Best Farming Spots in WoW

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Elemental Materials

Ever since the beginning of WoW, elemental materials have always been recommended as the go-to item to farm. The larger versions (essences, primals, eternals) have always sold for a decent amount of gold and always have a quick sell rate.

However, this leads to competition for gold-farmers. Gold Farmers can farm these items around the clock which drives the price for these items down to an unprofitable level. Even if you are the fastest farmer in the world, farming these elementals is rarely worth it.

Instead, I find that the market for the old-tier elementals is fantastic. You can often sell Tier 1 elemental material for tons of gold. As an example, at the time of this writing, wowhead.com has the listed median for Essence of Air sitting at 17.5 gold a piece and Breath of Wind sitting at 9 gold each. At a 30% drop rate for Essence of Air, this is very profitable.

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Dust Stormers spawn heavily in Silithus and have a 30% drop rate of Essence of Air and a 10% drop rate of Breath of Wind.

Taking these drop rates into account, 17.5 gold * .3 (30%) + 9 gold * .1 (10%) yields an average mob value of 6.15 gold. Add in that their trash drop value is worth 40 silver plus any rares and epics they might drop and you will find that these mobs are worth 7 gold a piece!

These are level 55 monsters! Even a healer can kill them in a few seconds. Killing very slowly @ 1 monster per hour yields 420 gold per hour. Faster players can easily kill 2 or more per hour and earn in excess of 1,000 gold per hour!

The Catch

If these items were so profitable, why are they not farmed as much? Well, you can easily over-saturate the market. If you farm for a few hours, you can easily pull in anywhere from 50-100 essences and 10-20 Breath of Winds in an hour.

You will find that only 5-15 essences and 1-5 breaths will actually be sold on the Auction House in a day. The way you maximize your profits here is to only list about 8 of each item at a time and keep the rest in your bank.

Place all your elementals up for buy out and leave the time up for 48 hours. Every day or 2, check the Auction House and re-list ones that didn't sell and replace the ones that did sell with the items you already farmed. The good thing is these items are practically free to list, so you can keep listing them over and over again for 48 hours. No rush.

The key is to farm up a bunch at once, and then slowly list them up on the auction house along with your other items in listed in this guide so you have a steady revenue stream of ~100 gold per day.

If you really like to farm, you can always farm Tier 1 Elementals for awhile and collect a few week's supply and while you are selling those, farm Tier 2 Elementals for awhile instead. You can farm multiple items to always be maximizing your profits.

Now that you have your background knowledge and know how to sell the items to get your gold, here are the farming spots.

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