Let’s get the raw numbers just out there – total profit: 35,000

It’s obviously not a great income stream.

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I used to multibox (not the druid spam moon fire, just multiple accounts doing different things at once) and now I’ve got 3 extra accounts I’m leaving on free and seeing what I can do with them while I play my main. I’m sitting on a free month due to recruit a friend (which I highly recommend if you’re playing more than one account, you get free game time) so I’m currently playing with ways to make money with these other accounts I have with minimal investment before I resub.

This honestly doesn’t seem too bad, combined with my panda farms and transmutes. It’ll add up and when I finally sub that account it’ll be free gold.

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Now, for the nuance!

First, let’s talk about card of omens…

This is a card you can make with Draenor inscription. Flipping (eg using a cast to use it) generates another card which you can sell. The sell prices range from coppers to thousands of gold – it’s basically gambling, crafter-style.

Crafting it requires War Paints which you can craft once each day as your Draenor cooldown as an inscription crafter.

Spirit of War:

Here’s where it gets fun because I obviously didn’t wait 6500 days…

Once you have a level 3 town hall, a traveling merchant will appear in rotation potentially each day. They will sell a pattern to make War Paints at will using primal spirits…and also let you trade raw comms for primal spirits.

Example merchant: Nicholas, herbs

Note: even if it’s not your profession trader, you can still do the weekly quest for primal spirits AND trade in excess mats for primal spirits. This means you can trade in all that ore from your mine, for example!

So, once you have these grabbed, you’ll want to maximize your passive primal spirit generation – this means shipyard missions as there are often ship missions which give 50 primal spirits.

If you’re going fully passive generation (I accrued these mats for the 6500 cards just from missions and daily CD), you’ll want to focus on buffing your Inn to let you recruit extra resources: your goal is to have extreme scavenger and scavenger stacked as traits on most of your followers – this will let you rack up tons of resources which you can cash in for mats at the Trading Post. Once you level your Inn, you can recruit a follower each week with a trait you select, so this will let you focus on generating resources.

Notes:

– starter accounts can stock up to prepare for this. They CANNOT use the primal spirit trade as they can’t access the higher level garrison needed.

– it’s basically all free passive mats. If you want to grind this, primal spirits can be obtained through killing rares in Draenor but I don’t suggest that method for a starter account as it’s tedious, slow and unreliable. Better to focus on panda farms and xmute. See my other posts about old expansion money making: garrison, general, living steel

– using a mage or shaman lets you time warp to speed up flips. Any haste buff will speed up flip cast time!

– all flipped cards you don’t have room for will go to mailbox. Mailbox will also reach max (unsure if there is overflow protection here), so you can go afk and “loot” mailbox for a bit

– free accounts can use the mine to quickly gather more resources to increase potential trade ins (use the trading post work order when it’s ore to generate more garrison resources)

– this is straight gold, eg no reliance of auctions selling, which is a nice guarantee if you have limited time to make stockpiled gold conversion count (eg getting a few days free via a request)

– You need to wait to subscribe before you do the flip spam as starter accounts have a gold max. Save up the mats to do this for your push to get a token during subbed time. You can sometimes get a free few days by asking nicely via a support ticket and spamming craft/flip can get you a decent way towards a token.

Summary:

If you’re like me (and I doubt you are because why would you be, I’m a bit crazy trying this out) and have several extra accounts set to free, this seems like a decent potential way to stock away a burst of gold influx for a token.

I don’t advise this for anyone actually leveled and strong at the game but for people trying to eke by on free accounts, it might be a decent way to stockpile potential gold for that month when you sub the account.