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

In this guide I'll show you to how make gold faster than using any other known method, in terms of profit per minute invested.

The basis this technique  is quite simple. 

Blizzard allow some game activities to be very profitable for a short while and then less profitably afterwards, to encourage diversity of play. 

The single most profitable activity is to mass-produce the inscription item "card of omens" from war paints created at draenor garrisons,  using class trial characters.

Step 1

Create class trial character. If you can do so on your main's realm, transfer gold over. If not there are methods to transfer gold over or grind up later.

Port class trial character to ogrimmar/stormwind with hearthstone. Learn inscription  from trainer and the recipe for "card of omens".

Step 2 

Create "Scribe's Quarters" and raise to level 3. 

Step 3

Acquire as much "cerulean pigment" as possible. This can be done in 3 ways:

i.The simplest way is to buy it off the auction house. The downside is that this does cut down your profits a little.

ii. You can use garrison resources at a trading outpost to purchase herbs and mill them.  Ideal particulary if you have alts who maxed out on garrison resources during wod. However, you will eventually run out of resources.

iii.  You can pick herbs at your garden and mill them. Costs nothing but takes a few minutes.

iv Buy herbs off auction house and mill them. 

 Step 4. Get an inn and acquire a follower with the inscription trait, then assign them to your scribe's quarters. 

5. Place maximum work orders.

This is where things get insane:

The work orders will produce war paints. 2 for each work order * 21 maximum orders that can be placed at one time. You will have 42 war paints. 

These can be used to make 84 "card of omens".  This is a scratchcard-like item which you can flip for a random amount of gold. 

Through extensive testing it has been determined that the average profit is 4.2 gold.  So 4.2 gold * 84 =352 gold.  It takes literally 10 seconds to log-in, take your work orders and place another, with practice, providing you have a decent connection, and graphics set low,. 

You can do exactly the same thing with up 50 characters on one account. So, you could make up to 17,600 gold for literally 8.3 minutes work. 

Now it doesn't end there. Your insciption follower adds up to 100% to your work order as they rank up to 100 (they get xp each time they complete an order). So, the maximum now becomes 35,200 gold for those same 8.3 minutes. 

The overall  rate is a maximum possible 253440 gold per hour invested.

Additionally, you can sell the cards on the ah and raise the profit further. For example, say you can sell them at 6 gold a card, then your 10 seconds of work has yielded 1008 gold, or 362,880! gold per unit invested. 

Finally, you will accumulate a substantial amount of sorcerous earth during this time. This is worth just over 5 gold each on the ah. You will get other sorcerous elements but these are almost worthless. 

If you cannot sell the cards on the ah, you will need to flip them. You will need to do this only when your bags are full to optimize your efficiency of production. This will require to flip a large number of cards.  Card flipping is increased by haste. One way to speed up this process is to use some form of bloodlust (time warp etc). This can be reset repeatedly in the proving grounds by entering the grounds and starting the trial countdown, then cancelling. 

If you REALLY want to speed things up park a mage outside Zul'Aman in the ghostlands. Find the mob "Amanshi Flame Caster", use spellsteal for a 300% haste buff. You can get through flip the cards very quickly with this. Another possibility is to go through the deadmines instance and use the up to 3000% haste buff from the "good" food captain cookie, the final boss of the instance, throws at you. However, at least for solo players, this instance is currently bugged.

For those of you who use multiple accounts and sell the gold for real cash this is something you could get quite wealthy with if you can stay under the radar.

Now, some of you will have maxed out your characters on a specific realm. The easiest way round this is to create toons on a merged realm which has the same rules for most practical purpose. For those of you who have done this already or can't-there are a number of ways to send cash cross-realm. 

Basically anything bound to a battle.net account, such as wow tokens, battle pets, even things like honor tokens can be sent cross-realm and sold for quick gold.  A lesser known method for horde toons is to use a war mill to create multiple ogrimmar axes from iron horde scraps, the axe vendors for 50G. 

In a separate post I'll cover how to build up a gold on a completely fresh trial character.

Shadowlands Update: This one got quite a bit easier since you can use allied races to enter draenor at level 10. It is still preferable to use class trials first because setting up a garrison with a level 10 takes a small but cumulatively significant amount of set-up time and flying speeds everything up. 

Patreon Mark Jackson contributed the following very helpful skip past the Draenor introductory scenario which saves a LOT of time:

"Do the following on lvl 10 character: Enter Chromie time for Warlords. Talk to the portal master to be sent to the blasted lands. Instead of talking to Khadgar to begin the scenario, run through the dark portal. You will be at the Frostfire/Shadowmoon landing as if you had just completed the scenario. Another way is, as soon as you enter warlords time, go take the portal to Ashran for your faction. You'll then have to walk/run to your garrison, however."