WoW Farming Guide

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WoW Farming Guide

Farming involves repeatedly killing some a high-value target in order to get a crafting reagents, gold drops, random BoE rares and epics, cloth, and other such valuables. 

Chapter 3: Farming Guide

Part 1: WoW Farming Guide (you are here)

Part 2: Best Farming Spots

Part 3: Elemental Farming Spots

Part 4: Primal Farming Spots

Part 5: Eternal Farming Spots

Part 6: Cataclysm Volatile Farming Spots

During the mid-expansion cycle, farming is in the middle of the pyramid. In most situations, a good farming spot will make you more gold than doing dailies or gathering. 

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A lot of players who want to earn gold beyond what dailies provide (say, to get epic mount training or a new super-expensive BoE item) will then turn to farming to provide the remaining amount of gold. 

Since there is no limit to how much you can farm, farming is the method of choice for gold-sellers (also known as gold-farmers) because they can use their staff to farm in a location for 24 hours a day and rack up 1,000+ gold per day on each character.  

The problem caused by gold-farmers is simple, and it goes back to supply in demand. The supply of traditionally-farmed items like cloth and high-level elemental material (Volatile Air, Volatile Fire, etc. in Cataclysm) results in these items worth being very little (high supply leads to lower prices).  

Most players never do anything aside from dailies for getting gold because they think farming does not make as much money. This is a falsehood perpetuated by a lack of imagination or knowledge when it comes to farming. 

The big thing here is that the normal player (you and me) is not limited by constraints like a typical farmer (a farmer being a professional gold seller). This gives the player a huge gold-making advantage compared to a typical gold-farmer. Here are some of the differences: 

- Farmers are typically very unskilled as different workers often play on the same character. No fancy UIs can be set up and they most farmers never get familiar with every hotkey and ability. They may even play different classes depending on who is working that day. 

- Farmers do not have much world knowledge. They log on a character and are assigned a spot to farm in. They will then farm in that spot until the end of their shift, vendoring items as necessary. 

- Finally, the most important factor of all, Farmers usually work 8-12 hour shifts (maybe even longer) and are tasked with earning as much gold as possible during that time. Remember that whole thing about supply and demand? A farmer can only farm an item which has such a demand that he can farm it for 8-12 hours at a time!  

What does this all mean? Well, since farmers are tasked with getting gold right away, they would never farm an item they could not sell that day (ore, cloth, etc.).  As a result, farmers never will kill very difficult monsters, nor will they ever farm in a location that cannot support sustained farming. 

There are a lot of "niche" markets in World of Warcraft which can be very profitable but are also easily farmed. These markets often can supply 500+ gold per hour (hour spent farming or listing the items). This is a much better rate than dailies. 

The only downside to this is that it might take you a week to sell all your items. This is good news though as gold-farmers will never touch these farming spots due to the time it takes to sell the items. More profits for you! 

Here is how it works: 

Pick a niche item (we will list many in the farming section) and investigate the market on your server. You will find that other players may be already active in some of these niches. 

Search the Auction House for the recommended farming items in each niche, find an area where there are not many sellers (or the price is pushed up high), then farm those items. 

You will find that with a lot of the items we will recommend selling, you can farm 30+ items to sell for 20 gold+ in just an hour of time. However, you will find that while you farmed up 600+ gold worth of items in an hour, it will take you a week to sell all the items. 

This is not a problem at all; just list a few of the items at a time (as to not flood the Auction House). Keep them in the bank and list them as they sell. This is a great method for making gold, because if you dedicate a lazy Sunday to farming hundreds of these items, you can then keep them in your bank and slowly list them on the Auction House, making a few hundred gold a day this way. 

It only takes a few seconds to list items on the Auction House (see our Auction House guide for details), so spending a few minutes a day listing up items for hundreds of gold in profits is not a bad use of time. It certainly is a lot faster and more entertaining than doing daily quests. After all, who doesn't like opening up mail after mail of successful auctions?  

At any rate, in the next section we will discuss the locations of the most lucrative farmable items and locations in the game:

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