WoW Forever Gold Farming Spots – Level 30-40

At level 30-40 the best gold per kill in World of Warcraft Forever comes from Burning Exile in Arathi Highlands, worth about 1g 35s 60c a kill in drops. 292 farmable NPCs are ranked here; the best 30 are listed.

Best gold farming mobs for level 30-40

Gold per kill, level 30-40:

Prices from 5 Oct 2026. 88% of the gold per kill listed rests on Auction House prices, the rest on vendor prices. Hover an icon for its sum.

#	NPC	Level	Zone	Spawns	Top drops	Gold/kill	From AH
1	Burning Exile	38-39	Arathi Highlands	14		1g 35s 60c	97%
2	Cresting Exile	38-39	Arathi Highlands	14		1g 6s 77c	97%
3	Thundering Exile	38-39	Arathi Highlands	12		59s 28c	97%
4	Magram Mauler	35-36	Desolace	12		37s 41c	97%
5	Rock Elemental	39-40	Badlands	30		30s 39c	85%
6	Sorrow Spinner	36-37	Swamp of Sorrows	27		29s 31c	85%
7	Rumbling Exile	38-39	Arathi Highlands	16		28s 80c	85%
8	Lesser Rock Elemental	37-39	Badlands	18		27s 47c	85%
9	Elemental Slave(Horde only)	33-34	Alterac Mountains	22		25s 66c	87%
10	Darkfang Creeper	38-39	Dustwallow Marsh	45		21s 12c	80%
11	Crag Coyote	35-36	Badlands	28		20s 96c	91%
12	Darkfang Lurker	36-37	Dustwallow Marsh	58		20s 88c	80%
13	Rabid Bonepaw	36-38	Desolace	10		20s 82c	92%
14	Feral Crag Coyote	37-38	Badlands	39		20s 42c	91%
15	Darkfang Venomspitter	37-38	Dustwallow Marsh	82		20s 27c	79%
16	Elder Crag Coyote	39-40	Badlands	46		20s 15c	86%
17	Plains Creeper	32-33	Arathi Highlands	113		19s 19c	87%
18	Darkmist Silkspinner	38-39	Dustwallow Marsh	24		18s 41c	78%
19	Darkfang Spider	35-36	Dustwallow Marsh	37		18s 10c	78%
20	Swamp Jaguar	36-37	Swamp of Sorrows	46		18s 2c	60%
21	Dread Ripper	39-40	Desolace	10		17s 58c	77%
22	Starving Bonepaw	30-32	Desolace	15		16s 62c	99%
23	Darkmist Recluse	36-37	Dustwallow Marsh	19		16s 47c	79%
24	Salt Flats Vulture	32-34	Thousand Needles	9		17s 99c	88%
25	Carrion Horror	35-37	Desolace	15		15s 99c	81%
26	Mesa Buzzard	34-35	Arathi Highlands	14		15s 80c	82%
27	Shadow Panther	39-40	Swamp of Sorrows	12		15s 21c	52%
28	Kurzen Witch Doctor	36-37	Stranglethorn Vale	13		15s 12c	91%
29	Darkmist Spider	35-36	Dustwallow Marsh	20		15s 5c	79%
30	Giant Plains Creeper	35-36	Arathi Highlands	43		14s 82c	80%

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How gold per kill is worked out

Gold per kill adds up every item the NPC drops: its drop chance, times the average stack, times the item's latest Auction House low or what a vendor pays, whichever is higher. The list is ordered by that figure scaled by spawn points, so a mob with fewer than 10 spawn points counts for less, and rare, elite and dungeon NPCs or those with fewer than 3 spawn points are left out.

Auction House prices are limited before launch: an item counts at its AH price only after 3 fair scans over 2 days with at least 5 listed, and the scan count is in each icon's hover text. No kill of these NPCs is recorded in Forever yet, so every drop chance here is the vanilla 1.12 one. Coin drops are not recorded, so the figure counts items only. 6 drops have no price at all and are not counted. See also the Auction House and where to farm an item.