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Thw Maw is the Maw. I hate it, but it gives good XP. That’s your tradeoff.
But if you’re looking for a little gold for 229s, you have two solid and easy routes:
1. Heart of Fear LFR farm
Talk to the Raid Finder Storyteller in the Lorewalkers’ place above Mogushan Palace in Vale in Pandaria. Choose The Dread Approach (first wing of HoF).
Enter and kill all trash and the first two bosses. Right-click your portrait, choose Leave Instance, and keep re-entering until you have done your 10 per hour. Takes mayve 20-30 minutes for 10 runs once you have developed a rhythm. You will get vendor trash and auctionable Motes of Harmony.
From 10 runs of the instance, clearing the first boss and all trash before the second, I got
1,876 gold after vendoring all Greens (you won’t sell them at Auction)
119 Motes, worth 10.90 [*] each at the AH today, so 1,297 gold there.
13 Lockboxes, worth nothing if you vendor them, but maybe 40 gold each if you have a Rogue that can open them.
2 pets, that might theoretically sell for a couple of thousand gold, but will probably be hard to shift.
Brann Bronzebeard, in that room, will act as a vendor for the Greens you want to vendor. Motes of Harmony sell fast on the cross-realm AH.
So for the half-hour, a fairly safe 4,000 gold. Probably 4,500+.
Wait until your ten instance per hour limit expires, and repeat as much as needed.
[*] P.S. Current price of Motes is 17.42, so much better than a couple weeks ago.
P.S. I think this is probably do-able at 50+, without waiting for 60. I think.
2. Mission Tables.
This works for alts, AFTER you have got one character to Renown 80. Renown 80 on one character is necessary to switch Covenants and buy the Broker Marks of Distinction.
If you’re not going to level one much before the others, it may be less feasible.
Only Night Fae is really worth doing.
There’s this one weird trick …
As soon as you get to Oribos and choose Threads of Fate, choose Night Fae and immediately go downstairs to the little guy beside the Flight Master and buy https://www.wowhead.com/item=188167/broker-mark-of-distinction#comments for 500g to boost you to Renown 60. That will get you a Wisps of Memory. Then your levelling will get you the rest of the way to 80.
When you hit 60, get your alt to join each of the Covenants in turn, and on each one, buy and use another Broker Mark of Distinction. Each time you use one, you will get another Wisps of Memory.
So now you should have 6 Wisps of Memory, because you also got two at Renown 67 and 76 while levelling. (If you didn’t hit 76 while levelling, do a bit more to get there, but Bonus Areas at least should get you there.)
Finally, switch back to Night Fae.
You’ve invested 2000 gold in those four Renown tokens, but now we’re ready to collect the payoff!
When you go to Night Fae, you will first get one Soulbind, Niya. BEFORE you get any other Soulbind, activate the Mission Table (needs some foofing around with intro quets, and some Anima) and use all 6 Wisps to boost her to level 60. This will also boost your troops to level 60, and their levels won’t drop when you add more followers. Night Fae Troops are formidable. Four Trappers, or three Trappers and a Grovetender, will take care of any mission, meaning you can just plug iny old follower at any level at all to scoop all the Gold missions you want.
I recommend getting your table to Level 9, for the range of missions. But from there you are guaranteed an effortless average 1K per day per alt, somewhat more if you collect and send 2 or 3 times a day.
And ofc
3. Callings
1800 gold average per day. What more can I say about that?
