Microgrinding is mainly for high levels, but in all seriousness it could be done at any level above 30. The higher level you are, the better this will work. It is simply taking down grinding spots that are good for low levels.

Most players think that lower level mobs = lower priced drops. This is not the case anymore. Low level items are highly inflated in the auction house. I spent a long time buying/re-listing items in the auction house in the low level category. Instead of wasting the initial cost of buying out the auction, I decided to farm the items myself. It wasn’t that hard since I could one shot all the mobs, and plus I got the bonus of cloth, coin, and the occasional blue.

Since you can clear these mobs quickly you have a greater chance of those greens and blues dropping because you will drop them quicker.

The only problem with Micro grinding is that since you are killing mobs so quickly, you may have to wait for re-spawns. This will quickly kill the amount of gold you can pull in an hour. To fix this you will want to find bugged spots (I list two of them in this guide), where the mobs keep spawning quickly.

An alternative fix to this, are instances. Many players use instances to kill the necessary mobs and then move on to the bosses so they can quickly Disenchant the drops and reset the instance to do this again. I don’t believe this is the most effective way since the walking time back and forth would drop your gold/hour rate. To effectively use this strategy you will kill all the mobs in the instance, relying on the drops.

My favorite instances are:

Now to amplify this strategy you want to do it to meet your servers needs. You should recognize your server needs each day when you make your AH scans. You mainly want to check the Cloth and low level armor/weapons. If you see a big level gap missing or one major section of cloth missing, this is exactly what you want to target. By missing I mean they aren’t existent in the AH at the time you look for it, or you will see that there’s a few auctions but they are crazily inflated (like linen popping in for 2g, or low level items for 5-6g).

This strategy works the best with Paladins and Mages because of the AOE ability - but any class can do this. Instances work great with Paladin and Mage AOE because you can gain aggro just by running through them. When you gain aggro inside an instance (in most cases) the mobs will follow, and they wont de-aggro. This means you don’t have to worry about controlling aggro while pulling more mobs.