Make WoW Gold

Do you want a to make a ton of gold per hour? Well it's possible, depending on what you consider a ton. You can make a reasonable amount by following some of the tips below. There are no "secrets" to making WoW gold, so there's no need to spend $40 on a guide that will tell you to go play the auction house or farm materials.

However, some ways to make WoW gold are more efficient than others.  I wont go into detail here but I'll list the basic ways of making gold in WoW

Gathering

The simplest way to make gold is by choosing a gathering profession. This is the easiest and cheapest way to make gold. You don't need to buy any materials to make gold by gathering, you just need a skinning knife or mining pick depending on what you choose. There are three gathering skills, mining, skinning and herbalism.

When you first start a new character is the best time to learn one or even two of these professions. You will be able to level the skills as you level your character, gathering things as you come across them while questing. Doing this will ensure that you always have enough gold for your training, and any gear or mounts that you want.

Another way of gathering is by fishing. There usually isn't as much gold to be made by doing this, but some higher level fish can sell for quite a bit.

Crafting

Crafting is taking raw materials and turning them into other goods using the crafting professions, and then selling the goods. The materials are either found from killing mobs (monsters) or from the three gathering professions in WoW. The professions used to craft items are:

• Alchemy -  uses herbs to create potions, flasks and elixirs.
• Blacksmithing - uses smelted ore to make mail and plate armor as well as weapons
• Leatherworking - uses hide from skinning to make leather and mail armor
• Enchanting - uses materials from disenchanting to make items better/increase stats
• Engineering - uses smelted ore to make guns, bullets and other gadgets
• Jewelcrafting -  uses ore and uncut gems to make rings, necklaces and cut gems
• Tailoring - uses cloth found on mobs to create cloth armor, bags and shirts
• Inscription -uses herbs to create glyphs and scrolls

Crafting can be quite profitable but if you don't gather the raw materials yourself you will have to buy them. Buying materials will reduce profit and increase risk but you can still earn a lot of gold this way once you understand your realms economy.

Farming

Farming items involves running an instance or killing certain mobs over and over for items to sell in the auction house. This method requires a lot of patience and sometimes luck. Depending on what it is your farming, it can involve a lot of risk. Check online to see what the drop chance is for the item you are farming.

If your looking for bind on equip gear, it can sometimes take a while to find a buyer. Also, the auction house deposit is higher on gear, and can take a chunk out of your profit if you have to post it multiple times before it sells.

Auction House Manipulation

This term can mean a few things. One way to make WoW gold is to buy low, sell high. It's simple, if you see something posted in the auction house for less than its worth, buy it and sell it for a higher price. A great way to buy something for less than it is worth is to looking for people selling things in trade chat. These players want to sell their items quickly, and can often be persuaded to sell their items below the auction house price.

Another technique is to control a portion of the market. Lets say you choose bold cardinal rubies. You have to buy every ruby listed in the auction house. You can then re-list a few of them in the auction house for more than they are worth. People are forced to buy from you because you have no competition. To maintain your control you will have to continue buying every auction of a bold cardinal ruby posted by other players.

In order for this to work you have to log into the game very often to check the auction house. It should also be noted that people aren't going to like you very much for doing this. An easy solution to that problem is to make a bank alt that you only use for posting items in the auction house only. I wouldn't recommend these last two methods until you have very good knowledge of the game and its economy, due to the high risk and high investment needed.

This is a very basic guide on how to make WoW gold and i will be posting more in depth articles soon.