The Lazy Goldmaker’s Total Legion Gold Guide

In Legion there are a ton of different ways to make gold. Navigating the jungle and finding out which methods are good for you and how to get started can be an extremely daunting task. In this Legion Gold Guide I will help you through all of the main gold making methods in legion and point you in the direction where you can learn more about them.

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The foundation

To make money in WoW you need to have items that other people need or want. In WoW there are two primary categories of items that people are willing to pay for:

  1. Performance increasing items
  2. Cosmetic items

People are generally more willing to pay for performance increases than cosmetics, as it will directly impact the core gameplay. Performance increasing items are items that directly increase the power of your character. This can be gear, item enhancements, consumables etc.

Cosmetic items include mounts, transmog, rare recipes etc. These items don’t increase your performance, but they are in demand because they look cool, give bragging rights etc.









Enchanting is one of the best crafting professions for making gold as the enchants are consumed on use, meaning that demand will never disappear.



Engineering is not particularly strong from a gold-making point of vies, the old world mounts are great, but the Legion recipes are lacking and limited.



Jewelcrafting is a very strong gold-making profession. Prospecting is often profitable and you can move a large amount of materials. For more details check out some of my posts on the matter or this Video Guide by WTBGold which covers all the shuffles in Legion.





Check out my crafted transmog guide to test the transmog market, or you can copy my ilvl 850 setup from tailoring and use it with the blacksmithing gear.


Tailoring is a crafting profession that turns various forms of cloth into cloth gear. You can also create some tailoring only mounts. In Legion therer are two main gold-making opportunities, shuffling cloth into enchanting materials with the rank 3 silkweave bracers recipe and crafting ilvl 850 imbued silkweave gear to  sell on the auction house.

Old world recipes that are still relevant include transmog gear, old world enchanting shuffles and hexweave bags.






Farming is all about going out into the game world and acquiring materials and items by interacting with it. There are two primary ways of generating items from the game world: Gathering from nodes using gathering professions and looting dead mobs.




Herbalism is the other gathering profession in WoW. You pick flowers to gather herbs. Your main customers are alchemsits and scribes. I suggest sticking to legion herbs as demand for old world materials is very low for herbs. Ninja Kuma has you covered with great routes for all the Legion herbs.



Raw gold


Specific items

The last group is the most diverse one. This encompasses all farms where you kill mobs looking for specific drops. The drops can be trade skill materials like volatile fire or highly sought after transmog pieces (AQ20) or a combination.

The youtuber Oldbess has a ton of farming videos out that cover all forms on farming and I suggest checking him out for some ideas on good spots.



In Legion the best flipping markets are Epic Bind on equip items (BoEs) and materials, you can check out my writeups on flipping for more specific help getting started.

In old world markets you can try your hand at transmog, or trade skill materials. Check out my post on mining for an example of how you can flip old world materials (just make sure theres an actual market for the items you are looking to sell.

Useful Tools




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Knowledgeable players


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6 thoughts on “The Lazy Goldmaker’s Total Legion Gold Guide


      1. Well my server is reset, the supply for the Maelstrom sapphire couldn’t keep up with the demand and the prices dropped even lower. I assume also that people who are prospecting now days is less. You can check the video if you like so it will be more clear how i got to this

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