Gold farm via boosting - how hard is it?

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I want to return in 9.1, don’t wanna spend much actual money on the game and i have heavily considered gold farming. I don’t want to, however, brainlessly farm my mind out doing same repetitive stuff like proffessions. I want to do it playing the game, and i know that people who boost keys do so. I know more or less how it works - you get good at m+ via high score, or raids via good progress and then you find people to team up with, preferably from boosting communities and simply start selling boosts for in-game gold, then i can buy tokens for that.

So what do i want to know?

WHAT my rating has to be in m+.
WHERE to find people to boost with.
WHERE to begin without prior experience (aside raiding).

And most importantly, is it achievable by a player on my level? - While i am by all means willing and even happy to improve, my mythic+ score was never high because i never considered doing those aside from weekly chest, but now i see an opportunity. My highest progress ever was 6/10M Ny’alotha (guild broke up after, leader left) and my highest rating in pvp in 2v2 was 1.8K ish (Shadowlands). Not sure if this is a good way to measure whether i’m skilled or not and i know that this is probably not enough to boost others, as i also need gear and people etc.

Any boosters care to share their story?

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Our friendly forum booster Bukachu might be able to advise you.

Otherwise, I would suggest you ask some of the boosting communities themselves. If you google “WoW Market Discord” you will find a market place for boost buyers and sellers in which all the boosting communities participate. It’s all legit there, as far as I have ever seen - boosts for gold withing Blizzard’s ToS - so it’s “safe”.

From there, you will find the various boosting communities recruiting boosters and advertisers, mostly by linking the community’s personal Discord. In those Discords, you will find the requirements each is looking for, probably in the intro/FAQ sections, and the members will answer your questions.

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First of all, if you want to boost m+, go horde. Really. Go horde. It’s not worth it on alliance side, there’s simply not enough people there (neither boosters nor buyers).

Then, go and find one of the bigger communities: Dawn, Icecrown, Sylvanas, Oblivion, and check their application channels, they all have their requirements there. You can read their FAQs, ask around, and so on. Every community works a little bit differently.

Most likely, yes. I’ve been boosting since BfA S3, and I’m not a particularly good player, just your pretty average casual.

However, boosting takes quite a bit of time and effort: preparing for it, by getting the necessary score, and the gear (since you need to be able to trade away everything that drops, in any loot spec you can set), each and every season.

If you want easy, straightforward gold: level a horde of alts and farm the mission table. I make about 400k raw gold a month from mission tables alone, and have plenty of runes, herbs, ores, and other materials on top which I can sell on the AH. Takes about ~30 minutes a day to handle it all, every alt, 3 sets of missions a day. Getting ready does take time and effort: leveling 10+ chars to max, getting ~1.5k starting anima and at least 4-5 followers. But once that’s done, you’re set for the rest of the expansion. You will never have to re-farm score, or gear. Nor will you have to fish for boost runs you can sign to, and then spend 30+ minutes in a dungeon. Nah, you log in, send out missions, reap the rewards ~5 hours later.

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That’s brilliant advice, the horde only for boosters thing sounds sad but i don’t really believe it. Faction imbalance sucks, huh? Making one horde char is not a problem, as i have 10 max level chars on draenor, horde - focusing on one for sole purpose of boosting and getting gold for tokens isn’t a problem for me, but i will try doing it in alliance anyway. And the mission table? I can’t believe i missed it, i have 30+ level 50 characters and 10 level 60. I just switched to alliance, so it’s going to be 12 more level 60 chars. I don’t mind spending time on it, alting is fun and with improvements to torghast won’t be much of a nightmare. Thanks for the advice, very consistent and helpful.

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Oi! RRRUUUUDEEEE

Im gonna go buy a b00st on my rogue to proove you wrong >:(

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It is sad. But true.

Just open up Group Finder on Alliance and then on Horde. Or look at the boosts offered in the WoW Market Discord. Horde outnumber Alliance more than 2:1, maybe 3:1. It’s not that there are no groups on Alliance, but there are A LOT more on Horde.

Alliance is dying. Not a commercial proposition.

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Well, lets put it this way: I was a booster in 3 communities at the start of Shadowlands, on alliance side. I earned about 100k gold overall between them, in about 4 months. I switched to horde, and 1M a week.

I tried to buy KSM for a friend of mine who plays on alliance side. We tried to find a community that could do at least 3 keys for us at a time. We tried for 3 weeks, pinging multiple communities and multiple advertisers every hour or two - no dice. Meanwhile, she leveled a char on horde side. She dinged, and had KSM the next day.

I’m not saying you can’t buy boosts on ally side, or there’s no boosts going on, but it’s orders of magnitudes less than on horde side. And if you want to earn gold, you go where the gold is, which is horde side when it comes to boosting.

It’s sad, because I’d much prefer playing alliance. But until we have cross-faction play in dungeons, it’s not going to be worth boosting (or playing, for that matter) M+ on ally side.

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I suppose if you are LOOKING for boosters

I was like ‘‘im tired of people not even knowing normal tactics & straight up throwing keys while telling me to kill myself/uninstall the game because i cant heal a tank without weapons /to go back to lfr, im just gonna buy a freaking b00st’’

Like people have gotten so stupid this expansion that i see alot of people running NO WEAPONS AS TANK FOR SOME REASON Straight up throwing the key, dps with legendary VESSELS ON THEM AND NOT THE LEGENDARY ITSELF and people who afks for 5 mins after every pack, so that was pretty much my motivation, then i saw nova advertising in trade chat and joined the discord, all my b00sts are bought by them and i’ve never waited more than 4 hours for my order

PS : I buy b00sts on both factions, seems to be slower on horde from nova but i can imagine cuz they get more orders there

Hoped this helped, but probably not x)

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Like I said, I spent a good couple of months trying to boost on ally side aswell. There were not only a lot less requests coming in, but a high percentage of them had to be canceled aswell.

If you want gold from boosting, Horde is much, much, much more practical. Doable on alliance side, too, yes, sure, but it takes a lot more time and effort, thus, not worth it, if the goal is gold.

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Thats just not true

The only advantage to buying b00sts on horde is that you can use goblin alts for more calling money :]

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Incidentally, do you really get 40K per month per character from missions? I haven’t seen anything like 1.2K gold/day available from missions, though admittedly I haven’t bothered getting mine to 60 yet. I know you get average 1.8K/day from Callings, but 10 Callings per day would give me irreversible brain damage. I’ll do a couple, ok, but 10? :fearful:

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OP wants to boost, not buy. And the fact is that there’s more boosts sold on horde side, thus, more money to be earned.

It’s also easier to buy boosts on horde:

On horde side, I never waited more than 15 minutes. Well, fine, I did wait a few hours once, when I bought a +19. That would’ve been less too, if I didn’t want a specific key on top, rather than a random +19. Random +19 would’ve been like 5 minutes.

On average, my gold missions are 300g / mission, and I do 3 a day per char on average. That’s about 27k gold / char. I have 15 max level toons at the moment, netting me a bit over 400k a month in raw gold. I used to be a bit more aggressive with missions, and could average 4-5 gold missions a day per char, which used to put me at 36k-45k gold / month / char.

But I have so much gold right now, that I just chill and send out missions three times a day and call it done.

I don’t do callings on the table farmer alts. I only do callings on this druid, and whatever alt I want to farm renown with. Those alts are usually chars I’m preparing to main along my druid; the table farmers do not farm renown: they do the 1k anima weekly by sitting at the table (sometimes it takes two weeks to do one, don’t care much), and that’s it. Apart from the initial anima & follower grind (torghast L5, floor 1 spam), the table farmer alts never leave the table, unless they hand in the weekly, or deposit anima to the reservoir.

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Oh, you’re right. :white_check_mark:

I just checked one of mine, and she has two 300+ gold missions waiting. I have plenty of gold, so I never look at those; wasn’t even conscious of them. But I’m sure if I followed it up, I’d get another one or two within a day.

So yeah, I’m seeing how you could pull 30K per month per alt easily enough.

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I’ll resub about when 9.1 comes out or is close to coming out, First thing i do is get my 10 horde alts set up for mission table gold farming. I already have some companions on them with okay levels, soooo i’ll see how it works out.

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FWIW, for mission table farming, faction doesn’t matter. The “horde of alts” simply means a lot of alts, not their faction. =)

OTOH, it does make sense to make them horde, if you’re also planning to do m+ gold boosting on the side, so the table farmers can supply you with additional gold and crafting materials and runes and whatnot, to make life easier.

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I know the faction doesn’t matter, i just stated that i have horde alts already. There’s gonna be at least 10 more alliance alts on their way too.

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