Best Class for Endgame Gold Farming

[ohsnoes 0]

Before the shut down I had a rather poor, low profession 60 holy paladin on the PvE server (I was a scrub I know). I was about to make an alt to level up in between raids/dungeons/during population downtimes. 

So my question is which class should I level up simply for farming purposes to support my paladin? I think I have a 30something hunter I could use. Should  I use him? Or roll a different class?

 

Sorry to bother you and thank you all for your time.

[Tudi 0]

mage frost best/easy class to farmming.

[Destron 2]

I think locks are solid

[Faith 5]

Yah any ranged lock / mage / hunter

[Drain 19]

In decent gear, pretty much anyone can farm well. If you're picking classes that can farm in complete trash... it's hard to argue with BM Hunter, or SL/DS Warlock. Mages can also AOE farm DME without any meaningful gear at 60, but I hope you really like plants, or you might get tired of killing the same 4 packs day after day. One of my 5 60s was a Mage, which I sometimes farmed DME as; couldn't do it for very long or that often, maybe while watching a movie. Since the only risk of being ganked is when running to the DME door, it requires very low attention once you've memorized the route. It's the type of farm you do while watching a movie.

[sojs123 0]

you can farm fine on any class just take gathering professions

[ValarMorghulis 2]

So my question is which class should I level up simply for farming purposes to support my paladin? I think I have a 30something hunter I could use. Should  I use him? Or roll a different class?

 

Given that you need about 200+ hours of gameplay to level a character to 60, I'm not quite sure if leveling an alt just for farming purposes is worth the effort. Just a simple calculation, I'd rather spent that time farming with my main, there are plenty of guides online and just like others have said, anybody decently geared can farm just fine.

[Undertanker 88]

anybody decently geared can farm just fine.

 

Many items needed for raid consumables are obtained from mid-level areas as well.

[Tholren 7]

Rogue, rogues are the nest class for everything. Farm others' gear by pulling off grand thefts (aka ninja them).

 

Disclaimer: Will not actually ninja people, making a joke. (Or so I want you to believe)

Edited December 8, 2016 by Tholren

[gotmilk0112 10]

Given that you need about 200+ hours of gameplay to level a character to 60, I'm not quite sure if leveling an alt just for farming purposes is worth the effort. Just a simple calculation, I'd rather spent that time farming with my main, there are plenty of guides online and just like others have said, anybody decently geared can farm just fine.

Thing is, some classes can farm things that others can't.

 

You can't farm lashers in DM East on a warrior or a rogue or a shaman. You need to be a Priest or Mage to do that. (or Paladin if you have good gear)

 

And "farming" in terms of killing mobs or herbs/ore, isn't very good to do on a healing class because you'll take forever to kill things. And having to spend 50g just to respec and farm is not a good idea either.

 

Also, leveling a mage to 60 wouldn't take you 200 hours. If you skip most dungeons and just go for quests/grinding, you can easily go 1-60 in about 6 days /played, or ~144 hours.

[ohGr 1]

Warlocks, hunters, priests, mages, paladins.

Warlocks and hunters are the only ones I know of that can solo instance bosses, not talking petty фекал like Princess from Mara or below - but all bosses in dire maul east. Hunters being the best when it comes to solo instance bosses (enjoy solo scholomance, emp runs, dire mauls, except tribute runs and so on and so forth in... pre-raid bis more or less). Farming trash mobs like lashers just requires that you can AoE - so as far as I know, locks can do it, priests (holy priests using holy nova), mages and paladins are great for that, hunters probably suck at it though. Some people who play priests, mages and paladins start killing lashers in dire maul at their mid 50s. Maybe locks can do that too.

 

Rogues can do solo some things in some dungeons, but it is not particularly effective in terms of time spent and gold gained.

[Demonthese 0]

Best class for end game gold farming is the fisherman. Everyone always needs fish for consumes but hardly anyone likes to do it.

[Destron 2]

 

Warlocks and hunters are the only ones I know of that can solo instance bosses, not talking petty фекал like Princess from Mara or below - but all bosses in dire maul east. 

 

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[ohsnoes 0]

Thing is, some classes can farm things that others can't.

 

You can't farm lashers in DM East on a warrior or a rogue or a shaman. You need to be a Priest or Mage to do that. (or Paladin if you have good gear)

 

And "farming" in terms of killing mobs or herbs/ore, isn't very good to do on a healing class because you'll take forever to kill things. And having to spend 50g just to respec and farm is not a good idea either.

 

Also, leveling a mage to 60 wouldn't take you 200 hours. If you skip most dungeons and just go for quests/grinding, you can easily go 1-60 in about 6 days /played, or ~144 hours.

Yeah, I was having a hard time on my paladin because of being holy, not the best damage dealer to say the least. 

 

But in regards to leveling I have to concur, I got my paladin 1-60 in a little over 6 days, in which I messed around a bit and ran my lowbie friends through deadmines, stockade, sfk, so I did not completely optimize my leveling. And I am pretty sure mage/warlock are a lot easier to level than paladins.

 

Thanks for the tip. I guess I just need to decide if I want to roll a mage/warlock or stay on my hunter.

[Ellipsea 36]

Best class for end game gold farming is the fisherman. Everyone always needs fish for consumes but hardly anyone likes to do it.

shhhh.

[Faith 5]

Given that you need about 200+ hours of gameplay to level a character to 60, I'm not quite sure if leveling an alt just for farming purposes is worth the effort. Just a simple calculation, I'd rather spent that time farming with my main, there are plenty of guides online and just like others have said, anybody decently geared can farm just fine.

Good point.

 

Also, I love your Avy.

[ValarMorghulis 2]

Thing is, some classes can farm things that others can't.

 

You can't farm lashers in DM East on a warrior or a rogue or a shaman. You need to be a Priest or Mage to do that. (or Paladin if you have good gear)

 

And "farming" in terms of killing mobs or herbs/ore, isn't very good to do on a healing class because you'll take forever to kill things. And having to spend 50g just to respec and farm is not a good idea either.

 

Also, leveling a mage to 60 wouldn't take you 200 hours. If you skip most dungeons and just go for quests/grinding, you can easily go 1-60 in about 6 days /played, or ~144 hours.

 

You are right about the classes differences in here of course. I just wanted to point out that every class can make gold, just not in the same way. I would still rather find my niche than level a new char just for farming. That would bore me to death, even if it was ONLY 100 hours. But hell, do whatever floats your boat  

 

Good point.

 

Also, I love your Avy.

Happy that you like it, thanks  

[Undertanker 88]

Best class for end game gold farming is the fisherman. Everyone always needs fish for consumes but hardly anyone likes to do it.

 

First rule about farm club......

[vanillalord 0]

First rule about farm club......

very funny joke

[nurga 0]

In decent gear, pretty much anyone can farm well. If you're picking classes that can farm in complete trash... it's hard to argue with BM Hunter, or SL/DS Warlock. Mages can also AOE farm DME without any meaningful gear at 60, but I hope you really like plants, or you might get tired of killing the same 4 packs day after day. One of my 5 60s was a Mage, which I sometimes farmed DME as; couldn't do it for very long or that often, maybe while watching a movie. Since the only risk of being ganked is when running to the DME door, it requires very low attention once you've memorized the route. It's the type of farm you do while watching a movie.

This. Frost mage is the best farm class at lvl 60 in the game just because of their ability to aoe farm huge packs. DME is a good spot. So are elementals like the air elementals in silithus in the north west corner of the zone as well as Sorrow Hill in WPL and Hearthglen in WPL.

 

Next best class would be a holy/prot mixed paladin. Just throw on a shield and aoe farm almost as efficiently as a frost mage using blessing of sanctuary, holy shield, ret aura, and consecrate. I was able to farm DME on my pally just fine although I was decent geared. The one thing about pally aoe farming that i like over mage aoe farming is you dont need room to work like mages do to kite their packs around with blizzard and CoC. You just gather a pack and stand there as the pack dies. 

 

Third choice would probably have to be a rogue. They cannot aoe farm, but they can sneak into a lot of nice spots. I played rogue on feenix and one of my favorite spots to farm was in strat just passed the booby-trapped gate where the wandering spirits are. You fight one of those until they cast the curse on you that causes the ghosts to spawn on you for 5 minutes, usually about 10-12 ghosts in total, then you kill the ghosts and they had good drops. Lots of cloth and scrolls almost every kill which are good consumes for raiding. They also dropped restorative potions which were ваууing awesome potions I used to use in pvp for those clutch moments but also sold quite well. Rogues can also sneak into other instances and once geared well enough can solo some of the easier bosses that can drop blues which disenchant into large brilliant shards. My absolute favorite farm spot on my rogue was killing Lord Incendius in BRD easy to sneak to if you have the key or 300 lockpick and you get to pickpocket all the humanoid npcs along the way. Tough fight but doable with popping evasion and timing kicks just right on his fireball casts although if you are having trouble you might have to bring some fire resist gear or cheap health pots along. He drops a blue bracer every time which I would shard and about once in every 25-50 runs or so he would drop an Ace of Elementals which would sell anywhere from 400 to 700 gold on average. So 25 runs which would take a few hours would result in 25 shards and if lucky, and I usually was, an ace. Just the shards alone were worth it when the shards were selling for like 8-10g a pop.

Edited December 9, 2016 by nurga

[Buffdaddy 0]

Before the shut down I had a rather poor, low profession 60 holy paladin on the PvE server (I was a scrub I know). I was about to make an alt to level up in between raids/dungeons/during population downtimes. 

So my question is which class should I level up simply for farming purposes to support my paladin? I think I have a 30something hunter I could use. Should  I use him? Or roll a different class?

 

Sorry to bother you and thank you all for your time.

It's funny you're asking  cuz I found out for myself that a paladin can be the most effective class for effective gold farming on a PvE server. I made around 6k in less than 2 months. As some1 already said it, every class has their advantages, just gotta find the niche.

Edited December 10, 2016 by Buffdaddy

[ohsnoes 0]

It's funny you're asking  cuz I found out for myself that a paladin can be the most effective class for effective gold farming on a PvE server. I made around 6k in less than 2 months. As some1 already said it, every class has their advantages, just gotta find the niche.

I think I just need to respec and get some gold before hand then. I am clad in cloth and healing gear, not the best for survivability.

 

Any tips on a build/starting gear to utilize before gold farming?

Edited December 14, 2016 by ohsnoes

[Xaelum 0]

Best class for end game gold farming is the fisherman. Everyone always needs fish for consumes but hardly anyone likes to do it.