Best WoW gold making addons?

When it comes to making gold in WoW, there are many addons that can be helpful. There is no single “best” addon for this purpose, because it depends on your preferred ways to make gold. Nevertheless, here are some of the best addons I’ve found for making gold in WoW.

Auctionator addon

Almost all strategies for making gold in WoW will eventually bring you to the auction house, for selling items that you’ve gathered, farmed, crafted or otherwise obtained. Therefore, a powerful auction house addon is a must-have if you’re serious about making tons of gold. Auctionator is one of several options, but I’d say it’s the best free auction house addon, in my opinion. It can speed up buying, selling, finding cheap items, canceling auctions, setting up shopping lists for items that you frequently look for, and many other enhancements. It’s very simple to learn, too, unlike some other advanced auction house addons that I find too complicated. Judging by the popularity of Auctionator, a lot of people agree that it’s the best auction house addon, as it has even surpassed Auctioneer and TradeSkillMaster in number of downloads on CurseForge.

Auctionator can also show you vendor prices for items in your tooltip, which is useful if you’re playing WoW Classic Era (1-60) as that feature is not a part of WoW Classic Era by default.

Speedy AutoLoot addon

A lot of gold making methods involve farming mobs or gathering items such as herbs and ore. The loot window that pops up makes looting slower and reduces your gold per hour. With Speedy AutoLoot, simply click to loot or gather and you will grab all items instantly while the loot window stays hidden. This can save a few seconds each time you loot. To make this work, enable Auto Loot in the game options.

Annoying Pop-up Remover addon

WoW contains a lot of confirmation messages to make sure you want to do a certain action, like buying or looting certain items, for example. It can get tedious to always have to confirm these popups with a click. Fortunately, Annoying Pop-up Remover allows you to turn off many confirmation dialogs so you don’t have to deal with them. This is useful if, for instance, you’re buying items from a vendor that you want to re-sell on the auction house or use in crafting recipes, and you don’t want to confirm your purchases. This addon also makes it easier to destroy certain items (you don’t have to type “delete”), and it can remove many other confirmation questions. You can turn all of these on/off in the options, found under Options → AddOns. Just be careful with this addon, because you might unintentionally do things you didn’t mean to, because there’s no confirmation for it anymore. However, I find this useful especially for buying items from vendors, that I then re-sell on the auction house or use in crafting to make gold.

Zygor Guides

Zygor Gold GuideZygor Guides is a company that makes WoW addons for World of Warcraft and WoW Classic, and their addon includes guides and modules that can help you make gold in various ways. It works both for new/retail World of Warcraft and WoW Classic, although the features are a bit different. I have experience mainly with their gold module for new/retail World of Warcraft.

To me, the most useful features are the profession leveling guides that help you level up any profession, which then becomes useful for making gold at higher skill levels. There are also numerous farming routes and farming spots for various materials that you can use in crafting professions or sell directly on the auction house. Zygor Guides also include many other guides that can help you make gold, such as:

  • World quest guides including how to unlock them
  • Seasonal events guides
  • Dungeon guides, which is also a viable way to make gold

In fact, when you subscribe to Zygor Guides, you get ALL their WoW guides for new World of Warcraft as well as WoW Classic.

Zygor Guides is actually best known for their leveling guides, that are also included when you subscribe to their service, and leveling your character to max level will also help you make more gold, of course. Visit Zygor Guides website.

GatherMate2 / GatherMate2 Classic addon

GatherMate2 is an invaluable addon if you’re looking to make gold with herbalism, mining, fishing, treasure finding and other activities where you gather something from objects. GatherMate2 “remembers” the locations where you’ve previously gathered herbs, ore, fished, or opened a treasure chest etc. and displays those locations on the minimap and world map, so you can go there again. Resources don’t spawn randomly in World of Warcraft. Instead, there are fixed locations that herbs and ore etc. can spawn, so the best thing you can do is go to the same spots where you’ve already found something to gather, and check if the resource has respawned again. This addon can easily double the gold per hour you make from gathering.

There are two different versions of this addon, GatherMate2 which is for retail World of Warcraft, and “GatherMate2 Classic” which is for WoW Classic Era (1-60) and WoW Wrath of the Lich King Classic (1-80).

HandyNotes addon

HandyNotes is an addon that shows notes on your maps. You can create your own notes by clicking on the world map. However, the real benefit may be that you can import sets of notes that others have created. These premade collections of notes can show things like treasure locations, chests rare mobs and items they drop, collectibles, battle pets, world quests and more on your maps. This makes it much faster to find valuable items that will net you some coin.

To make this work, you’d install the addon called “HandyNotes”, and then install an addon like “HandyNotes: Dragonflight” to show notes for important locations in the Dragon Isles, for example. Similarly, if you want to show notes for other continents, you can install other addons that contain notes for those places. For example, there’s one addon called “HandyNotes: Shadowlands” for the Shadowlands zones. Likewise, there are other addons that contain notes for other expansions, like BFA (Battle For Azeroth), Legion, Warlords of Draenor and so on.