WoW Retail, Legion Raids Raw Gold Guide, Secret Tricks To Maximize Gold Returns (Patreon)

Here is a simple guide on how to earn around 150-200* gold per minute from these raids:

1. Talk to Archmage Timear at the Violet Hold In Legion Dalaram and select the option "Grant me a vision of the Darkbough".

2. Kill Nythendra, this takes about a minute with ilvl 450 gear for a dps class, for ilvl 415 it is about 80-90 seconds. (Most of these bosses take approximately this long to kill. ) Leave the "group". 

3. Select Timear's  option "Grant me a vision of the Tormented Guardians". Run to Ursoc and kill him. Again this should take about 90 seconds. 

4. This is important, DO NOT LEAVE THE GROUP. Use the "Teleport out of dungeon" option instead. On your return to Dalaran immediately click on "Teleport to dungeon". This will take you straight back to Malfurion Stormrage at the heart of the instance (this is much faster than running back). 

5. Take the upward vertical path. Kill the Dragons Of Nightmare. Use the teleport method to get back to Malfurion or use the teleport method - the teleport method should be faster but might depend on your computer.

6. Talk to Malfurion and click on the portal he creates. Kill Cenarius, this should be a very fast kill. 

7. From the LFR option list select "Grant me a vision of the Arcing Aqueducts". Kill Skorpyron. 

8. If you have ilvl 450+ you may wish to continue, and kill Chromatic Anomaly and Trilliax. For players with low ilvl skip this-killing all the trash really slows everything down.

9. Return to Timear and select "Grant me a vision of the Royal Atheneum" only if a) You have ilvl 450+ and b) some way of dropping combat. As soon as you leave the arcing aqueducts you need to be able to drop combat so you can mount up and reach the boss Spellblade Auriel quickly.

10. Leave the group and select the option "Grant me a vision of the Nightspire". Kill Tichondrius. Do not attempt to kill the other bosses in this wing, it takes forever due to spacing and roleplay issues.

11. Bonus option for Ilvl 450+ players, select "Grant me a vision of the gates of hell". You can do all 3 bosses in under 5 minutes.

12. If you can access the Emerald Nightmare Portal in Val'sharah easily (ie you are a druid or mage with val'sharah portal access) or you happen to be there,  it is a good idea to kill Nythendra twice on normal and heroic difficulty. 

Why you might or might not want to do this

 Last month Legion Raids were changed to personal loot. This caused some excitement in the gold making community as it was assumed these raids would become more profitable for soloing as they were not previously.

Raw gold farms are not generally as profitable as other forms of gold making such as professions, however they do allow you to avoid a lot of waste time on the Auction House and are very popular since they allow you to make gold by simply playing the game.

I did some testing on the Legion raids. My conclusion was the same as Kraken Latte (who summarizes the GPH in an excellent video here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHJbhvaoQdE 

The Raids are basically inferior to Warlords Of Draenor and Mists Of Pandaria in terms of gold per hour if you run through them from start to finish. You need to run LFR selectively to make it worthwhile.

The reason is this: you can make about 5K an hour running the Draenor Dungeon, Iron Docks, continuously. There's no reason to do anything less profitable than that, and most of the Legion raids return less than that if you go through them from start to finish. 

However, using the above tricks you will be able to increase the amount of easy raw gold you make per character per week. By cutting out a lot of bosses which take a long time to run to or have lots of roleplay (Elisande and Gul'dan for example talk for over a minute) you increase your average profits.

You should use the above method after doing all the best LFR Wod and MOP dungeons, which don't take very long-these were covered in my public 8.2 gold guide. You should also do any world quests  which exceed 5K per hour when adjusted to an hourly rate, remembering to include any emissary caches in that calculation. 

Finally, the limit of profitability for doing raw gold raid farming is about 15K per hour, even that is limited to very fast classes and has lockout issues.

NOTE: Previously I kept raw gold info exclusively to my youtube channel as I wanted to publish only high rates of return for Patreons. Some patreons enjoy raw gold farming and objected to this so I'm publishing this info here first. Note that there are many methods in the Patreon archives here which yield substantially more gold per hour than any raw gold farm.

* This sometimes confuses new players. You sell all the armor items you receive to an NPC vendor. This is included in the raw gold calculation.