Contents
The Intro
Making extra gold in WoW isn't hard. Follow a few basic tips and you should have enough
to buy your epic flyer (and training) at 70, plus keep yourself in decent gear through
the leveling grind. If you want to get to the point where that 3
person mount is out of pocket change then it's going to take a bit more work.
In this guide we'll be covering concepts and techniques rather than
the "go here, farm that" type of stuff, which is boring anyway. Also,
new content introduced by expansions such as Cataclysm will render
much of that advice obsolete. The basics won't change enough to care
about.
If you've seen the gold stashes that some people
have then you may have been quite impressed. A number of players have a
lot of gold. Ok, a few bought some,
or all, of their gold, but many of them got it through knowing the
WoW market and taking advantage of it and just working at it for a
long time. If you make 1k gold a day, from day 1, then it will take
you nearly 8 months to hit the
gold cap.
On buying gold... We don't do it. If you want to then go for
it. Of course, there's the risk of getting your account banned, but what the heck.
It's just all your characters, right?
There is a certain appeal to getting a nice chunk
of gold in minutes, instead of hours. Our feeling is that you can take the money you'd
use to buy gold and buy a guide instead (or read this one.) You'll get a lot more bang
for your buck and make a lot more gold in the long run. Plus, we don't like to have our
accounts deleted. Kinda gutless, I know, but there you go.
Also, you don't need to have high level characters
to make a lot of gold. While you won't be grinding Cataclysm stuff with your level 3
mage, you'll be able to play the Auction House game as well as any.
That's why so many of the characters floating around the various AHs
are level 1 or so. Some of them have way more gold than you do. Nothing
wrong with the high level characters, but level 1 opens this up to
new players.
So Let's Get Started:
- Basic Gold Gathering Tips
- basic, but solid, tips that will make your gold accumulation
in WoW easier. This is a good place to start for the person who
just needs/wants enough "to get by."
- Grinding
- Grinding? Farming? Blech. Well, if that's your thing then here
are some tips.
- The Mule - A very useful character.
- A mule is simple a character that stores stuff. An Auction
House mule, or Banker, is
a character that stores stuff in order to sell it on the AH. Here's
how it works...
- Networking
- Ready to get more serious? Here's how to set up a network of
your own characters to make gold creation happen in a more efficient
manner.
- Limiteds
- Limited Items are vendor sold items that are in limited
supply or hard to find. Grab them and resell them for a profit.
Here's the scoop...
- Professions
- How do you make a small fortune using the crafting professions?
Start with a large one. Generally, the crafting professions a a
great way to spend tons of gold, rather than earn it,
but there are a few things you can do to defray costs and even
earn some solid gold.
- Auctioneer
- Auctioneer is a addon that will help you to
play the Auction House Game far more effectively than otherwise.
- Addons
- Some other addons that we've found to be useful for gold making.
- Recommended Guides
- Reviews of our favorite gold guides, in order of preference.
All are updated for Wrath of the Lich King content.
- More Gold Tips
- On the blog, more tips will appear there.
Ok, on to the basic gold
tips =>
Recommended Gold Guides
Ok, so you aren't happy with enough gold to buy your mounts and green
gear. You want to be able to buy those very nice purple items on tha
AH, dropping nearly 10k per item and not have to think about it (like
I just did.) Sure, you can get those items raiding, if you can get
into a decent raid guild. Or get your arena ranking high enough.
Or maybe you just want to make sure your alts and your favorite guildies/buddies
don't have to worry abouit gold and can just pay attention to other
stuff (for whatever reason.)
The full blown gold guides have far more info than we will ever be
able to include on this site, and they have all the tips, tricks, and
techniques you'll need to know. If you want to learn more than there's
just two final questions...
- Do you want to be able to get your gold with low level characters,
entirely within the Auction House (which means no farming, ever?)
If so, here's youir guide...
- Would you rather farm stuff, loot this, that, and the other thing,
do dalies, and so on, as well as get hot AH tips? Then
go here, instead
Hit the contact page and let us know when you make over 100k. Include
a pic. ;) |
