More Northrend Grinding: Gold Grinding and Level Grinding

First if you’re grinding for gold or experience stop, you would have much more fun questing for gold and experience, it’s faster and much more lucrative. If you find you’re questing is going slow I highly recommend using Zygor’s Guide not only will you level in no time flat, but with the quest rewards you can do so and have enough gold for just about anything. Click here to check out the guide and get your free trial copy.







I’ve recently been out trying to find more “grind spots” for people. Rather than cover each and every spot that I found I decided to go over some of the “requirements” you need to keep an eye out for. When most people start looking for a place to Grind in Northrend, or anywhere else for that matter, they typically try to find a place with a lot of mobs who drop a lot of silver. This is generally an ok idea. Lots of mobs + lots of gold equals lots of gold for you right? Well yes and no.






More than just looking for more, the idea of picking a grinding spot based on quality is just as important. When looking at mobs you need to take a few things into account.


1. Gold – Obviously this is a key component. You want to find mobs that drop decent amounts of gold.


2. Items – Some mobs drop “auctionable” items, others drop greys, and others drop greens. Here you want to find items that are in high demand or that sell for decent amounts. Certain humanoids, in addition to gold, drop a fair amount of cloth and other items that can stack in 20’s that can be sold for 2-4 gold a pop.


3. Damage and Health – “the bigger they are the harder they fall” doesn’t apply here. Typically the bigger they are the harder they hit yu and the harder it is to kill them. Try to find mobs that have a low amount of health and that take a lot of damage quickly, without dishing it out. This helps decrease the amount of time you have to spend healing or drinking many pots.


4. Respawn Rates - Some mobs respawn in seconds, some in minutes. You want to find mobs that are leaning towards the seconds... The faster they come out the faster you can grind them.






My next northrend grinding spot is out in Zul’ Drak. The name of the city escapes me at the moment, but there is a flight path to it and it’s on the easter side of the zone. It’s in the area with the Giant changed up snow leopard and bear.






Basically right outside of the little city with the flight path there is a square full of Ice Trolls. Ice Trolls in the square and out along the edges.


Step 1. Mount up.


Step 2. pull 2-5 of these guys


Step 3 Kill them and loot.






Wash rinse repeat. Go after the healers first...as they tend to heal. The warriors can do damage to you but if you have any degree of respectable AOE they should not be a problem. I’ve found that lvl 78 is the minimum to use this area to grind for either exp or gold.


Anything below this and you’re most likely not going to have a good time.






Last night I hit this spot up for a quick 200g in about an hour or so. Good grinding spot for greys and greens. Lots of cloth too. EXP wasn’t so bad either with rested exp.






If you have any questions please feel free to add a comment, or you can contact me here: blackthought@opendomain.ws






Happy Hunting

Total Cost of WOW Flying – How to get the gold to get your flying mount.

Flying is a very cool thing and a decent investment, if you can call buying something in a game an investment.

So on the off chance you don’t know from walking to flying on an epic in northrend you’re looking at a cost of 7700-8000 gold. Now there are ways to decrease or increase this amount, but for the sake of not having to tell you (right now) where to do this we’ll just pretend you’re going to buy the whole thing. Assuming you don’t buy much in the way of gear and are depending on drops and such 8k at 100g a day is 80 days...that’s a little to long if you ask me. 80 days to fly, hopefully it’s not going to take you that long.

How about 100g an hour? Does that sound a bit more palatable? Lets assume you average 3 hours a day (I know it’s more but there are some people who aren’t that...invested in wow). At 3 hours a day you’re looking at about 27 days assuming you’re making 100g an hour. That’s not to shabby I suppose. There are faster ways, but lets keep the bar low for those people not going balls to the wall here. 100g an hour can you do this? If you can’t you’ve got a problem because 100g an hour is basically riding around norethrend hunting down cobalt mines for 3 hours...woohhooo sounds like fun...not. Using this strategy for 27 days you’ll be doing nothing but mining...assuming you’re a miner. If you’re happy with that type of play then stop reading...I don’t want to ruin your fun.

There is another way to make 200+ gold an hour and more. I’ve done it, I do it. It’s not hard and it doesn’t limit your game time to gathering for hours on end. How you might ask? How about a wow gold guide? Literally this is the simplest way to do this below are the top two wow gold guides available. They are simple to use, cheap, and beat grinding in northrend any day of the week.

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Last but not least is a remarkably simple guide to follow but that is jam packed with gold making secrets and if you not willing to wait 20+ days for that mount I would strongly suggest getting this next guide which can have you flying in less than 2 days.