8 Free Tools to Help a WoW Gatherer Make Gold
Posted on January 7, 2008
Filed Under Rambling, WoW Professions, World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft Tips
Farming gold in World of Warcraft is something I hate doing. I prefer making gold via Auction House as it takes less time. However some people who are in a rush to get their epic flying mounts, and will do both methods to speed things up a bit.
I used to raid quite often, however due to my real life work schedule I would always have to go on a waiting list to get into any raids. While I waited I was usually outside gathering herbs or mining stuff close by to at least think that I’m doing something productive. I found a few add ons to the World of Warcraft game that made gathering a little easier for me.
World of Warcraft’s gather professions include Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning. Depending on your servers needs, the two profitable ones are mining, and herbalism. Skinning can be profitable if you know of a place like the Caverns of Time, in which you can get a good deal of Knothide Leather in a short amount of time. You don’t really need tools for that. Just information on where to make the best use of your time.
Map Mods – Both Gatherer, and Cartographer are great for keeping track of where mining and or herb nodes are found in game. You only need to install one or the other. I would check with your guild mates on which one they use as Cartographer can be hard on your memory usage if your running a lower end computer. Cartographer is better (in my opinion) in which you get updated whenever a fellow guild member finds a mining/herb point that you don’t have. So if your friends in guild are mining, your map gets updated while you are playing as well.
Great, now that you have your add ons you still want a general idea of where to go, or what the best route while farming is. This information will be different per server depending on who is in the area farming as well. Over time you’ll find a comfortable route for yourself. Here’s an example Mining paths to get a better idea of what I’m talking about.
This route is from Almost Gaming which has more on their Mining/Herbalism guides for 1-300 pages.
This next map might be more of a fun tool than a useful one. It had some nodes listed on its map, but it has a World of Warcraft map using the Google Maps API. Which means you can scroll out to see all of outlands or Azeroth, and then zoom into a particular city from there with ease. I liked the map, but there needs to be more data available on it. Perhaps if they combined it with information from the Wowhead or Thotbott database it would be of even greater use.
Last of all are database sites. If you have been playing World of Warcraft for a while, or been reading forums you’ve most likely run into links from these sites. Within them you can search for various items, quests, npcs or whatever else comes to mind. All three sites are free to use with no signups required.
Note: Thottbot is also the site that lets you put in mouseover item links for World of Warcraft items. For example mouse over this link for the Ashes of Alar, which was the mount that was sold for 190k gold in China. You’ll see the familiar mouse over item tool tip like in the game of World of Warcraft. Useful tool if your hosting a site that links to in game items frequently.
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I need to learn how to make some gold to get my flying mount. The raids I want to get in I will need it.
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These are some great tips. I’ve thought about doing this because it seems like a fun way to make money.
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Lately it hasn’t been worth it, I’m only receiving about $30 for every 1000 gold I sell. And even at that price I’m not getting very many requests because the mark is flooded right now. If you ever do decide to just send me a message or something if you need some more tips etc.
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Excellent tips really, I’ll refer to it in the furure definately.
Just a quick note: Wowhead can also display item tooltips, you can check for the code here: http://www.wowhead.com/?powered
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Gatherer is awesome. I swear I don’t how I survived without it. All those nodes in Nagrand are hard to keep track of without it.
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