Powerful Raw Gold Exploit (Patreon)

The following method is the most powerful raw gold exploit currently known in Shadowlands.

There have been some dramatic changes to gold farming in wow recently with most sources of raw gold nerfed heavily.

This may be connected with the linking of accounts through warbands. Blizzard have also greatly liberalized restrictions on class trials: perhaps assuming that the limited gains from raw gold farms were not worth protecting.

However they seem to have forgotten about one obscure but very profitable way to farm gold: Shadowlands treasures.

Shadowlands Treasures are only of interest if covenant tribute quests are active in the zones of either Ardenweald or Maldraxxus. These are both active as of the time of publication of this post.

There are three treasures we are interested in

Enchanted Chest https://www.wowhead.com/object=353233/enchanted-chest

Faerie Trove https://www.wowhead.com/object=354652/faerie-trove

Sprouting Growths https://www.wowhead.com/object=354852/sprouting-growth

The chest has a chance to contain 800-1000 gold. 

The others have a chance to contain 250-270 gold.

I have no hard data on the probabilites but it seems to be roughly 50% chance to get gold.

You can loot the treasures endlessly with class trials. You can only make 4 per hour but there does not seem to be any other limits.

You will need to buy the wormhole generator: Shadowlands toy on any character on your account (it will be avaialble on all characters as a toy):

 https://www.wowhead.com/item=172924/wormhole-generator-shadowlands

The route goes like this:

1. Create class trial mage.

2. Use mage teleport to stormwind portal room.

3. Take portal to Oribos.

4. Go directly forward and take the first turning on your left

5. Speak to the engineering training and learn both basic and Shadowlands engineering.

6. Use the wormhole to teleport to Ardenweald or Maldraxxus. Loot the treasures mentioned above. (Small bonus treasure is the slime-coated crate in the south-east of the zone-this one does not show on the map).

With dynamic flight it only takes a minute to loot all the treasures in a zone.

You can then deposit the gold into your warband bank distance inhibitor (this can be accessed from the "general" area of your spellbook) where it will be available to all characters.