WOW TRANSMOG FARMING FOR GOLD
In this section of our WoW gold guide, we will be covering farming mostly older content for transmog and other items. Most of the items you will be getting are transmog, but also recipes, crafting reagents and pets.
The idea is simple; go out, kill things, take their loot, sell it. In this guide, we split farming into three parts, farming raids, dungeons, and open world.
An important aspect when selling transmog on the AH is that it often takes some time to sell. Therefore you will make more gold the more diverse your portfolio of items is.
If you only farm one tier of gear. Let’s say for example gear in the 60-80 bracket. You will be limiting yourself as the demand won’t be there and you will end up with too many items. You will end up with many of the same items for things that aren’t in demand but might sell occasionally.
This means that spreading out your farming across all tiers is best, as you will get fewer of each item but more different items to meet the actual demand.
A good way to think about it is to each week go farm some vanilla, some TBC, some WotLK, etc. So that you end up with a whole bunch of different transmog, and increasing your chances of selling some of it, even though a lot will take time to sell or not sell at all.
6 MINUTE RUNS
When farming legacy raids or dungeons, you want to always try to keep your runs 6 minutes or around there for optimal farming. This is because you can reset an instance 10 times per hour, so if you do a run every 6 minutes you can keep farming nonstop.
Having the Loot Appraiser addon is an easy way to time your runs.
EXITING AN INSTANCE QUICKLY
To exit an instance quickly. Create a group in the Group Finder when you are finished in the instance, then leave the group. You will then be ported out of the instance after a minute.
When you got a dungeon down, you can make and leave the group around one minute before you reach the end of the dungeon and you won’t have to stand around and wait for 1 minute. This will teleport you to the nearest graveyard, on most dungeons this is right outside but on some, there is a bit of a run.
Druids can also use Dreamwalk and Monks can use Zen Pilgrimage at the end of the dungeon, reset the dungeon and port back.
FARMING LEGACY DUNGEONS FOR GOLD
Below is a list of the dungeons that I think are viable to farm for gold. Vanilla dungeons are generally best, so spend most of your time in those.
While Lootappraiser might make it seem like you are making more in WotLK dungeons and up, those transmog actually doesn’t sell very well and the posting fees are much higher than for vanilla transmog. So you might end up loosing gold by farming these dungeons.
The dungeons below are just sorted by level and not by how much gold you make, since that is very hard to determine, and varies from server to server.
VANILLA DUNGEONS
The bulk of dungeons you will be farming will probably be classic dungeons. These have the rarest items and the transmog from here sell far better than any other.
Gold farming Youtuber WTBGold made a list of the most profitable dungeons to farm. The list for Vanilla dungeons are as follows.
Wailing Caverns
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Not a dungeon you want to start of farming in, but if you have a good selection of items on the auction house, WC is worth a visit.
You can either do half the dungeon up to Lord Cobrahn and then exit and reset. Or if you are very fast you can do the entire instance up until the last boss, but always skip the last boss.
Notable drops here are Gloves of the Fang and Ceremonial Leather Loincloth that sells very well! Other than that, there you will get a lot of different mid-value green items.
Shadowfang Keep
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Shadowfang is the twink dungeon. You can get a bunch of different valuable twink items here.
When soloing at a high level all items will be level 60, except for in chests. The items in the chests will be around level 20 and those are the ones with the most value.
A level 20 Shadowfang will be worth several times what a level 60 one is worth. Bringing a Rogue or someone who can open locked chests is therefore advised.

When you get to this room it’s time to turn back and jump down to the courtyard to go out and reset.
The big-ticket items in Shadowfang Keep are Shadowfang – Gloomshroud Armor – Assassin’s Blade – Mindthrust Bracers – Duskbringer – Necrology Robes – and a bunch of other minor rare items.
Blackfathom Deeps
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Blackfathom Deeps is one of the best dungeons for filling up your auction house with valuable transmog.
A lot of the greens from here are quite valuable, and the zone has a ton of different rare zone drops as well, most which are worth 10-50k.
One important thing to remember is to not kill Domina, Subjugator Kor’ul or the Guardian of the Deep. If you don’t kill them and then click the Fire of Aku’mai after killing Twilight Lord Bathiel, you will spawn a bunch of additional mobs. After killing these mobs you can exit the dungeon.
Gnomeregan
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Gnomeregan is only really worth farming gold in for a couple of really high-value twink items. The Hotshot Pilot’s Gloves and the Caverndeep Trudgers.
These are zone drops but has a slightly higher drop chance from bosses, so you want to kill all the bosses as fast as possible.
There is also some more zone wide rare drops that are worth a bit here, but nothing that comes close to those two items.
Razorfen Kraul
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Razorfen Kraul is one of the best best zone to fill up your auction house with good transmog.
It has a big selection of zone-wide rare BoE drops, great green drops and a guaranteed chance for a rare BoE from the Enormous Bullfrog. The frog drops a selection of around 30 rare BoEs, most worth around 1-3k. After killing him, there is only one group after that you should kill and then you can leave the instance.
When you get to the bat room, create a group in the group finder and leave it. This will give you one minute to kill the frog boss and you will be ported out, right outside the instance.
Razorfen Downs
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This dungeon also has a great loot table. You won’t get as many items as in Razorfen Kraul, but you have a chance at super rare items like the Pattern: Rich Purple Silk Shirt.
RFD is also very fast to run and it’s easy to circle back to the entrance to restart. Using a Rogue or someone who can open chests can be smart here as there are quite a few.
Dire Maul
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The Gordok Commons is good to get a few copies of A Thoroughly Read Copy of “Nat Pagle’s Guide to Extreme Anglin’.” that spawns on the floor every time, but still sells for 5-10k to lazy paladins.
The Warpwood Quarter is also good for transmog and will drop a decent amount of materials with some value that will sell quickly, click the pods on the floor for more stuff.
The locations of the Nat Pagle Book ground spawns.
Uldaman
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Uldaman is one of those dungeons you want to hit up after building up a decent inventory on the AH. You won’t see many items of value here, but if you like playing the lottery, then Uldaman is for you.
Some of the rarest items in the game drop from here including the Papal Fez, Pendulum of Doom, Miner’s Hat of the Deep and The Jackhammer. All of these are worth millions of gold. More common drops like the Ginn-Su Sword are also worth a bit.
The chest after the last boss has a chance at up to three greens and sometimes rares. There are also two other chests marked below.
The chest marked in red is a guaranteed drop, the green is not.
Zul’Farrak
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ZF is another great dungeon to fill up your AH. A lot of popular transmog items drop here, like the Jade set and Glorious set. With the jackpot being the Glorious Legplates.
You can run the dungeon clockwise or counterclockwise, a bit depending on your speed. I manage to do the whole dungeon in 6 minutes and get outside. But if you are a bit slower it might be better to run it clockwise and port out after the room with the graves and zombies. Always remember to click all the graves for loot.
Maradon
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Maraudon is the best vanilla dungeons to farm to fill up your Auction House. It has a wide variety of drops and you will get a bunch of herbs that will make you money fast in addition to the transmog.
Run the dungeon from one entrance to the other and it should take you around 6 minutes, then reset and run back the other way.
Blackrock Depths
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BRD has a good loot table and maybe the most amount of mobs in any dungeon, making it a great dungeon to fill up the AH.
Finding the best route for you can be a bit tricky because of the size of the dungeon. I will usually only do about half the dungeon, killing as many mobs as I can in 6 minutes. After 5 minutes, make a group in the group finder and leave it. That will leave you a minute to complete your 6 minutes and you will be ported out on the 6-minute mark, ready to reset and port right back in.
Lower Blackrock Spire
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In LBRS you are after two things. Plans: Arcanite Champion from the last boss and Plans: Arcanite Reaper from a rare mob called Bannok Grimaxe.
Transmog drops here are also decent, and the whole instance can be run in 6 minutes or less if you are fast. There are also quite a few chests in the instance.
THE BURNING CRUSADE DUNGEONS
TBC transmog is nowhere near as good as vanilla, but you should still farm some to diversify your auction house portfolio at some point. Some of it is still pretty valuable and sells pretty quick. I usually only farm TBC dungeons for a few hours a week. Rare patterns and plans can also drop in TBC dungeons that are worth a lot of gold.
Sethekk Halls
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This is a really fast dungeon with a bunch of mobs. You can circle right back to the entrance after the last boss. You will spend a lot less than an hour to do your 10 runs here though, so I would do 10 runs then move on.
Mana-Tombs
Also a quick dungeon with a path back to the entrance after the last boss. Lies right next to the Sethekk Halls so you can switch between the two.
The Mechanar
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One of the best dungeons to farm for some quick and easy TBC era transmog and patterns.
The Underbog
The Underbog is another good and quick choice. You will get a lot of Mote of Life and various herbs. There are also gatherable herbs for chars with Herbalism
WRATH OF THE LICH KING DUNGEONS
Like with TBC, you want to limit the time you spend in WotLK dungeons. There are some nice items to be had but you won’t be making as much as farming vanilla dungeons. Not many people farm WotLK content though so you won’t have as much competition on a lot of items from here.
Drak’Tharon Keep
Quick path back to the entrance after the last boss. Some decent zone drops like Brighthelm of Guarding. But most of the value is going to come from uncommon transmog. Even better if you can bring a skinner.
Gundrak
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Enter through either of the entrances. Run the dungeon in a U shape and exit through the other entrance. Skip the last boss.
Halls of Lightning
Also has a quick way back to the entrance after the last boss. Relic of Ulduar drops a lot and will sell relatively quick most of the time.
Pit of Saron
You will only be farming this dungeon for the Battered Hilt. The transmog in here is terrible. The drop chance for the hilt is pretty low but because of the number of mobs in the Pit of Saron, it is not that hard to get. I seem to get one in about every 20 runs.
Always farm here on heroic so don’t kill any of the bosses. Kill all the mobs around the pit, head out and reset.
CATACLYSM DUNGEONS
For all Cata dungeons remember to get your Potion of Treasure Finding which will have a chance to drop Tiny Treasure Chest. Generally, Cata dungeons aren’t worth farming much though and you should head to Firelands(see raid section below) instead.
The Vortex Pinnacle
Generally what we’re looking for is Volatile Air. This farm is as easy as pulling the entire instance all the way to the first boss (DO NOT KILL BOSS) – and AOE’ing down ebery mob that follows. It’s by far the most effcient volatile spot, but it has hits limits as you can only reset an instance 10 times before you have to wait a while to do it again. If you only going to be on for an hour or so, this is the spot you want to hit. It’s great, fast, and awards a high liquid value of items.
If you get locked out of dungeons (Did 10 in less then an hour) there is 2 things that you can do.
Switch to a different toon and check out your other farms you might have alts parked at. So your not wasting your buff on the Potion of Treasure finding.
or if you have Skinning. Fly right below the instances and do the Uldum Baby Crocolisk Skinning Farm