Well you could knock out 500k in a matter of a couple of days with a warrior with a good earth elemental slayer just camping out in the first level of shame. Get a weapon that hits hard (doesn't have to be fast) and you can drop them in one hit and get about 200 gold a piece (you can probably ask around the bank and someone will hook you up with a decent enough weapon for free). If no one else is around then you can make 25k in about half an hour or less (pick up the gems and sell them as well).

Not to mention you have the chance for getting a 10th Anniversary artifact drop, which you could unload for a couple 100k or more/less depending on shard market.

I tend to rotate through a lot of different money making techniques to keep things fun, but dropping earth eles is probably one of the fastest if you take into consideration how little it takes to get started.

seems decent spots are open on all shards just gotta go look.

For gold, I agree with a warrior. But even better, get a soulseeker and go kill troglodytes....fastest gold in the game. Even with the BOS nerf, I can still easily knock out 200k+ per hour killing them. Park a packy outside the cave so you don't have to make gold runs and you can probably make even more. You can have a mill in a day or two depending on your gametime. Good luck and welcome back.

For a mid-level character, I might suggest luring changelings in twisted weald down to the faerie spawn. High respawn rate, low risk of death. You get more gold and gems than off earth elementals and you also get 25 bolts + 35 arrows. Just don't fight them with an archery character, because they use up their ammo. If you're really strapped, take the 1-2 scrolls off the corpse and sell those to NPCs as well.

300 gold + 60 ammo (~600) + 2 gems (~75) + 2 scrolls (~75) = around 1100 gold per changeling, with no combat involved. Nice.

Watch out for the paragons, but even those are fairly easy to avoid if you have a modestly low ping.

At the same time, you'll probably see discord tamers farming swoop. On my shard, those players just drop the gold on the ground. I can pull 150K just for the trouble of bending down to pick it up.

Bring a packhorse and leave it outside the area entrance to carry all the loot.

Sorry I'm late on this... Welcome to the forums