Raw Gold Farming, Invincibility, Active Gold/Rep/Experience Dupes-A Summary Of Working Exploits (Patreon)

 Raw Gold Farming, Invincibility, Active Gold/Rep/Experience Dupes-A Summary Of Working Exploits

  Patreon is an excellent service but it has a serious drawback in that there is no search function for the posts of a creator. Additionally, while there are a substantial number of posts on in the archive here, it isn't clear what does and does not work, so I'm going to be periodically posting updates on to the status of "major" exploits. Everything listed here still works. I've only included plays which yielded positive feedback from Patreons regardless of how useful an exploit might be to me personally. Note the Update comments refer to the current status of the play and any changes. Also, anything I published on youtube is now public information and is not included on this list even if it still works. This is NOT a comprehensive list, there are many interesting, valuable and fun exploits in the archives which don't appear here-I'm focusing solely on what Patreons indicated what they believed to be the best content. 

 Note that all active exploits in this archive have now been tagged making it much easier to navigate the database than previously. Below each normal article on the left you will find a tag allowing you to search similar content quickly. I have only tagged posts which contain content that is still working and that I felt Patreons found value in.

July Update

Major additions this month are my detailed guide to the process of actually finding exploits and the game-breaking water elemental glitch in Nazjatar which still works as July 31. Blizzard has had a major crackdown on leveling exploits but everything in the leveling section of this archive is still active.

Gold Farming

Secret World Boss Dropping 500G, 3-20K Items 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/27567517 

Two bosses in MOP (UPDATE: now just one) raids can be farmed repeatedly and drop loot normally only obtainable once per weekly lockout twice an hour. A very powerful way to make raw gold with a decent number of alts.  Note the follow-up post:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/27635041 

How To SOLO The Shadowmourne Questline-250K Gold  

https://www.patreon.com/posts/12077031/ 

An ingenious play one of my youtube commenters kindly shared with me how to do the impossible and solo this questline which normally requires multiple players. Update: This is now worth 400K and one of the best gold-making exploits in the game!

Gamebreaking, Raw Gold Dupe, Dupe Unobtainable High-Value Collectible Items, Dupe Honor 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/25241164 

A  gold dupe that has persisted for months now. Note Ashran returns very soon-this will allow the player to cash in lock boxes for a potential fortune when it goes live.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/25486529 .

Up to 35000 gold every day in nine minutes (requires substantial set-up time)  

https://www.patreon.com/posts/7943230/ The fastest possible method of raw gold making. Requires investment and, depending how much you want to make, a large amount of time invested. All that said, you will be virtually printing gold if you do everything in the guide. Update: This was the very first post I made here and still generates a lot of raw gold to this day. Unfortunately because class trials no longer award level 3 Garrisons the set-up time is insane. On the plus side you can't get banned for doing it since exploits are no longer involved. 

The Basics Of Gold Farming Exploitation

https://www.patreon.com/posts/8582202/ 

A guide to the basic principles of gold farming exploitation, giving you a chance to uncover the best possible type of exploit: one that only you know about. Update: A concise introduction to the subject. 

10K Gold Item Ultra-Fast Farming Method 60k Gold Per Hourhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/15785334/ 

A very interesting discovery about Dire Maul allowed me to make a lot of gold using Shaman far sight.Update: Still a very powerful method. The item in question takes a little longer to sell than in Legion. However, this also allows you to control the price more easily.   

"Fly" In No-Fly World Zones, Gold Farming Expensive Pethttps://www.patreon.com/posts/11383761/

A trick to farm race-specific pets.Update: The Fel Meteorites were nerfed, but it is still easy and profitable to use class trials to do the same thing (see comments).  

Instantly And Repeatedly Drop Combat (Pet Classes Only), Dramatically Increase Speed Of Instant Respawn Farms  

https://www.patreon.com/posts/16010161

A basic method to farm all mob resets virtually instantly. Update: Note subsequent articles covered several applications of this technique. 

Instance Farming Using Lag7, Primals Worth 3649 Gold In 15 Minutes (Monk Preferred)https://www.patreon.com/posts/8523029/ 

How to exploit a weird lag affect that occurs when you use Monk roll to farm Black Temple ultra-fast.Update: Still works well. Lag7 may not be as safe as it used to be since a recent crackdown on third-party programs. 

Profiting From Third-Party Dupes: The Most Profitable Legal Trading Strategy In WoWhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/24175026 

Update:  This was a popular article which should have "evergreen" (ie timeless) value. 

Increasing Total Raw Gold From Legacy Raids, Classes That Can Drop Combat Preferred 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/24015111

Update: This was one of my most popular articles, a method that I developed fully quite recently. For hunters: you probably want to read this article first. 

Amazing Gamebreaking Phase Bug 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/19760421 

A method to remove all mobs from the world, mainly for the purposes of gathering without mob or player interference.   

Amazing Drustvar Phasing Glitch, No Mobs-Herb/Mine Ultra-Fasthttps://www.patreon.com/posts/23909327

Update: This method allows you to gather quickly and easy in Drustvar by removing mobs. Note that there are other methods where you can eliminate mobs or their ability to attack you using other exploits anywhere in the game, but these methods are generally more time-consuming to set-up than this relatively simply trick.  

Farming "Secret" Silverbound Chests-Items Worth Over 50K An Hour

https://www.patreon.com/posts/22617986 

How to use scrying methods to locate chests with valuable legacy items very quickly.Update: Still works very well and is unlikely to ever be fixed. 

Instant Respawn Farm, Drops 13K Gold Item 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/22119029 

Update: This popular instant respawn farm still works well. Note that there are actually quite a few valuable transmog items from this farm: but be aware transmog doesn't sell that fast. 

Magister's Terrace Infinite Transmog Farm, Blade Of Wizardryhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/26340672 

This brilliant instant respawn method was discovered by patreon Tim, one of the most effective ways to farm the very valuable Blade of Wizardry. 

Instant Respawn Legacy Gold Farm-Items Worth Up To 135,000 Gold, No Instance Lockout 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/26164770 

I was really proud of this one and it was and is very popular: I found you could get the archers in the Scarlet Monastery to respawn using a special technique, this is the ONLY known method to farm the valuable "Butcher" weapon efficiently. You also get a lot of other valuable items which actually sell on the AH. 

Reset All Cooldowns Instantly, Very Valuable For Solo Gold Farminghttps://www.patreon.com/posts/23840379 

A method for resetting most of or all of your major cooldowns. Very useful when you are farming content your gear is not efficient for.   

1000 Gold, 1400 Artifact Power For Roughly Two Minute's Workhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/24599846 

A really simple leeching method for profiting from LFR without doing anything. I was very wary of posting this given it is pretty anti-social but it was very popular. IMPORTANT: note Dubach's comment below the article if you want to afk through warfronts: his trick has saved me days of frustration acquring gear. 

Rare Plans Worth 13K, Can Be Acquired In Minutes https://www.patreon.com/posts/20938815 

Simple method to acquire a rare plan quickly and easily.

10K Gold Item Ultra-Fast Farming Method 60k Gold Per Hour https://www.patreon.com/posts/15785334

 I made a ton of gold with this one personally in Legion, still works well and sells for a lot though demand is a bit lower since the item you harvest isn't part of current content.

Gamebreaking, Limitless Limited Supply Items https://www.patreon.com/posts/18433148

 A glitch with a rare spawn trader in Outland.

"Unobtainable" Transmog Item, 80000 Gold Value https://www.patreon.com/posts/19544255 

This item is now actually worth more than 300,000 currently. Wowhead lists a verified drop on February of this year from the mobs mentioned in the article. 

The Most Valuable Ore In Wow, How To Mine It Faster Than Anyone, All Classeshttps://www.patreon.com/posts/19354807 

One of the most important articles I've written. This ore sells quite fast and yields returns significantly superior to most basic farming techniques.

Damage Exploits 

Up To 2500% Haste Temporary DPS Burst, Gamebreaking SpellSteal Opportunity (Mage). 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/16670880/ 

An obscure Northrend mob has an ability which mages can spellsteal and stack infinitely creating gamebreaking cast speed. Can be used in Raids/PVE. Update: Still works well. 

Enormous Damage Bonus For Casters (40-60)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/22253976 

An ingenious technique to gain a huge crit bonus from Dire Maul.Update: Still works well. Arguably one of the best twink exploits ever. 

Reset All Cooldowns Instantly, Very Valuable For Solo Gold Farming 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/23840379

A trick that exploits the LFR que system to reset cooldowns anywhere in the world.Update: Still works. 

5-45% Pet/Minion Damage Buff Revisited 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/20609575 

A powerful pet/minion damage (de)buff with a weird side-effect.

Using Debuffs To Gain DPS Advantage In Arena/PVEhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/13396824 

Methods that exploit certain abilities (eg touch of karma) which benefit from damage to players.  

Bugged Stackable Damage And Healing Items, 98-109 https://www.patreon.com/posts/19878129

 Some strange and largely forgotten powerful items from Legion.

Player Versus Player Combat

How To One-Shot Players Using Water Elemental Glitch https://www.patreon.com/posts/28117135 

A gamebreaking and simple glitch that allows players to exploit a world quest in Nazjatar to become as powerful as a raid boss.

Gamebreaking PVP Buff - Broken Aquatic Transformation Item https://www.patreon.com/posts/16265012/ 

An aquatic item that gives the player completely broken and gamebreaking speed in any bg with water.Update: Still works well.  

 Demon Hunter: (Gamebreaking) Infinite Height In PVP Combat (New Method)https://www.patreon.com/posts/15495492/

A replacement method for the old freeze macro allowing the hunter to reuse movement abilities in mid-air.Update: Still works well. In fact has even more uses now since pvp talents work everywhere in-world, and world pvp is now an important part of wow content.  

Twin Peaks - Off The Map With Teleport Ability, Hide Flag  

https://www.patreon.com/posts/15044278/ One of a few remaining flag-hiding locations in a battleground.Update: Still works well. 

 Powerful, Permanent And Undetectable Battleground Trick, Unlikely To Ever Be Fixed  

https://www.patreon.com/posts/11484082/

How to exploit the rez timer to gain vastly more uptime in bg's. Update: I use this a lot. Worth adding that macro timer commands are incredibly helpful with this technique, see this resource: https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/MACRO_stopwatch 

Debuff Exploits That Can Be Used In Arena And Elsewhere 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/21911014

A rare example of a class of exploits which work in arena.  

Winning Arathi Basin: Comp Stomp VERY Fast (Requires Set-up)https://www.patreon.com/posts/25565970 

This is a truly great way to get a ton of honor and gear very fast when this brawl is up, but it requires completing the netherwing rep grind first.

Major Twink Exploit XP Off Character In XP-On Battlegroundshttps://www.patreon.com/posts/25429969 

This bug allows you to que in xp-on battlegrounds with xp-off, allowing twinked players a huge advantage.

Strange Seething Shore Exploit 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/19850604 

A weird glitch in Seething Shore which can allow creative players a significant edge. Note: if this doesn't work on the ship try moving around a bit.

Over-Powered, Game-Breaking Vegetable-Can Be Used In Battlegroundshttps://www.patreon.com/posts/25181882 

Possibly the best article I or any one else has ever contributed to Patreon, or perhaps the internet itself.

Other Exploits

Major Gamebreaking Invincibility/Phase Exploit https://www.patreon.com/posts/14112132/ 

This VERY powerful method makes the player effectively invisible to any mob in the game, while allowing them to heal and/or attack with minions.Update: Worth adding that this allows the player to gather herbs and mine without harassment making it a huge money-maker in BFA. It also allows healers to focus exclusively on healing in raids since they take no damage in fights. 

Update for July: Azerite essences appear to work in the phase state allowing the player to tag and loot npc's. 

Gamebreaking-Summon Infinite Trolls Anywhere https://www.patreon.com/posts/22159035 

Update: Still works but sadly only 3 trolls may be summoned at a time. Nonetheless this still allows most classes to have infinite resources and makes several tanking classes literally invincible. 

 How To Find Exploits (Long) 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/24546857 

A detailed guide to the process of actually finding exploits: arguably the most important thing I've posted here. 

Mob In Elwynn Forest That Makes Vengeance Demon Hunters Invinciblehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/9314848/ 

Instant respawn mob allowing demon hunters to replenish their health indefinitely.Update: Still fun. 

5% Stats Buff Useable In Dungeons And Battlegroundshttps://www.patreon.com/posts/8455971/

A simple consumable item from Tanaan Jungle which works everywhere.Update: Still works.

 Infinite Speed, Flying in No-Fly Locations, Trivializing PVP/Gold-Farming-The Power Of Lag (Guide) 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/23594887

Update: A detailed guide to the power of lag in wow generally, this is something that can't really be fixed in an MMO like Warcraft. 

Infinitely Repeatable Quest 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/23449994

Update: Still works well. Useful for xp, rep etc, requires automation. 

Semi-AFK Instant Respawn Experience Farm 60-80 https://www.patreon.com/posts/23350217 

Update:  A rare combination of player assisting npc's who for some reason don't leech xp, and fast respawns of hostile mobs.  

Non-Public Leveling Techniques 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/21716001 

Update: Some secret highly powerful strategies I didn't put in my last leveling video. People really liked this one.   

Grind Mobs AFK Which Yield Experience, No Automation Required, Hordehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/26796120 

This relatively recent post allows you to grind some mobs for a small amount of xp at low-level -the only example in the game of a farm that can be completely automated without botting or other third-party programs. Very useful for "kill x number of mobs" quests.

Virtually Instant Maximum Guild Reputation 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/26603436 

A BFA quest which can be repeated for leveling guild reputation in only a few minutes.  

Experience Dupe (Level 98-109) 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/26514870 

This was somewhat controversial despite the considerable interest in the exploit. This allows you to level passively: it is not especially fast but it can be automated quite easily or done semi-afk. 

Fastest XP Farming Method For Horde At Low-Levelhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/24280271 

A very popular trick for grinding up fast for Horde. 

Semi-AFK Instant Respawn Experience Farm 60-80 https://www.patreon.com/posts/23350217 

An interesting opportunity for leveling - for some reason the mobs in this area just have to be tagged before subsequently being killed by rageclaw npc's to get full xp. They also drop some decent wotlk transmog gear. Requires much less mental energy than questing.
 

Instant Classic Skinning Max Level Glitch

https://www.patreon.com/posts/20853379 

A strange glitch allowing a player to level classic skinning instantaneously. 

Create Infinite Invasion Items-Virtually Invincible In-World https://www.patreon.com/posts/16141613 

A technique to gain any number of stackable healing items that were supposed to be limited to a small number of uses.

World Quest Bugged - Control Powerful Vehicle https://www.patreon.com/posts/27925147 

A bugged vehicle in patch 8.2 can be controlled - very effective in pvp and for localized gathering/farming. Limited to the quest area.

EARLY CONTENT  These are exploits from very early in this site's existence when the membership was literally a tenth of what it is now and consequently player feedback was much less, so determining what was of interest to players was more difficult. I've added a choice selection here based solely on my own opinion:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/18200389

A priest specific method for farming Dire Maul for the Nat Pagle guide. I made a huge % of my gold in Legion from this.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/13897161

A method to fly for thirty seconds in instances. Requires some set-up in the Firelands instance. This is a play explorers have told me they find very useful. This is also useful for boss skips.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/13879404

A method to very temporarily massively increase HP. To execute this one properly would take a highly skilled team but it can potentially trivialize even mythic raid encounters.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/13396824

Some weird techniques to generate damage to players on-demand and exploit abilities such as Touch Of Karma.