Make Gold While Questing

It is funny because I never notice this concept until higher level. As you level the most guaranteed item you will get is cloth. Cloth is a huge seller needed in professions and recipes. You also may pick up green items, quest rewards you cannot use and vendor trash.

From the picture above you can see I circled the item I chose because it was worth 24 gold and it was not a good enough upgrade for me. So really I earned 29 gold from that quest when you include the quest reward of 6 gold.

If you pickup skinning, mining or herbalism you can make some good gold. Starting out you may not make a whole lot but later you will. In most situations the higher level items you farm always bring in more gold, unless it is an item of useless value.

There always is people to lazy to farm so they will buy these items. Just because you have crafting professions it doesn't mean you need to farm all the time. While doing your regular quest you will kill plenty of humans and animals. While questing it will be easy to run into mining nodes, plants to herb and animals to skin.

You can mouse over items in your bags and the price of each to sell will show up. On occasion you may even get items with values of 1 gold that are trash. So make sure to keep an eye on what you get during questing and sell to vendor later.

This is just a few tips outlined for people to remember when they quest. It will help with giving you some gold or silver.

Mining In Arathi Highlands

Arathi Highlands use to be a favorite lowbie mining spot to mine and I wanted to see if it still was. I was impressed with the spawn time for mines, up until my last flight around (hardly anything spawned). I also killed 3 lowbie rares and went into caves 6 times or so. I also got 2 blues. One dropped and one was in a Silverbound chest.

Before I get into what I got in total and what not, I will post about the rares for anyone interested.

The first rare I came across was in the cave in Drywhisker Gorge. His name is, Geomancer Flintdigger, you can visit Wowhead to learn more about this rare,
Gromancer Flintdigger



The second rare was Zalas Witherbark, you can find him in a cave in Witherbark Village. You can learn more about him here,
Zalas Witherbark



And the final rare was Nimar the Slayer, this rare is also in Withbark Village. He is on the outside by some trolls dancing, you can find him at a table. Learn more about him here,Nimar the Slayer



These rares were not all that great, but I suggest reading up on them on WoWhead from other players, that way you can see if they are worth killing or not.

Alright so first I will share the non mining stuff I collected. Now during the hour I was in Arathi I only wanted to mine, but when I saw rares I killed them and killed a few other NPCs because they were attacking/in the way. Anyways I got a few pieces of cloth, since this toon doesn't have cloth I will be sending the cloth to my mage and she will sell it, since she has a lot of cloth. I got 7 greens in total and 2 blues. The blues I got were, Ranger Bow and Lil Timmy's Peashooter. The bow dropped off a random troll in Witherbark Village and the Peakshooter was in a chest.

Now for the mining items.

~ 1 Shadowgem
~ 1 Lesser Moonstone
~ 4 Jade
~ 2 Aquamarine
~ 27 Silver
~ 27 Mithril
~ 30 Tin
~ 8 Gold
~ 93 Iron
~ 28 Coarse Stone
~ 107 Heavy Stone
~ 47 Solid Stone

Today was a good day to choose lowbie mines. I just put up a lot of the items on the AH. The greens will be going to my mage for disenchanting, and the mining stuff that is not equal to making a stack will be saved for another time. Once the auctions are completed I will make a new post about the results. I timed it and kept track of anything of importance. So we shall see how much I make from the hour of farming. My auctions are up for 48 hours, so we shall see what happens. Once everything sells (or is returned) in the 48 hours I will make a new post about it!

Happy Farming =)