For those of you that have Skinning as one of your professions, Nagrand is one of the best places to go for high level skinning. If you don't complete all quests in each of the zones, you definitely want to be sure that you complete the Mastery quests at Nesingwary Safari in the northeast corner of the zone. Here you can get about a dozen quests that require you to kill various Clefthoofs, Talbuks, and Windrocs . Not only will you get a lot of experience and gold from completing these quests but you also get tons of Thick Clefthide and Knothide Leather .
Even if you aren't questing or you have already completed these quests, just patrol these areas because many other players are killing these guys which allows you to skin them even faster. With the leather selling for about 15 Gold per stack and all the other loot that I sold,
I was able to make about 85 Gold per hour here without doing much work at all.
Heavy Knothide Leather
Leatherworkers will definitely want to take advantage of the vastly popular Heavy Knothide Leather. The way you do this is first by getting the Pattern: Heavy Knothide Leather which is a Limited Supply Item sold for only 5 Gold in Shattrath by Cro Threadstrong and Darmari and also in Silvermoon City by Tyn , and Zaralda . Once you have this pattern, you can then take 5 Knothide Leathers and turn them in to 1 Heavy Knothide Leather. To get the Knothide Leather one of the best things you can do is take advantage of the previous Skinning tip in Nagrand or if you don't have Skinning as your profession, you have two options. You can either farm for it or buy it in the Auction House. For farming Knothide Leather there is a pretty good place that not too many people go to and that is in Terrokar Forest in the Skethyl Mountains . If you look at your world map, you will see a cave in the mountains where you have to fly to in order to find a lot of Blackwind Sabercats . They do a fair amount of damage but for farming Knothide Leather this area worked the best for me. If you prefer to buy from the Auction House instead, you should be able to find some lower auctions around 13 Gold per stack for the Knothide Leather. To make a stack of 20 Heavy Knothide Leathers, you will need a total of 100 Knothide Leather. If you buy them from the Auction House, this will cost you between 60 and 65 Gold which sounds like a lot. However, a stack of the Heavy Knothide Leather that this makes will fetch you between 90 and 100 Gold for those 20 pieces you just made. That's an easy 35 Gold just for buying items from the Auction House and then putting the crafted Heavy Knothide Leather right back up for sale. If you do have skinning and you are collecting your own leather, than the 100 Gold you make is 100% profit! To date, I have made over 750 Gold from doing this strategy alone!!
Cobra Scales
Over in Shadowmoon Valley at Coilskar Cistern , you will find Coilskar Cobras .
At first glance, you will only a see about 4 but if you go inside the cave, you will see a lot more. What you are looking for here are Cobra Scales which are needed by Leatherworkers to make higher end items such as Nethercobra Leg Armor and Cobrascale Gloves . They don't have a very high drop rate but they are worth 25 - 30 Gold EACH in the Auction House. I farmed these guys for 2 hours and got 7 during this time which earned me 105 Gold per hour just from the Scales that I sold. This doesn't even take into account the greens and vendor trash that you can sell as well which can increase this to about 150 Gold per hour!
Primal Might
Alchemists should learn how to make Primal Mights as soon as they can. This limited supply pattern is sold in Shattrath by Skreah for 8 Gold. If you don't have Alchemy, you can sell this pattern for about 15 Gold in the Auction House so it's still worth buying no matter what your profession is. Ok, so now that you have the recipe, you need the following primals to transmute a Primal Might: Air, Earth , Fire, Mana , Water. You should be able to collect these motes to make these on your own. Once you have them, you can create the Primal Might which sells for about 125 Gold! The only downside is that there is a 24 hour cooldown. Even so, you can still create a Primal Might every day from the other primals that you are already collecting and make 125 Gold which is more than selling the other primals individually. What that means is that even if you don't collect the primals yourself, you can still buy them at the Auction House and make a big profit by just transmuting them and then selling the crafted Primal Might.
Mining in the Outlands
If Mining wasn't the best profession for making Gold before the expansion, it definitely is now. Thanks to Jewelcrafting, the demand for the ore, stone, and gems gathered through mining is ridiculous. On top of that you can also collect tons of motes to make primals.
There are so many Fel Iron and Adamantite veins scattered throughout the Outlands that it's very easy to collect over a 100 pieces of ore in an hour. Fel Iron Ore sells for about 20-30 Gold per stack and Adamantite Ore sells for about 25-30 Gold per stack. Just as with the rare Gold and Silver veins found in the lower level zones, you can find a rare vein in the Outlands called Khorium . Khorium Ore sells anywhere between 50 and 60 Gold per stack.
This can spawn anywhere that Fel Iron and Adamantite veins can be found so unfortunately there isn't any one spot that is better than another. However, from personal experience I have found more Khorium in Netherstorm and the areas that you can only get to by flying more than any of the other zones. In addition to the ore that you collect, you will also find all types of gems such as draenites .
Rare gems can also be found such as Star of Elune and Noble Topaz which can sell anywhere between 35 and 50 gold each and depending on your server, sometimes more. These gems are needed for Jewelcrafting the higher end items and these crafters are willing to shell out big bucks to get these. While you are mining in the Outlands, you should also post a message every once in a while saying that you want to buy ore, motes or rare stones like the Star of Elune. You can a lot of times get a steal by buying these directly from other players because they don‛t have the Auction House nearby to see how much they are worth.
I have found that some of the best zones to mine in are actually some of the earlier ones such as Hellfire Peninsula. The reason for this is that most players in this zone don't have their mining skill up high enough yet to be able to mine everything in these zones. This means that you will be able to mine more here than in some of the higher level zones because everyone has a 375 Mining skill by then.
My 1st day in outland questing & mining along the quest route and a little bit of “outland portal mining” I mined Fel Iron Ore which sells for about 20-30 Gold per stack and Khorium Ore. Which sells anywhere between 45 and 60 Gold per stack.
I then smelted Fel Iron Ore x3 to make 1 Felsteel Bar & Eternium Ore x2 to make 1 Eternium Bar. Then after I stocked up & smelted these which can be found all over the first zone in outland around the boarder and any mountain ledge, I then smelted x3 Felsteel Bar and x2 Eternium Bar to make 1 Felsteal Bar.
Eternium Ore can be in the same nodes as Fel Iron & Eternium just like Gem’s and they have quite a high drop rate.
This is where I made massive amounts of Gold because THIS craftable weapon of choice, as Felsteal Bars are always in demand, it takes more Ore’s to make than most Bars but when you see your gold pile up daily, you will soon find out why it is worth smelting multiple bars to make only 1.
I mined for 1 hour and managed to make over 500g from mining these only!!!
Here is a Link to check which level you need to be to craft each Ore/Bar HERE.
When you get your flying mount, you have an enormous advantage over other players that are trying to mine because you can fly over everything and once you spot a vein on your mini map, you can just land right on top of the vein to collect the ore and then fly off to the next one. There is no need to fight enemies or run around a body of water to get to where you want to go.
A higher level zone that I have found to be great for mining with a flying mount is Blade's Edge Mountains. The reason is that it is very hard to navigate this zone due to the mountains and bridges that need to be crossed by players without a flying mount. As far as navigating the zones, you will want to fly around the perimeters and anywhere else you see a range of mountains. In just a couple hours of flying around the mountain ranges, I can easily make over 400-600 Gold, 800 Gold is the max I have made in an hour’s run!!
Dark Portal Mining
Once you enter the Dark Portal and are in the Outlands, there are tons of Fel Iron Ore scattered all around the portal. One of the best ways to patrol this area for Fel Iron Ore is to make a figure 8 pattern with the Dark Portal being at the center of the "8".This can be seen below in Figure 9. This works best with a flying mount but if you don't have one yet, don't worry because 95% of this area can be covered without one. I made a single pass the other night and found 9 veins for a total of 34 Fel Iron Ore. In addition to that, I also got a Noble Topaz which I later sold for 45 Gold.
In addition to the ore, there is also a lot of Felweed in this area. Even though you can't see herbs and veins on your minimap at the same time, it's not too hard to spot so if you have both of these gathering professions, then that's even more gold for you. Another great thing about this spot is that hardly anyone is here because there aren't really any mobs or quests that need to be done here.
This makes it very easy for you to find a ton of veins with little to no competition whatsoever. With the ore and herbs along with any other motes or gems that you find, this can easily be one those spots than can fetch you about 150 Gold per hour!!
The Legion Hold
A great grinding location in Shadowmoon Valley is the Legion Hold . Guys here such as Terrormasters , Wrathwalkers , and Mo'arg Weaponsmiths are plentiful and pretty easy to kill. In addition to all the reputation items they drop such as Mark of Sargeras and Fel Armaments , they drop a lot of great loot and a ton of Netherweave Cloth . I farmed this area for an hour here and made about 215 Gold on the reputation items, greens, recipes, and other vendor trash. A couple of items that I received here that are worth mentioning are:
Recipe: Elixir of Major Mageblood, Girdle of Gale Force
And a one or 2 Eternium Lockboxes.
Gold from Ogres
A great way to grind for several different things at the same time is by killing the Ogres in Nagrand. A few great spots for this are the Warmaul Hill in the Northwest corner, the Laughing Skull Ruins to the north, the cave at Southwind Cleft and the Burning Blade ruins to the east.
Doing so will get you a lot of gold from the loot and you will also get Obsidian Warbeads that will earn you reputation with the Consortium and Kurenai. You will also gain additional experience with the Kurenai for the kills. So not only will you get a lot of gold from the loot, you will also increase your reputation which will gain you access to a lot of great items that these different factions sell.
Most of the items are Bind on Pickup (bop) but the recipes and patterns that they sell are what you are looking for here. With these, you can make items that only a few players can make which in turn will get a you lot of gold.
One of the items that I purchased was the Pattern: Reinforced Mining Bag from Provisioner Nasela for just 5 Gold. You should be able to collect the required Primal Earths on your own so the only other item required is some Heavy Knothide Leather . The cost to make one of these bags is around 20-25 Gold if you buy all of this from the Auction House but in return you can sell these bags for 75+ Gold! That is a very quick and easy 50 Gold profit every time you do this.
Jewelcrafting
From my experience and talking with other high level Jewelcrafters, it is definitely not in your best interest to pick up this profession if you want to make money. The cost alone to level up the profession is outrageous.
Cutting of gems will make you some decent money but you have to spend a lot to get to that point and there are many times where the market just gets flooded with these items.
If you are in a guild, chances are that there are at least a few players with a MAX Jewelcrafting skill so if you ever need anything you can get the mats and they might hook you up.
This approach gets you the benefit of crafting items through jewelcrafting without investing all your own money to do it yourself. Providing a small tip, or even better offer to pay a certain % of the AH cost, this will improve your "reputation" with other players & fellow Guildies so that you can go back to them anytime for more crafting without them feeling like you are just mooching off of them all the time.
If you get a good list of Friends/Guildies or just general Farmer’s, use the /2 trade chat and ask for X amount of whatever you need to be posted to you COD, give your price (a little lower than you know they are worth).
e.g. /2 Need 50 Aquamarine pay 4g each, please Send me COD as many as you have, Once I have 50 I will send back any mails containing Aquamarine back to sender, with a Tip just for sending!
This is a great way to build up mat supply and customer sale base, based from your crafted Item’s you sell.
Prospecting
If you do decide to pick up Jewelcrafting, one of the biggest money makers for this profession is through Prospecting. Once your Jewelcrafting skill reaches 275, you will then be able to prospect Fel Iron Ore. When you prospect this ore, you will have an excellent chance to receive gems such as Blood Garnet and Azure Moonstone . In addition to these gems, you also have a chance to obtain a rare gem such as Star of Elune and Noble Topaz . Both of these rare gems can sell for as much as 50 Gold each in the Auction House! Also, it's not uncommon to receive mutiple gems while prospecting a single stack. With Fel Iron Ore, you will receive Fel Iron Powder every time. This item is worthless to you but stacks of these sell pretty good to vendors.
You can do the same with the Adamantite Ore. The difference between this and Fel Iron Ore is that the % chance of receiving gems increases quite a bit. Last night when I was doing this, I got a Dawnstone , Golden Draenite , and a Blood Garnet from a single stack. I turned around and sold all of these items for about 65 gold at the Auction House. With Admantite Ore you will receive Adamantite Powder each time. Unlike the Fel Iron Powder, this item is needed by Alchemists to create Mercurial Adamantite which sells for about 12 Gold each at the Auction House. If you decided to take up Jewelcrafting, I hope you paired it with Mining because this will supply almost all materials needed for Prospecting.
Even if you don't have stacks of this ore lying around, you can find a lot of great deals on Fel Iron and Adamantite at the Auction House. It is definitely worth the investment if you decide to purchase the ore because you can in turn prospect and sell the gems you discover for a profit. What's nice about this approach is that you never have to leave your main city if you don't want to. You can just keep buying the ore and prospecting the gems and then turn right around and sell for a quick and easy profit. This is one of those gold making strategies that can literally make you THOUSANDS of gold every single week!
I wouldn’t really recommend buying Fel Iron Ore of the AH imo because a 30 min run around Outland will make you an average of 100 Ore’s 20x5 including Gem’s, but if your rich & can’t get to Outland due to not having The Burning Crusade, then go ahead & buy off the AH.
Mana Thistle
Mana Thistle is an item that is needed by Alchemists to make a lot of the higher end potions. This herb can only be found in places that require a flying mount. Here are the best places to find Mana Thistle. In Terokkar Forest, you should first go over to the southeast corner to Skettis . Another spot in Terokkar Forest is just above the Aldor base to an area called the Barrier Hills. Over in Shadowmoon Valley, you will want to fly over to the island in the southeast corner of the zone to an area called Netherwing Ledge . In Blade'sEdge Moutains, there are 2 spots where you can find Mana Thistle: Pinacle Vortex to the west and Felstorm Point to the north. Lastly, in Netherstorm, head to the island in the Northwest corner of the zone called Socrethar's Seat. Here you can also find some Mana Thistle. Currently on my server, a stack of Mana Thistle sells for about 60 Gold. If you have a Flying Mount and have Herbalism as one of your professions, you should definitely check out these spots. Not only will you find Mana Thistle but you will also find a lot of the other popular herbs such as Dreaming Glory and Felweed in these areas as well.
Selling in Shattrath
Take advantage of the fact that Shattrath is prime location for travelers in the Outlands. Many players have their hearthstone set here because they can portal to other main cities from here to access the Auction Houses. You should try posting messages at Shattrath when you are trying to sell an item because you may be able to actually sell it for more than usual because of the convenience and they can't readily check the Auction House for the going rate.
Doom Skulls
A stack of 20 Doom Skulls is needed in order to activate the Evil Draws Near quest in the Bone Wastes. They drop from several different mobs in the area but the ones that seem to drop them most often are Auchenai Death-Speakers and the Auchenai Doomsayers. They both have a very high drop rate and in addition to the doom skulls, they also drop a ton of Netherweave. What I have done is farm these guys for about 15 - 20 minutes to get these Doom Skulls. Once I do, I post a message in the Bone Wastes saying that I have some for sale. I have sold these for as much as 8 Gold to players. You could also put them up for sale at the Auction House as well. Doing this a few times an hour and selling the Netherweave and green loot dropped comes to about 50 Gold per hour. Not necessarily the 100+ Gold per hour everyone is looking for but this strategy is a pretty easy way for players to make some decent gold if you aren't able to reach the higher end places in the Outlands yet.
Essences
Essences aren't something new to the Burning Crusade but I am bringing them up here because they are needed by Jewelcrafters and other professions that are trying to craft higher end items. Since most of you now have a level 70, you won't have any problems soloing level 55-60 elites now. For each of the difference essences, there is an elite that will drop them all the time. What you can do here is take these guys out along with their respective mobs nearby to collect even more of these essences. The following is a list of where I go to get each of the essences. Note that these places used to be quite popular prior to the Burning Crusade being released so it was hard to farm these guys for essences. I have since had a lot of luck finding these guys because people seem to have forgotten about them.
For the Essence of Air , the elite boss that drops this is Windreaver in Silithus. He can be found in the northwestern, corner of the zone along with other air elementals that also have a chance to drop these essences.
In addition to the Essence of Air that drops off Windreaver, you will also have an excellent chance for him to drop a nice blue item. On two different occasions, I received the Pattern: Stormshroud Gloves which sold for about 40 gold each!
For the Essence of Earth , the elite you need to find is Avalanchion who can be found in the northeast corner of Azshara . As with the other spots, you will also be able to find mobs nearby that have a chance to drop additional essences. The going rate for an essence of Earth is somewhere between 8 and 10 Gold each.
For the Essence of Fire , you will want to find Baron Charr in the center of Un'Goro near the volcano . Not only will he drop an essence of fire but so do the fire elementals that you can find all around this area. For each Essence of Fire you collect, that basically equates to anywhere between 10 - 12 Gold. Most players that are farming for certain items have completely neglected the older areas which makes it that much easier for you to take advantage of this.
Lastly, the Essences of Water sell for about 15 Gold and an elite that drops this is Princess Tempestria who can be found at the lake just Southwest of Everlook in Winterspring. Every time that I have killed her I got a blue item such as a very nice BoE shield and the Tempestria's Frozen Necklace which combined fetched me about 90 Gold.
Great AOE Spot
Over in Shadowmoon Valley at the Ruins of Karabor in Illidan's Black Temple, you will find about 20 or so Demon Hunter Supplicants packed closely together that are level 70. I know that sounds tough to AOE but they are sparring with each other and their health isn't full when you start to fight them so they drop a lot faster. Also, the guys in this area pretty much only do melee damage which allows you to do a ton of damage before they can even reach you. You will be able to collect a ton of gold, lots of greens, and Scryer reputation items such as signets and tomes in a very short amount of time. This is definitely one of the few good spots where AOE can still work in the Outlands. Currently, the only people that appear to be in this area are ones completing some quests so you shouldn't have to worry about other people up here. Also, the respawn rate of these guys is very short so once you clear a couple areas they will start to respawn and you can start all over. You should be able to easily make well over 175 Gold per hour here without any problems if you are good at AOE.
Netherweave Cloth
Netherweave Cloth is the new Runecloth of the Outlands and is needed by a lot of different professions to get their skill maxed out at 375. For that reason, Netherweave Cloth is always in demand and sells great in the Auction House. I found the best place to farm for these in Hellfire Peninsula at the Pools of Aggonar . Here you are looking for the Terrorfiends which are only a level 61 mob. These guys drop the cloth just about every single kill and you can get a stack of these in less than 10 minutes. These can be sold for about 8 gold each in the Auction House. Doing this for an hour comes to almost 50 Gold per hour just from the Netherweave. With everything else factored in that you receive as loot during this time, it can easily jump to almost 80 Gold per hour! If this spot is getting hit a lot, another spot I like to visit is the Lake surrounding Halaa in Nagrand. Down here, you will find a lot of Boulderfist Ogres who drop the Netherweave almost every kill as well. These guys are a bit higher of a level but I hardly ever see people down here killing these guys.
Great Fishing Spots
Furious Crawdads are needed to create Spicy Crawdads and Golden Darters
are needed to make Golden Fish Sticks. Both of which heal 7500 HP in 30 seconds and provide some very nice buffs that lasts for 30 minutes. There are 2 excellent spots to fish for these and they are both very close to each other. They are the Blackwind Lake in Skettis and Lake Ere'Noru which is found just southeast of the Allerian Stronghold. Whichever place you decide to visit, make sure you locate the Highland Mixed Schools. Also, you will need to have a high fishing skill of around 430 and buff your fishing skill to as high of a level as you can to avoid losing your catch.
Attaching Aquadynamic Fish Attractors will also help increase your chance for a catch. You can either sell the Furious Crawdad and Golden Darters as they are in the Auction House or cook them to make their respective crafted items. Either way, they are both pretty popular items in the Auction House.
In addition to these items, you have a chance to catch Mr. Pinchy who is an exceptionally rare catch from the Highland Mixed Schools. This item is BoP and has 3 charges with a 2 day cooldown in between. Each charge will grant a random wish. A couple of the wishes that you might get are Mr. Pinchy's Gift which gives you 5 Super Healing Potions and 5 Super Mana Potions and another is the Magical Crawdad Box which summons a Magical Crawdad non-combat pet.
Healing and Mana Potions
I have found that you can sell Healing and Mana Potions for a lot of gold. One of the ways I have found to get a stack of Healing or Mana Potions is by going to Nagrand and hanging out near Gurgthock to the north where players are trying to complete the Ring of Blood quests. If you haven't done these quests, they are a series of 6 quests that require a group of players to kill some elites. The 2nd and 3rd parts of the quest give a stack of Super Healing and Super Mana Potions .
Other players are always looking for help here and this is where you come in to sell your services. Tell them that you will help them take out the elites if they give you the potions that come with the reward. Most players are more than willing to do this because they are completing these for the experience and the gold. There have been a few occasions where I would help a group of 4 players and I was able to have all of them agree to give me their potions because they needed a tank to help complete the quests. In about 30 minutes of tanking, I made about 125 gold from the potions I sold.
Something you should never do is buy potions from the Auction House. Instead, you should either ask the people in your guild if they can make you some potions or post a message in the trade channel asking for an Alchemist to make some for you. You can almost always have them create these for far less than the Auction House rate. You can also check out Dealer Sadaqat in Netherstorm who sells various "Potent Potables" as Limited Supply Items. The Super Healing and Super Mana Potions he sells are 2 gold each but a stack of 5 in the Auction House can sell for up to 35 Gold! All classes need either one or both of these types of potions so the demand is always there.
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