This is for you level 70 characters working on getting your tier 4 or 5 dungeon gear who hate farming. There are places to farm that might give you more cash per hour, but they just aren’t as easy. The mobs are a snap for almost any class or build; they drop high value items, and limited junk. The spot is in Netherstorm; at the ruins of Alkron.

This works best if you have enchanting and skinning - two of my favorite end-game professions. On my server almost everybody mines, so you end up rolling for all the nodes in instances. Another good end-game gathering skill is herbalism, but it seems like only the leatherworkers skin. But since leatherworking is a lot like tailoring in the fact that it takes a whole lot of mats to make one recipe, the demand for knothide leathers is just as high as for metal bars in most cases. Especially since the materials are more limited on the ah since most people don’t skin. You can actually make a pretty decent run just cleaning up leftovers in high traffic areas of Nagrand, where nearly everything you kill can be skinned. There will be times when I can skin 20-40 mobs without ever taking a single swing because there are two or three people working on the mastery quests in the northern part of that zone. I just run around making free money off their kills.

(Revision to skinning and AH sales. Prices for skins seems to rise and fall more than most items, particularly compared to other mats. Mat prices tend to stay fairly static for long periods of time. This is not the case with skins. Prices for almost all levels of skins can vary widely on a single server over time. At the time of the writing of this article, Heavy Knothide on Fenris realm was selling for nearly 7.5 gold each. In just a couple of months, those prices fell to 10 gold a stack. Nature abhors a vacuum, and the low supply caused a LOT of players to go train skinning to get in on the profits. Supply soared and prices dropped like a rock. It took nearly nine months for skin prices to rise back to around 60 gold a stack. If your server happens to be in a high supply low demand phase, just hang out, prices will rise again as folks drop skinning because they aren’t making enough money with it.)

But the Alkron ruins are simply the best. In an average hour you can expect to farm something like 130-160 gold worth of items if you have skinning and enchanting. The mobs there are well spaced, so you almost always get them 1-on-1, and they don’t have any really annoying skills or tons of armor or hit points. The worst part may be for casters since the artifact seekers will use mana burn on you from time to time as well as spell lock. I will just assume you know how to deal with that. All the mobs are level 67 or 68 and you can kill more than 100 of them an hour. This should get you about 6 gold in silver dropped from the doomguards, 80-120 knothide leather scraps, 20-30 knothide leather, 30+ marks of Sargeras, 2 or 3 Fel Armaments, 3-5 vendor trash items worth around 5 gold or so, and the odd green item which you can either sell at ah or disenchant for a guaranteed 6-10 gold if the item doesn’t sell for that much.

Prices for the marks of Sargeras and fel armaments will vary from server to server, but they are used for Aldor rep and Aldor enchants. A pretty good average for these is around 15 gold for the armaments; and up to 1 gold each for the marks. Add in the profit from the leather and now you’re making some really serious coin for a very minimal amount of work. I go there quite a bit during trash time while waiting for the guild to get together on a dungeon run. I’ll just fly up there and bust a few heads for 20 minutes or so while everyone else is getting done with their current quests or instances. I am able to keep about 1,500 gold on my alt all the time doing this just 20 minutes here and there every time I log on. I have never liked to farm for hours at a time, but this would be the perfect place to do it if you are strapped for cash, or don’t mind going in circles for hours. Either way, it’s worth it - and quite possibly the easiest money you will make compared to anyplace else you could possibly go.

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