I've also been farming gold (over 160 golds atm) at the dead forest of the abomination land for the purpose of getting additional trait points, though after realizing I could just do a speedrun I stopped farming those golds and now it's just sitting there in my bank, me not knowing what to do with it (I mostly use coins for purchase), perhaps I could see its use in a future patch. As for leveling, my favorite spot is the one north of the cave of the rabbit killer and mountain priest, saving the captives there is much easier since they are faster (didn't get touched) and only need to move to the exit in 1 vertical line.right now on non-rebirth run (so far), I have over 100 gold coins in bank, as I've been farming the goblin tower just south of that church, also get some okay loot sometimes from the chest in there... it's a fairly easy location, and with bloodlust + overkill, not too draining on the stamina... as long as you kill the 2 goblin spawning of the 3 unsavable people in there with a heavy attack (from halberd for me) which kills them and the goblin babies in one attack. you also get wood for dark cauldron from disabling the traps on the ground/first floor, and can bath with water on ground too so it has everything you need to just... stay there for ages, I'm currently lvl 79 just from this location in about... 3-5 hours of just saving people from there.