Thread: Your gold-making habits right now (Midnight, level 90)
Original post by Korvash_Ironhand
Just hit level 90 and realised my gold routine is basically “vibes”. I do a few delves, sell whatever drops, and panic-buy flasks before raid night. Is that normal? What do the rest of you actually do in a normal week? Be specific if you can. Mage on a mid-pop realm, two professions, no real plan, and an auction house tab I am slightly afraid of.
I have watched a couple of videos but they all assume you already know what you are doing. I would rather hear from people who play on a normal schedule, with jobs and kids and cats sitting on the keyboard.
TL;DR: I have no system. Show me yours.
Reply #1 from AuctionGoblin_Dee
Post once, post daily, never post at the bottom of the price list. That is the whole system. I clear my auctions every evening while the kettle boils, undercut by a little and stop thinking about it. Boring is the point. Some nights I post four items, some nights forty, and the routine does not care either way. The coins pile up while you sleep and you never have to feel like you are working.
One extra tip: keep a separate bag for things you intend to sell this week. When it is full, it is time to post. When it is empty, go farm. That is my entire decision tree.
Reply #2 from xXdelveBroXx
delves. all of it. tried crafting once, gave up in a day. solo tiers on repeat then vendor or sell the junk. i dont touch professions at all lol. fastest thing for me is just running the same two delves while watching a show, it is relaxing and the gold shows up anyway. dont overthink it OP
Reply #3 from Mistweaver_Marguerite
I have no system. Show me yours.
Quoting that because, friend, you do have one: you sell drops and you buy consumables. Mine just adds crafting orders on top. I fill them on my alchemist twice a week, the tip is decent, and I keep a short list of regulars who send me materials ahead of time. It feels more social than the auction house, which I like, and people say thank you, which the auction house never does. I also learned half my recipes from people who sent orders, because they told me what was selling. That kind of tip never shows up in a price list.
If you have two professions, check whether either one can take orders. That alone might change your week.
Reply #4 from OldSchoolSteve (Classic realm)
Different game over here, kids. No orders, no delves. I farm the same two zones, vendor the greys, and post cloth and herbs on the auction house. A good session is when my bags fill before my patience empties. Some folks in my guild just grab WoW Gold when their week gets busy, and fair enough, I do not judge anyone for how they spend their free hours, but I like the hunt too much to skip it.
Biggest lesson from years of this: learn your realm. Prices on a busy realm and a quiet one are two different animals, and a habit that works on one can fall flat on the other.
Reply #5 from nightshift_nomad
Counterpoint to the grinders: I earn gold in short bursts, maybe three evenings a week, and spend the rest of the time on content I enjoy. A tiny routine beats a perfect one. Pick one source, keep a notes file of prices that worked, and review it on Sundays. Anything more complicated and I abandon it by Wednesday. Last year I built a giant sheet with colours and formulas. It lasted nine days. The tiny notes file has lasted all season.
Also, check your guild bank before you buy anything. Somebody always has stacks they will hand over for free if you ask nicely, and half the time they are just glad someone is using them. I have received whole bags of cloth that way, which turned into a profitable week.
And take breaks. Gold is a means, not a score. I have watched friends burn out chasing a number nobody else can see.
Reply #6 from Korvash_Ironhand (OP)
Reply #6 from SaltyBarnacle_77
Late to the party, but nobody has mentioned materials from other professions. I gather ore with a miner, hand it to my blacksmith alt, and sell the finished pieces. Cutting out the middle step saves a surprising amount, and it gives each alt something to do on the evenings I feel like switching characters. Be warned that it makes the bank very messy. Label your tabs, or you will lose a weekend to sorting.
Mail is your friend. Send yourself stacks at the end of the night, and sort in the morning with coffee.
Reply #7 from Thistlewick_Quartermaster
I run the guild bank for a mid-sized raiding guild, so let me add something unglamorous. Write your prices down. Write the dates down. After two weeks you will see patterns nobody tells you about: which items spike before reset, which sag after a patch, which sell best late at night. That is worth more than any single trick in this thread.
Second: be generous with your leftovers. Seriously, a spare stack of herbs has won more goodwill for me than any speech. Newer members repay it faster than you think, and the bank gets better for everyone.
Reply #8 from Dornwick_the_Slow
Something nobody said: it is fine to play the game without a gold plan. I spent a whole season just exploring, fishing and cooking, and my coins ended up fine anyway. If the routine starts to feel like a second job, drop it for a week and see what you miss. Usually it is the people, not the numbers.
Reply #9 from Korvash_Ironhand (OP)
Wow, did not expect so many answers. Dee, the single-bag idea is going straight into my routine. Steve, noted on learning the realm first. Marguerite, thanks for the kind words, I will look at my professions tonight. nomad, I am printing your Sunday review and sticking it above my monitor.
Edit by Korvash_Ironhand
Edit: thanks all, this is gold (pun intended). Going with Dee’s daily auction clear plus two delves a week, and I will report back in a month. Edit 2: yes, I will join the guild bank discussion, stop pinging me.
Edit 3: the single-bag trick worked, my bags are finally readable. Edit 4: someone asked whether this thread should be pinned. Please do not. Let it drift down the page like a normal thread and let the next newbie find it with the search box.
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