Hey there guys!
What's going on?
This is Reckles with WTBGold and today I'm going to be talking about the most profitable
farm I’m aware of.
First we’re gonna go over how to do it the normal intended way, bregs has done a video
on this, studen’s talked about it, umren did a guide about it.
It’s not a new farm.
But then we’re gonna go and talk about how over the year, people have optimized bits
and pieces of it into a farm that gives 1.4 million gold in 2 hours.
And then I'm gonna finish up the video by talking about something more important I think.
the ethics of it and legitamacy.
Wether or not, what we've come to, is an exploit.
And finally, big shout out to The Original Captain Trips for doing the first video on
this optimized farming method, and a big thank you to Flame1153 for filling in some of the
gaps of the things I didn't know, sharing his results, so that I can share those with
y'all.
But let's get going
Ok, so what’s the normal gold making method with Darkmoon Faire?
Every month, you can turn in 9 artifacts to different NPCs around the Faire.
These artifacts you get from dungeons, and raids, and PVP whenever you have the darkmoon
adventures journal in your bags.
This is a nice boost to old content farms so just always have it with you.
When you turn these in, you'll have 80 darkmoon faire tickets.
Step two, once per character, you can also turn in 100 darkmoon daggermaw, the darkmoon
faire fish for a faded treasure map, and this just sends you out on a cute little treeasure
hunt around the island.
It's a lot of fun and at the end, you'll get a chest that contains another 100 tickets.
So 180 total.
You do one round of dailies, and you’ve got your goal of 185 tickets.
Now, 185 is important because what we're spending these tickets on is the darkmoon faire replica
transmog.
With 185 you can buy 2 pieces of the 55 ticket armor and 1 piece of the 75 ticket armor.
Now, these transmog items sell for a lot.
They have the same model as the heirloom gear, but they're actually different colors.
I think someone said they were the T0.5 armor, whereas the heirloom gear is the T0.
I don't know, I'm a lich king baby.
But they sell for 20-40,000 gold each For the rest of the video, just to save y'all
trouble, I'm gonna just say 30k each.
You know your transmog market better than I do, so if you need to adjust these prices
as I go, go for it.
But here’s the napkin math.
Every darkmoon faire, 3 items for 30k each.
That's 90k.
These cost 185 tickets total, so each Darkmoon Faire ticket is worth 500 gold to you.
That means that you should be willing to buy darkmoon daggermaw for up to 500 gold.
That means that dungeon artifacts are worth up to 5k, and that the treatise on strategy
is profitable up to 7,500 gold.
Long story short, you can get some good deals on these.
It's almost all profit.
And you can get some nice extra 100k a month.
And you know what, if you're on a low pop server, by all means, transmog might take
a little bit longer to sell, but here’s a screenshot of someone paying 400k for I
think shoulders.
One of my twitch subs Flame has stocked up on one of everything and here’s his results
for the past 90 days - 1.8 million in sales.
Alright, so let's move on, let’s optimize, let's put our gold making caps on.
We’ve established how profitable this is.
What's our end goal?
We want to farm up as many tickets as possible during one Darkmoon Faire and there are 2
things holding us back.
Two roadblocks.
First, the daggermaw quest can only be done once per toon.
Second, the artifacts can only be turned in once per month per toon.
We can get around those resets and lockouts with class trials.
The problem is that you can only make 8 trails a week, which is fine, that's a lot of gold,
but we can get around that too.
If you make 8 class trials a week before Darkmoon Faire starts, then you you can do this 8 times
on day 1, then delete those toons, and then make 8 more, for a total of 16 runs of darkmoon
faire. 48 pieces of transmog armor.
But at that point you run into a new roadblock, where you need 16 of every artifact and 1600
darkmoon daggermaw, which can be just a huge pain to find on a small server.
But a tip for that is that the prices do tend to dip in between faires, so I've got a TSM
import list down in the clickety click.
About 2 weeks before the faire starts begin scanning your auction house for these artifacts
and these fish.
And then whenever the faire actually starts, the rest of the route is the same.
You log onto your class trial, hearth out of the tutorial, you check your mail for the
fish and artifacts that you mailed off, and then talk to the lady by the auction house.
She gives you a “Welcome to Darkmoon Faire” quest that gives you 5 tickets and this is
important cause that means you can turn in the artifacts for 80, the darkmoon daggermaw
for 100, and then you have 5 tickets just for going there, so you don't have to waste
time doing the dailies.
Which is great.
You can get this entire route done in 9 minutes 30 seconds.
You can probably do it faster.
I'm a slowpoke, but I was very proud on 9 minutes 30 seconds.
But final tip for this is that there are 144 transmog items available.
Because there are so many different items, it can get really confusing just keeping track
of which ones you've purchased and which ones you haven't, even if you have addons that
track that stuff, so you know, maybe use a spreadsheet or you can make the class trials
different classes so you only buy armor appropriate to that toon's armor type.
But after it's all said and done, that’s 16 toons times 3 replica items each, times
30k gold per item.
That's 1.4 million gold in 2 hours.
That's 700k an hour.
That's a stupid amount of gold.
And you know what, if you have 2 accounts or friends who are willing to run this for
you you can double that.
It’s massively profitable.
But...when I was running this.
I ran this method for the first time last month.
And about half way through, I got that little tickle in the back of my head saying “ehhhh,
this doesn’t feel right.”
So, like, I don't think there's anyone that would say this is 100% legitamate.
Even though we are using things that have been in the game for many years.
And we're not...it's not an exploit, we're not wall hacking or going invincible or writing
a custom macro that locks up our arena opponents computer.
You know, it's not malicious.
But it's in the grey area.
So let’s finish up talking about ethics.
Blizzard designed the class trials as a way to test out if you like a toon before you
drop sixty bucks on it.
They're a smart company and realized you can take advantage of this so they’ve implemented
a few restrictions into class trials to make sure you can’t use them spicifically to
circumvent lockouts and resets.
For instance, you can’t make more than 4 toons in an hour.
You can’t enter dungeons or raids.
And while blizzard hasn’t told us why those rules are there, these restrictions do exist,
and what we’re trying to do is specifically trying to avoid these restrictions.
Archvaldor’s Warcraft Hacks made a cool forum post where he said, in relation to this
farm specifically, that blizzard doesn’t take kindly to people who use class trials
to avoid resets.
And he would know, he made a video describing a trick where you can use class trials to
avoid a once per character lockout with your garrison.
Blizzard nerfed that the day after he put his video out.
In the past, people have used rogue class trials to try and avoid the weekly 5000 gold
pickpocket lockout and a few of them actually got in trouble.
But because these are grey area farms, Blizzard can’t give you a definitive answer of whether
they’re ok.
That's what they've done in the past, what's Blizzards official stance on this?
Forum Customer Support agent vrakthris said, if your exploit is obvious and egregious,
then you might get penalized.
Which is still not saying anything specific but here's my take on this.
Yes, this farming method has been around since the first month class trials existed and yes
blizzard hasn’t stopped anyone yet.
But since 2016 it’s evolved.
We've gone from making 1 or 2 trials for some extra gold into the much more obvious and
egregious 2 weeks of planning to run 16 or 32 or more class trials through.
If you want to do this class trials trick to just get an extra transmog apppearance
you don't have, go for it, whatever.
But honestly, I don't feel comfortable recommending that you guys do the full 16 toon thing until
we get an answer from blizz.
I've been playing my account for 10 years and it feels like I'm cheating.
However, I do think this is important information.
This method, this mindset to how we optimized this farm is worth sharing, even if we end
up disagreeing over where the grey area turns black.
You can still take something away and improve your own goldmaking techniques.
But gosh, that is it for this video!
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Good luck and happy gold making!