Best Ways to Make Gold in World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft is a lot like the real world, you need money to get the things you want. Making gold in Warcraft is fairly easy. The real problem is time. Time spent making gold is time away from doing what you really want to do like raiding or pvping.

The simplest way to make gold is selling things in the auction house. The auction house lets different players buy and sell from each other and the prices beat selling things to vendors by quite a bit. So, what kinds of things do you sell? The most consistently sold items are materials from gathering professions. Mining and Herbalism seem to be the biggest moneymakers. Three professions depend on mining: Blacksmithing, Engineering and Jewelcrafting. All use metals and many players would rather buy them then spend time gathering the ore themselves.

While only Alchemy and Inscription depend on Herbalism, herbs fetch a very high price consistently. Inscription is the new profession introduced with the new expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. Since it's new, many players will be eager to try it out and a lot of them will simply buy the herbs they need. Players who spend a lot of time with end-game raiding also heavily depend on alchemy potions. Since they need to use the potions regularly, there's always a demand for high end herbs and if you're willing to spend time farming them, you can make a lot of gold.

While gathering professions are the best way to make a lot of gold, they are by no means the only way. If you don't have these professions, you can make gold by farming for other things. A straightforward way is killing a certain enemy over and over again just to gather a lot of what it drops. Cloth is dropped by humanoids and they sell well consistently. Tailors use plenty of the stuff. Most crafting professions also depend on crystallized elements and Eternal elements. Killing the elementals that drop these can fetch a really good price.

After you've gathered all these things you want to sell, how do you know what price to set for it? That takes some homework. You need to check the auction house and if you're like most people, you'll undercut the lowest price slightly so others will buy your items first. If checking prices and doing the calculations is too much for you, the easiest way to set prices is by downloading the add-on Auctioneer. It scans the auction house and remembers the price of everything it sees. It automatically fills in the bid and buyout prices for you for everything you put in the auction house. You can always adjust these manually if you want something different. It also displays the selling price of different items when you look at their tool-tip. It helps you know the price of things you're not familiar with, from trade goods to new pieces of gear.

There are also crafting professions that make gold but this is a little more inconsistent. It depends a lot of what prices you can buy materials for. If you have alchemy, there is always a demand for high end elixirs and flasks. If you keep an eye on the prices of herbs in the auction house, you can buy them and craft the elixirs and sell it right back. This is one of the easiest and fastest ways to make gold because you don't have to spend a lot of time farming. Just buy the materials, craft the products, and sell it back. Auctioneer can help you with keeping track of prices and let you know if there's a big discount on anything you need.

The last way to make gold is by doing dailies. Dailies are quests you can do over and over again each day. They reward gold and can be a quick way to make some extra money. In the Sunwell Plateau, you can make over 100 gold in an hour of doing dailies. There are a lot of quests close together you can get done. With each new content patch, Blizzard adds more dailies and quests so you should have a big variety to try out in case you get bored with some areas.

By spending a little time and thought into making gold in World of Warcraft, you'll soon be able to afford all the nice things in the game like flying mounts and larger bag space. If you buy and epic flying mount, you'll be able to gather metal and herbs faster then ever. The price of the mount would soon pay for itself in time saved.