Make up to 200K with minutes of work

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The ultimate goblin trick: how to make 200.000 gold every year in 10 minutes of work

Back in the days, I remember being broke. I was searching for a quick solution to make gold in WoW, and I stumbled upon Gevlon’s blog. After reading about the glyph industry, I dropped my professions, learned mining and herbalism, and spent the next 6 hours collecting plants and minerals to sell them at the Auction House. Once I had enough money I dropped mining and learned Inscription. Two weeks later I was making more than 10k gold per week for less than 2 hours of work. Needless to say, I became a loyal reader of this blog. The gold obsession had begun.

Recently I found what I think is the most efficient way to make gold in World of Warcraft. I’ve always wanted to set gold production on autopilot, and when Cataclysm came out I took advantage of the [cash flow] guild perk to do exactly that. My initial goal was to attain the momentum point where the guild experience cap was reached every day, and people continually invited their friends, so that the guild stayed alive and grew over time. The result?


Let me guide you through the process. First you have to create a guild. Delete all the ranks except Member. Then give your members the right to invite other members: you might think that it will cause trouble because of kiddies spamming /g with nonsense, but in my experience it doesn’t happen. Set the guild message of the day to something along the lines of “Welcome! Everybody can invite new members (press J, then “info” tab). Feel free to invite your friends! Have fun!”. The more social and you make it, the more people will be inclined to stay and invite their friends. You can also setup the Guild Search to get more members. Remember, keep it social!



Secondly, you have to invite members to your new guild. A very effective way to do this is to use this addon called Ninja Invite. It automatically invite unguilded people from your server to your guild. It also saves their name so that you don’t invite them twice. You won’t get banned using this addon. In fact Blizzard even allows players to block guild invites in the interface/controls.

I tuned the addon to invite people from level 10 to 84, which is the most effective in regard of guild experience. Once it’s up and running (don’t forget to check “Load out of date AddOns” in the selection menu), simply type “/ni start” and it will start inviting people to your guild. You can bind this command to a macro like I did, so you just have to press a button. Even better, if you’re leveling an alt or if you have a character that you play regularly that is in the guild, just press the button every 20 to 30 minutes and your guild will be growing at a crazy rate.
Now remember, your goal is not to fill the guild. Your goal is to reach momentum so that you don’t have to work anymore. It can be really fast and easy if you’re on a highly populated server, or it could be a hassle if you don’t have much time. Here are the most effective time and dates to invite in a guild:

• When an expansion pack comes out
• After a new patch, as people get back into the game
• On the weekends afternoon and evenings
• In the week days evening between 6pm and 9pm

I invited my first members the day cataclysm came out, and I probably created momentum on that first invite round, as everybody was 80 and questing. That’s how I can honestly say that I created 200k gold value in 10 minutes this year.

The guild requires maintenance, mainly because there’s a maximum number of members a guild can have: 1000. Now, you might think you would never reach that limit. But once your guild grows and people start inviting their friends, you’ll have a lot of inactive members.

One solution to clean up the mess is to use an addon that kick inactive members every now and then. I use Guild Kicker. Type “/gk” and the menu will appear, letting you kick inactive and/or low level members. An alternative solution, if you don’t play wow all year round, is to promote officers and ask them to kick people that reach an inactivity threshold. It’s less reliable, but it’s still better than nothing. In my guild we kick player that are inactive for 15 days and the guild is always filled with more than 800 members.

If you don’t want to manage the guild, or if you think you could need the cash to invest into a more profitable business (as I know some readers here can), sell it. Think about it: even if your guild generates only 2k gold per week on autopilot. That’s 100k gold per year without doing anything! You can easily sell it for year or less of profit. You’ll have to wait a couple of months before selling it, as the guild doesn’t generate cash at the creation. But remember, it’s just afk time!

Aurèle final note: I’ve found shortcuts in many things in life, from World of Warcraft to real life feats. I’m all about effectiveness and measurable results. You can follow me on twitter for my latest tips and tricks.


Gevlon's note: I did not test the addons myself so can't guarantee them being bug free (imagine what a bug can do in a guildkicker addon). But the idea itself and the methods to reach them are pretty good.