Netherwing Dailies Gold Guide: What the Grind Actually Pays

The Netherwing faction arrived on the Anniversary realms with Phase 3 on August 27, 2026, and it is the most consistent gold floor in The Burning Crusade: a set of daily quests that reset every 24 hours, pay a fixed sum, and cannot be contested, ninja'd or crashed by anyone else on the realm. It is also the path to a free flying drake at Exalted, which is the real reason most people are here.

This guide covers the unlock, the circuit, the egg mechanic that lets you keep grinding past the daily cap, and an honest read of what the whole thing pays.

The unlock, in order

1. Artisan Riding first. The Netherwing daily hub requires riding skill 300, which is the 5,000 gold training plus roughly 200 for the mount. There is no way around this gate, and no discount applies. If you are still saving, the primal farming routes are the standard way to close the gap.
2. Find Mordenai. He wanders the Netherwing Fields in northern Shadowmoon Valley, around coordinates 59,58, and his quest Kindness starts the chain.
3. Run the chain to Friendly. The opening sequence is a mix of fed-ex steps, a disguise delivery and the flight to Netherwing Ledge itself. It ends with the Netherwing accepting you, one-time quest gold in your pocket, and the daily board unlocked.
4. Dailies unlock in stages. More quests appear as your reputation climbs through Honored and Revered, up to the full set of nine.

The nine dailies and the fixed floor

At Revered the complete circuit is nine quests: seven that pay 4 gold 40 silver each and two that pay 8 gold 80 silver each, for a fixed 48 gold 40 silver per day. The notable stops on the circuit:

• A Slow Death sends you after Fel Gland from the fel orcs of Shadowmoon Valley, then to poison three Dragonmaw peon camps. It is the flagship quest of the hub and the reason your primal farming and your daily circuit share a zone.
• The Not-So-Friendly Skies has you knock relics off the Dragonmaw transports flying between the Ledge and the mainland. The mechanics differ by class, but every class has an answer.
• The Great Netherwing Egg Hunt is the egg system's formal introduction, covered below, because it is the one part of Netherwing that is not capped.
• Nethermine Flayer Hide and the other Nethermine chores take you into the mine under the Ledge, where the mobs are dense, the gold-per-kill is real, and the trash drops vendor steadily.
• One gathering daily, no matter how many gathering professions you carry. Miners, herbalists and skinners each get their own quest, but only one counts per day, so pick the one matching the material your realm pays for.

Stacked end to end, the circuit is twenty minutes to half an hour on an epic flyer, longer without one. The floor pays daily whether you do anything else in the game or not.

Eggs: the uncapped accelerator

Netherwing Egg is the mechanic that separates a two-month grind from a two-week one. The first egg you turn in completes the Egg Hunt for 350 reputation. Every egg after that is a repeatable turn-in worth 250 reputation, with no daily limit, which makes eggs the only unlimited reputation source in the faction.

Eggs spawn as ground spawns and node drops in three places: the Netherwing Mine, the Ledge itself, and Dragonmaw Fortress on the mainland. Miners and herbalists get two extra looks, because the Nethercite Deposits and Netherdust Bushes of the Ledge can produce eggs directly. On a busy realm the competition is real, since every egg your rivals find is reputation you will farm the slow way.

The practical rhythm: do the dailies first, because they are guaranteed, then sweep the mine and the Ledge circuit for eggs with the time you have left. Players who treat the egg hunt as the main event and the dailies as the garnish are the ones riding drakes a month early.

What Exalted actually buys

At Exalted, the free Netherwing Drake is yours from the concluding quest, and the remaining five colors are sold by Drake Dealer Hurlunk on the Ledge, around coordinates 65,87, for 160 gold each on the Anniversary realms. For comparison, that is a flying mount collection that would cost thousands at the vendor, earned through a grind that was already paying you daily.

The honest math

As an hourly rate, Netherwing dailies are weak. Two gold short of fifty per day is not a farm, it is a stipend, and anyone selling this hub as a gold-per-hour monster is padding the number with the one-time quest gold that runs out after the first week.

As a floor, it is excellent. It is contest-proof, it stacks with everything else in Shadowmoon Valley, and it compounds: 48 gold a day is roughly 1,450 gold a month for maybe ten hours of total effort, on top of vendor trash, cloth and the incidental primals the zone hands you while you are there. Run the circuit, then spend your real farming time on the primal routes in the same zone, and the two incomes stop feeling separate.

And the drake is the payoff that reframes all of it. The 5,200 gold riding skill that gated this hub is the same gold most players grumble about spending. Netherwing turns it into an income stream, a mount collection, and the one grind in the expansion that ends with something flying next to you.

FAQ

How much gold do Netherwing dailies pay per day?

48 gold 40 silver at Revered for all nine quests: seven at 4 gold 40 silver and two at 8 gold 80 silver. Below Revered the set is smaller and the daily total drops accordingly.

Do I need epic flying for Netherwing?

You need Artisan Riding, the 5,000 gold skill tier, to access the hub at all. The physical mount you ride can be any flying mount. Epic flying speed just shortens the circuit.

How many Netherwing Eggs can I turn in per day?

There is no cap. The first egg pays 350 reputation through the Egg Hunt quest, and every later egg is a repeatable 250 reputation turn-in. Egg supply, not rules, is your only limit.

Where do Netherwing Eggs spawn?

As ground spawns and node drops in the Netherwing Mine, on Netherwing Ledge, and at Dragonmaw Fortress. Miners and herbalists also find them inside Nethercite Deposits and Netherdust Bushes.

Is the Netherwing grind worth it for gold alone?

No. It is worth it as a daily floor that stacks with primal farming in the same zone, plus a free drake and five cheap ones at Exalted. Players chasing pure gold per hour should live on the primal routes and treat Netherwing as the warm-down.