Legacy Gold Farming Broken In 8.0, High Raw Gold Yields (Patreon)

In 8.0 changes to personal loot seem to have significantly increased raw gold yields from cataclysm raids. Cagney O'Gorman has already posted a link to this video by Mmrrggll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-lM_zUfaRI , however the buff to legacy loot appears to stretch across the xpac (and possibly beyond).

The buff seems to be enhancing raw gold only.

Hannah Eli Edgin reports on the same video that Heroic Firelands, the most traditional cata farm, yields 1k per 5 minute run. This translates to 10K per 50 minute instance lockout. This involves killing the voluminous amount of trash you can round up without killing bosses, then resetting the instance. Note this is rather more profitable on an hourly basis (rather than gold per minute invested) than Mmrrggll's method. 

Players on high population servers may wonder why there is so much interest in this given there are much more lucrative methods. The reason is that many low population servers have almost completely dead auction houses.

Note Firelands and the other Cataclysm legacy raids are sensitive to initial conditions, choosing a faster class, +speed gear, bear tartar etc  will improve the gold per hour. 

I am testing various strategies and will update this article accordingly unless this is fixed tomorrow. 

UPDATE: mostly fixed/nerfed. See new article for more info https://www.patreon.com/posts/20157230