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Gold Farming in WoW (and More)

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Here are the top five tips for having fun through gold farming, as well as putting your time to good use. These tips apply for most MMORPGs ( Massively Multi Player Role Playing Games ).

  • Bring Friends Along Most people tend to gold farm by themselves. People do this because they don’t want to have to share their revenue or loot. But by doing this, you won’t gold farm for long periods of time. When you’re alone, all you do is farm, farm, farm, and farm. Bring some friends along. Don’t be selfish… and share some loot and profit. By doing this, you can make some new friends and even gold farming buddies. You can even give some money to the lower levels or beginners of the game. You will also be able to take down mobs much quicker.
  • Bring The Best You Can Bring Another mistake that people make is bringing random armors or weapons to their gold farming trips. You should take some time to get good armors and food so that you can stay farming for long periods of time, possibly leading to large amounts of profit.
  • Create A Strategy And Route Before you go farming, make sure to map out a strategy and route for the location. Make sure to tell this to your farming mates or group. You can’t make good profit by just farming blindly through an area. If you have a route, you can make much more profit than if you would have just gone through at random. Another thing you have to keep in mind is your strategy. Look at your route, and look at what you’re playing as or what you’re best at. Develop a strategy to take down enemies in much less time, which again leads to more profit.
  • Choose The Best Location Before farming, most people think of what way may be easiest for them. If you approach farming this way, then you’ve made another mistake. Always choose they best location… I repeat the best location. By doing this, you can have better loot which again means more profit. Don’t go to a beginner area to gold farm when you can go to a pro area and make 100x more profit.
  • Come Prepared Go farming with everything you need. For example, I play world of warcraft and I have to make sure I bring my skinning knife, food, water, armor, pet food, weapons, and bags. By doing this I’m keeping myself from wasting time making trips back and forth, thus wasting time that I could’ve used to make some good profit. So keep in mind to bring everything you’ll need to make the most profit.
  • Bonus Tip! Please everyone. Don’t sell your profit for real-world money. First of all, you’re wasting all the time it took you to make that money for just a couple of dollars. You’re also making it hard for beginners to buy what they want, since most MMOs have a large money buying community that increases prices on items all around the game. This makes it hard for beginners to buy items that they really need. So please… use your profit for in-game purposes only.

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I find it amusing that the generated ad below the comments box is for a gold farming site. Oh ad generation, you’ve done it again.

I agree with the tip on bringing alot of people to help farm. My Tip would be tho, bring people you can trust on sharing the loot. I have farmed and had people who would click need over greed, when there need is just being over greedy.

This is awesome. Worked for my in Guild Wars. HOWEVER:

I play a game where your own your own, and the only interaction with other friends, is through chat and the mall in-game. So gold farming (Or meat farming as it’s called) is not really a team skill. It’s a pretty mundane task to gain power.

I used to play WoW and one of the things that turned me off about the game is there are so much farming going on. I know in some other countries they actually pay kids to play WoW and farm spots, then in turn sell the item for real world money. So what I hate to say is, I do not like this tip, too much farming on WoW!

Can anybody give me tips to actualy level. i need to hit 70 before WOTLK. Im 64 now. Gnome Rogue. Please :(

The best advice I can give you is QUEST! At level 64 you should be in Terokkar. At 65-~67 head on over to Blades Edge Mountains. From there, you can head to Nagrand, then SMV/Netherstorm.

Yeah, quest you will defiantly get the 70 before LK.

If you do start playing wow I’ll help you out Deathfade on the realm Uldum

This was on my B-Day :D WoW Pwns I got a game card as a present :)

Just do quest after quest. you still have alot of time to lvl before WOTLK so don’t worry bout it

Dood, this guy blows as a host. The Idea is good, but you need to like, practice in front of a mirror or something. And prepare more before your show. jesus, I saw you running outta shit to say like 9 times. Write first, then act.

Lol true, I got 1000 gold in one week of non-stop quests…then I stopped at 70 XD
But damn, PEOPLE DO QUEST, QUESTS, AND QUESTS!! IT GIVES YOU EXP AND MONEY!? It’s a win-win situation :D

Man this shit is lame… I bored myself to death…

:/

if ur 70 clean ur questlog i was earning 150-200G/hr on both my hunter and pally when doing that.

Hellz yeah man. The gold bonus is ownage! :D

if you have an epic mount.. never use taxi if you are miner or herbalist just fly to where you want to go with track veins/flowers on and loot everything you fly over and doesnt have like.. an elite around them

nfantrydood (1 month ago) Show Hide -4 Marked as spam Reply | Spam Dood, this guy blows as a host. The Idea is good, but you need to like, practice in front of a mirror or something. And prepare more before your show. jesus, I saw you running outta shit to say like 9 times. Write first, then act.

LOL i like when he talkin about his wife

lower levels= fagguls

guys if ur being horriblew to dis guy then dont watch it no 1 realy cares about ur opinion

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