I am excited to share with you guys an awesome farming spot where you can make 2000 gold an hour.

Farming is looked down upon by experienced gold makers as the gold per hour or gold per effort is usually pretty low when compared to a crafting profession.  However crafting professions need a good amount of gold to be able to make a profit and farming can be a great way to earn enough gold to buy materials or to power level a crafting profession.

At 2,000g/hour though this method surpasses even some crafting professions as to the amount of profit you can make for your time!

Farming Volatile Fire in Twilight Highlands

I was preparing to do another extensive article on the best places to farm volatile fire, just like my previous article on farming volatile air but one spot blew the others out of the ballpark so much that I am going to detail this one farming location as the others are moot in comparison.

Head over to Cannon’s Inferno in Twilight Highlands, make sure you bring your fishing rod.

Here you’ll be looking for the mobs Enslaved Infernos which drop volatile fire, the red dots on the map below show the locations where they spawn:

The first time I came here and starting killing the Infernos I found I quickly ran out of them to kill and was waiting around for respawn times, hardly good for a high gold/hour or drop rate, but there is another catch to this particular farming spot for volatile fire that makes it so sweet.

Fishing Volatile Fire from Pool of Fire

I totally forgot about these since the last time I did fishing was back in Burning Crusade. 4 different pools of fire spawn around in the lava that fish a volatile fire everytime, you can get anywhere from 1-3 volatile fires per cast and can cast 3 times on the same pool. So you could potentially get 9 volatile fires per pool x 4 pools = 36 volatile fires in about 5 minutes! That is with some big luck but even average out at 6 per pool x 4 pools = 24!

The pools of fire take between 5-10 minutes to respawn.

You can tell where a pool is when there is flame coming up from the lava, don’t be fooled by the flames that are on the edges of the lava and rock as those aren’t pools.

The best part is that there is no required fishing level to fish the pools, you can do it right from level 1 as long as you have a fishing pole with you.

Results of An Hour Farming Run

I farmed this spot for an hour, making sure I first fished the pools to start their respawn timer then I proceeded in killing all the Enslaved Infernos, even the 3 spawns that are over the hill, there would be about a 1 minute wait time for respawns then the whole cycle would repeat again.

In an hour of farming this spot I was able to get 86 Volatile Fire’s. They sell for 22g on my server meaning I made 1,892g.

That isn’t including the green item drops, crackling crystals and shimmering shards.

Bonus Tip – Finding Fish

One annoying part of this method is straining your eyes looking for the flames coming out of the fire.

If you remember back to patch 2.3 blizzard released a way to track fishing pools, so you could just fly by and it’ll show up right away where each of the pools are.

In order to get the ability to track fishing pools you’ll need to have 100 fishing skill and obtain the Weather-Beaten Journal. This journal is fished from pile of debris (pools), the drop rates vary but I read on Elsanglin.com that the best place to fish for them are the floating wreckage pools found in either Ashenvale, Hillsbrad Foothills, Stonetalon Mountains and Wetlands.

I went there and within 3 casts I got my journal and the ability to track pools!

I was able to achieve this amount of volatile fire because there was no competition at the time and I’m sure this will become more and more competitive as additional players learn about the spot. Be sure to cash in now and make gold farming this spot then invest it into some crafting professions, once you’ve made enough to invest into professions I recommend reading Markco’s Guide to quickly learn how to pull in thousands of gold a day with each profession. Good luck!

Cataclysm has introduced new elemental items that are heavily used in professions which are Volatile Air, Fire, Earth, Water and Life. The WOTLK versions were Eternal and Burning Crusade was Primals.

These items sell for a good amount since they are constantly in demand, although crafting items and selling them on the Auction House is a much faster way to make gold, farming is a great way to get initial gold if you are broke or need funds to powerlevel a profession.

I am on the hunt in Cataclysm to find the best items to farm for the highest gold/hour rate and when I looked at the auction house Volatile Air seemed to be in high demand across every server and seemed like a worthy item that could offer a high gold/hour reward for those looking to farm up some gold.

Here are all the best zones to farm Volatile Air and which one gives you the highest gold/hour and Volatile Air an hour. Starting with the best spot.

Uldum – Scion of Al’Akir at Orsis

Out of all the spots I farmed in my trials I found the Scion of Al’Akir in Uldum to give the most volatile air, there are tons of them that spawn around the Orsis with about 4 that spawn inside. The spot isn’t camped to heavily and it’s easy to sneak up on them as a rogue since they remain standing in one spot facing south the whole time.

Volatile Air – 26 ( x 30g each = 780g)

Crackling crystals – 111 ( x 0.2073g each = 23g 1s)

Shimmering Shards – 30 ( x 0.4323g each = 12g 97s)

Total Gold An Hour = 816g 7s

Twilight Highland – Storm Vortex’s Above Victor’s Point

This is the most heavily farmed spot and for good reason. Storm Vortex’s spawn in a small circular area, there are about 4 single ones that spawn seperately within the inner circle in the pit while others pawn outside with a humanoid caster with them. I would usually just sap the humanoid and kill off the storm vortex and either vanish or just sprint to the next storm vortex in sight.

In an hour of farming this spot I looted the following:

Volatile Air – 21 ( x 30g each = 630g)

Crackling crystals – 60 ( x 0.2073g each = 12g 43s)

Shimmering Shards – 32 ( x 0.4323g each = 13g 89s)

Embersilk Cloth – 13 ( x 6g 30s each = 81g 90s)

Green Items – 2 ( x 25g value you could sell to an enchanter = 50g)

Total Gold An Hour = 788g 52s

Mount Hyjal – Howling Riftdweller below Shrine of Goldrinn

Initially I thought this would be a fantastic spot, not heavily farmed and you can get in a really good rhythm constantly killing these mobs, they are also level 80 which makes them the fastest to kill out of any of the other spots. However they have the lowest drop rate of volatile airs.

Spending an hour here I looted the following:

Volatile Air – 19 ( x 30g each = 570g)

Hoary Crystals – 164 ( x 0.1956g each = 32g 7s)

Efflorescing Shards – 32 ( x 0.25 each = 8g)

Greens = 3 ( x 25g value you could sell to an enchanter = 75g)

Total Gold An Hour = 685g 7s

Twilight Highlands – Enslaved Tempest at The Twilight Citadel

Even though WoWhead shows that these are the mobs with the highest drop rate of volatile air they are so spread out that it isn’t the most efficient place to farm them. The nice thing is that they do spawn by themselves, but other mobs do frequently path close to them.

Another thing I like about this farming spot is that you can also farm volatile fire and volatile water in the same area, I’ll share a bit about this below.

Here were my results farming for an hour:

Volatile Air – 18 ( x 30g each = 540g)

Crackling crystals – 71 ( x 0.2073g each = 14g 72s)

Shimmering Shards – 15 ( x 0.4323g each = 6g 45s)

Green Items – 3 ( x 25g value you could sell to an enchanter = 75g)

Total Gold An Hour = 636g 17s

Bonus Tip

While this spot may be the worst to farm volatile air’s only, if you are looking to make the most gold an hour by farming this place has an even higher gold/hour rate than the #1 farming spot at the top of this list.

I chose instead of only going after Enslaved Tempests to kill all the elementals (fire/water/air) and see how much gold/hour I could get in an hour of farming. Here’s how much I made:

Volatile Air – 18 ( x 30g each = 540g)

Volatile Fire – 6 ( x 20g each = 120g

Volatile Water – 15 ( x 20g each = 300g)

Crackling Crystals – 78 ( x 0.2073g each = 16g 17s)

Shimmering Shards – 28 ( x 0.4323g each = 12g 10s)

green items – 3 ( x 25g value you could sell to an enchanter = 75g)

Total Gold An Hour = 1,063g 27s

If you are going after only Volatile Air’s, then go to Uldum, but if you are trying to make gold to invest into professions (since they are the highest gold earner per hour) then I’d suggest heading over to Twilight Highlands at the Twilight Citadel and killing all the elementals you see and make over 1,000g an hour. Once you’ve made enough to invest into professions I recommend reading Markco’s Guide to quickly learn how to pull in thousands of gold a day with each profession. Good luck!

For those who didn’t get to take advantage of the uldar spot to farm lovely charms I wanted to post an update to where you can currently farm them the fastest.

Markco from justmytwocopper.blogspot.com made a video of him farming them at the argent stand in Zul’Drak, this place has tons of mobs everywhere and respawn faster than you can kill them so definitely a good spot:

If you are farming the lovely charm bracelets as a way to make gold, then I’d say the best place to farm them is somewhere that not only gives you lovely charms but another item of value. 2 birds with 1 stone.

The best farming spot I’ve found for gold making that I always recommend to players who are low on gold is to go and farm iceweb spidersilks at this spot in Zul’Drak, At the farming spot I show below I looted 20 lovely charms in 10 minutes and 14 Iceweb Spidersilks.

20 x lovely charm = 2 lovely charm bracelets (selling for 25g each on my server) = 50g in 10 min

14 x iceweb spidersilk (sell for 7g each on my server) = 98g in 10 min

Total = 148g in 10 minutes, or 888g/hour

One other tip: you can get lovely charms from anything that gives experience or honor, if the queue times on your server are short for the BG Alterac Valley I’d suggest giving that a try, queue times are horrible for my server so I didn’t bother trying it.

[Update: This farming method was nerfed on February 9th 2010 and mobs that can be killed with vehicles or mass killed during dailies no longer drop lovely charms. If you still want to find a fast way to farm Lovely charm bracelets I share 2 alternative spots in my updated post]

The Valentines Event Love is in the Air has just started on February 7th and there is a lot of gold to be made off of people looking to complete their achievements and purchase vendor items using the event currency of Love Tokens.

One of the ways to get Love Tokens is by turning Lovely Charm Bracelets to your faction leaders who will give you 5x Love Tokens per turn in. This can only be done once per day per faction leader (4 faction leaders x 5 love tokens = 20 tokens a day)

However there is an unlimited way to keep on getting Love Tokens and that’s by turning in Lovely Charm Bracelets for a 1:1 turn in ratio to the vendor outside the Auction House for 1 Love Token.

Another great thing is that Lovely Charm Bracelets can be sold on the Auction House and they are currently for sale on my server at 10g each.

Here’s how you can farm 20 Lovely Charm Bracelets every 10 minutes

1. Find Kwee Q. Peddlefeet outside of your factions Auction house and ask for a Lovely Charm Collector’s Kit.

2. Go to Ulduar in the Storm Peaks, enter from the main entrance (You need to be in a raid group to enter, just ask someone to group with you in the zone, convert to raid, then they can leave after you enter the zone)

3. Start the siege event by talking to Lore Keeper Norgannon and activating the Secondary defensive systems, jump into a demolisher, they’ll be on the right side.

4. Position yourself in the middle of the 3 towers so that all the dwarves are coming out, use the #1 ranged attack on groups and also use #3 for the groups that get close to you.

In 10 minutes I got 202 Lovely Charms, 10 of these convert into Lovely Charm Bracelets and sell on my server for 10g each which comes out to 1,212g an hour.

Since the event just began and people start to get wind of this farming spot the lovely charm bracelets are going to drop in price so be sure to sell them quick on the auction house.

After the prices go below 4g per bracelet it may be a waste of time to do this (as it will be only 484g/hr).

Some notable items bought with love tokens:
Truesilver Shafted Arrow
Romantic Picnic Basket

As well as a bunch of achievements, find the complete list on the Wowhead site as they have done a great article – Love is in the air guide