World of Warcraft Gold Guide

Horde: How to make gold at low levels for Mining & Herbalism

2010-11-12T07:01:00.000-08:00

On low levels making gold will be fairly easy if you choose the right professions. Mining and Herbalism are the two easiest professions one could choose to make some gold. Selling herbs and ore on the Auction House is the best way of getting a nice amount of gold while you are still leveling up. These two professions could be quite useful and still prove to be gold makers even on higher levels. It is advisable to download the Gatherer addon before you start to help you track all the discovered herbs and ores.

Where to find the trainers?

Mining trainers can be located:

* Belil (Silvermoon City)

* Brek Stonehoof (Thunder Bluff)

* Brom Killian (The Undercity)

* Johan Facht (Silverpine Forest)

* Krugosh (Hellfire Peninsula)

* Krunn (Durotar)

* Makaru (Orgrimmar)

* Pikkle (Tanaris)

Best areas to find ores:

The best area for mining Copper ore is The Barrens.

Tin Ore can also be found in The Barrens, usually in the southern parts. The Stonetalon Mountains and Thousand Needles are also home to a lot of Tin veins.

Iron ore and Gold ore could be found in the Alterac Mountains. Ashenvale, Desolace, Stranglethorn Vale, Arathi Highliands and Badlands are also goof areas to mine Iron and Gold.

Mithril ore and Truesilver ore can be found in the Thousand Needles - Highperch. For Mithril ore another good place could be Badlands. The best location there is the Lethlor Ravine.

Best spots for Thorium ore and Dark Iron ore are the Burning Steppes and Searing Gorge.

Herbalism

Where to find the trainers?

Herbalism trainers can be located:

* Angrun (Stranglethorn Vale)

* Aranae Venomblood (Hillsbrad Foothills)

* Botanist Nathera (Silvermoon City)

* Botanist Tynarriel (Eversong Woods)

* Faruza (Tirisfal Glades)

* Flora Silverwind (Stranglethorn Vale)

* Jandi (Orgrimmar)

* Komin Winterhoof (Thunder Bluff)

* Malvor (Moonglade)

* Martha Alliestar (Undercity)

* Mishiki (Durotar)

* Ruw (Feralas)

Best areas to find herbs:

Peacebloom, Silverleaf and Earthroot could be found in Durotar, Mulgore and Tirisfall Glades.

Westfall and the Barrens have plenty of those herbs as well as the Mageroyal.

To collect Bruiseweed go to Stonetalon or Redridge Mountains.

Wild Steelbloom and Kingsblood could be found in the North part of Stonetalon.

To collect Fadeleaf go to the Badlands, Hinterlands, Alterac Mountains or Arathi Highlands.

One of the best places to farm various herbs including the Khadgar's Whiskers is the Swamp of Sorrows and to find more Sungrass visit Feralas.

Beginners guide to the Auction House

2010-11-12T06:56:00.000-08:00

Dear players, this guide is made in the purpose of helping you out when it comes to the economy in World of Warcraft. You will be able to learn how to use the all mighty Auction House and how to make the best purchase and bargain. Let’s start with the Auction House itself.

Wow’s Auction House has been a subject of envy for all players that were playing other mmorpgs, simply because it was the best made solution for players. Auction Houses or in short AHs can be found only in the capital cities in the old map of Azeroth: Stormwind, Darnassus, Ironforge and Exodar on the Aliance side and Undercity, Ogrimmar, Thunderbluff and

Silvermoon City for the Horde side.

How to use the Auction House

Once you get to the AH you should click on one of the Auctioneers. On the left side you will see the categories of items and goods you can search through. By clicking in example on the Weapons you will have listed sub-categories which will of course make your search easier. On the upper frame you will see a text box for the following: Name, Level - Range and a drop down menu where it says All. Depending on what kind of quality item you are looking for you could narrow your search to: poor, uncommon, common, rare or epic items by clicking under the All tab. If you want to search through all you should just leave it as it is and click on the Search button on the right side. Searching through all items is never advisable since there are so many items on the AH and you have a good chance of getting lost. If you know the exact name of the item you are looking for type it in the Name text box and click on Search. The list of all available items currently on the AH will be shown. On the down side you have the link to go to the next page/pages.

There is an option to see how an item would look on you i.e. armor and weapons. Hold CTRL key and left click on the item and you will be able to see it. This option is popularly called “the dressing room”. When buying an item you should make sure to check its price. The Buyout price is the maximum price and by selecting an item and clicking on the Buyout button located at the bottom of the AH window you will be able to purchase an item right away.

The first price that you see is the price that you can bid. You can bid by clicking on the Bid button also located in the bottom of the AH window. If you want to get an item for the cheaper price you should definitely bid but expect that other players will do the same so it can be a long chase. When you bid the amount of gold that you have bid with is taken from you but if somebody outbids you the same amount is returned to you via mail. If you manage to buy the item without being outbid the item will be sent to you also through mail when the time of that particular auction expires.

If you would like to sell an item, click on the Auctions tab on the left side at the bottom of the AH window. Place an item in the Auction item slot; fill in the Starting price and the Buyout price and the check the length of your Auction duration. You can put 12 hours for short, 24 hours for long and 48 hours for very long auction. It is advisable that you check the prices on the same item before you make your own auction, lower your price a bit and then put it on. If the item is sold you will get the gold on your email with a small percentage fee that the AH takes. If the item isn’t sold it will return to you when the auction expires.

You could always monitor your bids and auctions by clicking on the Bids and Auctions tabs.

Alliance: How to make gold at low levels for Mining & Herbalism

2010-11-12T00:24:00.000-08:00

Leveling mining and herbalism are the two easiest ways of earning gold at low levels. Selling ore and herbs on the Auction House is a good way to get a nice amount of gold as you are leveling up. It is even quite useful to farm gold like this on higher levels. It is an advice that you download the Gatherer addon which will track all of your discovered ores and herbs so you don’t have to roam around trying to remember where a vein or a herb was on the map.

Mining

Where to find the trainers?

Mining trainers can be located:
* Brock Stoneseeker (Loch Modan)
* Dank Dizzlecut (Dun Morogh)
* Dulvi (Azuremyst Isle)
* Gelman Stonehand (Stormwind City)
* Geofram Bouldertoe (City of Ironforge)
* Hurnak Grimmord (Hellfire Peninsula)
* Kurdram Stonehammer (Darkshore)
* Matt Johnson (Duskwood)
* Muaat (The Exodar)
* Yarr Hammerstone (Dun Morogh)

Best areas to mine:

Best areas where you can mine Copper ore are Dun Morogh and Elwynn Forest.
For Tin ore you should scour the eastern parts of the Redridge Mountains and Loch Modan.
For Iron ore and Gold ore it is recommend to go to Alterac Mountains. Other places like Ashenvale, Desolace, Stranglethorn Vale, Arathi Highliands and Badlands are also nice.
For Mithril ore and Truesilver ore you should go to Highperch located in the Thousand Needles. Badlands is also a good location for Mithril ores. The best area there is Lethlor Ravine.
Best places for Thorium ore and Dark Iron ore are Searing Gorge and the Burning Steppes.

Herbalism

Where to find the trainers?

Herbalism trainers can be located:
* Alma Jainrose (Redridge Mountains)
* Brant Jasperbloom (Dustwallow Marsh)
* Cemorrhan (The Exodar)
* Cylania Rootstalker (Ashenvale)
* Firodren Mooncaller (Darnassus)
* Flora Silverwind (Stranglethorn Vale)
* Herbalist Pomeroy (Elwynn Forest)
* Heur (Azuremyst Isle)
* Kali Healtouch (Loch Modan)
* Malorne Bladeleaf (Teldrassil)
* Malvor (Moonglade)
* Morae (Bloodmyst Isle)
* Reyna Stonebranch (Ironforge)
* Shylamir (Stormwind)
* Tannysa (Stormwind City)
* Telurinon Moonshadow (Wetlands)
* Uma Bartulm (Dustwallow Marsh)

Best areas to find herbs:

Best areas to find Peacebloom, Silverleaf and Earthroot erbalism are Elwynn Forest and Teldrassil.

Continue to Westfall for more of the Peacebloom, Silverleaf and Earthroot and you will also find
Mageroyal.

Redridge Mountains and Stonetalon Mountains are the best areas for Bruiseweed and also in the North part of Stonetalon you will be able to find Kingsblood and Wild Steelbloom.
Duskwood is also rich in these two.

Fadeleaf can be found in Arathi Highlands, Alterac Mountains and the Hinterlands.

The herb heaven, aka the Swamp of Sorrows, is home to Khadgar's Whiskers in example and a lot more different herbs.

Feralas is a nice area for Sungrass.

Guide To AH

2007-05-31T00:17:00.000-07:00

While reading this I could not find the link to Auctioneer so I found where I could download it

http://www-en.curse-gaming.com/downloads/details/78/

**Burning Crusade**
Auctioneer is working again check the links below for the downloads.

Before I start, I want to emphasize something. If you want to make a ton of gold in WOW you have to do work, and you have to do it consistently. I'm not saying you have to work hard, because you don't this is pretty easy. You don't even have to work a lot, 15 minutes a day is sufficient if that's all the time you want to put in. However you have to be consistent and keep at it every day.

Its all about execution and follow-through. A lot of people skim through a guide and think they learned something but then fail to follow through and take action.

So read this over, then read it over again, and then download the add-ons you need, and get started making gold. And if you have any questions feel free to email me.

Be sure to check the screenshots page for examples of many of the things discussed in this guide.

<( ' ' )> THE GUIDE <( ' ' )>

My Strategy

There are many ways to make gold in WoW:
Grinding, Tradeskills, Questing Etc.

However none are as effective as "Reselling" or "Buying low and selling High" .

This strategy can be applied to any mmorpg, I started doing it in Everquest years ago, it worked well for me back then and it has worked very well for me in WoW as well. I have made somewhere in the ballpark of 80,000g in the time that I have been playing WoW spending only around 30 minutes per day on average buying and selling.

I sold a good portion of that gold, and the rest I spent on friends, and myself. I was able to keep all my (and a couple of my close friends) characters in the very best blues and purples as I leveled them (I had all the BoE tier 1 epics from molten core in my bank when I was in my 40's), buy mounts at 40, and epic mounts at 60, power level all my tradeskills to 300 in a matter of hours, even powerlevel many factions through turn-ins of BoE items purchased in AH. Allowing me to buy other races epic mounts among other rewards. I got all 1,200 tickets for darkmoon fair in an afternoon buying all the turning mats on AH. I also was able to create an army of twinks all decked out in the best gear, and best enchants money can buy. And I still have so much gold I don't even know what to do with it. And the best part is that it was so easy! I laugh every time I think of someone grinding for hours on end to make a few gold .

Ok enough of that lets talk about what we need to do to prepare to make some money!

First we need to download and install a few indispensable tools:

Tools

Auctioneer

Auctioneer is included with many UI mods already, but if you do not have it, go download it, it is the single most important tool to have for making gold in wow.

Auctioneer scans the auction hall and records all of the items and their prices into a searchable database for you. This allows you to do two things:
1) spot items that are listed for too low of a price
2) buy said items and sell for a profit.

CT mail

The CT Mail Mod allows you to auto-open all the mail in your mailbox. Very handy when you are dealing with 100+ emails a day with gold from sold auctions, items to re-list from expired auctions, and items from new purchases.

Lootlink http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=5608

Lootlink stores clickable links to every item that is ever linked in public channels or on people that you inspect. It is very handy for getting links to rare items to add to your Shopping List.

Bring up the lootlink window once it is installed by typing /ll or /lootlink

Linkeratior http://www.fizzwidget.com/linkerator/
Is a good alternative to lootlink also.
It keeps track of links that you see, and then to retrieve the link you simply type the text version of it.
For example you would type [krol blade] and on your screen would actually appear [Krol Blade]
as a clickable link

*update*
In order to install any of these mods in warcraft all you have to do is unzip them into:
C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\Addons
or wherever you have wow installed, that is the default location though.

If the addon does not appear when you log in to wow, you probably do not have it unzipped into the correct location. Check and make sure it is in the addons directory.

If you get an error saying that you do not have enough memory to run the mod, then do the following:
log into warcraft and at the character selection screen click the "addons" button, then in the upper right hand corner notice the box labeled "Script Memory(MB)" I believe the default number is 48, change it to a few mb higher than what it is set for , say 64mb for example. Then click ok and try to log in again.

MACRO KEYS

I have the following macro keys set up:

/auctioneer broker 500
/auctioneer broker 100

these will allow you to quickly check for buyouts with a 5 gold, and 1 gold profit respectively, these can be pressed even during a scan and if you see something worth buying you can stop the scan and buy it. (if your sitting at your PC) The number is in silver so 100 = 100silver = 1 gold.

Here is how you create a macro for those who don't know:
(from the main menu click macros, click "New", give it a name and icon, then in the commands box type the "/auctioneer XXX" command. where XXX is the number of silver"

General Strategy
READ THIS ONCE NOW, FINISH READING THE GUIDE, THEN READ THIS SECTION AGAIN.
The general idea is to scan the AH, buy the items which are listed below the average selling price, then re-list them for a profit:

1. Make a level 1 character
2. Give Him/Her a catchy name
3. If you have enough money to do so at this point, go ahead and buy some 14 or 16 slot bags. If not don't worry, you can work your way up to that when your rolling in gold.
4. Park yourself in AH
5. Set up your shopping list (read on to find out how)
6. Open up the auction window
7. Uncheck the categories: Container, Consumable, Projectile, and Quiver as things in those categories generally do not produce good profits and just slow down your scans.
8. Press the scan button and wait for it to finish.
9. For the first few days the best thing to do is scan with Auctioneer as many times as you can through the day at different times. After a dozen or so scans across a span of 2 or 3 days auctioneer will begin to accumulate enough data to give you somewhat accurate pricing information.
10. Once you think you have enough scans to have good enough pricing data you can start searching for good buys:
11. I search for good deals 2 ways:
I create a macro : ?/auctioneer broker 500?
This is a quick button I can click at any time and see everything that is listed at least 5g too low.(you can do whatever amount of gold you like 100 = 1g)
I also use the ?Search Auctions? Tab in the AH window. This is installed by the Auctioneer add-on.
12. Check your /auctioneer broker 500" hotkey results
13. Check your shopping list report.
14. On the Search Auctions' tab in AH search for:
Buyouts with percent less 80% and minimum profit 50silver
Buyouts with percent less 50% and minimum profit 1g
Bids (short / medium) with percent less 80% and minimum profit 50s
Bids (short / medium) with percent less 50% and minimum profit 1g
15. I have the 6 searches saved so I can run them all quickly in a row, starting with the 1g profit searches first.
16. As you begin to make more money you can search for higher profit items only as the smaller profit items will not be worth the effort then. For example I usually search:
Buyouts with percent less 90% and minimum profit 2g
Buyouts with percent less 50% and minimum profit 5g
Buyouts with percent less 25% and minimum profit 10g
Bids (short / medium) with percent less 90% and minimum profit 2g
Bids (short / medium) with percent less 50% and minimum profit 5g
Bids (short / medium) with percent less 25% and minimum profit 10g
17. Then if I don't find many items in those searches, then I fall back to my lower profit searches and pick up a few more items there.
18. You can tweak these numbers and percents as you see fit those are just what I do.
19. Buyout all the good deals, and then head to the mailbox to pick them up and come back and re-list them for more in AH. Read the rest of this guide for exact guidelines on what to buy and how to sell. You have to use common sense and some guidelines when choosing what to buy. In general when you are just starting out stick with low level(
20. When you start to accumulate a lot of items (I usually have over 100 items in AH at a given time) it is helpful to leave the expired ones in your mailbox until you are ready to re-list all of the items at once. This will make it so that you only have to empty your mailbox and list items once a day, rather than every time you are at the mailbox. This will make your life a lot simpler once you have a large inventory.
21. Run these scans as often as you can, because the more you scan the more money you will make. I generally scan 3 times a day on weekdays: Once when I wake up and let it run while I shower. Once when I get home from work or while I eat dinner, and once right before I go to bed. Scan more if you can, remember it only costs you about 30 seconds of your time to log in and start a scan you can go do something else while it scans.
22. Always keep your character either at the mailbox, or in front of an auctioneer, that's why you made a lvl 1 alt for this so that you are always ready to go when you log in.

SPECIFIC GUIDELINES
BUYING

* Run scans as often as possible
The more scans you run the better your data will be, and the more deals you will find.
Also scan at non-peak times to find deals that others miss. Scan many times during peak time if you can because many items get listed every minute.

* Bid on Tuesdays before the servers go down
Get your bid in before the server goes down on items with short or even medium durations left and you will have a better chance of winning them.

* Scan late Sunday night/ early Monday morning
These are one of the best times to pick up some cheep deals because everyone lists all the items they found over the weekend late Sunday night or early Monday morning. Not only are there a large amount of items for sale, but lots of competition so people list their items cheaper undercutting each other. This is great for us because we can buy up the under priced items then wait till a better time to sell them for a profit.

* Sell on Sunday
Sunday is by far the best day to sell. For some reason a lot of people do their AH shopping on Sunday. Maybe it's just because more people log-in on Sundays so more items get bought, but whatever it is Sundays are great for selling items. I always have a mailbox full of gold by Monday morning.

* Make offers to people auctioning their items in the trade channel
If you see a particularly good item in a trade channel that you know will sell well make the seller an offer that is lower than what you know you can sell it for in AH. I usually offer anywhere from 50% to 75% of what I can sell it for depending on the item. Don't waste too much time haggling with them, just make them an offer, and if they refuse don't worry about it there are plenty more deals to be had. Also many times a seller who has rejected my offer will message me some time later and ask me if I still want the item for what I offered because they have not had luck selling it and they just want to get rid of it.

* Manually searching for items
Here is where you can really make some money, after you have done the auctioneer thing, and all the good deals have been bought up, there are some other actions you can take to ensure maximum profits. And this is where I make a lot of money so pay attention.

I was bored one day with doing the same old auctioneer scan thing so I decided to try something new. I decided to find something that I could buy up for cheep that I felt was undervalued. While power leveling my rogue one day I noticed that the biggest help in my killing power was having the best daggers I could get for my level, I also noticed that a lot of people make twink rogues. So I went to AH and bought up every green dagger between the levels of 5-19 that have agility and attack power since these seemed to be the most desirable for a lowbie rogue. They were selling anywhere from 5s to 50s on my server. I re-listed them all for 1g 99s, Every time I was in AH I would buy up all the lower priced daggers than mine. Mine began to sell.

Within a week I had upped the price to 2g99s for of power, and of agility daggers, and was now buying up all the other alternative green daggers such as +strength and +stamina and was listing them at 1g99s. They always sell. The re-listing fee is negligible so I can list them as many times as it takes. In fact if I get an overabundance of a certain type of dagger, I usually just vendor them. Since I buy then for like 10s its better to just buy them up and vendor them and loose a few silver , and have someone buy yours for 2g99s instead. You are still making a huge profit.

I then moved on to other green lvl 1-19 items following the same idea:
Lvl 1-19 green cloth ?of the eagle?; listing them all for 1g99s to 2g99s

Lvl 1-19 green leather of the monkey of agility of power; listing them all for 2g99s or more. I can sell a +5of the monkey legs or +4monkey gloves for well over 10g a pair.

1-19 green rings of the monkey, eagle, bear, etc as well as Blood rings, Demon Bands, and Ring of the Moon; Buying them all up and re-listing them for anywhere from 5g for a +2stat ring to 19g for a +3 of the monkey or of the eagle ring.

Another idea I had that has worked well:
lvl 40-50 green MAIL of the Monkey, Agility, attack Power. At level 40 hunters can begin to wear chain, this means that they need to upgrade all their gear starting at 40, so I buy up all the 40+ green mail gear that has good hunter stats and I re-list it for higher prices. If you keep buying up all the cheaper alternatives that get listed the hunters have no choice but to pay your prices, which they will because they are excited about getting to wear chain so they impulse buy.

You can come up with your own ideas following the same idea, some that I haven't had time to try are 40+ plate of the bear for warriors, or 40+ gear for shamans.

It doesn't really matter what item you choose as long as you know there is a demand for it and you are diligent in buying up all the lower competition and re-listing them. You could even do this with rare or uncommonly seen trade goods etc.

* Use caution buying 40+ blues; especially weapons
Use a bit of judgment before buying up too many 40+ blue items. Be sure that you are going to be able to sell the item for a decent profit because the AH listing fees on 40+ blue items can be high. Some higher level blue weapons can have listing fee’s of several gold. So only buy high level blues if you know 1) the item has a high demand 2) you will be able to make a profit even if you have to list it a few times because 2g a listing adds up.

* Epic Items
The same goes for epics, they generally have high listing fees, and the auctioneer data may be skewed because of a handful of overpriced epics that have been sitting in AH for weeks. Use caution when buying epic items. I would suggest that you only get involved with epics once you have plenty of experience and gold reserves on hand. Unless you are 100% sure that it's a killer deal. If you do see something hat jumps out at you don't hesitate to buy it. When I was just getting started I didn't know a whole lot about the prices and values of most epics, but I did know that when I saw a Krol Blade for 150g it was an awesome deal and I snapped it up and resold it for over 500g.

* How much gold to keep in reserve, how much to invest
In the beginning buy up every good deal you see, don't worry about having gold in reserve. As you start to accumulate gold however you will find that you cant spend it all because there are not enough good buys on AH to spend it on, at this point you will probably be buying items and mounts for your other chars, and spending gold on other things. Once you reach that point you should always keep at least several thousand gold on you’re AH char at all times, you never know when someone is going to list 100 nexus crystals for 199g a stack of 10. This is exactly what happened to me one day. I spent 1990g buying 100 nexus crystals that I assume were listed by some guild bank , and re-listed them for 59g a piece over several weeks, and turned that 1990g into 5900g ? quite a hefty profit.

SELLING

* Sell on Sunday
Sunday is by far the best day to sell. For some reason a lot of people do their AH shopping on Sunday. Maybe it's just because more people log-in on Sundays so more items get bought, but whatever it is Sundays are great for selling items. I always have a mailbox full of gold by Monday morning.

* Listing fees and durations
Always list items for 24 hours, the fee isn't that much more, it lets more people see the item, and it makes it so you only have to list the item once per day.

* Always use buyout
Always set a buyout. If you don't you will miss out on 99% of your sales. People want instant gratification, and also a buyout scares people into impulse buying because they feel that someone else could buyout the auction at any moment. With just bids and no buyout people know they have hours to think about it and often decide they don't really need to spend all that gold on that item today.

* Stack size
A lot of times I will buy up stackable items either in small stacks or 2 or 3 etc, or I will end up with stacks with like 17 or 18 items in them. This is not the best way to sell stackable items. I use the following guidelines:

o In general if you have enough to combine into a stack of 10 or 20 do that because it is a nice even number and people can easily figure out if the price is good.
o If you only have a few of the item (like 3 or 4) split them up and list them singly.
o Some items are needed in specific quantities for quests or tradeskills; these are the exceptions where it may be beneficial to list them in those quantities. An example is nexus crystals are generally required in quantities of 3 for most high level enchants. So if someone else has them listed for 50g singly, and you have 3 for 150g, odds are your stack of three will be purchased because someone probably needs 3, and its less clicking for them to buy your stack of 3.

* 7's 9's rule
I always list my items using 7's and 9's let me explain:
If the item usually sells for around 10g I list it with a min bid of 7g77s and a buyout of 9g 99s. Never list anything for 10g or 20g etc, always 9g99s, 19g 99s

Its only 1 s difference but it makes people feel like its 10g cheaper. It's the same principal as all those TV commercials that sell stuff for $19.95 It just sounds a lot cheaper than $20 even though its not really.

Sometimes if the item is worth only 15g, but there is no competition in AH at the time I'll list it for 17g 77s / 19g 99s. People see 17g and think 17 is about the same as 15, and 19g is only 2 more gold I really want it so I'm just going to buy it. They just paid 20g for a 15g item that's 33% markup. They probably wouldn't have bought the item had you listed it for 20g.

Granted if you had listed the same item for 13g/14g99s they defiantly would buy it, but that is a judgment call you will have to make on an item to item basis based on how much competition there is, how much you paid for it, and how badly you need to sell it (because listing fee is high or whatever) personally I do not like to put myself in situations where I feel pressure to sell an item, and the best way to avoid that is to stay away from the higher level items whose demand you are unsure about.

* Undercutting minimum bids
When most people search specifically for an item they sort the results based on lowest price first. The price is not determined by the buyout price but rather the minimum bid. So sometimes it makes sense to undercut the competitions minimum bid, but not necessarily their buyout. This will ensure that your item is at the top of the list and the first thing they see when they sort their results by lowest price. Be careful though never set your minimum bid below the minimum price you can sell the item for or you could loose money if someone bids on the item and the auction ends with that bid.

**How to start with no money at level 1 **
Use searches that will find lower priced items to buy
People ask me "what if i don't have any money to start?" Well I say I started with about 1 gold. You should be able to start with even less. So after telling someone this ... I started another char lvl 1 with 0 gold just to see how difficult it would be, I killed a few mobs on my way to orgimar, leveled to lvl 3, sold all the stuff I had collected and had 3 silver total. So now what can I get for 3 silver and turn a profit ?!?

I did a couple scans and then did a search for:

and ended up with this result:

Bam I bought up the 3 lesser mystics (that was a stack of 3, i accidentally chopped the 3 off), split them up and sold them each for 24s.
Now I was sitting at 72s, almost a whole gold at level 3 within an hour or two of creating the char.

Later I did:
Buyouts with percent less 80% and minimum profit 20silver
which yielded the following results:

As you can see there are several items here which you can buy for a few silver and make
a hefty profit, especially the heart ring which is a level 18 ring with +5sta. A very nice twink item which will sell very well for 1g99s leaving you with a quick 1g79s profit.

So if I bought that ring and that cloak, I spend 27s, that puts me down to 45s, and I sell the two items for a total of 2g50s, I am now sitting at just under 3 gold. !!!!!
Keep in mind I’m only lvl 3 and has gone from 1 silver to 3 gold in 3 quick transactions
that is impressive!

You can change the numbers till you find something, try lowering the minimum profit, or try lowering the percent less numbers a little until you find something that looks good.

Important thoughts:

Auctioneer is in no way definitive or perfect at what it does!
It is simply a tool to HELP you sort through the 1,000's of auctions in the auction house. If you trust the scan results of auctioneer 100 % and buy up everything that it says is too cheep, you will loose money. The key is to use common sense to narrow those choices down to make smart purchases. I have had several people read this guide, run two or three auctioneer scans in a row and then proceed to buy up everything it tells them to. Guess what? they lost some gold!

Run lots of scans, and use some common sense in what you purchase. In the following sections I will try to give you a run down of what type of items I look for. As a rule of thumb just think about the item like this is it rare? does it have awesome stats for the classes that can use it?
No one is going to want a plate item with intelligence on it on the horde side, and conversely no one will want chain items with intelligence on it on the alliance side. Or I look at daggers and think rogues want agility or + attack power, so those are the daggers I buy. Caster gear with +int, + sta at lower levels, and + spell damage at higher levels. You get the idea.

In the beginning start small, and use caution till you get a feel for the market.

*updated 3/07*

Rare blues - these are the blues that only drop in one instance, and are not world drops, there are only a handful of them.

These are the big ones that I have on my list right now I will update this list as I find more:

* Antenna of Invigoration
* Elemental Attuned Blade
* Teebu's Blazing Longsword
* Recipe: Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops

These are less rare, but still worth putting on the list, especially in the beginning when you don't have many scans:

* Pendulum of Doom
* Assassin's Blade
* Shadowfang
* Miner's Hat of the Deep
* Expert Goldminer's Helmet
* Shovelphlange's Mining Axe
* The Jackhammer
* Unearthed Bands of _ _ _ _
Unearthed Bands of Agility
Etc. (keep in mind its leather so the good ones are going to be agility, power, monkey, etc)
* Petrolspill Leggings
* Mantle of Thieves
* Flintrock Shoulders
* Wolfclaw Gloves
* Hotshot Pilot's Gloves
* Mechbuilder's Overalls
* Maiden's Circle

::Here are some of the other sets of items which I know are good sellers when im looking for stuff to buy::

Cross-faction patterns/items

There are several patterns or items that are only available to either alliance or horde. These can be purchased at vendors and if you can get them to the other faction AH you can mark them up hundreds of percent.

For example an alliance only pattern that costs around 50silver and sells very well horde side for 50gold + on my server is

* Pattern: Red Whelp Gloves
* To get a hold of this item you will either need to have a friend with an account on the other faction, or a second account yourself. Have the friend, or on your other account buy the item and list it for 1s or something in a neutral AH, then buy it and list it in your factions AH for whatever you want.

This is one of the better items I have found because the Gloves that it makes are highly desirable 10-19 BG Twink items.

Again I will update this List as I find more items worth doing this with.

Rare Tradeskill goods:

These are hard to come by tradeskill goods that usually are not on the AH much or are very expensive because they come from raid zones/bosses. They are defiantly worth putting on your shopping list and keeping an eye on, especially once your get a good stash of gold, or if you have a lvl 60 char that can use them, or items made from them.

[Dreamscale]
[Fiery Core]
[Lava Core]
[Brilliant Chromatic Scale]
[Bloodvine]
[Core Leather]
[Large Obsidian Shard]

Rare Tradeskill Patterns

There are some rare tradeskill patterns that you should keep an eye out for, prices on them might vary by server but they will sell for a lot regardless. I found a Formula: Enchant Chest - Greater Stats for 5g once, and a Enchant Shield - Lesser Block for 1g. I sold the first for 500g, and the other for over 100g. So just keep your eyes out for a obviously cheep price on any of these. *Update* I picked up the following recently: felcloth bag for 100g, flarecore wraps for 150g. I sold the first for 499g, and the second for 399g.

Formula: Enchant Weapon Lifstealing
Formula: Enchant Chest - Greater Stats
Enchant Shield - Lesser Block
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Crusade
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Superior Striking
Formula: Enchant 2H Weapon - Superior Impact
Pattern: Core Felcloth Bag
Recipe: Major Rejuvenation Potion
Pattern: Flarecore Wraps
Pattern: Black Grasp of the Destroyer

Items with no listing fee

Some items have NO listing fee, enchanting supplies are a good example. Dusts, Essences, and Shards have absolutely no listing fee, which is good because it means you can re-list them over and over and not loose money. These are GREAT items for people who are just starting in their gold earning career because you can start with the lower lvl ones which are cheep and you can re-list them without loosing any money. Also you can list them for only slightly more than you paid because you don't have to worry about fees.

One word of advice about buying enchanting supplies is to buy on the weekends or when you notice a large amount of them in AH, and then sell in the middle of the week when supplies are dwindling.

TWINK ITEMS

Twinks are a huge source of money for me, a twink for those of you that don't know is generally a lvl 19, 29, or 39 char (top of each battlegrounds level bracket) that is decked out in the best blues/purples that money can buy or can be obtained through instances or quests. And they generally have lvl 60 enchants on every slot. They are usually funded by their lvl 60 mains, and their only goal is to be the most decked out badass person in the battlegrounds so that they can dominate. They generally stay at that level for months or indefinitely just to dominate that bracket. Many people have one of each of the 3 levels for each bracket.

Once you start making gold you will be able to make twinks if you choose, however the reason we are talking about them now is because they will buy certain gear from you for ridiculous prices. I know a lot of other guides say no lvl 19 will pay 200g for a lvl 19 blue. But that is just in fact UNTRUE. Lvl 19's repeatedly pay 50-200g for lvl 19 blues. There is a list of these items to look for below, but let me just provide you with one specific example. For example I love when I find an Assassin's Blade

For like 5g in AH (happens quite a bit) they sell for 150g-200g on my server. And they DO sell. You might have to re-list it 5 or 10 times, but the re-listing fee is like 5s so no big deal. That is an extreme example because it is an especially rare item which comes from only 1 instance. However many of the items below sell for 40g or 50g regularly.

Twink blues:
10-19:
Feet of the Lynx
Deviate Scale Belt
Sentry Cloak
Assassin's Blade
Thorbia's Gauntlets
Silver-linked Footguards
Skeletal Club
Night Reaver
Shadowfang
Black Malice
Tree Bark Jacket
Darkweave Breeches
Keller's Girdle
Magefist Gloves
Twisted Chanter's Staff
Witching Stave
Skycaller
Lil Timmy's Peashooter

20-29:
Barbaric Bracers
Enduring Cap
River Pride Choker
Watchman Pauldrons
Tigerstrike Mantle
Brawler Gloves
Harbinger Boots
Dreamslayer
Cobalt Crusher
Forest Tracker Epaulets
Mantle of Thieves
The Butcher
Zealot Blade
Ironweaver
Claw of the Shadowmancer
Frostreaver Crown
Pugilist Bracers
Girdle of Golem Strength
Hotshot Pilot's Gloves
Beguiler Robes
Mechbuilder's Overalls
Glowing Magical Bracelets

30-39
Basilisk Hide Pants
Assault Band
Necklace of Calisea
Ogron's Sash
Papal Fez
Speedsteel Rapier

40-49
Elven Chain Boots

Twink greens :

Some lvl 10-19 greens sell for 5g or even 10g+ simply because they are the best items you can get for those slots period(AH, Instances, Quests or otherwise) here are a couple examples.

Bristlebark Gloves
Forest Leather Bracers
Red Whelp Gloves <- On horde side they are very valuable, because it's an alliance only pattern LVL 10-19 rings: Ring of the eagle, monkey, bear, agi, eluding, blood ring, demon band, ring of the moon, etc good low level rings always seem to sell well, I think it is because lower levels always seem to have empty ring slots to fill because they seem to drop less than regular armor. Also because for twinking they are generally better than the blue instance dropped or quest rings for some classes. Here are a couple of searches I run without using auctioneer. I just use the standard AH search box: 1) lvl 2 - 19 rare all categories. Sort lowest price first Emitting level 1 skips over all tradskill items and leaves us only with blue weapons, and armor below lvl 19. Since it is sorted lowest price first, we can immediately see if there are any items listed very cheaply. Her is an example I ran today to show you: as you can see I entered 2 and 19 in the lvl box, selected rare from the rarity box, clicked search, and finally clicked current bit to sort it by price. Keller's girdle is listed for way way too low, it actually sells for closer to 20g, and I will buy it and re-list it at 19g for a great profit! 2) Lvl 1 - 19 rings of any quality sorted by price. Same idea here, easy way to find good twink rings. 3) lvl 1 - 19 daggers sorted by price. Look for cheep of agi, power, monkey daggers. Saves you the time of searching for them one by one! 4) lvl 1-19 one hand swords. I usually buy of the tiger, monkey, agi, and power. Especially the lvl 19 decapitating swords, they usually sell for 3 or 4 gold. **8/17 Update - Upcoming expansion** The upcoming expansion will allow for paladins on the horde side, and shamans on the alliance side. What does this mean? 1) lots of people will make new characters: This will create a huge demand for twink items when the patch comes out. Chain gear for the new paladins on horde side, and leather items for the new shamans on alliance side. Also lvl 40+ plate for the pallies, and 40+ chain for the shamans to a lesser extent. The real demand will be for lvl 1-40 gear though. 2) people will also want to level trade skills (especially first aid) for these new characters, so we may see an increase in demand and price for cloth, and other tradeskill supplies. In addition the new expansion will bring a NEW TRADESKILL: Jewelcrafting ! I can only speculate at this point, but I have a strong feeling that the prices of Gems and Metals will skyrocket, especially the high end ones. I am personally going to start thinking about some long term investment in gems, and I am guessing that they might have finally found a use for those now almost useless Pristine Black Diamonds, and Black Diamonds. As well as some azerothian diamonds, blue sapphires, huge emeralds, rubies, large opals, ETC, cant hurt to pick up any that you see for cheap, you can always sell them for what you paid. I’m going to pick up a bag full of stuff and stick it in the bank. Might pay off it Might not. /shrug. In addition with the increase of the level cap to level 70 in the Burning Crusade, level 60 items will loose much of their value. I would not recommend buying any lvl 60 gear at the moment, and the same goes for lvl 60 tradeskill materials. Lava Cores, Fiery Cores, and the like will *probably* drop in value significantly. I have unloaded all of my high end gear and tradskill mats on AH for the time being. **3/07 Update - Results from above observation** Well I followed my advice and bought up many many stacks of gems prior to the expansion. I bought 8 stacks of [azerothian diamonds] for an average price of 3.7 gold each. or 592g total. I have just finished selling them all off for between 19.99 and 24.99 a PIECE. With an average of 22.05 gold each, that’s around 3,520 gold.... or a profit of about 3,000g! And that’s just from azerothian diamonds. I did the same with blue sapphires, huge emeralds, large opals, and star rubies. I had around a dozen stacks of each, and overall made well over 10,000 in profits from my gem sales. I hope some of you took my advice and invested in gems before BC, if so drop me a line and let me know how well you fared! I personally did not invest in cloth too heavily as the profit margin for the amount of bank space it took up was not worth it to me, however cloth prices did go up, and those of you who did invest in lots of cloth before BC probably did well. Also, as I predicted lvl 60 ish epics, blues, and tradeskill items all hit rock bottom, moltencore, and AQ trade skill mats are almost worthless now, and I'm glad I dumped all mine before the expansion! Other thoughts: You will find that over time you will get better and better at knowing what to buy and how to sell, it is just like anything else it takes practice. This guide gives you a big head start but there is still plenty to learn, different items will sell better or for different amounts depending on your server, the economies between new and old , high and low pop servers varies greatly. Once you have a good feel for the local economy on your server you will begin to make wiser choices and make more gold.

Guide was written by an unknown author, all credits are to him/her.

-Zack Taylors

Big Profits with Jewelcrafting (Prospecting)

2007-05-10T02:15:00.001-07:00

If you already didn't know prospecting Adamantite Ore can lead to big profits!

Prospecting a stack of Adamantite ores (20 ores) gives you 4 chances to find a rare gems. Most rare gems go for 30-50g with Nightseye going selling for the most.

You can easily make profit because a stack of Adamantite ores you can buy for around 20-30g on your servers AH. If your a miner or your alts a miner you can make even more profits.

Even if your having a bad luck, which can happen, you can sell Adamantite Dust (4.5g) and the Uncommon Gems to the vendor for your money back.

If you have time and gold to check ah and prospect you can easily make alot of gold doing this and selling the rares.

Large Brilliant Shard Farming

2007-05-10T02:13:00.001-07:00

To do this strategy you need to acquire a Shadowforge key or be a Rogue with 225 Lockpicking. After in the Shadowforge area kill Lord Incendius and Bael'Gar, DE to get 2 shards, then zone out, reset instance, rinse and repeat!

h ttp://www.wowhead.com/?screenshot=view&7.1584#1456, location 10 and 11.
one run should take around 7min tops.

If you're lvl 70 you can easily walk pass all the mobs along that highway because of your tiny aggro radius.

When you fight Bael'Gar, try hide under the big gates because it will prevent Bael'Gar from summoning his adds. For Lord Incendius, you'll most likely be resisting most of his attacks, so he should not be hard.

Make Great Gold with Skinning

2007-05-10T02:11:00.001-07:00

Angerclaw Maulers
Felwood, X37, Y44.

As a 60 Rogue in full epic gear(bloodfang) I can kill these in about 7 seconds each, literally. The respawn rate is insanely fast, When you kill the whole spawn camp of them which is about 11-12 and take a 1 minute break you'll start having respawns to kill.

Where does the money come from you ask?

Firstly you have some stackable gray items that are very commonly dropped:

Large Bear Bone(Non-Stackable) - 14s 84c each
Bear Jaw(Stackable) - 8s 98c -- 89s 80c per Stack of 10.
Savage Bear Claw(Stackable) - 5s 78c -- 57s 80c per Stack of 10.
Bear Flank(Stackable) - 5s 78c -- 57s 80c per Stack of 10.
Wicked Claw(Stackable) - 5s -- 25s per Stack of 5.

I make anywhere from 9 to 13g in gray items per hour here.

Even without the skinning compared to most places this is a great camp for gold/hr. But skinning is where a lot of the money to come from if you want the results like I get.

You can skin Rugged and Thick leather off of these. My server prices are 2.50g per stack of Rugged and 1.50g per stack of Thick. Server prices are going to range, The intake of gold on this obviously is based only on my servers prices, But you will still make amazing gold here if you put the time in.

So where does all the money come from?
I take 8 hours a day and I run it here, Straight. Not every day, Usually in the evenings and into the late hours on the nights I'm not raiding and ocasionally if there is a third day I'll get up around 7am to start and I can be done around mid afternoon so I can enjoy the day or do something else in game.

A single hour run brings on brings me in 6 Stacks of Rugged Leather and 5 stacks of Thick Leather. I don't know if it's because my kill rate is fast or just pure luck, But I can't remember when I have come away from this with less leather then that in an hours run.

6x 2.50g = 15g per hour
5x 1.50g = 7.5g per hour

If I average out my usual grey items income per hour then I come away with 10.5g per hour. I'm going to edit this tomorrow and record all of my drops and leather intake from my 8 hours, But this is accurate. I've been making money like this for months now.

Now, On to the juicy part...

Intake per hour based on Leather sales on the AH is 22.50g Per HOUR.

Intake per hour based on sellable greys averages out at about 10.50g

33 Gold per hour.
Wipe the drool off keyboard and keep reading :P

I run this 8 hours per day, Two days a week. Sometimes 3 but rarely. Skinning is obviously required to get the bigger chuck of change for your time. Some of you all day BG'ers could make litterally thousands of gold here in a week if you took a week off from all day long BG and went here, Just a thought. And I'm not exaggerating. Thousands.

I try to run these 2 days back to back and I generally refuse to put up my auctions and vendor until I have my 16 hours worth of loot. I just throw it all in the bank.

At the end of my 2 days I usually end up taking 510g - 545g out of my mailbox. +\- a few gold for randomness of drops.

I have over 5000g in my bag right now. If you want an exact number then it's 5649g.
All of that gold was made in this spot except about 600g.

Mana Thistle and Adamantite Farming

2007-05-10T02:04:00.001-07:00

If you are a herbalist you can make a killing off harvesting Mana Thistles and Adamantite and selling them off at Auction House.

http://www.wowhead.com/?object=181281

This will give you a list of all the spots, with designation markers, of where Mana Thistle spawns.

http://www.wowhead.com/?object=181556

This is for adamantite, but there are many more spawn locations than Mana Thistle, so you're probably best off just discovering the locations on your own.

http://gathereraddon.com/dl/Gatherer/

You can use the add-on, Gatherer, to help you with collections. After you attempt to collect a node, of mineral or herb, it will permanently record the spot on your map so that after several travels through an area you will have most of the spawn points and you will not have to wander.

Low Level Gold Farming Guide

2007-03-12T20:08:00.000-07:00

This is a guide I have used pre-TBC but I believe its still viable if your still leveling up from 1-60.

Introduction
Welcome to our ultimate gold guide section, there are plenty of opportunities out there for you to make gold, but we will only list the fastest and easiest method for any class.

We could list tons of different ways for you to earn money at lower levels but the truth is that the higher level you are the more money you will earn.
Time is better spent leveling up your character as fast as you can. It's better to level up your character to level 40 then start farming for your mount then level up to 60 and farm for your epic mount. Farming at lower levels will slow your profit down overall.

Quick General Tips
The number one tip that will save you hours of travelling is to create a secondary character (mule account) that will stay in the auction house (Orgimmar - Horde, Ironforge – Alliance, or even Gadgetzan). Send your money and item to these characters by the ingame mail, relog with your mule account and then get them to buy/sell at the auction house. Remember time is money the more time you save the more money you make.

Pick up everything that a mob drops as every item has a value.
Familiarize yourself with items
Grey text item = Vendor Trash items. Its useless to anyone you can only sell vendors, but don’t underestimate it as grey items can still be worth a lot of coins.
White text items = Very common useful items, sometimes you can make more profit selling these in the auction house.
Green text items = Common quality items, some items are worth a lot more than the AH recommended price.
Blue text items = Superior / Rare quality
Purple text items = Epic quality

Auction House
First of all Download and install this free Auctioneer mod
http://www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=146 This mod helps you by

Giving you the average market price for all items.
Which profession the items are useful for.
Shows you vendor prices of all items, sometimes the market has too much of a certain item and you might as well sell the item to a vendor.
Shows you vendor prices of quest reward items.

This helps your auction house trading, as sometimes you don’t even realize you've sold an item under average price, where you should have made more profit.
Or if you overpriced an item which could lose your AH deposit when it doesn’t sell. This is critical with Green items like weapons and armor as the 24hour deposit can come at a very high cost.

The Auctioneer mod needs a database to be used effectively, after you install the mod visit the AH and do a full scan. This can take around 10-15mins to be completed. Try to do this every couple of days for the first two weeks of playing so you have a reliable database.
But scan the armor and Weapons section everyday to get the average market price for rare and epic quality items as they can be listed seldomly.

Remember buy weekdays and sell during the weekends. Most rich level 60 players play during the weekends for big raid meets and they can't be bothered farming.

Bags
Try to fill up all your bag slots, as more bag slots = more profit. This will save you time running back to the vendor to empty your bag. Don’t be afraid to purchase bags because all bags are not Soulbound that means you can use it then resell it when you decide to upgrade.

Level 1 – Just use what you can find from mobs.
Level 9 – Don’t worry about 6 slot bags, save up for 8 slot bags which are usually about 15s-20s each.
Level 18 – You should have a full set of 10 slot bags costing around 40s each.
Level 30 – Skip 12 slot bags and get a 14 slot bag which costs around 2g-2g50s each.
Level 45 – By now you should have your mount and it is time to get a full set of 16 slot bags like ‘Travelers Backpack’ which is a random world drop from high level mobs worth around 18g-25g.

Helpful sites
If you havent heard of
http://www.thotbott.com or http://wow.allakhazam.com/ you’re missing out on the best tool for Warcraft. Both sites are similar but I find Thotbott to be more useful as it's faster and more user friendly.
Thottbot is an excellent tool to do your quest and to find items, as it provides maps for item drop locations and where they come from.
Allakhazam is useful to find out an item ‘Median Price’ this helps you a lot when you’re trading Rare and Epic items, as the database you would gather using Auctioneer mod might not be sufficient to make your decision. You can also use this entire site instead of using the Auctioneer mod, but you might find that i'ts too time consuming to use the site all the time.

And curse-gaming.com http://www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php have the most comprehensive mod ui addons for WoW.

Earning for your Level 40 Mount for level 1-40

Cost of Regular Mount
At level 40 the goal is to get at least 18g for mount training, and 72g for the mount itself assuming you have an Honored reputation with your faction. Total of 90g or if you can find someone that has a PVP rank 3 or above he can buy the mount for you for 64g saving you another 8g.
You receive a 10% discount if you’re honored with your faction and a Additional 10% discount if you have PVP rank 3 which is very easy to get at higher levels.

Cost of Epic Mount
After you have your first mount and full set of 16 slot bags, you’re set until level 60, ignore farming until you reach level 60 where you will start to save up for your epic mount which cost 800g if you’re honored and rank 3 or over.
Also note that a Frostwolf mount is available at 640g and rank 11 mount is available for 90g! But achieving rank 11 will require a lot of PVP in battlegrounds. Expect to spend at least 2 months of hardcore PVPing to reach rank 11. At level 60 earning 100g on an average day (3-4 hours) is an easy task. So you’re epic mount should be attainable in just over 1 week.

Join a Guild
If you have no high level friends, consider joining a guild early. Having higher level friends at lower levels is a great advantage. You may need someone to help you purchase your first mount at a discounted price of 64g, and a higher level friend would most likely lend you some money to get your first mount. It won't be a big deal to them 10-20g is very little money for a level 60 character but it’s a huge amount to a level 40. Borrowing money to purchase the mount will cut down your farming time, you can pay it back much faster than farming first then buying the mount.

Grinding vs Questing
Its been tested that grinding is more efficient for power leveling after level 35, but questing is more fun of course. Click here for power leveling guide past level 35.

Farming vs Profession for profit
Profession takes a lot of time and effort to level up. Leveling up your profession costs you extra time which could be more useful to level up your character instead. Unless you learned a very rare recipe, farming still earns a lot more profit than trying to sell the goods you made. Advertising your services in major cities can take considerable effort and you might not even earn, whereas farming you’re guaranteed a rate of xx gold per hour.
Farming also has the advantage of earning a ‘Jackpot’ prize when you find rare BOE and epic BOE world drop which sells for hundreds of gold. Where earning from your professions is likely to be a flat rate.

Best Professions for profit
Gathering professions such as Mining, Skinning and Herbalism are the best professions to complement your farming. Farming on areas that have a high demand of items that can only be gathered using your profession is the best way to maximise your profit. Picking up two gathering professions is one of the easiest ways to make gold.

Enchanting is also a good profession to complement your farming. Disenchanting items and selling the essence/dust/shards can give you more gold overall, and you can disenchant rare BOP items instead of selling them cheaply to vendors.
But Enchanting is not a profession for the faint of heart. It is for the hardest of hard core professionals. Part of being an Enchanter is learning all the recipes, and then outselling your fellow enchanters.
If you wish to make profit entirely from using profession. Herbalism and Alchemy with Fishing is the best way to go. Click here to read a complete guide on Alchemy.

Save 15g by Cutting Down Training Costs
By avoiding spending money on training costs you can save a lot of gold to get that level 40 mount. But justify it, some skills are of no use for your grinding, and offer a little amount of dps. Past level 20, the training costs are very expensive. You can live without them and it will save you about 15gold!

e.g. after level 20 as a Warrior don’t train these skills any higher
Hamstring, Rend ,Overpower, Shield Bash, Mocking Blow, Cleave, Slam.

Level 40 farming guide

From level 1 to 40

Do your quests as fast as you can using Thotbott.com to find quick solutions, quest management is important as you can complete several quests in one trip, Use thotbott to do a search for quests available close to your level and get them all. For new characters questing efficiently is by far the best way for you to earn money and level up at the same time.
Item rewards also saves you a lot of money from purchasing upgrades for your character. If you don’t need the reward, do them anyway and always choose items that have the most vendor value. Auctioneer mod will show which one is worth more to vendor instantly.

Always Buy recipes from vendors in the town/city that you’re in as you quest make sure you make frequent visits to all vendors to check whether they’re available buy them and sell them at the AH for at least double your cost. You'll be suprise that you can buy recipe from vendors at 10s then sell it in AH for 1g and it will sell. This is just because people are too lazy to travel to get them or have too much money to burn. During your Quest to level 60 you must take advantage of the vendors in certain city/town that you visited. Buy the recipe and resell them for over 200% profit. To view the complete list you need Microsoft Excel or XL Viewer which is free to download from Microsoft website.

And click here to download Vendor Recipes Guide.

Cut down on your training costs.

Always log out in a nearby town for rested experience bonus.

Once you’ve reached level 40 it's time for you to start farming Scarlet Monastery (SM) graveyard section in Trisfal Glade.

Scarlet Monastery (16-18g/hour): is located in Trisfal Glades horde territory but Alliance can access them as well. It’s divided into 4 parts Graveyard, Cathedral, Armory and Library.
Graveyard is best for farming simply because of mobs Unterred Spirit (26-32) these mobs have the same drop % rate as elite mobs even though they’re non-elite and very easy to kill.

It's been tested that in 1 hour of farming using average gear you will gain.

2g50s of money picked up.
60 Silk Cloth average AH price of 1g80s
10 Grey Armor/weapons average vendor price of 18s each = 1g80s
12 level 27-30 Green BOE items average AH price of 90s = 10g80s
2 Gems (Citrine / Lesser Moonstone / Jade) AH price of 50s each = 1g
Grand total of around 18g per hour

This is possible for any level 40 class, by ignoring the elite mobs and killing mostly the triplets of Unterred Spirit (26-32)

Before You start

Empty your bags leave all unnecessary stuff in the bank you need all the bag space you can get. Make sure you’re fully repaired and stocked up on food, water and other reagents required for your class e.g. (flash powders for rouges). Running out of reagents or food can cost your precious farming time.
Horde: Set your hearth to Brill.
Alliance: Set your hearth to South Shore. Takes a bit longer for alliance to reach SM than horde but using this guide it should only take you no more than 10mins. Read below for shortest route to SM.

Shortest route to SM for Alliance
From South Shore run North to Alterac Mountains, follow the road to Western Plaguelands, along the road in WPL you should reach Chillwind Camp and you can pick up a new flight path. From Chillwind Camp follow the road head North West see map.

Swim through the water, after you reach the other side of the water unfortunately you will run into at least 2 level 55 mobs that will most likely kill you, avoid them and keep running to your destination as best as you can. After you die return to your corpse resurrect and keep running to Bulwark you’re safe from any high level mob once you reach bulwark and run the rest of the way to SM. Allowing for 1 death it should take no more than 10 mins but If you’re in a PVP server it can take you longer if you run across to any Horde.
If you’re a Rouge or Druid this is ideal as you’ll be able to avoid dying quite easily. Safest way to travel is to go through Silverpine Forest, running on foot will take you at least 15mins without dying.

When you reached Scarlet Monastery
Go into the Graveyard instance, to reach the Unterred Spirit (26-32) area you only need to kill 2 elite mobs, and bypass the rest. Download this quick clip to show you how. Any class should be able to solo the Unterred Spirit (26-32) you just need to watch out for patrolling mobs. Keep an eye out for a rare spawn elite mob such as Fallen Champion (32-33)+ and Ironspine (28-33)+ they guarantee a Rare BOP drop and sometimes a Rare BOE drop which you can sell for tons of gold. This area is likely to have a chest as well, if it's not there it's most likely inside the building ahead, you can reach them by killing the mobs. The chest contains 1-2 random Green BOE to sell at AH. Once you run of Unterred Spirit (26-32) to farm, reset the instance in these steps.

Resetting the Instance

1. Stay inside the instance
2. Invite another player to join your group
3. Promote invited player to leader
4. Leave party
You will know that it has worked correctly when a message appears “You will be ported out of the instance in 60 seconds” At this point leave the instance and come back in and the instance should reset.

When you finish
After about an hour it’s likely that you’re running out of bag space, its time to hearth back to Brill (Horde) or South Shore (Alliance). Sell all grey items to any vendor and head over to the mail box. Mail all items you wish to sell in the AH to your mule. Repair, stock up and head back to SM until you have enough.

Other Farming location for Level 40
Badlands (7-8g/hour) : Just east of Kargath Rock Elemental (36-38), these drop Elemental Earth which are worth around 1g each on most servers and they drop high value grey stones to sell to vendors. On an average hour you will earn 3g worth of grey stones vendor items, and 4 [Elemental Earth] which sell for about 1g in most servers.

Arathi Highlands (7-12g/hour) : At Circle of West Binding farm the Burning Exiles (33-39) , these drop Elemental Fire which is worth 1.5-3g each depending on how active the level 60 players with doing high level raid instance such as MC and BWL. Try to sell these during the weekend when most people do raids. Its also depends on the popularity of the area, you’ll find other people farming the area during peak times.
On an average hour you will get 4 [Elemental Fire] and 15 [Burning Pitch] which only sells to vendors for 86s.

The average earning for Badlands and Arathi Highlands is not very high but take into consideration that you gain a lot of EXP at the same time until you’re about level 44. So you’re farming and leveling at the same time.

Alterac Mountains (10-14g/hour with Skinning): At Growless Cave farm the large population of Mountain Yeti (30-33) and Giant Yeti (32-34). With your skinning they can drop a variety of Leather and Hide. [Heavy Leather] has the highest drop rate, and if you’re lucky you can find [Large Fang] which is very valuable in the AH.

In an average hour with skinning you will earn:

1g60s of money picked up
60 [Heavy Leather] average AH price of 7s each = 4.2g
35 [Medium Leather] average AH price of 3s each = 1.05g
18 [Heavy Hide] average AH price of 15s each = 2g70s
4 [Medium Hide] average AH price of 5s each = 20s
8 [Large Fang] average AH price of 40s each = 3g20s

Any level 40 class should be able to kill and skin these yetis non-stop, if there’s other people in the area also killing the yetis usually they’re questing and you can skin their kills. For level 40 with skinning this is better than going all the way to SM since it’s very close to Tarren Mill and South Shore. Zero downtime is the key you should at least be able to kill and skin a yeti every 30 seconds that will get you at least a variety of 120 leather/hides total.

Level 60 Farming guide

Power Farming Scarlet Monastery (35-40g/hour): Yes SM Graveyard is still one of the best places to farm even when you’re level 60 because you can do it at a much faster rate. Zone in and kill every ‘Unfetered Spirits’ and any elite mobs that are guarding the chest.

On an average run you will get:

30 [Silk Cloth] average AH price of 90s
6 Grey Armor/weapons average 30s each = 1g80s
6 level 27-30 Green BOE items average AH price of 90s = 5g40s
1 level 27-30 Rare BOP items average vendor price of 35s
1g80s of money picked up

Grand total of 10g minimum per run

A level 60 player can do this entire run in less than 15 mins depending on character so that’s a minimum 4 runs an hour for 36g/hour. A paladin can do this run the fastest by agroing all the enemy then use Shield and Consecration doing 5 runs an hour is achievable with an AOE class.

Recent patch have reduced the number of times you can enter an instance to a maximum of 5 instances an hour. This won't affect this farming technique at all as doing more than 5 runs an hour is quite difficult.

You might want to skip grey vendor trash items and pick up only green items as the trip time spent unloading your goods can add up.

SM Power Farming Tips

Gear selections is important, the idea is to kill as fast as you can. Try to stack up on as much as offensive gear as possible, e.g. having extra Stamina is worthless as you can recover quickly with bandages. Having more Strength, Agility or Intellect and Spirit is far more important.

Shift-Click to loot. Most items stack, sort all unwanted at the same time later, key here is to save time and loot as fast as you can.

Minimize downtime. Sometimes you don’t need full health to carry on.

Focus DPS on all mobs. Don’t bother focusing your damage to kill one mob at a time as killing them all at the same time is always faster even though you end up with less HP but that’s easily recoverable with bandages.

Western Plaguelands Heartglen and Eastern Plaguelands Tyr’s Hands
(25g/hour) or (35-55g/hour + Mining):

** update patch 1.8 have reduced the spawn time of Heartglen mob and Tyr's Hand from about 5mins to 15mins. So it's not as good anymore unless there's few people in the area.

Farming level 54-57 Elite in Heartglen Hands in an hour will earn you on average 35-55g/hour with Mining. These elite's are very easy to kill one at a time, you must interrupt their healing and you should be able to farm these continously.

7 Grey Armor/Weapons average vendor price of 1g each = 7g
2 Green BOE items average AH price of 3g = 6g
40 [Runecloth]
12g of money picked up

Grand total of 25g/hour

Heartglen have 5 spawn point for Rich Thorium Veins. But only a maximum of 2 will spawn at the same time. Tyr’s Hand also has these veins which make this an ideal place for miners to farm. But it depends on the popularity of the area you’re farming, you might have to compete with other farmers to reach the vein first. If you’re the only one farming the area which can happen sometimes, your potential profit sky rockets.

The rich thorium vein spawns every 15-20mins and they always spawn those 5 points so remember to patrol for the veins every 10 mins. Its often that you get an [Arcane Crystal] (worth around 20g on most servers) an hour if you have control of both veins.

Both Heartglen and Tyr’s Hand are the main spots for chinese farmers farming gold for real money. If you’re in a PVP server this can make things a bit difficult, but the chinese farmers depending on side won't mix with each other. They will either farm at Tyr’s Hand or Heartglen. E.g. if you’re Horde and Tyr’s hands have Alliance chinese farmers you can go farm in Heartglen with the Horde chinese farmers and vice versa if it’s the other way around.

Earn 300-350g selling 1 enchant formula
On your way to heartglen you will pass a tower on your right with lots of Scarlet Spellbinder (52-58) they are the only mob that can drop [Formula: Enchant Weapon - Crusader] beware that these areas are farmed regularly so you might have some stiff competition but occasionally there's no one there, and since it's on the way to heartglen anyway it doesnt hurt to stop and kill them, the drop rate is very low if you wish to farm these continuously you earn on average 10-15g an hour from gold and [Runecloth]

‘Essence of’ Golds
Essence's (Essence of Fire, Essence of Water, Essence of Air, and Essence of Undeath) sell very well at any AH on any server.

Essence of Fire Un’Goro Crater/Felwood (25-45g/hour with Herbalism) : At Fire Plume Ridge you will find Living Blaze (50-55), Scorching Elemental (49-54) and if you’re lucky sometimes there is an even called Elemental Invader which spawn Baron Charr (57-58)+ and Blazing Invader (52 –56) which have higher drops of [Essence of Fire]

In an average hour of farming you will get:

2 [Essence of Fire] - each sells at 9g = 18g
4 [Heart of Fire] each sell at 80s = 3.2g
4 [Elemental Fire] each sell at 2g = 10g
12 [Mountain Silversage] - sell in stacks of 5 for 4g = 9.6g
2 Level 49-55 Green BOE Items average AH price of 3g each = 6g

Grand total of around 45g/hour

You can also farm Entropic Horror (51-55) in Felwood just south of Irontree Woods. These have the same rate of drop as the elementals in Un’Goro and it’s a much less populated area.

Essence of Water Felwood (20g-50g/hour with Herbalism): Toxic Horrors (53-54) in Irontree Woods have almost a 7% chance to drop [Essence of Water] , they also drop [Globe of Water] and [Elemental Water] but they have very low value. Depending of the popularity of the area you can get 4x [Essence of Water] value at 10g each and make up to 40g if you farm during off-peak hours. The worst you will get is 2 [Essence of Water] an hour, with herbalism you will make even more at an extra 8-10g an hour harvesting [Mountain Silversage]

Azshara (25g-50g/hour with Skinning): Blue Dragonspawn (48-51)+ in Azhara are easy to kill and very profitable if you have skinning to get
-Drop anywhere between 5-20s
-Drop junk weapons/armor that vendors between 50s-2g
-Can be skinned for [Worn Dragonscale] and [Blue Dragonscale], and since 1.8 they sell alot more on AH.
-There is a chest that spawns in a random spot in the area every 10 min.
-Drop major healing/mana pots
-As Elite mobs they have higher rate of Green weapon/armor drops.

Silithus Thorium Veins (Rouge + Mining): Ooze Covered Rich Thorium Vein in Silithus are always located in the hives areas, As a miner you can detect these veins even if they're underground, so you don't have to go down in the tunnels in search of them. As a rouge these are especially profitable, as the Thorium Veins are everywhere but hard to reach for other classes because of the elite bugs that are guarding them. As a rouge you can stealth past most of the mob and reach the veins deep inside the hive. Each hive can spawn up to three Ooze Covered Rich Thorium Vein in the area and the mobs in the first two hives are easily soloable, if you think you're really good and up for the challenge the third hive on the bottom right corner of the map has lots of thorium veins as well, but most farmers avoid this area because the mob are elites 58-60 which is a lot harder to solo unless you have really good gear.

This post comes to you courtesy of the-chad from www.onlinegamehacker.com

Rogue ZG Pickpocketing

2007-03-12T19:59:00.000-07:00

Just as the title suggests you have to be a Rogue with high enough pickpocketing to pickpocket the mobs in ZG. Go around and pickpocket all the humaniods (even the zerkers). I heard you don't need MOD to do this at level 60. Going around and pickpocketing in here will net you Super Healing/Mana Potions

-Zack Taylors

Hellfire Ramparts Farming Video

2007-03-12T19:52:00.000-07:00

This is a video I have found that shows you how to kill the last 2 bosses for rampart in about 15 - 20 mins with a small group.

http://rapidshare.com/files/14881676/Hellfire_Rampage_wall_exploit.avi

-Zach Taylors

Fire Mote Farming

2007-03-12T19:45:00.000-07:00

Farming fire motes can be a great way to make gold. Fire motes usually sells high on most servers. I recommend you kill these mobs for the best result.

http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/mob.html?wmob=22311

http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/mob.html?wmob=20514

http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/mob.html?wmob=21061

-Zack Taylors

Nagrand Mote/Gold Farming

2007-03-12T19:36:00.000-07:00

This is a gold farming guide I found on WoW Forums. If you haven't known about this place for its nice mote farming I suggest you give it a try (market might be flooded with it though).

Nagrand - Elemental Plateau (67,23)

Wind Elementals = Drop 1-2 motes of air, 10x combines to 1 Primal Air = ~20g per

Fire Elementals = Drop 1-2 motes of fire, 10x combines to 1 Primal Fire = ~25g per

Water Elementals = Drop 1-2 motes of water, 10x combines to 1 Primal Water = ~20g per

2 hours of farming yielded 978g

Nagrand - Lake South of Throne of Elements (58,26) under the water

Water Elementals = Drop 1-2 motes of water, 10x combines to 1 Primal Water = ~20g per

Netherstorm - Ruins of Enkaat (34,57) north of area 52

Mana Wraiths = Drop 1-2 motes of mana, 10x combines to 1 Primal Mana = ~15g per

Rock Elementals = drop 1-2 motes of earth, 10x combines to 1 Primal Earth = ~10g per

1 hour of farming yeilded 500g

Shadowmoon Valley - The Hand of Gul'dan (47,45)

Fire Elementals = Drop 1-2 motes of fire, 10x combines to 1 Primal Fire = ~25g per

Rock Elementals = drop 1-2 motes of earth, 10x combines to 1 Primal Earth = ~10g per

2 hours of farming yeilded 840g

Welcome to WoW Gold Guide!!

2007-03-11T03:49:00.000-07:00

Hi welcome to World of Warcraft Gold Guides! My name is Zack Taylors and I want to share some of the info on how to gold farm I have learned while playing this game.