Originally Posted by
Coconut
It's easy my ass. Last week I took some of the advice I found on the forum as well as some of my own ideas and went to experiment ways of making gold.
- Farming world quests, which someone suggested would give you ~ 5k in 15-20 minutes, netted me 2,100 gold in 30 minutes, on a mage, with an invasion out. I cleared all the gold world quests on the current maps. Since I had war mode off, I'll push that up to 2,500, or 5k per hour.
- Clearing the trash at the start of LFR HoF, which someone claimed to be a gold mine, netted me 250 gold in 3 minutes; about the same output as world quests.
- Next, I farmed Zinathids in Nazjatar. I was able to gather 3 stacks in one hour with a mech and gloves. They were posted for an average of 3,800 gold per stack on my AH, which was slightly promising, but would have still required and hour and a half of farming per day for the rest of the expansion to get to 5 million. I undercut that, and the next day I got all my Zinathids back in the mail.
- I used the Zinathids and some other plants I had in my bags to make a bunch of flasks, and I put them up in stacks of 5, 1,650 gold per stack. The next day, half of them sold and the others were returned in my mail.
- I checked pet prices and they were pitiful, and Island mogs, already cheap, weren't selling even with chunky undercuts (30%+ undercuts).
- Farmed Vol'dun for a bit, was lucky enough to get the Hyena mount. It was only 4 hours this time, but the total farming in that spot since the start of BFA was closer to 40. Checked the AH, those Hyenas were 390k, so I was flushed with optimism, put mine up for 360k thinking I'll do a few farming sessions in weekend. Next day, two more hyenas had appeared for 122k, and they didn't sell at that price either. And farming 30 world drop mounts isn't exactly feasible.
- With emissary quests you might be able to make 14k in a day... but only if you have 7 alts on the same server, and only if the gold reward is up, which it is maybe once or twice a week. Now, I have 13 characters at 110+, but they are spread on 4 servers and two of them are Alliance, so I can't exactly engage them all in this activity.
The things I came across of passively while doing what I've been doing during the last few months, which was completing the Mechagon and Nazjatar metas and farming the mounts there, were never worth very much. This whole "making gold is easy" spiel is bullshit, and I didn't know you for that. Maybe count yourself lucky for being on a highly populated server, or else don't sell your secrets, because even if there are things that sell on the AH, as soon as more people start farming them the demand will become saturated and prices will drop.