Best WoW WotLK gold farming spots

Here’s a list of some of the best gold farming spots I’ve discovered in WoW Wrath of the Lich King.

1. Chunk o’ Mammoth farming in Sholazar Basin

This place is just a gold mine. The mobs you want to farm are Shattertusk Bulls, Shattertusk Calf and Shattertusk Mammoth.

These drop the specialty meat Chunk o’ Mammoth which is used in some high-end cooking recipes and sells for 1-3g per piece. They also drop a fair amount of grey items and the occasional uncommon/green armor or weapon, which can be vendored or disenchanted. Finally, they can be skinned by skinners.

But it doesn’t stop there. Around this area there are also several saronite nodes for miners, gas clouds for engineers and herbs for herbalists.

The mobs are only level 76-77 so can be farmed quickly at level 80. There are 2 packs of mammoths wandering around that can be AoE’d if you have the ability.

All in all, a very good WotLK gold farming spot.

I also used mining & engineering to farm the odd saronite node and gas cloud.

Here’s what I ended up with in just 20 minutes with mining & engineering:

Item	Quantity
Grey items
Chunk o’ Mammoth	65
Uncommon (green) armor/weapons
Crystallized Shadow	3
Crystallized Water	3
Crystallized Fire	15
Saronite Ore	10
Crystallized Earth	3
Chilled Meat	21

2. Rhino Meat Farming in Borean Tundra

Borean Tundra farming spot in the south.

Another meat farming spot, this time rhino meat. The mobs you’re targeting are Wooly Rhino Bulls, Wooly Rhino Calf, and Wooly Rhino Matriarch. You’ll find them in packs of 5-6, great for AoE farming, and they’re only level 65-69 so any level 80 will have a field day here.

I can comfortably farm 400 rhino meat per hour here, plus some vendor trash and chilled meat. The rhino meat can be effectively sold in stacks of 5.

If you wait until there’s a shortage of this item on the auction house, you can probably sell them for 2 gold each, which comes out to 800+ gold per hour.

3. Farming Eternals in Wintergrasp

Another way to earn some quick gold, is to go to our beloved PvP zone Wintergrasp. There are several ways to earn gold even here.

One of them is by farming Crystallized Life from the Mature and Living Lashers. These mobs are skinnable with herbalism for some extra herbs and life.

Here’s what I got in 30 minutes:

Item	Quantity
Grey items	32g 53s 77c
Sparkling Frostcap	22
Eternal Life	9
Green (uncommon) gear	2
Blue/rare item
Goldclover	9
Adder’s Tongue	5
Talandra’s Rose	2
Icethorn	4
Lichbloom	5
Tiger Lily	3

This means that you can earn over 500g per hour or farming, or 1000g by killing and herbing mobs per your faction’s turn to control Wintergrasp.

*Dotted black and purple line at the bottom = No Air Elementals.

When your faction controls Wintergrasp, but there is no on-going battle, you’ll see the following types of mobs which have a guaranteed drop of their respective elemental type. In other words, it’s much more profitable to farm in Wintergrasp when your faction controls it, so you get these bonus mobs.

Air – Tempest Revenant

Earth – Earthbound Revenant

Fire – Flame Revenant

Life – Mature Lasher

Water – Water Revenant

Shadow – Shadow Revenant

4. Farming Wailing Winds in Storm Peaks

Another great place for Eternal Fire would be a small cave in Storm Peaks. The mobs, Wailing Winds, have a quick respawn rate, and the cave is small, so there will be new mobs every time you run back and forth. They also have a very low healthpool. The only downside is their charge that stuns you for a couple of seconds if you engage far away from it.

Here’s what I got in 20 minutes:

Item	Quantity
Grey items	21g 82s 43c
Green/uncommon gear	2
Eternal Fire	4

5. Mining Fel Iron Ore in Hellfire Peninsula

Even though Fel Iron belongs to The Burning Crusade, Hellfire Peninsula is still a noteworthy zone for those who want to make some quick gold. The ore sells extremely well, because people still skill up Engineering, Blacksmithing and Jewelcrafting, which leads to a high demand of this.

Make sure you have an epic flying mount for this to work well. Here’s what I ended up with in 20 minutes.

Item	Quantity
Fel Iron Ore (78)	78
Primal Earth (0.6)	0.6
Primal Fire (1.6)	1.6

 

Fel Iron farming route in Hellfire Peninsula.