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1000 Gold Per Hour. That’s Fast Gold!

Posted on 2008 under Addons & Macros, Auctioneer, General Tips, Professions, WotLK | 25 Comments

I regularly make 1000 gold per hour now in World of Warcraft. That’s a conservative number (I’ll show you why.).

You can find the details about the addons here on the site, but here’s exactly what I do:

I have installed Routes addon from Curse.com.
I have installed Gatherer and Gathermate and Cartographer Mining and Herbalism addons.
(UPDATE: use Gathermate_data addon as well to add the spawnpoints to your mods)
I am level 80 and have an epic flyer. (You can do it with a non-epic flyer, but might be a tad slower, obviously.)
I have Mining and Herbalism maxed out.
I go to Icecrown and use the Routes addon to create a route in Icecrown. I add all the herbalism and mining waypoints from all of the addons that it can use (Gatherer, Gathermate, Cartographer).
I ‘cluster’ the waypoints with the default setting of 60 yards. That creates fewer waypoints for the route. It will fly close enough to a mineral or herb spawn point without making me travel exactly from point to point.
I use the Extra Optimization option from the Routes addon. This makes the route as short as possible.
I then simply fly around the route. I’ll skip nodes that are in really dangerous spots, like the one next to the Elites or the cluster of evil paladins…it’s too much work to kill them just for some ore.
Note: I have both Herbalism and Mining. So I use a simple ‘castsequence’ macro that’s bound to my Z key that toggles Find Minerals and Find Herbs back and forth.
Note 2: I have a route that includes both herbs and ore which is long, and I can toggle back and forth. I also have a route that is only for ore, and I stick with mining only for that one. BOTH have produced 1000g per hour.

To calculate how much I’m making, I use the Auctioneer addon, with all the details in the tooltips added. I use Appraiser when I’m at the auction house (that’s a tab available when you have Auctioneer installed). I have customized my minimum settings so that I will almost always undercut the competition. I don’t care. I’m all about volume. I’m not trying to squeeze every last copper out of each transaction. That’s too much like work. I’m in, I post my auctions, I’m out. Movin’ on. Yah…I’m sure some folks hate me for undercutting them all the time. They’ll deal. The market goes up and down, and somebody is happy because they were able to buy cheap goods. I’m the WalMart of the Auction House…small business hate me, but the customers love me. (And if crafters were smart they would contact me and work a deal where I provide for them.)

Anyway, when I’m at the Auction House, I open Appraiser, and just hit ‘Refresh’ on each item I’m about to post so it scans just that item. No more long Auction House full-scans. Just one item name at a time. I use the Histograph as the calculation for the price, and the ‘Beat Competition’ box (or whatever it’s called) checked. That makes me, almost always, the lowest priced items out there.

EVEN WITH UNDERCUTTING EVERYONE I AM MAKING 1000G PER HOUR.

It seems that, regardless of whether I’m just getting Ore, or both Herbs and Ore, the value of what I pull is pretty consistent. I’ve noticed that no matter how many times I repeat the circuit, no matter what time of day, etc., I am getting a consistent average of Titanium ore, blue uncut gems, Frost Lotus, Crystallized Life and Fire, etc.

The exact way I calculate it is to empty my bags, go to Icecrown and trigger a self-buff that lasts 30 minutes. Then I fly the route until the buff expires. Then I mouse over each stack or item that I’ve gathered and look at the Undercut price in the tooltip, and add it up. It’s always been a little over 500g after 30 minutes. And it’s repeatable…I’ve done so many times to make sure it wasn’t a fluke.

If I wanted to make it even faster, I’d take advantage of the ‘Taboo’ feature of Routes, which blocks off certain areas. This would be nice to avoid those sections where the Elites make it too tough to get to the nodes. But I’m too lazy and am making too much gold just flying around as it is.

I usually just log on and chat with guildies while flying around waiting for an opening in a dungeon run or battleground. There’s not much left for me to buy in the game, so I don’t farm ‘hard’…mostly I just do it for fun to see how much I can make, and to be able to splurge if I want to power-level a different profession on one of my other toons.

I hope this helps!

UPDATE: I thought that after a few weeks the prices on everything would steadily decline, and that it wouldn’t truly be 1000 gph any more. Well, I just finished a test run in Icecrown again, to compare to Sholazar Basin Mining. I did exactly a 30-minute route around Icecrown, starting with empty bags, and went straight to the AH afterwards. I refreshed all of my AH data so that I would be undercutting everyone…and posted 638 GOLD worth of auctions!!! That is over 1200 gold per hour! So this process still works. (By the way, my mining route around Sholazar only netted me about 415 gold in 30 minutes, or just over 800 gold per hour. I’m sticking with Icecrown, tyvm!)

25 Comments so far »

by kaden, on January 1 2009 @ 7:03 pm

i need gold man
by Zach, on January 2 2009 @ 7:18 pm

Hey, where did you get your icecrown and the rest of northrend data? I do not have it in the pack i downloaded. Could you perhaps upload yours please?
by masta, on January 5 2009 @ 1:43 pm

Yo thanks man you really do make 1kg an hour.
Amazoring

thanks
by touch, on January 13 2009 @ 10:59 am

i tried this but routes doesnt give me a way to make the route
by hitta, on January 16 2009 @ 3:21 pm

is this with on epic flyer?
by hitta, on January 16 2009 @ 3:24 pm

sorry i just read the thing n saw the answer lol
by angimage, on February 2 2009 @ 7:01 am

thanks so much man! although maybe you could upload the versions of the mods your using or add links… thanks alot!
by Wtbhugs, on February 8 2009 @ 9:22 pm

hey dude, i have the auctioneer add-on, but i did not install it from curse. I have this thing called wowmatrix: an add-on installing program. I want to know if im able to delete these add_ons and restart my whole system using the curse add-ons(which are better. DO you know how?
by Bloodstalker, on February 17 2009 @ 10:54 am

Hey wouldn’t Herbalism be alot better in Scholazar then Icecrown? The herb Adder’s Tongue is EVERYWHERE there and sells for about 50 gold a stack last time I checked.
by shifty, on February 25 2009 @ 4:06 pm

Routes isnt working cuz when u farm a herb or a mineral gatherer records it then routes will appear
by donquixote235, on March 10 2009 @ 7:20 am

@ Wtbhugs:

Using Windows XP and earlier:

Click on Start, then My Computer
Choose C:
Choose Program Files
Choose World of Warcraft
Choose Interface
Find the Add-Ons folder, rename it to something else (or you can just delete it; I like renaming it though in case I want to move back to my old add-ons easily)

Using Windows Vista:

Click on Start, then My Computer
Choose C:
Choose Users
Choose Public
Choose Games (I think… I’m not at my Vista install at the moment… there may not be a Games folder… if not, just skip this step)
Choose World of Warcraft
Choose Interface
Find the Add-Ons folder, rename it to something else (or you can just delete it; I like renaming it though in case I want to move back to my old add-ons easily)

Using a Mac:

Don’t own one, so can’t help you

The next time you run WoW, it will create a new Add-Ons folder, and fill it with the Blizzard-created add-ons. Now you can get your add-ons through Curse. Note, I recommend getting the Curse Client, which will update your add-ons for you automatically when new versions come available. Also you can search for add-ons directly from the Curse Client, which saves you from having to navigate the Curse website every time you want a new add-on.

Hope that helps.
DQ
by BB, on March 19 2009 @ 2:46 pm

Hey can this be for any area i chose or just certain areas.
by Grumpie, on March 21 2009 @ 5:28 am

Hello,

Just read your story on:
http://www.makewowgold.com/1000-gold-per-hour-thats-fast-gold/

just installed routes, gatherer, Gathermate, Cartographer. But it does not seem to find any routes. Do i need predefined routes. Do you have them, or is there a helpfile to learn how this works?

Tx

Henk-jan
Netherlands
by admin, on March 21 2009 @ 5:42 am

Updated the post. Try adding Gathermate_Data as well. There may be a problem getting WotLK ore and herb spawnpoints without it.
by wwwwwwwwwwww, on March 22 2009 @ 5:19 pm

is this only for icecrown
by Milosh, on March 23 2009 @ 1:30 am

Do we have to explore areas we want with routes?or just part of it so routes addon can detect it,or something like that,cause,in low lvl zones,just in few of them i can make routes and there is all the data but there is nothing for the other zones.
by Sam McGaughey, on March 26 2009 @ 12:53 pm

I am level 71 and cannot yet fly in Northrend or survive in Icecrown. What would you suggest i do to make gold the fastest in my situation.
P.S. I have 413 mining and 316 enchanting.
by Cidsin, on April 5 2009 @ 7:24 am

One thing I did not see on this page is the average amount something sells for on your server. Some servers sell Saronite for 18g a stack, and others for up to 50, so I think it is important to know what your server goes for so that when people get varied results they are not confused.
by thehammerr, on April 28 2009 @ 2:19 pm

hmm any chance u can say on average how many titanium and saronite u get per hour? and also would i get more money if i prospected the ores and sold the gems or would that take too long to make me gold?
by Remi, on July 8 2009 @ 12:33 am

DO you need a epic flying mount for this?
(I’m a lvl 47 Warlock, can use this?, i do have herbalism and mining
by Chanda, on August 6 2009 @ 4:09 pm

Hey first of all thanks for the guides. the next thing is that is it possible for you to make a movie showing how to setup AppRaiser? That would be awesome
by Vittorio, on September 27 2009 @ 2:04 pm

In response to the first post, not the replies, I would have to say, good luck farming and not having anyone else there taking nodes as well. Best time to farm for Ally is the wee hours of the morning (1am-5am) since the avg log in time for ally is 3pm (when kid’s get out of school) and also the adults who make up the other part of ally will be asleep.
by tweezy420, on December 17 2009 @ 9:57 pm

man man man…i appreciate the inside tips persay..ive always had trouble gettin gold im more of a pwn everyone i see kinda player not a gold grindin kinda player(need to fix that one) TYVM mista
by Nolan Freeman, on June 15 2010 @ 6:40 pm

Hey dude wat i want to know is i need free gold no cheets or hackes i want software like that will help u and legal where do u get it wat do u use?
by Krime18, on September 16 2010 @ 11:06 am

Well everything he mentioned in his post is all free. addons are just part of the game and wont get you banned from WoW. This is an amazing review for mining since i got both JC and Blacksmithing but i need to transfere my Warlock from my old server to my new server coz his my enchanter/tailoring. but all in all this is a good review thanks cant wait to try this out.