How to Make Gold in WoW

I was "listening" to a conversation in the general chat in the Eversong Woods the other day. The topic was regarding how hard it is to make money (gold) in the World of Warcraft. My first reaction was, "WTF???" Making gold in WoW is pretty easy if you're willing to invest a little time and effort.

Basically your gold making boils down to three things:

1. Find or loot stuff to sell to a vendor

2. Find or loot or make stuff to sell to players (either directly or on the Auction house)

3. Do quests for the cash rewards and sell the quest items you don't use. Unfortunately the cash rewards don't really start to get interesting until you hit the Ouitlands.

And that's about it. The trick, if it can be called such, is in finding the stuff that sells well, and there's stuff to be found pretty much anywhere once you leave the starting areas.

For example, in Stormwind certain vendors cell certain limited quantity items that sell on the Auction House for way more than you'll pay for them. Here's a video that shows an example of such.

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With the exception of the poor, deprived Night Elves all the low level areas have plenty of herbs, ore, and beasts to skin. Actually, the Night Elves are only lacking in the ores.

Gathering your Gold: Grab two of the three gathering skills (mining, herbalism, skinning) and start the gathering. By the way, make sure you sell everything you gather, including the ruined scraps and the rough stones, on the Auction House. Never sell any of it to the vendors. Not even the scraps.

Prices: Also, make sure you check the current prices for your gatherings before you post them for sale. Prices vary from server to server and from time to time. For example, one day a stack of 20 light leather might sell for 35 silver, but a day or two later it might go for 2 gold.

By the way,the low level ores (eg: copper & tin) sell a whole lot better than the low level herbs. In my experience, anyway. Skins always seem to sell well.

Now, go and gather (and install) the Gatherer addon. This makes notes on your game map everytime you find ores or herbs. Eventually you'll have your own mining map. Anytime you need cash you just do the rounds, grab a few stacks of ore or herbs, and sell them.

By the way, here's a page that will show you how to install some other WoW Addons. Check it out.

Speaking of WoW Addons, another one that you really need to get, if you're going to get serious about earning lots of WoW gold is Auctioneer. You'll want to download the full suite, which combines the advanced and classic suites. Then you'll want to watch this video to see how Auctioneer works its magic.

Pretty much every monster (mob) in the game drops something. Even if it's only through your skinning skill. Also, every monster shares certain drop tables, which just means that it has a chance to drop something interesting beyond the vendor junk.

But most of what drops is vendor junk, especially at the lower levels. At very high levels the vendor junk is actually worth something and you'll make a fair amount of gold selling it to the vendors.

Keep an eye on what drops, though. At any level, outside the starting areas, you might find items with white names (rather than grey.) Linen cloth is an example. Anything and everything with a white name (or green or blue or purple(!!)) should be sold on the auction house, if you're not going to use it immediately.

Linen cloth is used for basic 1st aid and in basic tailoring recipes, so it's in pretty high demand. it drops from any humanoid type mob (including undead) and sells well.

What also sells, though not so fast, are the armor and weapons with white names that you'll find. Sell them on the AH too, you'll get significantly more than you will selling them to a vendor.

By the way, something that really helps is to have an Auction House Mule. This video (the same as the one above) will show you how to use your mule(s).

So what you do is make your rounds, get your loots, and drop them into the mailbox to send to your mule. The mule then sells them on the Auction House.

if you watched the above videos then you know that one trick is to buy low, either from vendors or right off the Auction House, and sell high. This is one of the ways to avoid endlessly grinding away for herbs or ores or skins or killing monsters hoping something drops.

There are a number of vendors throughout the World of Warcraft that sell items in limited quantity, or there's only one vendor that sells it, or there's only one vendor for the item AND the item is limited (such as the throat piercer knives, from a vendor in Tranquillen.)

One example is the Prarie Dog Whistle (to summon a Prarie Dog pet.) This item is only sold from a vendor in Thunderbluff, which means that the Alliance side can't get it, unless you buy it and either mail it to your Alliance alt (if you're not on a PvP server) or sell it on a cross faction Auction House, such as the one in Booty Bay.

Here's the scoop on the Prarie Dog Whistles.

There are also some vendors that only appear on occasion, such as those in the Darkmoon faire. A couple of these guys sell gems, motes, and other items that sell well, and for a lot more than you'll pay for them.

Check out How to Make Gold From the DarkMoon Faire

Here's a few other thoughts to ponder.

Buy it all: You've just spent an hour grinding and collected a few stacks of linen cloth (or adamantite ore.) You mail it to your mule, access the auction house, and find that there's already a pile of linen (or ore) selling for a fraction of the usual price. What to do? You have three options.

1. Cuss a bit and sell it at the reduced price
2. Hold it until the price goes up (and it probably will)
3. or... buy it all and resell it at a better price. This works best if there isn't a ton of stuff at the lower price.

Cook it then sell it: If you've bought up your cooking skill consider selling foods that buff your stats. Raveger dogs, for example, with their agility buffs, sell well. Certain basilisks in Terrokar forest drop Chunk o' Basilisk which cooks up into Blackened Basilist. BB adds 23 to spell damage and 20 to spirit and sells quite well for a nice price.

Fishing for gold: Certain fish sell quite well since they're used in interesting recipies or with certain crafting skills. For example, Firefin Snapper, Oily Backmouth, and Deviate Fish all sell very well. Don't forget to fish the wreckage pools that you'll find from time to time.

Take notes: whenever you find a group of mobs, through your usual questing, make a note (I use a spreadsheet) or what and where and what dropped. Youi'll eventually find several areas which aren't hard it that you can farm for the drops.

Good Luck!

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