By far the fastest way of getting gold in WoW is to sell arena points to other players. The process isn't very complicated and just involves bringing two arena teams to a very high rating, inviting a large amount of point buyers to both team, and have them win-trade back and forth. Using this method you can easily have 9 point buyers per team, per week.
The initial time investment is rather large as getting two teams to a competitive rating can take 5 or 6 hours. But once you're done with that part, you never have to do it for the rest of the arena season.
At the moment, we are doing this with 4 teams. Buyers typically pay anywhere between 600 and 800 gold every week. With 4 teams, that is as much as 28,800 gold per week. This number is typically split between the players that leveled up the teams, but that's still over 5,500 gold per week, per person.
Note that the time investment for doing more than 4 teams does not go up by very much. I spend about 2 hours a week arranging games. If I were to expand this service to 20 teams, I would spend about 15 hours a week finding buyers, and I'd personally rake in 41,000 gold per week, reaching the gold cap in 5 weeks.
The market for point selling is a strange one, as it is one of the few skill-based ways of farming gold in this game. A very small population of WoW have the ability to get teams to these ratings (we're talking somewhere above the 98th percentile of ratings), and then have the willingness to spend the time selling points week after week.
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By far the fastest way of getting gold in WoW is to sell arena points to other players. The process isn't very complicated and just involves bringing two arena teams to a very high rating, inviting a large amount of point buyers to both team, and have them win-trade back and forth. Using this method you can easily have 9 point buyers per team, per week. The initial time investment is rather large as getting two teams to a competitive rating can take 5 or 6 hours. But once you're done with that part, you never have to do it for the rest of the arena season. At the moment, we are doing this with 4 teams. Buyers typically pay anywhere between 600 and 800 gold every week. With 4 teams, that is as much as 28,800 gold per week. This number is typically split between the players that leveled up the teams, but that's still over 5,500 gold per week, per person. Note that the time investment for doing more than 4 teams does not go up by very much. I spend about 2 hours a week arranging games. If I were to expand this service to 20 teams, I would spend about 15 hours a week finding buyers, and I'd personally rake in 41,000 gold per week, reaching the gold cap in 5 weeks. The market for point selling is a strange one, as it is one of the few skill-based ways of farming gold in this game. A very small population of WoW have the ability to get teams to these ratings (we're talking somewhere above the 98th percentile of ratings), and then have the willingness to spend the time selling points week after week.