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title: 'How to Make Gold as a New Player in Midnight'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=may-y2xzWcg'
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# How to Make Gold as a New Player in Midnight

> Source: [How to Make Gold as a New Player in Midnight](https://youtube.com/watch?v=may-y2xzWcg)

## Summary

This video provides a comprehensive guide for new World of Warcraft players on how to make gold in the Midnight expansion. It covers both passive gold-making methods through professions like tailoring and enchanting, and active strategies such as mining and herbalism. The guide includes detailed advice on specialization trees, consumables, and add-ons to maximize efficiency.

### Key Points

- **Introduction to Gold Making** [0:00] — The video aims to help new players make gold in Midnight, covering both passive and active strategies.
- **Tailoring for Passive Gold** [0:32] — Tailoring is cheap to skill up and allows cloth drops. Specializing in Fabric Specialist and Nimble Needlework increases rare cloth drops like Arcanoweave (270g) and Sunfire Silk (120g).
- **Enchanting for Disenchanting** [3:03] — Enchanting allows disenchanting gear for materials like Dawn Crystals (1.1k-2k gold). Focus on epic disenchanting and invest in the Disenchanting Delegate tree for better quality materials.
- **Mining and Herbalism as Top Active Methods** [7:28] — Mining and herbalism are the easiest ways to make significant gold. Use add-ons like Faster Loot and FarmHud, and enable the interact key for efficiency. Prioritize the weekly quest at skill 25 for catch-up knowledge points.
- **Consumables for Gathering** [13:53] — Essential consumables include Darkmoon Firewater (15% faster gathering), Phial of Finesse (finesse and deftness), Assroot Tea (gathering speed), and Refulgent Racer Stone (43 finesse). These significantly boost gold per hour.
- **Advanced Cloth Farming and Shattering** [18:23] — For tailoring, join pre-made groups for cloth farming to increase gold per hour. For enchanting, use radiant shattering (breaking radiant shards into dust) for passive AFK gold, requiring high skill and resourcefulness gear.

### Conclusion

By combining passive professions like tailoring and enchanting with active gathering professions like mining and herbalism, new players can steadily accumulate gold in Midnight. The key is to invest in the right specializations, use consumables, and leverage add-ons for efficiency.

## Transcript

Are you a new player looking to make
gold in Midnight? In today's video, I'm
going to go through how you can increase
your gold making both passively by just
playing the game and also some very good
gold making strategies. I totally
understand that gold making in World of
Warcraft can be a little bit
complicated, but hopefully I can show
you an easier way to make some gold in
this video. We are going to start out by
looking at a few professions that will
passively help you make gold while you
just play the game and then we will go
through some professions that can help
you make a lot of gold if you want to.
So, the first profession that we're
going to look at is tailoring. Tailoring
is a very cheap profession to skill up
to the point that you need it and it
also brings you a lot of nice
opportunities. So, if you look at
tailoring, it's mainly used to craft
stuff like bolts and gear and bags, but
it also gives you the chance to actually
drop cloth at all because if you're not
a tailor, you cannot to drop any cloth.
To get cloth to drop while you're out
there playing, you need to pick a
specialization. Specialization is
basically talent, but for your
profession and in tailoring in fabric
specialist, you increase your chances of
dropping cloth. This really do adds up
when you play if you pick this on your
main when you're doing stuff like
delves, dungeons, outdoor content.
Basically, whenever you kill a humanoid,
you have chance to drop cloth and some
of the cloth is really expensive. So, if
we're looking at the cloth here, it's
really holding steady prices. Still, the
arcanoweave are about 270 gold and the
sunfire silk 120, which is really,
really good price. You also can drop the
bright linen, which has a lower price,
of course, but it still adds up. But,
getting the rare cloth is basically
where you're going to make the most of
your gold. So, what I would recommend
you to do is to open up this
specialization tree in tailoring, but
then also you're going to want to open
up the nimble needle ward tree because
this gives you the opportunity to drop
those rare cloth. You're going to want
to start by nimble needle work here and
put points so you can drop both of these
rare cloth. And just by learning this
node, you will be able to drop them. So
you don't have to put points into like
leveling up this node, you just have to
learn this node to be able to drop the
rare cloth. So go get 50 skill in
tailoring and then unlock this so you
can learn both of Arcana Weave and
Sunfire Silk Weaving, just those nodes
and then you start filling out the
Fabric Specialist tree, basically just
increasing your drop chance of cloth. I
hope this is not too hard and I will
include the Muse knowledge points
tracker in the description below, which
is really easy to find treasures so you
can get your knowledge points. If the
whole profession tree is feeling
advanced, I hope you can still follow
this like simple guide to just get those
easy knowledge points and learn this
because you will gain so much passive
gold while just playing throughout
entirely of Midnight. Also, when you
pick up your profession for the first
time, don't forget to talk to this NPC,
do this little quick quest here and he
will be able to provide you with 60
cloth if you pick the cloth bag and that
can bring you a lot of skill basically
for free in tailoring. Looking at the
second profession that passively will
gain you some gold that I recommend is
enchanting because enchanting allows you
to disenchant. And disenchanting gear
from Midnight will provide you with
materials that is used for enchants,
basically everything in dust, radiant
shard, or dawn crystal. They can be
really expensive at auction house now as
well. If we take a look at the dawn
crystal, this is of course the material
that you get if you disenchant an epic
item. You can get 1.1k or 2k depending
on if you get the rank two or rank one
currently. So this will also add up if
you play a lot of M+ or stuff where you
get epic gear that you can disenchant,
this definitely will add up. And this
you can simply get by just learning the
profession, but if you learn them at the
same time, tailoring and enchanting, and
you hunt the treasures, you will be able
to get some knowledge points very easily
for enchanting. And if your plan is to
just go for disenchanting, just make
sure you start putting points into this
tree right here, the disenchanting
delegate, because this gives you a
higher chance to get basically a rank
two material since you get extra skill,
and it is only skill that improves the
quality of the stuff that you get when
you disenchant something. It's pretty
straightforward, and I highly recommend
you to only go for the epic
disenchanting right now because the
green and the blue ones is usually
better to just vendor the item because
the value of that disenchanted mats is
quite low. So, all you got to go is this
spec for disenchanting the purples. So,
if you do a lot of end-game content like
dungeons, delves, raids, or whatever,
you will eventually get a lot of dawn
crystals. It will add up throughout the
expansion, and you will make quite a
good gold amount along the way. Just get
the treasures from the add-on here. You
just left click on them, and you see on
the map where they are. You can also
download the add-on TomTom, and it will
give you an arrow exactly where to go.
All those add-ons will be included in
the description for you to help you make
your journey easier. So, that is the two
professions that I would recommend you
to get instantly when you start playing
just you can start gaining those passive
income by just playing the game. So, I
recommend those two professions on like
main characters because it's really good
to just passively gain gold. Quickly
just to add in enchanting, if you want
to go disenchanting, I would recommend
you to go to profession equipment on the
auction house, and just look at the tool
and see if you can find some cheap tool.
You can even go with like the cheapest
green one because that gives you a
little bit of skill, and skill increases
the quality of the stuff that you output
on average. So, just go get a green
equipment. As you can see, it's 87 gold
for me. Just buy it very cheap. It
doesn't matter what stats it give for
disenchanting. The only thing that
matters is the skill, and all the green
ones give eight, and the blue ones give
18. But, you don't really have to
overpay for the blue ones if you don't
want to. Like, that will take some time
to actually gain those gold back. And
same with the green items here, you can
buy the cheap hat if you want to and you
can find a focusing shard here cheap,
you can buy that as well, just to get
some extra skill. But it's not not a big
deal, but just a quick recommendation.
Also, what I did forget to say is that I
highly recommend you to just sell the
stuff that you get while disenchanting,
or the cloth that you drop, directly on
the auction house. Don't bother crafting
them into stuff for now. Before you have
more gold, I don't recommend you to go
into crafting. You don't want to
complicate it for you, and most of the
time you will actually craft stuff that
making a loss if you don't know what
you're doing. So, I would highly
recommend you to just skip the whole
crafting part for now, and just sell the
raw materials that you get when you
disenchant, or when you drop the cloth.
Just dump them on the auction house and
get that easy gold. And now for some
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let's continue with the video. We're
going to talk about mining and
herbalism. Maybe you hear this all the
time, maybe you haven't heard it yet. It
completely depends on who you are, but
mining and herbalism, in my opinion, is
the absolute easiest way to make a lot
of gold in midnight. So far and still
when recording this video, the gold that
you can make while doing this is
incredible. It will get lower the
further the expansion goes, but so will
everything. So it's not just mining and
herbalism that gets harder to make gold
with, so will crafting and everything
else, but right now it's looking super
duper good. So herbalism is basically
the profession that you use to pick up
flowers on the ground and mining is the
profession where you get or by basically
finding nodes across all of midnight. So
let's just take a look on how to learn
the professions. Basically, the trainer
is here in herbalism and mining is right
here. So both of them is here on the map
in Silvermoon. So just go and learn
mining and herbalism. Also, just quick
notes I don't forget to say this. This
is really important. When you get 25
skill in herbalism and mining, you
unlock this quest as you can see here.
This quest is weekly. Prioritize doing
this quest ASAP when you can every week
because when you have completed this
quest, it unlocks catch-up knowledge
points for you by just being out there
doing mining and herbalism. If you don't
finish the quest, you will not get those
juicy catch-up points, which take some
time to get, but you must prioritize
doing the quest so at least have the
chance to get them when you're out there
doing your gathering. So that's just a
quick big note that you really should
try to remember. And they also give you
some knowledge points, of course, three
knowledge points and just to reiterate
again, knowledge points is basically the
talent points for your profession. And
we will go through here how to put your
profession points as well. It's not that
complicated and I will leave you like
pictures on the screen with the
prioritized order of where to put your
knowledge points. Also, all of the
add-ons that I recommend for mining and
herbalism will also be included in the
description, but I will recommend you to
use an add-on called faster loot.
Basically, it makes your loot window
disappear so you just instantly get
items to your bag instead of waiting for
the loot window. It increases your
efficiency quite a lot. I also recommend
Farm Hud, but this is an add-on that
people either like or hate. As you can
see on my screen now in the middle, the
map has moved to the middle and it's
transparent, so I can actually see
through it and I can see mining and
herbalism nodes here. So, I can quickly
navigate to the nodes and gather them
really, really easily. I know this is a
lot of information probably depending on
where you are in your Midnight journey.
Like if you started yesterday or if
you've been playing for a while. So, I
hope I'm not going too fast forward, but
one additional very important thing that
I highly recommend for gathering is
turning on the interact key. As you can
see, when I get close to the node here,
the mining pickaxe appear above the
node. It also get a little bit
highlighted and I can actually use a key
to mine it instead of right clicking it.
So, now I'm pressing my F key and I can
mine it instead of having to find the
node, right clicking it. That can be
very annoying sometimes, especially when
you're in like foresty area and stuff
and you don't really see. Using the
interact key is like going to speed up
your efficiency a lot. So, I'm going to
show you now exactly how to turn it on.
To turn on the interact key, simply just
go to options, search for interact,
press enable interact key, and then you
keybind it here, interact with target. I
have it to F because that's what I'm
comfortable with, but you can pick
whatever you want. And then that option
to do that will appear for you as well.
When doing mining and herbalism in
Midnight, I highly recommend you to do
it in Sulaman. However, when you're
starting out with your professions, you
will get knowledge points by gathering
nodes the first time. So, different type
of nodes will give you one knowledge
point each. For example, this is a wild
tranquility bloom. The first time you
gather a wild tranquility bloom, that
will give you one knowledge point. So,
that's why I will recommend you to go to
each and every zone of Midnight and
gather there for at least 15 minutes. It
will not get you all of the first-time
gathering points, but it will give you
the majority. So, go for 15 minutes each
and get all of the first-time crafts,
and then you want to come to Sulaman and
farm here. Some more additional nerdy
things, I just want to include it cuz I
want to give you the best opportunity to
make as much gold of your time spent as
possible. So, I don't forget it. There
are both consumables and a route that I
recommend. This is the route that I
have. If you want to, you can just print
screen this route and follow it, or you
can find some other route online if that
feels better for you. I also recommend
you to go into war mode when gathering.
It is very rare that somebody kills you.
If they start killing you, just disable
it. In my opinion, I feel like it's less
people. It's just like less lag in the
zone, and I think using war mode is big
for gathering. So, I think you should
have it on, but if you start getting
killed and stuff, just disable it cuz
that's too annoying. But, one other
thing that I also want to say about
mining and herbalism in Sulaman is that,
as you can see here, when I gather these
wild nodes, it will spawn mobs. I
honestly recommend you to get some item
level before starting farming here
because these mobs will take you some
time to kill if you don't have at least
some gear when you do this. My item
level is currently 214 as a boomkin. I
also have these talent points for
everybody that just want to straight up
copy. So, you can just take a picture of
this and put it in. I feel like I'm
being able to kill the mobs really
quickly, and you can mine and herb them,
and you get a lot of rewards for it. So,
I highly actually recommend you to do
that. But, first of all, get some item
level. 214 is okay, but if you have like
200 or 180 or something, I think it's
worth to go get some gear on your
gatherer first. Of course, you can have
way better item level than this, but
this is just what I have. I think I've
included most of the nerdy stuff for
mining and herbalism now, so it's just
to talk about the consumables now, and
then we'll move on to the next thing. I
just hope I don't overwhelm you with
unnecessary information, but I just want
to give you the best chance to make as
much gold as you can with your time
spent, so you don't waste like a lot of
hours before you start checking out and
advancing. So, I kind of give you the
most optimal way from the beginning at
least, so you have a good start. But,
let's look at the different consumables
that you should use when you're out
gathering. This will increase your gold
per hour a lot, and I would say they are
absolutely mandatory to use. It will
cost you a little bit to get started,
but it's not a lot. You will make this
back in 1 minute. The first one we're
going to look at is Darkmoon Firewater.
This increases your deftness by 15%.
Basically, giving you 15% faster
gathering. Really, really important. The
second one that we're going to check out
is Phial of Finesse. The Phial of
Finesse gives you finesse and deftness,
both gathering speed and a chance to
gather extra materials. So, really,
really good to get that one as well.
Then, I recommend you to get the Assroot
Tea. The Assroot Tea will make you
gather faster. You can go Assroot Tea,
but you can also go another tea that
gives you finesse. I usually go Assroot
Tea, but I don't know which min-maxing
is best, but I go this because it gives
me a higher chance to not being
interrupted by mobs when I'm gathering.
So, I really like to go for this one.
And then, the last, but not least, the
Refulgent Racer Stone is another
consumable that is really important. It
gives you 43 finesse. You can put this
both on your mining and herbalism tools.
So, make sure you get two of them, and
they are good to go for 2 hours each.
So, those are all the consumables. A lot
of stuff to get started, but I think
it's for the best. It's just going to be
one little thing that I want to say. If
you're not a druid when doing gathering,
you need to get this node in mining and
herbalism cuz this allows you to gather
herbs while mounted. If you're a druid,
you don't need this because you can
still gather herbs while in travel form.
So, go get this node very fast if you
are not a druid, but if you are a druid,
you don't have to go and get this
herbing while mounted node. And for
mining, we basically have the same node
here to be able to mount while
gathering. So, this is important for
everybody since druid needs this one.
Now you know how to get the points, you
know all the consumables, you know all
the routes, you know everything I hope
that is required for herbalism and
mining. So, I hope I didn't leave
something out. Doing this, you will make
good gold per hour. Just remember that
the first hours will be way worse
because you don't have enough knowledge
point to get better output. The most
gold you're going to get is from rank
two materials, and the more skill you
have, the more rank two materials you
will get. I totally forgot about the
profession equipment. This is going to
be very, very straightforward as well.
Go to the auction house. If you have
some gold to start with, I recommend you
to get the blue equipment immediately.
Go to profession equipment, mining
tools, and get the 232 pickaxe with
finesse. Finesse is the best stat. It
gives you a chance to gather more
materials. So, get finesse, max that one
if you want to make as much gold as
possible, and just get the accessories
as well. However, they can be a bit more
expensive, but in the long run, if you
plan to gather for a good while, go get
the blue ones. If you want to be cheaper
and start out smaller, go get the green
ones, but highly recommend you to get
the blue ones cuz they also give you
extra skill, which in turn gives you
extra rank two materials. So, with
herbalism, it's the same. Go get a 232
sickle with finesse, and then for the
accessories, same there. Preferably, get
the blue ones, but you can get the green
ones if you don't have enough gold or
want to start cheaper. So, now we
covered that as well, and now I just
want to quickly as well, I just You
remembered that the stats, we just go
through them really quick. Basically,
skill gives you a higher chance to get
rank two materials. Finesse gives you a
chance to gather extra materials when
you gather materials. It's not going to
be working on the blue rare things that
can drop though. For example, the
Nocturnal Lotus or the Dazzling Thorium
in mining. Deafness increases your
gathering speed and perception will give
you a chance to gather extra rare
materials. So, it's basically the
finesse one, but for the rare materials,
the Nocturnal Lotus and the Dazzling
Thorium only. So, if you normally would
find one Nocturnal Lotus, you have the
chance to get another one with
perception. But, it does not increase
the chance of finding the Nocturnal
Lotus, but when you find one, you have a
chance to get more than one. So, that is
what perception do. It is way worse than
finesse now and I think it's going to
stay like that entire expansion. So,
just go with finesse. We're back on the
Paladin with tailoring and enchanting
and we're going to build up on this a
little bit more now. And hopefully, you
can use this as well if you want to try
to make some extra gold. So, for
tailoring, as you know, we talked about
earlier, you have the chance to drop
cloth and that means that people are
farming cloth in a group. So, if you
want to take the next step with cloth
farming, you should try to sign up to
groups here in the pre-made groups that
form cloth together because this is
going to give you way more gold per hour
than farming cloth yourself. If you want
to take the next step, try to sign up
for some groups here, get invited, tell
them that you're new so they can help
you how to do it. But, try to sign up
and see because that's going to give you
a lot of gold. Cloth farming currently
is really good if you do it in a group.
Try it out, but it's also going to get
less and less good as further we go in
the expansion, but still doing it in a
group is going to be really good for the
entire expansion. It's the same build
that you had earlier and in tailoring,
you don't have to have any equipment,
but it's the same build as earlier.
Yeah, get get the stuff that we talked
about, and you are ready to go. But,
however, that farm requires you to be
max level, and preferably have a little
bit of gear as well, I think. Some
classes is easier going to get invited,
and some not. I think like druids and
stuff is generally going to get invited
way more. Then for enchanting, one thing
that you can do to passively gain gold,
like when you are AFK, or if you just
want to make some gold crafting, is
shattering. Shattering is not going to
get you instantly rich. It's going to
give you a little bit of gold, but it's
always going to be profitable pretty
much. Basically, shattering is breaking
down one material into another material.
Dawn shattering is not going to be worth
it most likely for the entire expansion,
or it's going to be like very late on
when they are dirt cheap. But for now,
breaking down this and one of this gives
you three radiant shards, and they are
totally worth 15 gold, and one of this
is worth 2K. So, it's not worth it as
you can see. But, radiant shatter is all
of the time profitable and good. So,
radiant shatter is basically just
breaking radiant shards into everything
dust for a profit. So, as you can see
here, this one is worth five gold, and
three of these is worth over seven gold.
So, that's two gold profit per click.
You can make this faster, and you can
also make this more profitable because
you have resourcefulness here, which
means that sometime when you shatter,
you will get your radiant shard back.
Basically, just crafting three ever
singing dust without
destroying any radiant shard. Now, of
course, what I'm showing here, I'm not
getting any, but it increases your
profit, and it's going to make it good.
But for this, of course, you need some
stuff. And here it is more important
that you have a correct setup because
it's going to basically make it better
or worse. So, for radiant shattering,
the skill in the profession matters.
Trying to get as high as you can is
important. Preferably, 100 out of 100,
but that can cost a lot, but still, I
think you should do it if you plan to do
this. Then you need to get a
resourcefulness blue tool max rank
enchanted with resourcefulness, which
you can find on the auction house by
just searching for resourcefulness. And
you want a blue equipment here as well
at max quality. That can be a little bit
expensive, so if you want to do this,
you kind of have to commit a little bit
to make your gold back. So it will take
you maybe a few hours or I don't exactly
know how long it will take you to make
your gold back for this, but it will
take you some time uh by just standing
still and shattering. I will also
include an add-on in the description, of
course, so that you don't have to
constantly like refill this. It does
that automatically, so you can just
fully AFK. This is the specialization
that you need for this. You need 30
points in responsible resources here,
and you need points here in spellbound
shatter. And this is a buff you get
while you do shatter essence. If you see
now, for me, this buff is only 10
minutes, so you will have to reap
reapply it every 10 minutes. If you
skill this one up 30 out of 30, you get
15 minutes. That's important as well, so
you can AFK for fully 15 minutes before
you have to really reapply the buff
again. Because after a while, it gets
annoying to constantly reapply it. So
that is the enchanting setup needed for
radiant shattering. That's not going to
get you rich overnight, but it's
something to do when you're AFK to just
start doing and you will passively gain
some gold. I hope that makes sense and
that you will be able to make some gold
for it. I know I've been yapping a lot
and so much information in this video. I
like I didn't really plan to make it so
long and give you a lot of information,
but I hope that this stuff now can
increase your gold making and have given
you different stuff to be able to make
gold in Midnight. Because I want you to
be able to do kind of what you want if
you want to go just passively gaining
gold while playing the content, or if
you want to increase your gold number,
for example, for playing the game with
wild tokens, or just getting rich enough
to be able to afford everything that you
want to buy. Those stuff, hopefully, can
get you there. Much love. Thank you so
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