Discover Ultimate Gold Trinity for WoW TBC Classic Anniversary: Stealth Chest Farming, Material Flipping & Attunement Quests
WoW TBC Anniversary Phase 2 is launching in just over a week, and you've probably already made many preparations. However, I still want to emphasize that you shouldn't forget to prepare enough gold, as it's a crucial resource in the game.
However, many players, once they reach the endgame, spend most of their time running dungeons or engaging in PvP, and don't know how to acquire large amounts of gold. Over time, this can easily lead to a gold shortage.
Don't worry, next, I'll introduce three methods I commonly use to quickly obtain large amounts of gold for your reference.
Dungeon Chests
This method is very simple and convenient, allowing you to acquire a large amount of gold in a short time.
First, you need to choose a time when there aren't many players running dungeons, such as a weekday morning. Use any Stealth Class - the most common is Rogue - and enter any low-level dungeon.
Why use a Stealth Class? Because in WoW TBC, Stealth Classes allow you to become invisible to ordinary mobs and remain undetectable once you enter stealth mode.
Therefore, once you enter the dungeon, simply enter stealth mode, bypass all the regular mobs, and head straight to the designated treasure chest spawn points to open them freely. If you are familiar with the map's layout, you can even complete this process within ten minutes.
Note that since each player can only loot the same boss's loot chest once per week, your primary goal isn't to kill the boss and obtain their chest, but to collect other chests on the map.
This method doesn't require high skill, but the rewards are very consistent - each chest will drop several WoW TBC Classic Anniversary Gold and one piece of green or blue quality gear.
Next comes the most important part: don't directly process the green or blue gear you obtain - you'll only get 15-17 gold per piece. The correct approach is to disenchant them all for enchanting materials.
WoW TBC Anniversary's equipment disenchanting function allows you to destroy equipment and convert it into basic materials needed to craft various powerful items, and the value of the resulting materials far exceeds the value of the equipment itself.
Disassembling blue gear (levels 51-60) yields Large Brilliant Shards, which sell for around 20 gold each at Auction House - twice the gold you'd get by giving them to an NPC.
Similarly, for green gear, if Auction House price is below 5 gold, disassemble it and list the materials there; if the price is above 7-10 gold, exchange it for gold with an NPC.
Daily Quests and Raid Attunements
WoW TBC has two often overlooked but extremely stable sources of income: Daily Quests and Raid Attunements.
Daily Quests
Each character can accept 10 daily quests in areas like Shattrath City or the Isle of Quel'Danas. Each completed quest rewards 11-12 gold, for a total of 100-150 gold. With the various items obtained during quests, you can accumulate over 1000 gold in about three days.
However, be careful of some bugs. For example, quests in Blade's Edge Mountains used to only reward 7 gold, while quests in other areas rewarded 11 gold or more.
Blizzard hasn't completely fixed this bug yet, so it's best to carefully observe before accepting quests to avoid losses.
Also Read: WoW TBC Classic Anniversary: 6 Must-Obtain Items to Invest In Before Phase 2 Launches
Raid Attunement
Some new WoW TBC Anniversary players overlook Serpentshrine Cavern Attunement quest. In fact, it provides a huge amount of WoW TBC Classic Anniversary Gold, making it an absolute must-do.
In the current game, Serpentshrine Cavern Attunement quest is primarily obtained from Slave Pens in Heroic Mode. Compared to Tempest Keep Attunement quest, it has a longer prerequisite process - and includes Cipher of Damnation quest chain in Shadowmoon Valley - involving more than 10 quest chains.
Therefore, completing Serpentshrine Cavern Attunement quest will grant you a large amount of experience and reputation, as well as a significant amount of gold.
However, if you don't complete these quests, you won't be able to participate in Serpentshrine Cavern instance, which will also result in a significant loss of gold.
Auction Materials and Potions
As mentioned in the first part, you can exchange materials obtained from disenchanting equipment for gold at Auction House. In fact, experienced WoW TBC players will know that materials obtained from attacking monsters, after some processing, can also be exchanged for a large amount of gold at Auction House.
Firstly, in Outland, elite fire and water elementals can be killed by Hunters or Mages, dropping small particles upon death. Every 10 particles collected can be combined into a raw material in your inventory, which can then be exchanged for gold.
For example, the material Primal Water costs around 20 gold per piece at Auction House. You can kill monsters in places like Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest or Elemental Plateau in Nagrand and use the dropped small particles to craft Primal Water. You can usually get dozens of Primal Water in a few hours.
Secondly, you can exchange potions for gold.
With the upcoming WoW TBC Classic Anniversary Phase 2, many players will be tackling various dungeons. Healers and most DPS classes will probably use several stacks of Super Mana Potion per raid, and they'll need to obtain hundreds of Super Mana Potions each night from Auction House.
You need to seize this opportunity and level up your Alchemy to Potion Master level. Then, craft a large quantity of Super Mana Potions and place them on Auction House. Many players will then trade gold for Super Mana Potions with you.
These are my methods for quickly obtaining a large amount of gold. Try them out!
