Make WoW Gold from Mining and Herbalism Using Routes AddOn

I will show you how to maximize the amount of gold you make with mining and herbalism. This is one of the fastest and more reliable ways of making WoW gold. I'll give you the steps to setup an addon called Routes that will show you the most efficient path to take while farming herbs/ore. You can make even more gold if you have both mining and herbalism as your primary professions. For a macro that will allow you to track both herbs and minerals check out this article: Track Minerals and Herbs at the same time.

First you have to download and install these addons:

• GatherMate
• GatherMate_Data
• Routes

Once you have those, launch World of Warcraft and make sure that the addons will be loaded (you might have to check "Load out of date AddOns"). Once your in game follow these steps.
1. Type /gathermate
2. Double click "Import Data" and then "GatherMateData"
3. Choose "Overwrite" as the import style
4. Put a check mark in the sources you want to import (ea: Mining/Herbalism)
5. Click 'Import GatherMateData'

Now you can close that window and type /routes to create your first route.
6. Click "Add"
7. Name your route and press "Okay", then select the zone you want to create your route in
8. Make sure the "GatherMate" source has a check mark in it
9.Click "Create Route"

Now you have created your first route. Before you start farming minerals/herbs, we need to optimize the route to make it shorter and easier to follow.
10. Click on "Routes", then the zone you made your route in and then the name of the route you made. Now you will see the "Information" tab of this route.
11. Click on the "Optimize Route" tab, then press the "cluster" button. This will make all the nodes that are close together become one point. The route will go through this point and you will be close enough to see all of the nodes that are around that area
12. Hit the "Foreground" button. This will make the route a little shorter and more efficient. You can press "Foreground" repeatedly to continue reducing the length of the route.

That's all there is to it. When you are close enough to detect if there is a node at a spawn point, the nodes icon will become an empty circle on the minimap to allow you to see the default yellow dot. Now you have the most efficient route to take to make WoW gold from mining and herbalism.