| Gold is always a concern for every Warcraft player | | | | their gold. |
| whether it's for a flying mount or for an epic piece of | | | | Keeping these four things in mind perhaps the best |
| gear, gold is without a doubt the most crucial | | | | grinding spot for quick gold in Northrend can be found |
| component in WoW since it first released, much like in | | | | just south of Venomspire in Dragonblight. The area is |
| the real world, gold makes WoW go round. | | | | chalk full of humanoid mobs and they are of a |
| While there are hundreds of time tested methods of | | | | relatively low level. |
| making gold in WoW perhaps the funnest method is | | | | The simplest way to capitalize on this area is to hop |
| grinding. I know, grinding doesn't sound fun at first, but | | | | on your ground mount run around the first courtyard |
| when you start to see your bank account grow at a | | | | area and then dismount and dispatch the 8-15 mobs |
| ridiculous rate the fun really starts to build up. | | | | that come at you. Once these guys are down and |
| The key to grinding out gold in Northrend, as well as | | | | you've looted the gold an money from them, jump |
| any other zone, is to find an area with the following: | | | | back on your ground mount head further south to the |
| 1. Mobs that carry gold. Generally humanoids are the | | | | next area of grouped humanoids. You can generally |
| best | | | | find 8-10 along the coast line near a grouping of tents. |
| 2. Mobs that can be killed quickly. This usually is more | | | | From there head on to the ship with the burning sails |
| of a level issue, a good rule of thumb is to go at stuff | | | | and AOE till you're blue in the face to kill another 10-15 |
| that is three or four levels below you. The reason you | | | | mobs. By the time you're done with the mobs on the |
| do this is because it's easier to kill large groups without | | | | boat you should be able to retrace your steps back up |
| taking on to much damage and downtime. | | | | the hill you just came down from. I've literally killed 100's |
| 3. Mobs that drop a variety of items. From grey items | | | | of mobs in this area in 20 minutes and received ample |
| to blue items everything in Northrend is worth | | | | gold. |
| something. Even a lowly grey broken sword will get | | | | Grinding for gold in WOTLK doesn't have to be a |
| you 2-3 gold and if you can get 5 of those in less than | | | | horrible experience especially if the rate of return is |
| 30 minutes that's an easy 15 gold on top of everything | | | | very high. This is just one grinding spot and one |
| else you'll get. | | | | method of getting gold in WOTLK, there are many |
| 4. Groups of quickly regenerating mobs. The faster | | | | more out there some of them returning a much better |
| they respawn the quicker you can kill them and take | | | | rate of gold per hour. Happy hunting. |