How to Make Gold by Gathering in WoW

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If you want to earn some money via gathering, you can. The steps are pretty simple:

Step 1: Buy an epic mount.

Step 2: Install the Gatherer add-on (visit http://www.gathereraddon.com/ for the install).

Step 3: Start farming in a zone.

Step 4: Profit!

In all seriousness, as soon as you start to gathering, gatherer will build substantial maps for you that you can use in order to farm with.

In reality, most ores and herbs are concentrated in zones according to their level. For example, Copper spawns in level 1-20 zones, Tin in 20-30, Iron in 30-40, Mythril in 40-50, Thorium in 50-60, so on and so forth.

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Maps

I have included a variety of maps for low-level herbs and ores which are marked in the level 1-80 guide. These can still be profitable to gather at the level cap, depending on your server's economy.

If you see any of the levels 1-80 ores (or bars) going for a lot on your auction house, you should visit some of those maps.

While I have provided you a variety of gathering maps to use, I still recommend installing gatherer if you are going to be a serious gatherer. The maps I have provided are optimal for gathering the maximal amounts of herbs and ores in the zones they cover.

While these routes are very effective, sometimes only certain ores / herbs will be valuable, and gatherer can help you zero in on a certain ore or herb that may be particularly valuable on that particular day on your particular server.

With gatherer installed as you follow the routes provided, you can then have it only display the particular type of herb or ore you are looking for, allowing you to collect it much more efficiently.

An example of a time when you might want to use this was recently when Sungrass shot up to 5 gold per piece on my server. By disabling all herbs/ores aside from Sungrass, you could then gather that Sungrass more effectively and take advantage of that specific price hike.

Herb and Ore Spawn Locations

There is a specific pattern that all mining nodes and ore follow: they spawn near enemies. If there are few enemies around, even if there is a lot of mountainous space (mining) or open space (herbs), the spawns for harvesting nodes will also be light.

You can pretty much figure any questing area has 2-3 different spawns in it, so simply by hitting all the quest areas in a zone, you are likely to grab the majority of the nodes or herbs in that zone.

With that said, there are some specific areas in the game you should visit for certain ores and herbs, depending on what you are looking for. Below, I will list specific zones for each type of ore and herb along with maps where appropriate.

Note that literally any level of ore can be profitable at certain times - there is no set rule which states you must the top-level ore. In particular, I have found that if you have an epic mount, Burning Crusade ores (Adamantite and Khorium in particular) tend to be very valuable!

Why do these ores stay valuable? Anyone who wants to level a crafting profession needs these raw materials in large quantities. If you want to level up your new Blacksmith, you are going to need a lot of Fel Iron and Adamantite Ore to level it up.

Players that do not have mining leveled up (and even those that do) will find that it is often easier to buy items off the auction house. The prices for these ore can be quite high to the enterprising player.

Additionally, there is almost no competition when gathering these mid-level ores, which makes it very easy to farm an entire zone by yourself. With an epic mount, it can be quite profitable.

For Herbs, there is a very similar situation. However, thanks to the wonders of Inscription and a few other oddities, even very low-level herbs are valuable. While Copper Ore or Tin Ore may net you a few gold per stack, you can easily sell low-level herbs for 10x that!

For example, at the time of this writing, Peacebloom is going for 10 gold a stack on most servers. Mageroyal (50 herbalism skill) is going for nearly 30 gold! A low level player can easily farm a stack or two of Mageroyal an hour (even with no mount) and earn a quick 50 gold to buy all their bags.

Prices on these low level herbs and ores will tank shortly after the release of Cataclysm, due to many players leveling up Goblins and Worgens and running through the new areas. However, this will not last long as players will be looking to level up their fledgling character's professions once they get up to the level cap. This will in turn cause a massive price increase in low level herbs and ores.

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