Are you tired of making money farming a full time job just so you can play wow for free? Not to worry because while it takes a good minute to get tokens from retail. You can easily get a wow token from Cata classic. Last time I checked, a wow token costs roughly 320k gold in retail on US just to play the game for free. On average 20-30k per hour is normal in retail meaning it will take a good 10 hours just to get one token. What if I told you, there is a much quicker way of making the gold for a wow token?
The only reasons you should be farming wow tokens on retail is if you need the game credit to purchase other blizzard merchandise or if you just hate playing classic Cataclysm. The reason being is because it takes so much less time to get a token in classic Cataclysm than it does in retail. It should take you no more than 4-5 hours farming the right materials and or transmog to make enough gold in cata that you can sustain a good amount of play time.
It costs roughly 10k on US servers for a wow token in cata classic. This means if it takes an average of 4 hours to get a wow token. Not only is that more than half time cut off. It also means the average gold per hour in cata classic is roughly 2-3k an hour. Now most farms I farm give around 1.5-2k per hour but you can usually do a shuffle or get lucky and get some good transmog pieces to drop. This puts us at right around 3k gold for the hour.