Where to Farm Gold Ore

The best place to farm Gold Ore is Tanaris, where Hazzali Sandreaver (level 49-50) drops it at 0.1%. That is the vanilla 1.12 chance, not yet confirmed in Forever. 264 sources are ranked below by drop chance.

Gold per kill: Hazzali Sandreaver is worth about 9s 31c a kill in item drops (at Auction House prices). Gold farming spots, level 40-50

Best zones:

The 15 zones with the best source; every source is listed below.

Zone	Sources	Best source	Level	Drop% ▼
Feralas	10	Ooze Covered Gold Vein		100.0%
Felwood	6	Gold Vein		100.0%
Desolace	24	Gold Vein		100.0%
Swamp of Sorrows	7	Gold Vein		100.0%
Gnomeregan	3	Large Iron Bound Chest		5.6%
Razorfen Downs	4	Large Iron Bound Chest		5.6%
Scarlet Monastery	10	Large Iron Bound Chest		5.6%
Duskwood	9	Solid Chest		5.3%
Hillsbrad Foothills	8	Alliance Chest		5.3%
The Stockade	2	Large Iron Bound Chest		4.2%
Westfall	1	Battered Chest		4.0%
Wetlands	2	Solid Chest		3.8%
Silverpine Forest	1	Alliance Chest		3.8%
Darkshore	1	Battered Chest		3.8%
The Barrens	1	Alliance Strongbox		3.8%

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All sources, by drop chance:

Classic data: from the patch 1.12 world data, not yet confirmed in Forever.

Source	Level	Zone	Spawns	Side	How	Drop% ▼	Map
Elder Moss Creeper	26-27	Hillsbrad Foothills	26		Drop	0.0%	map
Vicious Gray Bear	22-23	Hillsbrad Foothills	45		Drop	0.0%	map
Daggerspine Screamer	29-30	Hillsbrad Foothills	12		Drop	0.0%	map
Torn Fin Tidehunter	31-32	Hillsbrad Foothills	21		Drop	0.0%	map
Starving Mountain Lion	23-24	Hillsbrad Foothills	42		Drop	0.0%	map
Hulking Mountain Lion	33-34	Alterac Mountains	29		Drop	0.0%	map
Witherbark Axe Thrower	32-33	Arathi Highlands	32		Drop	0.0%	map
Witherbark Witch Doctor	33-34	Arathi Highlands	31		Drop	0.0%	map
Witherbark Headhunter	34-35	Arathi Highlands	37		Drop	0.0%	map
Highland Thrasher	33-34	Arathi Highlands	67		Drop	0.0%	map
Boulderfist Ogre	32-33	Arathi Highlands	18		Drop	0.0%	map
Plains Creeper	32-33	Arathi Highlands	113		Drop	0.0%	map
Drywhisker Kobold	35-36	Arathi Highlands	21		Drop	0.0%	map
Drywhisker Surveyor	37-38	Arathi Highlands	8		Drop	0.0%	map
Drywhisker Digger	36-37	Arathi Highlands	14		Drop	0.0%	map
Young Mesa Buzzard	31-32	Arathi Highlands	18		Drop	0.0%	map
Mesa Buzzard	34-35	Arathi Highlands	14		Drop	0.0%	map
Vilebranch Shadowcaster(elite)	47-48+	The Hinterlands	8		Drop	0.0%	map
Witherbark Venomblood	43	The Hinterlands	8		Drop	0.0%	map
Witherbark Sadist	44-45	The Hinterlands	20		Drop	0.0%	map
Green Sludge	46-47	The Hinterlands	47		Drop	0.0%	map
Vilebranch Wolf Pup	46-47	The Hinterlands	14		Drop	0.0%	map
Dustbelcher Mauler	41-42	Badlands	11		Drop	0.0%	map
Ridge Stalker	36-37	Badlands	25		Drop	0.0%	map
Shadowforge Warrior	38-39	Badlands	23		Drop	0.0%	map
Starving Buzzard	35-37	Badlands	6		Drop	0.0%	map
Stonevault Seer(elite)	39-40+	Badlands	4		Drop	0.0%	map
Silvermane Wolf	43-44	The Hinterlands	32		Drop	0.0%	map
Vicious Owlbeast	42-43	The Hinterlands	27		Drop	0.0%	map
Primitive Owlbeast	44-45	The Hinterlands	44		Drop	0.0%	map
Bleakheart Trickster	27-28	Ashenvale	17		Drop	0.0%	map
Wildthorn Lurker	28-29	Ashenvale	26		Drop	0.0%	map
Young Chimaera	23-25	Stonetalon Mountains	2		Drop	0.0%	map
Galak Wrangler	25-26	Thousand Needles	69		Drop	0.0%	map
Galak Mauler	27-28	Thousand Needles	51		Drop	0.0%	map
Galak Stormer	26-27	Thousand Needles	51		Drop	0.0%	map
Screeching Harpy	28-29	Thousand Needles	16		Drop	0.0%	map
Screeching Roguefeather	29-30	Thousand Needles	16		Drop	0.0%	map
Highperch Wyvern	28-29	Thousand Needles	18		Drop	0.0%	map
Highperch Consort	28-29	Thousand Needles	8		Drop	0.0%	map
Elder Cloud Serpent	27-29	Thousand Needles	20		Drop	0.0%	map
Needles Cougar	27-28	Thousand Needles	41		Drop	0.0%	map
Silithid Searcher	32-33	Thousand Needles	9		Drop	0.0%	map
Silithid Hive Drone	33-34	Thousand Needles	14		Drop	0.0%	map
Sparkleshell Snapper	34-35	Thousand Needles	32		Drop	0.0%	map
Saltstone Basilisk	30-31	Thousand Needles	21		Drop	0.0%	map
Saltstone Gazer	34-35	Thousand Needles	21		Drop	0.0%	map
Pesterhide Hyena	26-27	Thousand Needles	46		Drop	0.0%	map
Pesterhide Snarler	28-29	Thousand Needles	36		Drop	0.0%	map
Scarlet Gallant(elite)	33-34+	Scarlet Monastery	20		Drop	0.0%	map
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Recipes:

Recipe ▲	Profession	Needs
Smelt Gold	Mining	1x

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Drop% is the rate recorded in Forever once a source has been looted ten times; a greyed figure is the vanilla 1.12 chance from the world data (classic data: from the patch 1.12 world data, not yet confirmed in forever). Spawns counts the source's spawn points in the world data. "Side" names which side can kill the NPC when the other finds it friendly. The lead picks the best chance among sources that are not a rare spawn and have at least three spawn points.