So I recently switched my professions to Mining/Herbalism from Mining/Alchemy. Boy was I surprised at the difference it made.

I used to hate farming. Being a former hardcore raiding Prot Warrior before BC it always seemed like the end of the world when I had to farm for raid mats, or repair costs. It would take me hours to get anything done!

After rerolling for BC, I decided I wouldn't be as hardcore as I was before. I felt like I needed a break and didn't want to farm up all that crap all the time.

So after reaching 70 on my Paladin I was more casual when it came to raiding. No mat farming, nothing. But something happened... I saw people zooming around on these epic flying mounts. I HAD to have one.

I decided to drop Alchemy for Herbalism and go with straight gathering professions. I headed out and started skilling up my herbalism right away. After about 4 hours work over two days I got Herbalism up to 375.

I was ready. My epic flying mount was calling.

First thing I did was download Cartographer with the Herbalism and Mining addons. I also noticed these database packs for herbing/mining on the same page. So I got those too thinking "hey what's it going to hurt?"

So I get it all installed, load up the game and ..... wow.

I had no idea what those databases were at the time. Now I can't live with out it!

Anyway, the only thing I farm are herbs and ore. And the only place I farm those is in Terokkar Forrest. I know what you're thinking.. "Why Terokkar? Why not Netherstorm/Shadowmoon?"

Well, Shadowmoon and Netherstorm are always full of people farming herbs and ore. It can get fairly frustrating in those two zones, especially with out an epic flying mount! So I stay away, for now...

Anyway, I started doing laps around Terokkar (following the border around the entire place) using only my Find Herbs ability, and visually checking the ore nodes that I saw on my minimap (thanks to Cartographer and the database) by flying by them.

I'll just say this, I've made almost 5k gold in 5 days.

Terocone on my server goes for just under 20g a stack. You get about 2 stacks after doing two laps around Terokkar. And that usually takes an hour and a half (on a non-epic).

So that's 40g in my pocket right there. But that's hardly it.....

You also get around 30-40 Adamantite Ore, 30-40 Fel Iron Ore, 8'ish Eternium Ore, 3-8 Khorium Ore (depending on luck), 30-40 Dreaming Glory, 20'ish Felweed, 2-4 Primal Earth, 1-2 Primal Fire, 2-4 Primal Life, and random blues from mining if you're lucky.

In a hour and a half, that's 200-400g depending on your luck. At least on my server.

In the past 2 days I've farmed up enough mats to make TWO Gyro-Balanced Khorium Destroyer (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32756) and a Bracers of the Green Fortress (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=23538).

I gave one gun to the MT of our guild, which he really got a kick out of. Especially after seeing it shoot green! lol

The other one sold for 1500g, and the Bracers sold for 700g. I usually turn all of my Adamantite Bars in to Hardened Adamantite cause it sells for more. I also make all the Felsteel Bars I can. They all sell for huge profit.

Now keep in mind, if you have a lot of competition for this stuff you're likely not to do as well as me. I usually play at odd hours due to work, so it's pretty much empty when I'm out there.

But I'm just in amazement at how much money I can make doing that and thought I'd share it with all of you.

Hope at least someone gets something out of this post.  :P