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How do you make a lot of gold in WoW?
How do I make a lot of gold in World Of Warcraft? I’m at 80 and it seems like all of the ways to making gold are very time consuming. I don’t like doing instances my level because they require other people, and I don’t like working with other people. I picked up mining as a profession and I worked to become “grandmaster” and just as I expected, I don’t make enough from this because prices at the auction house are too low for both bars and ores. Anybody know a way?
If making gold was easy and non-time consuming, everyone would have a lot of gold. Doing the daily quest can get you about 200 gold per day with a moderate amount of time toward them. If you get a good heroic group together, you can run instances quickly and generate gold as well (a few wipes will negate that though). Mining/jewel crafting or herbalism/alchemy are decent for making money too. All depends on your realm though and the typical principals of supply and demand.
Mining Thorium Ore In Wow
There are a couple hot spots that I recommend for farming thorium ore. But first a little background on thorium ore. Thorium was an original World of Warcraft ore that you must have a mining skill level of 230 (to mine the small thorium veins) and a skill level of 255 to mine the rich thorium veins. If you’d like to save time if you are leveling up your mining, you can actually smelt from 230-275 and save yourself a lot of time. Simply buy the ore off the auction house or you could even mine a bit and then smelt some of it.
There are a couple good places to mine at for thorium that I would suggest you take a look at. The first zone is Un’Goro Crater. The route to run in this zone is really very simple. All you need to do is run a large loop around the edges of the zone, so in this case you are just running a big circle. You can venture in to the very middle of the zone and run a circular loop around that ridge but I find it to be not worth the time sometimes.
The second place I suggest you take a look at if you are interested in Thorium is Burning Steppes. This route is a bit more complicated to explain and I suggest that you take a look at the thorium ore map at WoW Mining Maps for exact directions on where to go. Otherwise stay close to the edges of the zone, but not too close, and run across the middle of the right side of the zone.
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If you are having trouble with leveling your mining in World of Warcraft or just want to know a faster way to save time farming ore look at my WoW Mining Guide.
If you are already level 450 mining you can look at my WoW Mining Maps website to see where to mine for each type of ore.