Exploit Gold Farms, Infinite Damage, Gamebreaking Glitches...A Summary Of Working Exploits (Patreon)

Patreon is an excellent service but it has a serious drawback in that there is no search function for the posts of a creator. Additionally, while there are a substantial number of posts on in the archive here, it isn't clear what does and does not work, so I'm going to be periodically posting updates on to the status of "major" exploits. Everything listed here still works*. I've only included posts I felt were of significant value. Note the Update comments refer to the current status of the play and any changes. Also, anything I published on youtube is now public information and is not included on this list even if it still works. This is NOT a comprehensive list, there are many interesting, valuable and fun exploits in the archives which don't appear here.

Classic exploits are simply grouped together under the single tag "Classic",

March 2021 Update: Shadowlands significantly disrupted pre-existing exploits consequently this summary is long overdue. It requires an extraordinary amount of work to check everything. There are likely still errors or passages which have not been updated in an archive this size-I greatly appreciate any notifications.

Gold Farming

WoW Retail, 300 Gold In Passive Income From Each Character

https://www.patreon.com/posts/33595884

Despite being specific to BFA content, this STILL works very well on my realm, with daily profits around 300 gold per character. Moreover BFA is much easier to access now: it can be done almost instantly. Class trials are still desirable to use here though as they have greater mobility.

How Do I Make Gold With Exploits?

A guide I wrote in response to many newer patreons who wanted to know where to start.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/35662784

Kill Legacy Raid Boss Repeatedly

https://www.patreon.com/posts/27635041

A trick to farm a legacy raid boss again and again. 

Zuldazar Instant Re-Spawn Farm, Very Easy

https://www.patreon.com/posts/43546028

One of my favourite farms. A truly instant re-spawn farm. Note that with increase in average ilvl you can get a much better gold per hour number than shown in this article now.

Quest Glitch + Instant Hyper-Spawn Farm, Good XP And Gold

https://www.patreon.com/posts/47065822

A exploitable world quest in Revendreth which allows you to co-opt a small army to farm an instant re-spawn area.

Gamebreaking! Super-Powered Damage Buff In Timewalking Mode, One-Shot Rares

https://www.patreon.com/posts/43797645

This is a very powerful technique to kill rares in timewalking mode allowing you to virtually monopolize some rares that normally can only be killed with a team. This requires a partner or a second account. 

Bugged Vendor Gold Items In Legacy Raids

https://www.patreon.com/posts/48465266

Some items have not been scaled down properly in legacy raids and are awarding comparably high vendor gold. 

How To SOLO The Shadowmourne Questline-250K Gold

https://www.patreon.com/posts/12077031

An ingenious play one of my youtube commenters kindly shared with me how to do the impossible and solo this questline which normally requires multiple players. Update: This is now worth 400K and one of the best gold-making exploits in the game!

Instakill Gold Farming Death Macro, Freehold-Requires Lightforged Dranei, Partner Preferred

https://www.patreon.com/posts/37157611

A two-man technique that turns a lightforged dranei into a pulsating machine of destruction.

WoW Retail, Mine Rare Ore Very Quickly For Short Periods

https://www.patreon.com/posts/34265772

This technique is designed to mine Titanium/Cobalt Ore for very short periods and hit instance lockout in minutes. Ideal for players with limited gold farming time.

WoW Retail, Infinite Aggro Radius For Legacy Gold Farming, Increase Loot Per Hour Dramatically

https://www.patreon.com/posts/32888737

A really interesting way to increase your profits from gold farms by dramatically widening the area you can farm effectively.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/25486529 .

Up to 35000 gold every day in nine minutes (requires substantial set-up time)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/7943230 The fastest possible method of raw gold making. Requires investment and, depending how much you want to make, a large amount of time invested. All that said, you will be virtually printing gold if you do everything in the guide. Update: This was the very first post I made here and still generates a lot of raw gold to this day. Unfortunately because class trials no longer award level 3 Garrisons the set-up time and gold is non-trivial. On the plus side you can't get banned for doing it since exploits are no longer involved.

The Basics Of Gold Farming Exploitation

https://www.patreon.com/posts/8582202

A guide to the basic principles of gold farming exploitation, giving you a chance to uncover the best possible type of exploit: one that only you know about. Update: A concise introduction to the subject.

Instantly And Repeatedly Drop Combat (Pet Classes Only), Dramatically Increase Speed Of Instant Respawn Farms

https://www.patreon.com/posts/16010161

A basic method to farm all mob resets virtually instantly. Update: Note subsequent articles covered several applications of this technique.

Instance Farming Using Lag7, Primals Worth 3649 Gold In 15 Minutes  https://www.patreon.com/posts/8523029

How to exploit a weird lag affect that occurs when you use Monk roll to farm Black Temple ultra-fast.Update: Still works well. Lag7 may not be as safe as it used to be since a recent crackdown on third-party programs.

Profiting From Third-Party Dupes: The Most Profitable Legal Trading Strategy In WoW https://www.patreon.com/posts/24175026

Update:  This was a popular article which should have "evergreen" (ie timeless) value.

Increasing Total Raw Gold From Legacy Raids, Classes That Can Drop Combat Preferred

https://www.patreon.com/posts/24015111

Update: This was one of my most popular articles, a method that I developed fully quite recently. For hunters: you probably want to read this article first.

Amazing Gamebreaking Phase Bug

https://www.patreon.com/posts/19760421

A method to remove all mobs from the world, mainly for the purposes of gathering without mob or player interference.

Farming "Secret" Silverbound Chests-Items Worth Over 50K An Hour

https://www.patreon.com/posts/22617986 

How to use scrying methods to locate chests with valuable legacy items very quickly.Update: Still works very well and is unlikely to ever be fixed.

Instant Respawn Farm, Drops 13K Gold Item

https://www.patreon.com/posts/22119029 

Update: This popular instant respawn farm still works well. Note that there are actually quite a few valuable transmog items from this farm: but be aware transmog doesn't sell that fast.

Instant Respawn Legacy Gold Farm-Items Worth Up To 135,000 Gold, No Instance Lockout

https://www.patreon.com/posts/26164770

I was really proud of this one and it was and is very popular: I found you could get the archers in the Scarlet Monastery to respawn using a special technique, this is the ONLY known method to farm the valuable "Butcher" weapon efficiently. You also get a lot of other valuable items which actually sell on the AH.

Gamebreaking, Limitless Limited Supply Items https://www.patreon.com/posts/18433148

A glitch with a rare spawn trader in Outland.

"Unobtainable" Transmog Item, 80000 Gold Value https://www.patreon.com/posts/19544255

This item is now actually worth more than 300,000 currently. 

Siege Of Orgrimmar Skip

https://www.patreon.com/posts/40629626

The fastest known method to skip past Galakras in the raid Siege Of Orgrimmar.

Increase Gold Per Hour From Stone Lion Farm Significantly https://www.patreon.com/posts/33995602

A method to maximize the profit from farming the stone lion instant re-spawns in the Vale Of Eternal Blossoms. Note that the lions no longer have drops-however they can still be farmed for trillium and ghost iron ore-faster than it can be mined conventionally.

The Most Valuable Ore In Wow, How To Mine It Faster Than Anyone, All Classes https://www.patreon.com/posts/19354807

One of the most important articles I've written. This ore sells quite fast and yields returns significantly superior to most basic farming techniques.

Related to the above method is this article 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/17725164

which requires a priest but has consistently been the strongest gold-making play in the game apart from rare gold-making dupes which generally got fixed very fast.

Damage Exploits

Up To 2500% Haste Temporary DPS Burst, Gamebreaking SpellSteal Opportunity (Mage).

https://www.patreon.com/posts/16670880

An obscure Northrend mob has an ability which mages can spellsteal and stack infinitely creating gamebreaking cast speed. Can be used in Raids/PVE. Update: Still works well.

Secret Explosives, Significant DPS Increase

https://www.patreon.com/posts/45569645

A very strong dps increase from some explosives (engineering not required) from a world quest that can be stacked.

Increased DPS Method For Demonology Warlock

https://www.patreon.com/posts/47680645

A method to increase dps for demonology warlocks. Requires set-up. 

5-45% Pet/Minion Damage Buff Revisited

https://www.patreon.com/posts/20609575 

A powerful pet/minion damage (de)buff with a weird side-effect. Works everywhere, including arena and mythic.

Using Debuffs To Gain DPS Advantage In Arena/PVE https://www.patreon.com/posts/13396824

Methods that exploit certain abilities (eg touch of karma) which benefit from damage to players.

Bugged Stackable Damage And Healing Items, Legion-specific https://www.patreon.com/posts/19878129

Some strange and largely forgotten powerful items from Legion.

Shaman One-Shot Leveling/Gold Farming Technique

https://www.patreon.com/posts/44071793

A technique that involves switching between normal and timewalking mode to utilize a 75% damage buff.

Player Versus Player Combat

WoW Retail, Psync Battleground Glitch, Very Fast Honor (Requires Partner) https://www.patreon.com/posts/33825367

This is a wonderful way to acquire ilvl425 gear when you reach max level, and just a fantastic way to destroy battlegrounds without having any kind of gear. . Btw It seems you only need a psync partner at 111-119, not just 119 as I thought originally.

Demon Hunter: (Gamebreaking) Infinite Height In PVP Combat (New Method) https://www.patreon.com/posts/15495492

A replacement method for the old freeze macro allowing the hunter to reuse movement abilities in mid-air.Update: Still works well. In fact has even more uses now since pvp talents work everywhere in-world, and world pvp is now an important part of wow content.

Twin Peaks - Off The Map With Teleport Ability, Hide Flag

https://www.patreon.com/posts/15044278

One of a few remaining flag-hiding locations in a battleground.Update: Still works well.

Powerful, Permanent And Undetectable Battleground Trick, Unlikely To Ever Be Fixed

https://www.patreon.com/posts/11484082/

How to exploit the rez timer to gain vastly more uptime in bg's. Update: I use this a lot. Worth adding that macro timer commands are incredibly helpful with this technique, see this resource: https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/MACRO_stopwatch

Debuff Exploits That Can Be Used In Arena And Elsewhere

https://www.patreon.com/posts/21911014

A rare example of a class of exploits which work in arena.

Kill Your Friends, Death Grip People Into Thin Air-Flying Mount Tricks

https://www.patreon.com/posts/45917853

A marvellously unfair way to kill people in world pvp. 

Winning Arathi Basin: Comp Stomp VERY Fast (Requires Set-up) https://www.patreon.com/posts/25565970

This is a truly great way to get a ton of honor and gear very fast when this brawl is up, but it requires completing the netherwing rep grind first.

Strange Seething Shore Exploit

https://www.patreon.com/posts/19850604

A weird glitch in Seething Shore which can allow creative players a significant edge. Note: if this doesn't work on the ship try moving around a bit. Since writing this I have discovered the same trick can be used in Ashran.

Over-Powered, Game-Breaking Vegetable-Can Be Used In Battlegrounds https://www.patreon.com/posts/25181882

Possibly the best article I or any one else has ever contributed to Patreon, or perhaps the internet itself.

Other Exploits

Major Gamebreaking Invincibility/Phase Exploit https://www.patreon.com/posts/14112132

This VERY powerful method makes the player effectively invisible to any mob in the game, while allowing them to heal and/or attack with minions. Worth adding that this allows the player to gather herbs and mine without harassment making it a huge money-maker. It also allows healers to focus exclusively on healing in raids since they take no damage in fights.

Shadowlands Update: Works everywhere in the new zones except the maw.

Gamebreaking-Summon Infinite Trolls Anywhere

https://www.patreon.com/posts/22159035

Update: Still works but sadly only 3 trolls may be summoned at a time. Nonetheless this still allows most classes to have infinite resources and makes several tanking classes literally invincible.

Pets/Minions/Forms For All Specs In A Class

https://www.patreon.com/posts/45863810

An ingenious trick you can use to allow some classes to use minions from non-active  specializations. Works with some class-specific buffs also.

Gamebreaking Item - Break Out Of All Instances

https://www.patreon.com/posts/44584196

A very powerful item which allows you to jump out of instances and into inaccessible  areas.

Interesting Shadowlands Exploits-Magic Ring With OP Stun, Strange Buffs

https://www.patreon.com/posts/44327988

An odd collection of Shadowlands exploits. The ring no longer works in arena but is otherwise functional. 

5% Stats Buff Useable In Dungeons And Battlegrounds

https://www.patreon.com/posts/8455971

A simple consumable item from Tanaan Jungle which works everywhere.Update: Still works.

Leveling

Leveling Semi-AFK Method, Requires Set-Up

https://www.patreon.com/posts/42147034

A truly ingenious method to level up by pressing two buttons. 

Simple, Powerful Leveling Technique, Fastest Method 30-50

https://www.patreon.com/posts/48299185

Patreon Mark Jackson came up with this technique to level from 30-50 only. This is essentially the "Method 1" concept from my 8.2 leveling video updated for Shadowlands.

Infinite Speed, Flying in No-Fly Locations, Trivializing PVP/Gold-Farming-The Power Of Lag (Guide)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/23594887

Update: A detailed guide to the power of lag in wow generally, this is something that can't really be fixed in an MMO like Warcraft.

Infinitely Repeatable Quest

https://www.patreon.com/posts/23449994

Update: Still works well. Useful for xp, rep etc, requires automation.

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Semi-AFK Instant Respawn Experience Farm 60-80 https://www.patreon.com/posts/23350217

Update:  A rare combination of player assisting npc's who for some reason don't leech xp, and fast respawns of hostile mobs.

Non-Public Leveling Techniques

https://www.patreon.com/posts/21716001

Update: Some secret highly powerful strategies. People really liked this one.

Virtually Instant Maximum Guild Reputation

https://www.patreon.com/posts/26603436

A BFA quest which can be repeated for leveling guild reputation in only a few minutes.

Experience Dupe (Legion)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/26514870

This was somewhat controversial despite the considerable interest in the exploit. This allows you to level passively: it is not especially fast but it can be automated quite easily or done semi-afk.

Fastest XP Farming Method For Horde At Low-Level https://www.patreon.com/posts/24280271

A very popular trick for grinding up fast for Horde.

Semi-AFK Instant Respawn Experience Farm 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/23350217

An interesting opportunity for leveling - for some reason the mobs in this area just have to be tagged before subsequently being killed by rageclaw npc's to get full xp. They also drop some decent wotlk transmog gear. Requires much less mental energy than questing.

Broken NPC's Awarding Too Much XP-Fast Leveling 50-60 (partial nerf)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/47821119

The bugged npc's in Mechaon have now mostly now been nerfed...but not all. Newer patreons probably want to pass on this one but more experienced players may benefit from trying different approaches here and experimenting.

Create Infinite Invasion Items-Virtually Invincible In-World https://www.patreon.com/posts/16141613

A technique to gain any number of stackable healing items that were supposed to be limited to a small number of uses.

World Quest Bugged - Control Powerful Vehicle https://www.patreon.com/posts/27925147

A bugged vehicle in patch 8.2 can be controlled - very effective in pvp and for localized gathering/farming. Limited to the quest area.

WoW Retail, Rogue Damage Ability Does Not Unstealth https://www.patreon.com/posts/34847834

A trick for rogues to gank players/mobs without breaking stealth.

Classic

WoW Classic, Incredible Mob-Tagging Strategy, Gamebreaking XP 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/37412421

This article contains the secret to the fastest possible form of leveling in classic wow. Requires a high-level partner with a pet/minion.

Enslave An Entire Army To Fight For You: The Oldest And One Of The Most Powerful Exploits In WoW, Gamebreaking, Requires Non-Trival Set-up

https://www.patreon.com/posts/31792038 This is one of the most powerful and definitely the oldest exploit method to exist in World Of Warcraft. It actually works on retail also but I included it in the classic because it can be used for power-leveling in classic.

WoW Classic Overview And Working Exploits

A summary of basic exploit methods in classic wow. https://www.patreon.com/posts/29058906

WoW Classic, Instant Respawn Skinning - Best Alliance Location For Light Leather Farming, Fast Leveling At Low-Level

A very popular post revealing an excellent location for skinning at low-level in Loch Modan.  https://www.patreon.com/posts/32671302

(Wow Classic) Infinite Damage Stackable Item (Alliance)

A method to stack increased damage from a consumable item infinitely.https://www.patreon.com/posts/29472693

WoW Classic, Ingenious Method For Dropping Flight Path (Massive Time-Saver)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/31458171 A very clever method developed by Kenneth at Ownedcore that can save a lot of time.

WoW Classic, Random Exploits

A collection of interesting niche exploits.https://www.patreon.com/posts/30292789

WoW Classic, Amazing Infinite Dungeon Boss Adds Gold Farm

https://www.patreon.com/posts/31248431 A clever trick for use in the Scarlet Monastery allowing a player to farm certain mobs forever.

WoW Classic, Infinite Respawn Farm, Great XP And Gold, Level 57+,

THE best max-level instant respawn farm. https://www.patreon.com/posts/33825828

WoW Classic, Secret Exploit Farming Techniques For Your Mount At 40

https://www.patreon.com/posts/32898788 The fastest techniques to grind a mount at 40. Contains a terrain glitch which makes the player literally invincible.

WoW Classic, Infinite Respawn Quest, 55-60, Gold Farm Potential

https://www.patreon.com/posts/30881418 How to use a quest item to glitch infinite mobs to appear in the Western Plaguelands.

Warsong Gulch Classic-Trap Enemy Players Permanently

https://www.patreon.com/posts/32704777 A naughty trick to lure players into an inescapable pit, leaving their team a man down for the entire duration of the bg.

All Known WoW Classic Instant Respawn Locations

A list of instant respawn locations in WoW classic. This will be continuously updated.  https://www.patreon.com/posts/31175897

EARLY CONTENT 

 These are exploits from very early in this site's existence when the membership was literally a thirtieth of what it is now and consequently player feedback was much less, so determining what was of interest to players was more difficult. I've added a choice selection here based solely on my own opinion:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/13897161

A method to fly for thirty seconds in instances. Requires some set-up in the Firelands instance. This is a play explorers have told me they find very useful. This is also useful for boss skips.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/13879404

A method to very temporarily massively increase HP. To execute this one properly would take a highly skilled team but it can potentially trivialize even mythic raid encounters.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/13396824

Some weird techniques to generate damage to players on-demand and exploit abilities such as Touch Of Karma.

* Unfortunately,  especially with guides and lists of exploits it is easy for me to miss something, and I do not always receive information about fixes in real-time-it is literally impossible to monitor the status of hundreds of exploits. That said I believe I do a reasonably good job of keeping the archive up to date and greatly appreciate any feedback on the status of exploits contained therein.