Netherstorm and Shadowmoon Valley pay the most quest gold in TBC — both are level 67-70 zones, and a quest's cash reward scales with its level, so the same hour of questing there pays roughly double what Hellfire Peninsula does. Quest Outland in level order and finish in those two; a full clear nets thousands of gold before you vendor a single unwanted reward.
Outland quest gold by zone, worst to best
| Zone | Level range | Quest gold pace |
| Hellfire Peninsula | 58-63 | Lowest — cheap quests, but the fastest to burn through |
| Zangarmarsh | 60-64 | Low, very dense; good gold per minute despite small rewards |
| Terokkar Forest | 62-65 | Moderate; spread out, lots of travel between hubs |
| Nagrand | 64-67 | Good, and the Ring of Blood chain is the single biggest lump in the expansion |
| Blade's Edge Mountains | 65-68 | Strong per quest, but chains are long and scattered |
| Netherstorm | 67-70 | Highest — top-level rewards packed into tight hubs |
| Shadowmoon Valley | 67-70 | Highest, and most of it is still doable after you ding 70 |
- Gold scales with quest level, not zone difficulty. An early Hellfire turn-in pays a few gold; a level 70 Netherstorm or Shadowmoon quest pays several times that.
- Leave the endgame zones unfinished on purpose. Most players out-level Netherstorm and Shadowmoon before clearing them. Coming back at 70 means you complete them faster, die less, and every reward pays at the top rate.
- Take the item, then vendor it. Where a quest offers a choice, the green or blue you don't need is often worth more than the cash option — and sometimes it's worth far more on the auction house.
- Don't skip the group chains. Ring of Blood in Nagrand and the elite chains in Blade's Edge and Shadowmoon pay well above a normal quest for a few minutes of group work.
How much gold does questing all of Outland actually give?
Player-reported totals land in the thousands of gold for a full sweep of all seven zones, and that's counting quest cash alone. Add vendored quest rewards, greens off mobs, and anything gatherable on the way, and a completionist run through Outland comfortably covers a flying mount.
The variable that moves the number most is order. Do quests at or above your level and you collect the higher payout; out-level a zone by five levels and you're doing the same work for the same coin you'd have earned earlier.
What does the TBC gold community actually recommend?
The recurring advice in TBC gold threads is that questing is the reliable baseline, not the ceiling. It's the best return while you're still levelling, because you're getting XP, gear and gold from the same kills. Once you're 70, the consensus flips: gathering professions, daily quests and dungeon farming out-earn questing per hour, because they scale with market prices while quest rewards are fixed.
Do dailies beat questing once you hit 70?
Yes, per hour of effort. Level 70 dailies pay a flat, repeatable rate and there's a hard cap on how many you can complete in a day, so the smart play is to run your daily allotment first, then spend the rest of your session on the leftover Netherstorm and Shadowmoon quests you never finished.
Should I take the gold or the item reward?
Compare the cash option against the vendor price of every item offered — the item usually wins, and on rare occasions it's an auction house item worth many times the cash. It takes five seconds to hover each reward, and over a whole expansion's worth of quests it adds up to real money.
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