The vast majority of farmers in Outland have one thing in common - they repeatedly tell you to go to certain locations and farm for motes. This is generally sound advice. After all motes and primals are incredibly valuable, however, the competition for most of these locations is incredibly high and unless you are the first person on a new server to reach level 70 and are willing and have the time to take full advantage of it, it can be hard to reach the gold making targets the WoW gold guides claim you should be able to.

Of course, you could technically make 200 gold an hour in Nagrand on mote farming and mining nodes but if the elementals are all dead and the mining nodes all tapped, how much will you actually make? To further compound things, no one really knows what Wrath of the Lich King will introduce to the game. Will motes be at all useful anymore when the new pack is released or will it be necessary to abandon them in much the same way elementals went by the wayside from the original content when the expansion was released? The World of warcraft gold guides don't know the answer either and offer few alternative gold farming options for players who don't want to rely so heavily on motes to make up their gold stash.

The Alternatives so, what can you do other than the favorite fodder of most WoW gold guides on the market? To be truthful, there are not nearly as many options as most people would like. You can skin in Nagrand, a task that almost never gets hard because of the sheer volume of creatures there to skin. You can mine in Terokkar, Nagrand, and Shadowmoon Valley. You can hit up Legion Hold in Shadowmoon Valley and pick up reputation items. Whatever you decide to do though, WoW gold guides will have all the basics at your fingertips. The key here is that you can combine many of the top methods into a single gold making strategy. In Outland, everything is highly packed together. There are a lot of nodes, a lot of mobs, and a lot of space to search through. This is all for good reason, as the entire continent represents an 80% boost in content to the original game in only 40% of the landmass. So, unlike many Azeroth zones, you can farm motes, mine, pick up herbs, or skin all at once. WoW gold guides list all of these options and it is your job as an enterprising player to make sure you create a good plan to get you through them all. If you are efficient, well versed in the game's finer points and not looking at your WoW gold guide as a farming bible, you should be able to put together your own unique farming plan that will not be nerfed or negated by heavy farming populations any time soon.