Do you often have no time to play WOTLK Classic? Do you want to earn gold while AFK with just one spell? In this guide, I’ll show you a few ways to easily run your game in the background and generate gold while your character is away.

Enchanting

When players hear the profession Enchanting, the first thing that comes to mind is enchant for gear. But what I want to say is that this is an endgame profession, and the cost of learning skill 450 and selling all recipes is the highest among all professions.

The fact that it’s expensive immediately raises the question: is it possible to make money by making enchants for gear? You can certainly make money, but the profits aren’t as great as any new player might imagine.

Here you can see some of the best selling enchants and their benefits. If you take into account the actual cost of skill development to level 450, you’ll find that the profit per enchantment isn’t that great. But here I will show you how to earn tons of WOTLK Classic Gold using only Disenchant spell.

Disenchant Mail Item

We have several ways to do this. The first is to write to the global channel and use a certain amount of gold coins to purchase green items above level 74. This way, the emails you receive will have the COD payment method.

But sometimes there can be hidden flaws if you’re not careful. Players who send you items may send you items that are no higher than level 74 and ask for more than you asked for, so be careful with this approach.

By doing this, you can disenchant items, which become the 3 materials for enchanting, namely Infinite Dust, Lesser and Greater Cosmic Essence. Typically, each item is disenchanted into a different material, with weapons and shields mostly disenchanted into Cosmic Essence, and other items into Infinite Dust.

Also, these items can be disenchanted into Dream Shard or Small Dream Shard.

This is the first method, and a lot depends on how much material other players send you. Therefore, it can also happen that one day you receive 100 packages full of items in the mail, and the next day you receive nothing.

Disenchant Stoneguard Band

Another method, which I think is better and what I personally use, is to create the item in Jewelcrafting and disenchant it as a material. For this technique, you can use a character with Jewelcrafting and Enchanting, or two characters if you don’t have both professions on one character.

The first thing we need are materials to make disenchant items. So we are going to make Stoneguard Band, which requires 2 Eternal Earths.

Buy Eternal Earth

In order to have the most accurate results for this test, we will make 500 rings that we will disenchant. I will also show what materials the disenchant ring is made of and what the total profit is in the end.

When you buy certain materials from the auction house, it’s not available in unlimited quantities like when you buy from a supplier, so it can sometimes take a while.

We already have Eternal Earth. Now it’s time to make the ring. But before that, if you’re like me and don’t have both professions in the same character, you need to send crafting materials to other characters. The total time to make 500 pieces is nearly 2 hours.

Making Rings

The best way to make this ring is to start making it, come back after 15 minutes, send the ring and repeat the process. You don’t have to play the game, just check it every 10 to 15 minutes.

This way of farming gold is good for players who don’t have much time to play games but are always in front of the computer.

Disenchanting Ring

After we finished making all the rings, it was a disenchant time.

Here we have a character whose guild bank is empty, which I actually found to be quite practical. Fill the bag with rings and then break them down, allowing us to turn the entire bag of rings into Infinite Dust and Cosmic Essence.

Then we just need to put them into the empty guild bank tag, remove the entire bag of rings and repeat the process. The minimum disenchant time for each item is 3 seconds in total, so it will take about half an hour in total.

Here we talk about a very important detail, that is Disenchant Macro. If we were doing something else and disenchanted the item in the background, it would speed up the process a lot for us.

Another important thing that will also speed up this process is to turn on Auto Looting so that disenchanted materials will automatically appear in your bag after each macro is cast. No need to loot them yourself, you can just spam the macro.

But I wouldn’t recommend this as your primary way of farming gold, as it makes you dependent on auction materials, which may or may not always be available at the price you want. The cheaper you buy materials, the higher your profits. And you must understand that none of the items you auction will sell immediately. Selling also takes time, so don’t put all your money on it.

Result

Ultimately, our ring was disenchanted into 2095 Infinite Dust, 163 Greater Cosmic Essence, and 13 Dream Shard.

And 13 of the 500 rings are disenchanted as Dream Shard, 106 of them are disenchanted as Greater Cosmic Essence, and 381 rings are disenchanted as Infinite Dust. The average disenchant is 5.5 Infinite Dust, while Greater Cosmic Essence averages 1.54.

All that’s left to do is put all those enchanting materials on the auction house and wait a few days, or even a week, until they’re all sold. Currently, I have sold half of the materials and earned 5k gold, which means I will have a total profit of about 10k gold coins.

Therefore, this AFK method of farming gold coins can indeed make very good profits. Regardless, I hope you learned something innovative with this guide to growing AFK gold. Good luck!