Where to get Gold Ore
Every acquisition path we know of for this item, pulled from the NPC vendor mirror, the player market and the sotawiki bestiary — the same data recipe pages and the crafting planner draw their ingredient costs from.
is a Raw Material that can be refined with the Smelting skill. It can be obtained by mining Gold Vein resource nodes or from loot from some creatures and containers.
Player market
Last avg. price68.91 gold
Units sold3,141,585
Receipts10,468
Best mobs to farm
Ranked by drop quantity against the monster's hp/difficulty — the wiki doesn't publish reliable drop rates, so this shows where to farm, not a fabricated gold/hour.
| Monster | Location | Difficulty | HP | Gold | Drops |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackened Clockwork Dragon | The Breach | 15+ | — | 1–1,500 | 30 |
| Bronze Clockwork Dragon | Blood Bay | 5 | — | 0–1,274 | 22 |
| Gold Clockwork Dragon | The Breach | 15+ | — | 0–1,165 | 22 |
| Clockwork Dragon (Silver) | Blood Bay | 5 | — | 0–0 | 20 |
| Clockwork Dragon (Silver) | Plains Encounter | 3+ | — | 0–0 | 20 |
| Understorm Miner | Understorm Gold Mine | 2 | 170–170 | 5–20 | 1 |
| Clockwork Dragon (Silver) | K'rul | 8+ | 18,977–18,977 | 500–1,000 | 20 |
| Gian're Ghairmute | Grunvald Shardfall | 5+ | 11,879–11,879 | 500 | 2 |
| Orange Pit Dragon | Hills Encounter | 3+ | 11,879–11,879 | 0–500 | 2 |
| K'kongg | K'rul | 8+ | 14,672–14,672 | 0–11 | 2 |
| Torc'Dawl the Unbreakable | Ravensmoor | 8+ | 12,061–12,088 | 0–20 | 1 |
| Brign, Lord of Water | The Breach | 15+ | 44,147–44,147 | 1–1,511 | 2 |