How to Make Lots of Gold in World of Warcraft
Money makes the world go round, and the same is true in Azeroth as it is on Earth. While making gold is not the real objective of World of Warcraft, it does make all the other objectives a lot easier.
This includes buying materials to advance in your professions; buying better gear; buying enchantments for existing gear; buying gems for sockets on nice new gear you just got in a raid; paying for training and let’s not forget one of the major expenses, buying mounts.
With the exception of my very first character, I have never failed to make enough money to get my mount <i>before</i> I got to level 40, and this includes on new accounts and servers where I had no main to pay for things. I did this by following a few simple rules.
1. <b>Picking a smart profession</b>. At lower levels, it makes no sense to pick up a crafting profession, because it will take too long to get to a level where you can make good money. Much better is to get at least on, but preferable two gathering professions. Of the three, skinning is by far the best for the leveling player. This is because a) your going to be fighting beasts as part of the leveling process anyway; b)you won’t have to compete for limited nodes or herbs runescape with other players; and c) lots of players leave looted and skinnable beasts lying around, so there’s lots of skins to be had for no effort at all.
For a second gathering profession, I personally prefer mining. In fact, once I get to level 70, this is how I make most of my money, and I often drop skinning in favor of another profession. By then I can typically afford all the materials I need to level in my new profession, and mining pays a lot better than skinning at this level.
There is money to be made in all professions, but for the lower level character, skinning is the best.
2. <b>Use Vendors to make Gold.</b> There are two ways that vendors can help you make money. The first is to take “trash” off your hands in exchange for money. Typically these are “gray” items, whose item names are colored gray to indicate that they have no real use in the game. In fact, their only use if usually to be sold to vendors. Many of these gray items can stack in your inventory, unlike uncommon “green” items, so you may be able to hold a lot more value in your bags by stacking gray items than by collecting greens.
It is also important to know where vendors are, so you can sell off items during your questing, rather than dropping them to make room in your bags. Fortunately, Blizzard has recently added a search option on the mini map for vendors.
Some vendors can also sell rare and desirable items. Sometimes these are also in limited quantities, and when you get the chance you should buy them and sell them at the Auction House for a profit. An example of this is the vendor in Stromgarde that sells first aid books. I usually buy extras when my character first gets there, and I sell all three for anywhere from 5 to 10 gold total profit. There are many such opportunities all over Azeroth and the Outlands.
3. <b>Keep a Bank Toon. </b>not only does this save you time, it saves you money. You won’t have to decide between dropping items to make room, or selling to a vendor at a lower price, or flying all the way to an Auction House to post your items. Simply mail them whenever you get to an Inn.
4. <b>Use Add Ons. </b>There are two Add ons that I use that make earning gold a lot easier. The first is Auctioneer, which displays both vendor prices and current or recent Auction House prices. This makes it a lot easier to decide what items to keep, drop, sell to vendors and sell at the Auction House. It also helps in deciding what prices to post items at, and it aids in deciding which items to pick for quest rewards. Lastly, it can also be used to find bargains in the Auction house that can be resold at a profit.
The next Add on I use is Gatherer, which keeps track of where I have found various gathering items, such as mining nodes, herbs, and chests.
Lastly, if you decide to take up Enchanting, then Enchantrix can help you find items that are profitable to disenchant.
5. <b>Farming.</b> Yes, I know farming has gotten a bad name, but this is only because some “farmers” sell their gold for real money. No one should have to buy gold, as it is simply too easy to make. However, for your own purposes, farming for gold is perfectly legitimate. If you really want to know the best spots to farm, then check out my review for <a target=”_new” rel=”nofollow” href=”http://valkorreview.blogspot.com/”>Valkor’s Gold Guide</a> However, if you just want some simple guidelines, here they are:
<ul><li>Fight humanoids, or anything that can hold a weapon. They usually drop money, and normally have more valuable drops than beasts.</li>
<li>Fight casting classes, as they typically drop more cloth, which sells very well at the Auction House. They also can be killed faster by melee classes, because of their lack of armor.</li>
<li>Kill mobs that drop items that can be turned in for reputation for different factions. These items sell for big money to players who want to get reputation levels for various reasons.</li>
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<br>If you can find mobs that meet these criteria, then you have a very good farming spot.
So how much can you make? By simply following the above advice I typically make anywhere from 100 to 200 gold per hour with my Level 70 Hunter. Lower levels will obviously make less, unless they concentrate more on making gold than on leveling. However, even a level 1 character can make similar money by following the Auction House advice in Valkor’s guide, but this would be at the expense of leveling, of course.
Again, making money is not the main objective in World of Warcraft, so I don’t spend all my time at it. In fact, once I have what I need I simply move on to my next activity, whatever it happens to be. But with all that gold in my pocket, it is sure to be easier!
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