I thought I could share some of my experience after I tested what people advised in this thread.
I have yet to make a fortune from skinning/leatherworking. Hoping Nefarian would fix this.
Dire Maul East lasher farming is not bad. I am not a herbalist and cannot take advantage of picking random herbs but the s…tdrops from the lashers sell for good money and sometimes they also drop valuable herbs. Still, it’s about 5-8 gold per run.
However, running dungeons still brings the more profit but you need to know which dungeons to run. So far, BRD full runs provide the most income - I’ve never ended with less than 20 gold per run, while I once made 70.
In wow classic tanks and healers were supposed to lvl a farming alt to avoid 100g respec cap. These alts are also 1st in queue for gearing after main raid team, thus, making the guild able to play with the & h numbers in roster.
I’m farming lashers in DM:E too (also without herbalism).
You seem rather disappointed by the “5-8 gold per run”.
How long do you need for a run?
It takes me exactly 10 Minutes for a run, so thats 5-8 gold / 10 min. That’d add up to 30-40g an hour which is pretty good imo.
Are you just ging in there once?
Because when I’m there I usually do a full hour(until dungeon lockout)
If you are doing fire maul you really need to be a herbalist. Each ghost mushroom and dreamfoil sells for a gold each. You can get 3 dreamfoil from one node.
The bosses drop blues hat sell for 1-5g if you are lucky but herb runs are where’s Its at. You can get around 2-5 dream fouls and 2-3 ghost mushrooms a run which is 8 gold on its own from herbs, let alone the vendor trash.
Mining is only good if you are able to kill the last boss and do it in a timely manner. Else 5 quick runs of herb picking can get you around 48g from herbs.
You go to ruins of Alterac and pick up wintersbite to make frost oils. Plus some grave moss and other herbs around
You go to swamp of sorrows and herb everything (lower nature protection potion for AQ times, stuff for shadow oil / shadow prot potions and many more)
You go to like shores of AV and you fish Oily + Straglekelpflf for Free Action Potions, Firefins for lower fire resistance pots (if flame sacs available) or potions of greater firepower since AQ phase. Plus eels (and wreckage pools if you have the bag space)
You go to WPL/Azshara to pick some Dreamfoil (purple lotus could be used for magic resistance pots, greater waterbreathing and some other memes; later on becomes more useful)
You go to EPL/WPL to pick up Arthas tears, Plaguebloom for some top tier stats pots
You go to Ungoro to get some Mountain Silversage for said potions and alike
You go to Winterspring to pick up icecap for best mana pot
Since AQ you will be visiting Tanaris for Firebloom (and purple lotus)
Other zones may also be interesting…
You aren’t killing anything, aside of EPL mobs will be severely lower level or green. And the best stuff - you are extremely diversified. You make a bunch of each, sell and repeat, you aren’t blocked with one item like the cloak being over abundant on the market or problematic to make. And you can adapt, pick zones to your liking. Like before AQ you will be making nature and lower nature prot potions. Killing elementals may be hard on healer (although they are low level) and it will be contested, so you just get dreamfoil, buy elemental earth and sell pots. Prior to Naxx you will be farming low level water elementals in STV and making major frost protection pots. Plus infinite amount of free action potions will also sell, so you can farm fortune on pure fishing. Lower nature prot potions will also sell during Naxx not to mention AQ and that’s gold from running in circles in Swam of Sorrows.
And I ignored flasks as those, like the Onyxia clock are a special item that isn’t reliable at gold making (you can just go fish, where as finding a BL is way harder and timegated).
And one more thing: as a healer in a “low” level zone you may encounter someone in need of rezing or emergency healing. Be a hero of the day!
Just run Scholomance, or maybe some other dungeon. With all the vendor stuff and just cash from mobs killing, you should make 25G a run.
Its not the best gold/hour but its somewhat fun.
I cannot do it for 10 mins. Usually, it takes me 20. And I cannot get a party invite after every run so I get teleported to the inn. And probably, the DME farm is not that fun. I guess I will stick to running BRD for now, I got another 100 gold from 2 runs.