I haven't looked into it yet - and most profitable is rarely a reason for doing things, to me :-)

I'm interested in WOW because I'm all in on privacy coins, and of them it stands out in a few ways:

• It has the least parabolic rewards curve I've seen - the minting is going until 2068, and so far a quarter have been mined (versus 75-90% for most coins with hard caps)
• It has tail emissions (flat annual inflation rate after curve)
• I think it is WAY undervalued (memes are where the masses go - and this is the privacy one!), so mining them now, when I expect them to easily clear $40 each...

Once Lethean switches to RandomX, I'll probably mine that for a while as well :-) I'm currently working on some solar-powered mining setups, just have to be near someone with internet and I can run a bunch of nodes for effectively $0, after the initial investment.

I'll go look into Verus now, I think you're the third or fourth person whose mentioned it.

Are you buying a laptop, building a desktop, buying something used? I'm happy to help if you have any questions along the way - I'm not 100% up to date on the newest tech, but I've been building PCs since I was 13.