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10 Awesome tips for making gold in wow
Now, towards the end of wrath and all throughout Cata I was one of, if not the largest supplier of goods on my relms auction house. A lot has changed though from those days, But some of the basics of gold making are still the same..
Now for making gold while leveling Weather it be a new toon on a different server or your 9th alt, its all the same.
1.)First off, if you plan on leveling by doing quests take 2 gathering proffessions. Once you hit max level you'll unlearn them and get 2 real proffession.
There are 3 gathering proffessions to choose from, Mining, Skinning, and Herbalism. Which two are best depends on your server. Generally you want to take skinning with either mining of herbing, because if you take both herbing and mining you'll spend most of your time doing your quests gathering and running from one node to the other. So which one you pick is pretty much personal preference, low level herbs sell well because alchemy is such a good proffession to level on multiple toons at max level and they need low level herbs to skill up. Same with mining. Blacksmithing and Jewel crafting are 2 really good proffessions at max level and they need tons of low level ore to skill up. When you sell the ore sell both the ore raw and bars. Un-smelted ore, or "raw ore" will sell faster and in bigger numbers.Bars can be sold for more gold, but they do not sell as fast as ore and you won't be able to sell as many. Herbs on the other hand you just sell as is, scribes who mill the herbs just strait up buy herbs, but rarely do they buy low level herbs to mill, almost all sales for low level herbs are for leveling alchemy. And finally skinning, low level leather, like herbs and ore, sell very well.
If you plan on leveling through dungeons, then take enchanting and tailoring. Enchanting to Disenchant low level items, the materials you get sell well, especcially gear that's DE'ed in the 50-60 level area before outlands. Most people go strait to outlands at level 56 so high level mats from before BC stuff is rare. Tailoring is because you'll be getting a lot of cloth from dungeons and you can level it up as you go cheaper, then when you hit BC levels of tailoring you can make netherweave bags which sell well all the time. Alternatly you can take skinning in place of tailoring because some dungeons do have beast you can skin.
2.)While leveling check all vendors for recipes. People are lazy and would rather pay 10g for a recipe on the auction house rather than fly out to the vendor and buy it for 50c. Same with vendor pets, but not bags. Do not buy bags from vendors to flip on the Auction house. They cost way to much and do not sell well at all. "Flip" of course, means to buy low and sell high.
3.)Now when it comes to posting on the Auction house, always sell raw materials, meaning your ore, herbs, leather, and enchanting materials in stacks of 20 or whatever the highest you can get the stacks. If someone is going to buy some mats, "mats" being short for materials, that they need, then they are just going to buy whatever is cheaper. If all they need is 4 ore, they'll buy your whole stack 9 times out of 10.
When undercutting your competion, simply undercut by 1c. People will always buy whatever is cheaper and if you have 10 stacks of ore 1c cheaper then the guy who has 20 stacks of ore posted, 90% of the time they'll buy your ore first. The only reason to ever undercut by more than a copper is when you are deliberatly trying to tank a market. What that involes is posting an item way below everyone else in the hopes that your competition will undercut you at that low price. Then you simple cancle all your auctions and buy everything your compition posted and repost your items along with your new stock at higher prices than normal for a quick profit.
4.)buy the 16 slot bags from the AH whenever you have the gold to do so. Having bigger bags means less time running back to town to empty them which in tail gives you more time to level. Also if you plan on leveling in any other way besides dungeon grinding or questing then your going to be poor when you hit 90.
5.)Never vender greens. Ever. Post all of them on the AH. Even the crappy stat ones will fetch you more from people leveling up enchanting than you would get form a vender. Same goes for cloth, its worth more to other people than you can get from the vendor.
6.)Make a banker toon. Now this may seem very obvious and I'm sure 99% of the players already have one, but if your a new player watching this and you dont have one you should. A banker is another character whos is made for the sole purpose of sitting in a major city next to a mailbox close to an auctioneer. Having a banker allows you to just mail your stuff to your banker instead of going back to a major city to sell your stuff. Time is money afterall
7.) farming does not mean free. Farming of course, means using a gathering profession to go out and gather a ton of materials or grinding for a rare drop. Farming takes time, and is only free if you absolutley do not value your time. This is a common misconception made by people who are starting out in gold making.
8.)If I dont farm, how do I make gold then? you might ask yourself since all my tips before where for new players essentially. Well there are many ways but the most commone way is through crafting professions. Jewelcrafting and Enchanting being the higest earners.
9.) if your a blacksmith, make belt buckles. Belt buckles always sell like hot cakes. if your an engineer, make mecho hogs and pets. Beleive it or not people still buy those. if your a tailor, make bags and spell threads. If your a leather worker, leg enchants are the way to go. Alchemy is all about using your transmute cooldowns because potions and flasks do not sell well and rarely will you make a profit off of them. Before cata, glyphs use to be up there with enchating and jewelcrafting in terms of money making, now its barely better than leather working or alchemy in the gold making department. Fortune cookies however, still sell pretty well. People love to gamble.
10.) Learn how to do the truffle shuffle. The ore shuffle actually. Bascically all it entails is buying cheap ore whenever you can find it, prospecting all of it, and useing the gems for transmutes and making necklances and rings to DE. The ore shuffle should give you all the mats you need for enchanting and jewelcrafting, the two biggest money makers.
