Most Efficient Way to Make Money in Legion
I just learned this and I wish I knew it sooner.
This week on Reddit I asked what the most efficient ways to make money with only one character were.
I’ll write more about that next week, because the lessons I learned about making gold with one character will be timeless (hint, it involves my profession guide).
What isn’t timeless is the other lesson I learned.
People told me the most efficient way to make money in Legion, and it requires multiple characters.
They call it an “alt army.” But you need to put them to work.
WoW Legion Order Halls are Money Machines
There was a point towards the end of Warlords of Draenor where I found out you could make tons of gold from your garrisons. I ended up getting a good amount, but they patched that away when the new expansion came out.
Otherwise, we all would still be hanging out at our garrison’s making money.
Just like last time, I didn’t learn about Order Hall money making until now, close to the end of the expansion.
That’s why I’m writing this now, so that we can get some use out of it before the end.
/u/Mochaboys says,
My daily routine of collecting and sending missions across 6 optimized order hall alts takes less than 15 minutes total (1.5hrs/week).
at the end of the week, and because I opted for the slow build, I can pull in an average of around 15k per alt. That’s 90k for 1.5 hours of work a week. (note you can do better than this with a speed build — but I didn’t have the time to dedicate to maintaining the necessary OHR collection to support that, so I opted for the slow build with top heavy % modifiers)
On the other hand, the most lucrative gathering profession on my server are herbalism and mining and that’s specifically starlight rose and empyrium.
Solo, and with the proper enchants, and a sky golem — I could maybe gather about 150 starlight rose an hour, empyrium is worse because you have to fight mobs to get to nodes and you can’t fly. So just sticking with the starlight rose example, that’s 150*45g or 6,750g for an hour’s worth of collection
so tl;dr 1.5 hours of work for 90k or 1 hour for 6.7k — which is better?
How to optimize your Order Hall for money making gold generation:
We’ve already established that you need an alt army, presumably at max level right? Is that all?
Unfortunately, no. You need to get all of your followers leveled and geared up properly, which is no easy task.
There are tons of items you can give them in the game. How do you know what’s best?
Lucky for us, /u/x3noncs put together an awesome spreadsheet and guide.
You can check it out here.
I figure there’s no reason for me to re-write it for you. They did all the hard work and deserve the credit.
Other things to keep in mind…
/u/Ragnarok314159 pointed out,
You also need to have legion flying to make your alt army really effective.
/u/Cheesemint said,
I have 3 Fully finished Order Halls, 2 that I’m just waiting on 4–6 pieces of the best gear for the followers (They have the 2nd best), 2 that are 80% complete. As per above The time spent on the non-played characters is minimal, and I pulled down 250k last week over all of them. I have 2 toons left to finish up with this, and I should hit close to 300k per week (and a lot of pet charms). Takes a while to set up, but worth it.
/u/Scottiegazelle gave some great advice on how to get your alt army leveled up:
…consider leveling an alt army. Veeery slowly. My friend gave me a rotation key: play one character til you finish their rested XP. Then the next time slot you have play toon #2. He was a single guy so he would play 7 toons, one each day. But the idea is to maximize your rested XP.
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