9.0 Gold-Making And Exploits Live Continuously Updated Through 17/10 (Patreon)

Pending....please contribute any info you would like to contribute in the comments section below and I'll add it to the main body of the article. This can literally anything players would find of interest, it doesn't have to be an exploit. Patreons who would like to be credited please tell me how you would like to be identified, otherwise I will keep it anonymous.

Brilliant Azerite Equipment Trading Method For Twinking

Candlejack contributed the following ingenious strategy in a comment below:

If you trade an azerite piece to a low level using the two hour dungeon trading system, they get the quest for the heart of azeroth upon next login. You can bring four level 10s and a level 50 into freehold or atal'dazar, get the azerite piece to drop on the 50, and trade - log out - log in on each character, giving each of them the quest in the process. This allows the low level to do the first azerite equipment rewarding quest in zuldazar/boralus as well as the tortollan scrolls quest for two working ilvl 58/59 azerite gear pieces.  Additionally, druids of level 10 or above can do their legion restoration artifact quest up to the point where they claim "Corrupted G'Hanir, the Mother Tree", a working iLvl 48 two handed intellect staff. Using these methods, I'm currently topping DPS meters by 2 or 3 times in 10-49 dungeons and most open world enemies die in one or two hits.

Dire Maul Buffs Broken

Dire Maul tribute buffs are broken (again):

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/dire-maul-buff-still-exists-and-its-op/682968

EDIT: seems fixed.

Gems Not Scaling

Burning Crusade Gems are currently providing superior stats to BFA gems, presumably as a result of not being squished properly.

Multi-phase Rare Farming

Patreon Sweet Honey has pointed out that the introduction of Chromie time always players to farm rares in two different phases-normal, and timewalking. In addition war mode on/off exist for both phases, so each distinct realm has four different phases each with their own rares/gathering nodes etc. 

Hunter Pet With Huge Melee Range

Pterrodax hunter pets appear to have a huge range for melee, some 15 yards. This looks like a function of the npc that should have been removed after taming.  This could create some interesting strategies. Note that auto-attacks can penetrate thin physical barriers in wow. Pterrodaxes can be found all over Zuldazar. 

XP Dupe

Speak to Chromie (located outsided each faction's embassy), select the "cataclysm" option. Accept the first quest, find the hero's call board, click the cogwheel, turn the quest in. Now fly back to Chromie's embassy location and choose another option (any one), then switch it back to Cataclysm. The starting quest appears again. You can do this endlessly. 

The quest is a breadcrumb so the xp is unspectacular, this is mainly of interest to players who can automate it or optimize it further. 

Excessive Greens Dropping In Vanilla Instances

From reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/woweconomy/comments/jardo1/greens_are_dropping_like_hotcakes_in_classic_zones/

EDIT: Now fixed.

Raw Gold

MOP and WOD weapon/armor vendor prices have  been nerfed to around 60% of value. Heart Of Fear and Seat Of The Triumvirate trash farms are currently the best ways to make raw gold as trash and pure gold drops/junk items are unaffected, ONLY weapon/armor drops are affected. This is not public information I have seen as of this moment. 

Hikons Gold Dupe

EDIT: Multiple patreons reporting this is either fixed or a hoax.

A patreon kindly sent me this tweet from gold-maker Hikons who has discovered a dupe

Public, but if you didnt found it : https://twitter.com/hikons/status/1316297369055494145

Warning: Public dupes are trouble. They invariably lead to witch hunts and bans. I will not be using or recommending this dupe, do so at your own risk. 

DK's Twink Glitch

A patreon reports:

"Heya Arch. DKs and DHs that were created before the prepatch have a chance to be a bit busted. I created a DH without logging into it before the prepatch but it was still scaled down to lv8, however the gear that the character had is from the original starter ilvl, so it's now ilvl44. Same goes for DKs that weren't logged into, they're now wearing the same gear as the lv25s that weren't scaled down. Not sure what I can do with this OP twink quite yet but if you have any ideas you need me to test please feel free to let me know."

Patreon Bernhard added the following:

"if you progress through the starting zone maiev takes away the glaives that Is a big power decrease so what you can do is to vendor the glaives  and buy them back after the vault quest and keep the ilvl 44 glaives"

EDIT: Now Fixed.

Arcane Blast Bugged

Scaling appears to be broken for Arcane Mages, I was able to burn through the trash in the Stockades quite quickly simply spamming AB. Arcane mages have high burst but are normally handicapped by running out of mana-this does not appear to be much of an issue at low-level. To some extent this was true before but mana appears to be regenerating even faster now.  This looks like a viable xp grinding method.

One Button To Maximum Level 50

For the first time in WoW's history it is possible to level to maximum pressing one button. Go to the dockmaster in Elwynn Forest (48,87) and kill him and his bodyguards, they re-spawn every 15 seconds. You MUST have chromie time set to cataclysm or the mobs will max out at 31. Using arcane explosion I was able to get a quests worth of xp every 2 mins (this at lower levels). I'm still testing to see how viable this is at higher levels. This is very easy to automate, but also very risky.

INVINCIBLE WATER ELEMENTAL

I took my level 43 frost mage to Blackrock Stronghold to experiment with trash farming strategies. I had turned on Chromie cataclysm time. A very interesting thing happened: the mobs were as dangerous to my character as they should be, however it took 25 of them several minutes to kill my water elemental. My water elemental did not seem to be doing excess damage, but most hits against her missed and did little damage when they did hit. 

What seems to be happening: the mobs naturally max out at level 31 without timewalking. Something seems to be causing them to ignore Chromie Timewalking when attacking my elemental. It seems likely this will affect other minions. 

So the recommended pet strategy is this: turn on Chromie Timewalking and have your pet aggro as many mobs as possible in an area where your pet would outlevel the mobs if Timewalking were turned off.. 

The overpowered minion can probably grind up levels for you afk in instant respawn locations such as the Dockmaster hut (see above). 

Chimaeron And TsuLong Destroying Battlegrounds

There are multiple reports of a mysterious hydra hunter pet destroying the opposition in battlegrounds. This appears to be "Chimaeron" from Blackwing Descent.

Several Patreons have noted that simply acquiring Chimaeron does not produce any unusual effects by itself, so the "trigger" to an over-powered ability, presumably a raid effect that does not get wiped after a tame, is unknown.

There is a post on the official bug report showing Tsulong doing ridiculous damage solely due to an ability which should only belong to Tsulong's raid boss incarnation. To tame Tsulong you need exalted with the Order of the Cloud Serpent, which can be found in the arboretum in the jade forest, Pandaria. You must purchase the relevant book from the quartermaster. For some reason Tsulong can only be tamed in the normal version of the raid Terrace of the Eternal Spring.

OP Legion Weapons Available At Level 10

A Patreon writes:

I found something interesting in Legion Class Order Halls. The Green weapons on the order hall quartermaster can be bought and used at any level. Even a fresh level 10 can walk out of the order hall with a nice iLev 47 wep. Was working last night as of 3am UK time.

EDIT: Now mostly fixed though it is likely some broken items are still out there.