World of Warcraft – How to Make Gold by Farming Leather – Part One (With Pictures)

How to make gold farming Savage Leather, Pristine Hide, Blackened Dragonscale, Arctic Fur, Cobra Scales and Nerubian Chitin.

There are a few different ways to make money skinning. There are rare mobs that can be skinned to drop rare items, there are common mobs that can be skinned to drop rare fur, and there are regular mobs to skin that can drop leather for you. The most consistent way to make money is through common leather, but this can be done while looking for these jackpots.

In this article we will tackle Savage Leather, Pristine Hide, Blackened Dragonscale, Artic Fur, Cobra Scales and Nerubian Chitin.

Pristine Hide

Pristine Hide is a rare skin off of any Cataclysm beast that can give you Savage Leather, the higher level the beast the better chance and if it is elite or a boss that helps even more. Some bosses may give you a Pristine Hide every time.

Savage Leather in Uldum

You will want to be 83+ to skin Savage Leather in here. The two areas I have chosen are Mangled Hyena’s in the red and the Riverbed Crocolisks in Blue. You may find that the hyenas are surrounded by too many humanoids for your taste so I recommend doing the crocs.

 

Savage Leather/Blackened Dragonscale in Twilight Highlands

You will want to be 84+ to skin Savage Leather in here. Also keep in mind that Obsidian Dragonkin can drop Blackened Dragonscales, these are used frequently in leatherworking. This is a good dual purpose farming spot where you can get both Savage Leather and Blackened Dragonscale from.

 

Savage Leather/Blackened Dragonscale in Kelp’Thar Forest, Vashj’ir

You will want to be 80+ to skin Savage Leather in here. Also keep in mind the both of these can give you a Blackened Dragonscale, these are used frequently in leatherworking. This is a good dual purpose farming spot where you can get both Savage Leather and Blackened Dragonscale from.

 

Cobra Scales

This component is farmed in Outland, more specifically, the best spot to farm this item is in Shadowmoon Valley off of Shadow Serpents. It is still one of the highest profitable reagents due to no one farming them anymore and their demand for twinks. They commonly sell between 5-30g, but be careful not to over farm them, the demand is less for these than it used to be. It is used to make two leg enchants, one can be placed on level 50+ players and the other 60+. Check your Auction House before farming these to make sure it is not flooded.

 

Nerubian Chitin

This skinning component only can be skinned from the Nerubian NPCs that are commonly found inside and around the instances of Azjol-Nerub and Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom. If you are a level 80 one option you have is soloing these instances on regular to get Nerubian Chitin, otherwise you will have to find a group or farm mobs that have less common drop rates. There are two other main spots to do this if you don’t kill the mobs outside of Azjol-Nerub.

Forgotten Depths NPCs – Icecrown

There are a few NPCs that can drop Nerubian Chitin that spawn in this area. They start with the nameForgotten Depths and are bug looking creatures. They spawn all around these two temples. You will want to be 75+ to do this area maybe even 77+.

 

Hath’ar Skimmer – Zul’Drak

There are a bunch of Hath’ar Skimmers around Kolramas just waiting for you to come kill and skin them. So why keep them waiting? You will want to be at least level 72+ to do this area.

 

Nerub’ar NPCs – Borean Tundra

These NPCs spawn around Warsong Hold, you can do it as Alliance but be careful not to get too close to the guards. There are all kinds of bug looking Nerub’ar NPCs around the hold that spawn and also a Flamespitter that can drop Nerubian Chitin. I’d draw you a map but they are easy to find since they sit right outside a major Horde City.

World of Warcraft – The Auction House – Familiarization Tips for More Gold (Part 1)

Part one of a guide that will help you familiarize yourself with the Auction House in World of Warcraft.

The Auction House

The Auction House is the lifeblood of any gold making strategies in World of Warcraft. It is extremely important that everyone who reads this guide understands how to use Auctionator, Postal, Market Watcher and the Trade Channel. Further, auction trading is a discipline and an art. I can’t teach it to you with one paragraph, there’s no 1-trick that will give you the edge over other people. Instead, it’s a game of patience and knowledge. Understanding how to properly use the Auction House is very important so I have included an entire chapter focused on it. There are even guides out there like Reaching Gold Cap, that focus entirely on the Auction House. In this chapter you will learn about the essential addons to use to make buying and selling on the Auction House much easier. You will also learn about buying items and reselling them for a high profit. I will also discuss ways in which you can find your own niche to make tons of gold. Finally, in this chapter you will learn about techniques including market manipulation of the prices of items and about bidding on items and getting them extremely cheap. It is these kinds of strategies that are discussed in this chapter that will make using and selling items on the Auction House much easier. You will be able to quickly assess the value of items and make informed decisions regarding pricing. What you won’t learn in this article is how to best sell items that YOU crafted in your professions. I will dedicate an article solely for this. So keep checking back.

Common Mistakes & Misconceptions

It’s best to start by clearing your mind of a few common mistakes and misconceptions about making gold on the Auction House. These are the problems I encounter most often with people who are struggling in this area. Here’s a list of common mistakes that you need to avoid if you’re going to learn to make gold on the Auction House the way I do.

Know the Numbers – Auction House Cuts

Every time you sell an item on the Auction House you will only receive 95% of the sell price, Blizzard takes the rest in what we call the “auction house’s cut.” For instance, if you sell an item for 100g you will only get 95g in the mail. This is important because it marks the minimum profit you need to make in order for a trade to be successful when selling on the Auction House. It also tells us that if a player is selling an item in trade chat it should sell for at least 5% less than the going rate on the auction house. Some players will forget this fact and expect full price in trade chat or worse yet calculate their profit based on receiving 100% of the sell value. Don’t make this mistake, always keep in mind that your faction’s Auction House will take 5%. The neutral Auction House in Booty Bay and Gadgetzan will take 15% when you sell cross faction. This is a huge amount, making it very difficult to be profitable

on the neutral Auction House or perform cross-faction arbitrage. Deposits are another thing to consider. The deposit is the amount you have to pay to post the item up for sale. You will receive this back if the item sells but you will not get it back if you either cancel the auction or the auction expires. For 12 hour auctions it’s 15% of the vendor sell price, 24 hour auctions it’s 30% of the vendor sell price and for 48 hour auctions it’s 60%. This makes it important to price expensive items properly or avoid posting entirely. Fortunately, not a lot of items have a high vendor sell price.

Being Impatient

Some people might think that the purpose of this chapter is to teach them how they can log on and in 20 minutes make a few thousand gold off the Auction House. Don’t get me wrong, you will ‘earn’ thousands of gold in short periods of time but you will likely hold onto those items for several days or even weeks before you cash in on the items you purchased. Trading on the Auction House is a game of patience and wisdom. You won’t be able to login on day 1 and earn this type of gold either. You will need to watch the Auction House prices for several days if not weeks before you have the confidence to start capitalizing on the price fluctuations.

Thinking I Can Share Numbers With You That Will Make You Rich

Some people are looking for specific numbers, like ‘buy all the X you see that go for less than 500g and repost them at 700g’. This guide is not here to give you price specifics like that. I might share with you the price ranges I use but these are dependent on the realm, faction and time that I used those prices. The most important factor in making gold trading on the Auction House is knowing the value of items. If you traded for 2 weeks and watched Abyss Crystals sell for 30g almost every Tuesday evening and now see a stack of 17 Abyss Crystals at 20g each, you need to pull from your experience to quickly make that investment before someone else does and know how long to wait before reposting them. Knowing these price ranges for as many high volume/cost items as possible is going to help you make gold on the Auction House. Unfortunately I can’t teach you the numbers I use, unless you play Alliance on my realm, and even then my criteria for buying/selling changes regularly.

Thinking You Always Need to Undercut

A lot of people complain about having to undercut all the time and losing money. This is a bad habit many people make when starting off on the Auction House, especially people who farm something and try to sell it as quick as possible. If you farm 5 stacks of Saronite Ore and just undercut the lowest stacks on the Auction House you’re probably not going to make as much gold as you wanted to. More than likely, someone like me will see your lowball post, buy it immediately and post it 2 days later for a 3-digit profit.

Prices stay low for periods of time, sometimes days or even weeks. You need to be patient and watch the prices come up before you post your items. If the prices are low, and you know it, you can buy a lot of inventory to sell during high price periods. This is how I make a ton of my gold. There are situations where you will want to undercut as quickly as possible, these apply to special circumstances like selling crafted items and vendor pets.

You can use Market Watcher history (which we’ll discuss below) and The Undermine Journal to see what prices ought to be for a specific item. Always factor in changes to the game before concluding that an item is for sale, some items lose value over time and sometimes changes in the game can permanently drop the value of items.

My Realm’s Economy Is Screwed Up, I Can’t Make Gold In It

I’ve heard this several times. Most of the people who complain are complaining because they are experiencing extreme price fluctuations. You actually want to see these, they are what let you make gold. The people who complain about them are those who made the mistake of buying high and not being patient enough to wait for prices to come back up before selling their inventory. In conclusion, you can make gold on any realm’s Auction House. I have been successful on low, medium, and high population realms and there’s no reason for you to get discouraged if you’re struggling on your realm, it’s not your realm’s fault.

I Don’t Have Enough Time to Make Gold, I’m a Casual Player

A lot of people simply don’t have time to farm, they would rather raid, do dungeons, daily quests or just chill in the Barrens telling Chuck Norris jokes. That’s actually good news, because you can make a lot more gold per hour if you only spend 30 minutes a day checking the Auction House. In the 3-4 hours you spend on the Auction House per week (spending about 30 minutes per day) you can make 2-5,000gold without much thinking. That’s an average of over 1,000 gold an hour! If you don’t have a lot of time then you need to start by focusing on this part of the guide.

Prices Always Go Down Because People Keep Undercutting Each Other

This can’t possibly be true, if it were everything would be free, right? It might seem obvious to you but this is a common misconception people have when they only play during peak hours. During these hours most prices have a tendency to either plummet or go up rapidly. They will adjust, trust me. You don’t always have to undercut, each time you post an item you have to figure at what price it will sell and undercutting is only effective if you’re posting in your desired price range.

World of Warcraft - Essential Addons To Help You On Your Way To Riches

Here I have compiled a list of the best addons that one should have to help you in making gold. No these addons will not be generating gold, but they will facilitate your process in achieving your gold cap.
Addons are what makes World of Warcraft incredibly easy and convenient for everyone: raiders, farmers, gold makers and PvP'ers alike. If you don't have the following addons installed you will be missing out on taking advantage of the Auction House and making things easier for yourself, which in turn makes you a lot more gold.

Market Watcher

Market Watcher allows you to track item prices over time and shows you a graph of price trends. It will help you identify the actual value of an item opposed to what it's selling for an any given time. I will teach you how to use this in much greater detail in Chapter 1 - The Auction House. For now, install this addon and familiarize yourself with it.

Auctionator

If I had to make gold with only one addon I would choose Auctionator. It provides an extremely intuitive and simple interface for scanning item prices current and historic, posting auctions, buying items and checking up on existing auctions. I have an entire section dedicated to the use of this addon in my next article - The Auction House. You should install this addon now, though, and familiarize yourself with it as much as you can.

Auctioneer

Auctioneer Suite provides you with the tools and data necessary to make those difficult auctioning decisions with ease. From purchasing to posting, the Auctioneer Suite provides time-tested tools to allow you more time to actually play your characters or play the market. As you will soon discover, it is much more than a simple "Auctioning AddOn", the Auctioneer Suite also shows in-depth information for all game items, such as those used in quests or recipes, and much, much more. Several other addons will also use the Auctioneer statistics you gather via scanning. This is especially true for many of the popular crafting addons, such as Little Sparky's Workshop. Install and familiarize yourself with this addon if you intend to buy and sell items on the Auction House.

Postal

Postal is an extremely helpful addon that lets you retrieve all your incoming mail with a click of a button. You can use the option 'Open All' to have all your mail opened and placed in your inventory. It will report in your chat window what item you received or how much gold was in each message. After your inventory is empty it will summarize how much gold you made in total. This makes buying and selling tons of items off the Auction House very easy.

It has some options worth exploring. They are accessible by clicking the down arrow in the top right of the mailbox when Postal is installed. Take note of the OpenAll option as it will let you configure which mail is automatically opened and which mail will be left alone. Sometimes it's beneficial to leave mail with attachments alone so that you can use your character's mailbox as additional storage.

TradeSkillMaster (TSM) - used to be called AuctionProfitMaster and Quick Auctions

TradeSkillMaster (TSM) is one of the most powerful addons for posting, canceling and managing a large number of auctions. It's used to manage groups of items that you want automatically posted above a specified price. For instance, if you are a Jewelcrafter and want to make sure you are posting all of a specific gem cuts above 10 gold but at the best price possible, TSM will do it for you automatically. I will explain in detail how to apply the features of TSM in another article in the next few weeks. For now, here is an overview of its capabilities. You should get a good idea of how these work before reading the Crafting Professions chapter.

When you install TSM, make sure you download all of it's modules:

Configuring TSM

You can configure TSM by typing /tsm. You will see a window with some buttons on the left and right
like this:

The most common way to use TSM is to configure Item Groups by selecting 'Auctioning Groups/Options' on the right, then by selecting 'Categories/Groups' on the left and finally by creating a new group by selecting the tab 'Create Category / Group' and typing the name of the new group. Once the Item Group is created, you can select it on the left. TSM might prompt you asking if you want to use advanced configuration, we won't use advanced features at this time so you can select beginner for now. Next we want to select the tab at the top that says 'Add/Remove Items.' This will bring up a list of items that you have in your inventory on the left. You can add as many items as you want to this item group (on the right) by selecting them on the left and clicking 'Add >>' in the middle. In this example, I'm going to create an item group to auto-post Borean Leather for me, so all I will add is Borean Leather.

Finally, it's time to configure how the item is going to be posted, how much it will be posted for, etc. Select the 'Group Overrides' tab at the top. Now you'll see several options including Post Settings, General Price Settings, and Minimum and Maximum Price Settings. We will use these to define how we want to post an item. Here is what a default configuration looks like:

In order to change a field, you must right click it. Hold your mouse over the field for a description of what the field is. When changing a field make sure you hit the enter key on your keyboard to tell it to save the value you typed. The most important values are Per Auction, Post Cap, Threshold and Fallback. Per Auction is the number of items in a stack, for Borean Leather I would use 20. Post Cap is the number of posts at once, for Borean Leather I might do 5-10. The Threshold is the lowest price you will sell a single item for, for Borean Leather I might use 2 gold (which is the same as 40 gold a stack). Finally, Fallback is the price TSM will use if no one else is posting the item. Read the sections below on posting and canceling for a better idea of how these values are used.

Posting with TSM

To post, visit the auction house and select the TSM option on the upper right of the window. It will load a TSM window which has an option to Post in the upper right:

When you select 'Post' TSM will go through your bags and find any items that you have assigned to a group. It will scan the auction house for those items and if you can undercut without going below your threshold, it will queue up the auctions to be posted. This makes it very simple to post a large group of items at the competitive price. Once TSM determines what to post, you will have to manually select the 'Post Auction X/X' button for each post. The designers of TSM were forced to use this mechanic to avoid automating the game too much. All you have to do is close your eyes and click the button for 20- 40 seconds, depending on how many items you're posting.

Canceling with TSM

The 'Auctioning Cancel' option works just like the Post option except it scans for auctions that belong to you that you are no longer the lowest price for that item. It can be found directly below the 'Post' button in the TSM auction window. This is usually one of the first things I do when I log onto my main auction character. It will cancel all my auctions and then I can empty my mailbox and repost them at the best prices.

Auto mailing with TSM

Auto mailing is another extremely powerful feature of TSM. To create an auto mailer, type /tsm and select the 'Mailing Options' in the bottom right. Create an mail target and assign it items exactly like you did when you created the item group above. Once setup and assigned items, all you have to do is visit the mailbox and select 'Auto-Mail' and it will fire off all the mail to that target. This makes managing tade materials and crafted items very easy.

KevTool Queue (KTQ) and GnomeWorks

KTQ is an addon made for a very specific purpose: queuing up the creation of a large number of crafts. It's used mostly with crafting professions when you might craft 20-200 different items in a row. GnomeWorks is a profession UI that replaces the default Professions window, it's required to use KTQ. These two addons will be used in conjunction with Altoholic to do some extreme automation later in this guide. You won't need to use them until then, but they are worth installing and learning about.

Altoholic

Altoholic is an addon that stores information about what each of your characters are wearing, have in their inventory and have posted on the Auction House. This is an extremely valuable addon to have when using multiple characters to make gold in WoW. For example, if you are crafting items on your Tailor and need to know how many Brilliant Spellthread your alt has, all you have to do is move your mouse overtop of an existing Spellthread and it will tell you how many you have on each character in their bags, mail box and posted on the Auction House. KTQ requires on this addon.

Gatherer

Gatherer is an addon for herbalists, miners, and treasure hunters in World of Warcraft. It's very similar to Carbonite and most people use one or the other. Gatherer is simpler and not as involved, it's easier to learn and use. It's main purpose is to track the closest herbs, deposits, and treasure locations on your minimap. The addon does not track like a tracking ability does, rather it "remembers" where you have found various items in the past. It does this whenever you gather (perform Herbalism, mining or opening) on an item, and records the specific map location in its history. From then on, whenever the item comes into range of being one of the closest 1-25 (configurable) items to your present location, it will pop up on you minimap. When you view your world map, you will also see the item locations marked on the particular map you are viewing there.

Combuctor

Combuctor makes it extremely easy to organize and search your bags. It puts all your bags into one big view, allows you to filter by item quality (the colors on the bottom), item type and search for the item you are looking for. This will help you keep your main's items organized, help you sell gray items you would otherwise overlook and keep your auction house alt's inventory nice and clean.

World of Warcraft - How to Make Gold By Mining - Part 2 (With Picture and Routes)

How to Make Gold With Mining - Part 2

This is a continuation of the first part. In this part we will tackle Mithril Ore, Saronite Ore, Adamantite Ore, Fel Iron Ore and Tin Ore.

Farming Mithril Ore

 Here is another great ore from the original World of Warcraft that can be farmed for some profits. The reason people want this ore, is the same reason they want Thorium Ore. It takes awhile to farm and they'd rather pay for it to power level their professions. If you're not level 85 don't worry, this step was made just for you!

Mithril in Felwood

You don't need to be high level for this mining route, level 40+ will suffice. Obviously, it's always better to be higher level than the highest mob you're going to be near but it's doable without that.

 Mithril in Badlands

If you didn't like Felwood for some reason, try out the reshaped Badlands in Cataclysm.

 Farming Saronite Ore

Saronite is always worth at least 60s per Saronite Bar (30s per Saronite Ore), because it can be used by a Blacksmith to craft Saronite Bulwarks which sell to a vendor for 8g 48s from only 14 Saronite Bars. Keep this in mind if prices ever drop below 60s per bar. The demand for it will be significantly down in Cataclysm, but once the over abundance of it disappears and the supply comes down, it will sell for a reasonable amount.

Saronite in Icecrown

You will probably find Titanium on the way too since Saronite is a placeholder for Titanium. Titanium may still yield some value on the Auction House but is not worth farming by itself.

 Saronite in Sholazar

Sholazar is usually the favorite for many players. This route can also be farmed on land mount but its not recommended.

 Farming Adamantite Ore

Adamantite Ore can be farmed for a moderate profit but it's not as important as the first five so I'll just give you one good map to use.

Farming Fel Iron Ore

Fel Iron is on the same par as Adamantite for making gold off of it, but it's probably easier to get because it's most prevalent in the beginning zone once you enter Outland, Hellfire Peninsula.

 Farming Iron Ore in Feralas

This is a step lower level players can do to make money if you aren't high enough to do the ones above. The mobs in zones with Iron are typically start at around level 20 and is mined in zones up to 40, therefore you need not be much higher to effectively follow this route, level 35-40 will be sufficient for Feralas.

 Farming Tin Ore in Hillsbrad Foothills

Hillsbrad Foothills is by far the best area to farm Tin Ore in. It is heavily loaded in the northern area in and around the Ogre area at the Ruins of Alterac.

This is the end of the farming ore tutorial. Hope you enjoyed it and here is a link for further reading and gold making. World of Warcraft - Mining for Gold

World of Warcraft - How to Make Gold By Mining - Part 1 (With Picture and Routes))

How to Make Gold with Mining

This section will cover the different routes you can use to gather ore and other ways to make gold with Mining. Please read the section about Carbonite at the beginning of this chapter so you are aware of other methods of gathering. You can use Carbonite when gathering ore.

Farming Pyrite Ore

Pyrite Ore is the new Titanium Ore and can only be found in the upper Cataclysm zones such as
Twilight Highlands. This ore will sell for a lot of gold and continue to sell for a decent amount all the way through the Cataclysm expansion.

Pyrite in Twilight Highlands

Use the map below for the best results.




Farming Elementium Ore

Elementium Ore will be found on the same route as the Pyrite Route for Twilight Highlands. Another good source of Elementium is Deepholm.

Elementium Ore in Twilight Highlands

Use the map below for the best results.




Elementium Ore in Deepholm

Deepholm is littered with Elementium Veins and almost anywhere you fly you won't be able to avoid them except in the Northern area.



Farming Obsidium Ore

Obsidium Ore will be found in the lower level zones since it's the Cataclysm beginning ore. Vashj'r and Mount Hyjal will have it, but Mount Hyjal is better to farm. Rich Deposits can also be found in Deepholm and you will run into them while farming Elementium.

Obsidium Ore in Mount Hyjal

The better selection for pure Obsidium Ore without the hassle of going underwater.




Farming Thorium Ore

Believe it or not, the most profitable non-rare spawn ore is Thorium which is from the original World of Warcraft. The reason behind this is simple, more and more people are power leveling their professions to 450 to get awesome epic items in Cataclysm but none of these people want to go out and farm Thorium and most people would rather just buy it in the Auction House. This is bad for them, but good for those who want to make some gold. So below I will give you the best 2 routes to get Thorium. Remember there are Rich Thorium Veins (required skill 275) and Small Thorium Veins (required skill 245).

Thorium in Silithus

You will most likely want to be around level 55 or higher to farm this route without getting killed frequently. Don't forget there are Ooze Covered Rich Thorium Veins in this zone to be mined just like regular Rich Thorium Veins. Most of the nodes are around the hives where the bugs are.



Thorium in Blasted Lands

Ensure you are high enough mining before heading out here. The new Blasted Lands now has Thorium Deposits, especially in the southwestern area, but you fill find them all along this route. The eastern area might contain less nodes toward the water.



Farming Cobalt Ore

Cobalt Ore typically sells for about the same as Thorium Ore, there are several advantages and
disadvantages to each. For example, Cobalt Ore will require you to be a higher level and if you want to do it efficiently it is best that you have a flying mount and be level 77+ even though you will not need to be that level to not be killed. The mobs are also higher level around the Cobalt Nodes and there will be more competition. The advantage is, you can farm Cobalt Ore while you level in Northrend. So choose which one to farm based off your local Auction House, both are great.

Cobalt in Zul'Drak

I'm highly recommending you do not try to follow this route unless you have a flying mount because you will run into problems with walls and drop offs without one. It can be done without a flying mount but it may not be optimal. Also, there is a mix of Cobalt Deposits and Rich Cobalt Deposits, if you aren't 375 skill so you can mine both it also might not be optimal but technically you can farm the regular Cobalt Deposits at 350 skill.



Cobalt in Howling Fjord

There will also be a mix of Rich Cobalt Deposits and Cobalt Deposits in Howling Fjord but the skill I recommend is going to remain at 350 because there should be more regular nodes than not. You will also want a flying mount to complete the route effectively but you don't need one just watch out for parts of the route that don't use bridges and make sure you ride across them instead of following the route in some places.


Hope you enjoyed part 1 of this and hope this will make it easier for you to make the gold you always wanted. Keep an eye out for the part 2 update. If you like this part, please keep coming back. After mining, I will tackle skinning, herbalism and much more secrets.

Read more in detail here World of Warcraft - Farming Ore For Gold