickly then you probably need to reforge out of mastery and into crit.

Suggestions might be the monkeys on top of the hill in V4W, down in karasarang to kill NPCs of your opposite faction, or if you're also a skinner, the goats in V4W are crazy good too (near the hozen).

all of the above respawn quickly due to generally being tied to quests.

[Deleted]

I see mostly excuses and unwillingness to actually work for it in your post.

Some tips from me:
1. Start farming some gear. My last fresh 90 was 525 the same week I dinged.
2. Make sure you have a dps offspec and gear for that one aswell.
3. You are going to need the AH if you like it or not. Unless you want to own only a small amount of gold.
4. Daily quests + daily scenario/hc dungeon can give you an easy 500g a day.

[LaplaceNoMa]

1. Get tailoring on your most geared toon
2. Preferably use a ranged toon with strong aoe and a way to pull mobs with instant spells without CD
3. Buy some potions of luck
4. Grind Mogu in the NW section of the Vale
5. Whenever you get ~60 treasure keys go and open the chests

You'll be getting these:
1. You can sell Alani mount when you collect 10 skyshards
2. You'll get lots of special tailoring cloth from the chests which usually end up in at least 1 royal bag per hour, I'd say about 1.3/hour
3. You'll get TONS of greens to DE, various ores, leathers, more cloth that you can use (combined with tons of spirits of harmony you'll use to make royal bag cloth without daily CD)
4. You'll simply get a lot of raw gold

Depending on time of day and your server this method averages to ~20-25k gold per hour if you cound the royal bags and alani mount; also depends on whether you have toons that can benefit drop DE'ing greens, using pristine leathers, smelting/transmuting trillium ore etc etc.

Mogu mobs have special respawn rules, similar to pirates in tanaris that are used to grind goblins reputation without lowering your bloodsail reputation - the more people farm those mogu in the vale, the faster they respawn. It's the same rule as with cockroaches on the IoT which are used for achievement - if you kill all but one cockroaches in a 'group', they will wait for their 'normal' respawn timer; however if you keep killing the WHOLE groups (making sure that every mob in the group is wiped out), it will respawn way faster and its respawn will depend on other groups being wiped out the same way.

I once had a group of mogu respawn literally faster than I could kill them (583 mage), was a glorious day.

[Raiju]

Honestly, with 500+ gear you'll be killing stuff reasonably quickly considering most of the mobs in the world are tuned for like 460 gear. Esp with a BrM monk (KS, RJW and BoF). If you're not killing quickly then you probably need to reforge out of mastery and into crit.

400-440 at a stretch, some popular low lvl farm spots like krasarang fishing village even lower.

Tip for above mogu method - keep the local rune buff at 5 stacks. It's 25% crit chance 50% crit damage iirc.

[Alroxas]

So let me get this straight: You want to make a "decent" amount of gold in WoW but

a) You find dailies boring
b) You don't want to switch to a DPS class to farm old instances
c) You don't want to do AH stuff

So basically you want an easy, non time intensive way to make gold. Well friend, that option doesn't really exist otherwise everyone in WoW would be gold capped.

So to recap, the best ways in making gold in WoW are:

A) If you're overgeared, doing a lot of dailies (there's no cap on how many you can do)
B) Switch to a DPS class and farm the heck out of old instances or even current content if you're overgeared.
C) Do the AH economy - Ore Shuffler, TSM, etc.

D) If you have a guild of bored HC raiders, sell raid runs or CM runs.

[Thelxi]

If I had to make some money without AH grind I would clear Cata dungeons with a tailor/enchanter and disenchant all greens and make deathsilk cowls with the extra cloth drops which I would also disenchant. Hypnotic dust is like printing money really, it is that one corner of the market this expansion where there is just much more demand than supply regardless of server/economy. You could probably make 200-400 gold per grim batol clear. Take one dragon and hit each trash pack once so they are at low health and just finish them, or if you are a tank just pull the whole instance and aoe them down.

[Deleted]

I read your responses and the best thing I can think of is plain and simple ... gathering professions (or fishing if you don't want to change professions).

I think you can make around 2k/hr depending on your servers economy and how many raiding guilds you have.
(Of course if your realm has a bunch of gathering bots you won't be able to make any decent gold/hour.)


(Hunting meat would also be an option but your gear sucks and you are a tank so it would be slow.)

If you only want to get like 10-20k then sure doing the remaining quests in MoP is possible. But not quick at all and just as tedious as farming mats. Though again after 20k there isn't any more left in there.

Flipping stuff on the AH is somewhat difficult. It requires both a solid grasp of your servers economy and WoW itself. Also it requires some starting out money to invest, 20-50k at least.

~20-25k gold per hour if you count the royal bags + alani

Holy crap how much are bags / alani worth on your realm? Those sell for 2k and 50k on my realm. 20-25k/hr I find very hard to believe.

As for spirits of harmony; turning them into royal satchels can be a loss depending on your realms value of golden lotus.

Example:
1 satchel = 12 * 3 spirits = 36 spirits (as I said 2k on my realm)
36 spirits = 72 golden lotus @ 30g = 2160g

As for DEing greens (if you even have an enchanter), the profit margin compared to vendoring can be fairly slim (again depends on your realm). So you might be better off just vendoring those.