Guide · gold

What to gather

Herbs, veins, skins and fish: the skill each needs, where it is and what it sells for on your auction house this hour.

The most valuable catch on this auction house now is Lightning Eel at 6s 68c each. The data says what is fished, not where, at what skill or how often.

Auction house
Americas · Normal · Alliance
Prices read
21 minutes ago
Best herb
Black Lotus · about 17g 18s 71c
Best vein
Ooze Covered Rich Thorium Vein · about 92s 52c
Top skin
Frostsaber Leather · 2g 89s 99c
Auction house

Prices from Americas · Normal · Alliance, read 21 minutes ago. Each ruleset has its own auction house per faction; Blizzard’s data does not name them, so they are matched by size and still being confirmed in game.

What fishing brings up

Fish, other food and cooking ingredients that the records list as fished, and trade goods that come only from fishing, by their lowest buyout here. The data does not hold fishing skill, pools or catch rates, and names a zone only for the few catches filed under one, so there is no value per cast and no zone ranking here. Cloth, potions and leather from fished crates are left out.

Fished items by lowest buyout on Americas · Normal · Alliance
CatchTypeLowest buyoutVendor paysWhere
Lightning Eel Other 6 silver 68 copper53 listings 10 copper Not in the data
Raw Nightfin Snapper Cooking 4 silver 99 copper24 listings 10 copper Not in the data
Raw Sunscale Salmon Cooking 3 silver 97 copper132 listings 10 copper Not in the data
Raw Winter Squid Food & Drink 3 silver 37 copper113 listings 7 copper Not in the data
Raw Greater Sagefish Cooking 1 silver 85 copper45 listings 1 silver 25 copper Not in the data
Whimsyfin Other 1 silver 84 copper52 listings 4 copper
Raw Glossy Mightfish Cooking 1 silver 67 copper71 listings 6 copper Not in the data
Deviate Fish Food & Drink 1 silver 50 copper87 listings 4 copper
Rumsey Rum Black Label Food & Drink 1 silver 40 copper180 listings 50 copper Not in the data
Stonescale Eel Other 1 silver 25 copper231 listings 10 copper Not in the data
Raw Mithril Head Trout Cooking 99 copper192 listings 4 copper Not in the data
Zesty Clam Meat Cooking 71 copper275 listings 50 copper Not in the data
Raw Sagefish Cooking 71 copper80 listings 25 copper Not in the data
Rumsey Rum Dark Food & Drink 60 copper36 listings 50 copper Not in the data
Rumsey Rum Light Food & Drink 55 copper253 listings 50 copper Not in the data
Tangy Clam Meat Cooking 46 copper101 listings 22 copper Not in the data
Sickly Looking Fish Food & Drink 34 copper9 listings 1 copper Not in the data
Oily Blackmouth Other 34 copper269 listings 4 copper Not in the data
Raw Spotted Yellowtail Cooking 29 copper218 listings 4 copper Not in the data
Firefin Snapper Other 22 copper100 listings 5 copper Not in the data
Raw Brilliant Smallfish Cooking 18 copper153 listings 1 copper Not in the data
Raw Slitherskin Mackerel Cooking 15 copper65 listings 1 copper Not in the data
Raw Redgill Cooking 11 copper39 listings 4 copper Not in the data
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish Cooking 8 copper405 listings 2 copper Not in the data
Raw Rainbow Fin Albacore Cooking 6 copper170 listings 2 copper Not in the data
Darkshore Grouper Food & Drink 6 copper29 listings 2 copper
Raw Loch Frenzy Cooking 5 copper78 listings 2 copper Not in the data
Raw Rockscale Cod Cooking 5 copper130 listings 4 copper Not in the data
Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper Cooking 2 copper202 listings 1 copper Not in the data

More on gold and professions

  • Making gold: crafts that sell for more than their materials, loot worth keeping and vendor items that sell higher on this auction house.
  • Profession leveling plans: the cheapest way from 1 to 300 in each crafting profession.
  • Herbalism: its ranks and recipes.
  • Mining: its ranks and recipes.
  • Skinning: its ranks and recipes.
  • Fishing: its ranks and recipes.

Where this comes from

Auction prices are the lowest buyouts and the number of listings on each auction house, from Blizzard’s auction house data, read every hour; bids are left out. Which nodes exist, the skill each needs, the zones they are in, what a gather or a skin gives and how often, creature levels and zone level ranges come from data collected from the live game, which can lag it and counts earlier Classic play as well as Forever’s. What a vendor pays, item types, the Skinning rule and smelting recipes come from the WoW Forever game files. Nothing here knows how many nodes or creatures a zone has or how fast they come back.

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