How to MAKE GOLD

 

I hear people all over, public chat, Party Chat, Trade Chat... How do I make Gold? Well the OLD fashioned way, by FARMING it. There are a number of ways to farm GOLD, the main and most STABLE one is through Professions, I will the list them all below, and add new ones as they appear to me, but the concept is brainlessly simple.

BEST WAYS TO MAKE GOLD

Professions:

Through your professions, if you ask me is the BEST way to make money, and this money will increase in amount as you level. How? Well if you level something up its then useful to higher levels who also know that they make more money, this will be explained later. But for the record the ones listed below are the BEST for making money as FAR as Profs go. This is ONLY if you keep them up to the level of the areas and dungeons, etc that you go to. You are LOOSING money if your running around a ZONE that you can't level EVERYTHING in, your Character AND your Profs.So the RULE is simple, Level your Profs for the Areas you are spending time in and level them while you there as well, use everything you can in the environment around you, Skin your kills, fish when you see schools of fish, disenchant unwanted items from quests and dungeons, pick your herbs and mine your ores. Take the ZONE for everything its got.

Herbalism - High level and low level Herbs sell good in stacks of 10/20 - use the Gatherer Add on and it will tell you where herbs exactly are located on your map and what they are.

Skinning - Also people don't like to farm their OWN leather, as you level your kills level, as they level your skinning levels and the hides you get become more valuable.

Cloth - (Of any type) - Also sell for a lot on the AH for 10/20 stacks, again the higher the mobs you kill the better the cloth, use the tools on the links list to the right to find areas that best suit what you are looking for.

Enchanting - Take unwanted loot and turn it into enchants, make enchants for people that get their Mat's you then level your skill and they generally tip you too, disenchant everything you can't use, that no one else might need.

Mining - High level ores sell for a lot more OVER bars usually. Unless the Bars are high level to make, people will buy them already converted into Bars for more. The market varies, but in high level ore, you talking a lot of money spent daily. Again a reason to level mining as you level, a lot of dungeon have rare or pricey ores in them, it hurts me whenever I am in a dungeon and don't have my miner.

Blacksmith, Tailoring, Leather working, Jewel crafting - Each offers special money items, pre Heroic gear for the classes, and in cases, Velum's that can be enchanted, and gemstones that can be enchanted. At high levels these things start to pay out their weight in gold as well, but it doesn't come easy. Try and FARM or get Mat's donated from potential customers to level instead of paying tons of gold to get Mat's. Most items that are armor types are going to be "MADE" and discarded, so try and make stuff other people you know could use and mail them to them, or sell them to the VENDORS. Sometimes you can bonus an armor item and then sell it for good money in the AH if it is GREEN or better. Always look for and buy recipes when you see them, even if they are too high level to learn, you never know when you'll make it back to that vendor again.
Inscription - Make glyphs, and sell them on the AH, higher level ones sell for thousands in Gold. Remember ALL the Mat's on profs are 150% farm-able..
Engineering - Make customers get the Mat's and build riding machines for them such as the "HOG".

Remember any Prof that you make items like Armor weapons or velum's check out "working" for people in trade chat, offer to enchant their items or make them armor and weapons. Sell velum's on the auctions. Work for the money and the levels and cash will come to you.

                                                            Dungeons & Quests:

In dungeons and Quests, you want to run them and liquidate anything you can't WEAR now or in the future, and the keep only the items you need to function or level your profs. The best thing in this is the GOLD rewards for the QUESTS that gets higher as you level. So the higher the zone you go, if your keeping up your profs, you will now be making money on your Profs, the QUESTS, and dungeons in the ZONEs you spend time in. Dungeons and quests provide cloth which sells great in stacks, cloth items like bags sell for good money for 16 - 20 slot pouches etc. People would rather BUY the cloth than FARM it. Their LAZY attitude is your fortune. Take advantage of it. Also pay attention, sometimes the quest drop items in a dungeon are trade-able, and people will also buy these on AH sometimes to prevent having to run areas.

Dungeons with quests in them that you have pay better than without.Greed items can be sold on the AH or to vendors if they BIND and you cant use them. If you have disenchant, you can DE the items you cant use and even USE or SELL the mat's from this which ALSO sell for a lot.

                                                               The Guild Lottery:
 Play the guild lotto, this is a chance to win large chunks of money a week. See the guild link for ore on the Guild Lotto. This gives you a chance to buy up to 20 tickets at 1 gp each, for a potential to win the POT. That's a gamble and your not guaranteed to win, but boy its fun.

                                                            Guild Gold Merchant:

Soon we are going to have a Guild Gold merchant, that will be selling "FARMED" gold to Guildies and their friends. The prices are predicted to be $10.00 USD for 1000 WoW gold. This can be done with a simple "Paypal" button that will be on the Guild Website, that will be added as the SVHG GUILD GOLD link. It is not yet up and running, we are building gold on other account to handle this, I will keep you posted. Guild gold is "FARMED" by specific guild members that make an amount of money for  every 1000 gp. Then the gold is SOLD to Guildies and friends from the guild Vault through a "PAYPAL" button.

                                                          Hunting RARE NPCs:
Get the Addon Silverdragon from www.Curse.com and install it, now when you are near a RARE spawn NPC an alarm will go off. You can adjust these settings. Kill the RARE spawn to get any number of high end gold valued items including weapons, armor and rare pets worth upward of 3000 gold!

                                                                Merchanting:

Use an update the Add on Auctioneer, and track the going prices of items. With a little investment money you can scan the auction (AH) for under priced items and buy them and then repost them at the going price. Remember there are also rarer items you can buy from the ALLIED AH in booty bay or in gadgetston, and they may also sell for more on the regular Horde AH. Merchanting can be fun, there is no limit.

                                                               Free Farming:

Free farming pays off in the long haul and you PAY nothing and have very little stress in leveling them to a good place where you can make money. This means you don't have to spend money, just time "gathering" materials that others higher levels will buy because they don't want to go do the work themselves of getting their Mat's together, I have been guilty of buying Mat's as I am sure we all have. Someone had to gather those mat's so that I could just buy them on the auction house. These are as follows:

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE:

• Patience and the ability to HUNT your gathering spots

• I use http://www.wow-professions.com to find the best Mat grind suggestions, and http://www.mapwow.com for locating the materials I am searching for and their highest concentration.

• You want Epic flying or Riding to out run those that are gathering too, for herbalism/ skinning and mining. This will keep you ahead of the rest of the scavengers.

• You want the addon Auctioneer or Auctionator to better know the going price on your Mat's, be sure to run an action house scan to get all the latest prices, this should be done daily before posting your "goods" for sale.This will insure your making the highest returns on your work.

• You need patience and perserverance, it will be a bit before you see real money, leveling as high as you can so you can increase gathering skills on all the below trades is also needed, you can't be a lvl 400 anything at level 30, know this, your harvesting is capped by your level. Don't fear, every level has different materials that sell for a good price, you WILL make money as you progress along.

Herbalism:

Low level herbs even sell good, stacks of twenty can range from silver to gold even at low levels. The key here is that as you get higher level you can farm higher level areas. In some cases you will find competition on the market and for the gathering, so it is good to have the above tools once they can be obtained to increase your profits. Herbs are used by Inscryptionists, Alchemists, and in many times random other prof's as well. You don't need tool but if this is your "job" it is less of a headache to have an Herb bag that will automatically keep your herbs separate and out of your bag clutter.

Mining:

Higher and lower level ores sell for good amounts of money. Ores to people leveling their smithing and bars for those that don't have the ability but need the stuff. Like and engineer that doesn't mine will buy premade bars, a blacksmith with mining would buy ores to level their smithing. Get it, its simple. All you need is a Pick, and for easier locating of your ores, carry a Mining bag.

Fishing:

This you simply need a fishing hole a pole, some bobbers or worms to increase your fishing level. This is a great skill to level for money, example a 20 stack of Deviate fish (Fished from the caves of WC) can sell for 10-12 gold, good money for a noob or a pro~ High level cookers use fish for some tasty meals read on.

Cooking:

Cooking costs nothing really other than getting new receipes to level with. Usually they cost silver and you make money back in the long run. High level cooking recipes sell good on the AH and will give player bonuses to stats over time when eating your food. High level cooking can sell stacks of food upward of several 100 gold per stack, very profitable but a slower success than the above trades. And a whole lot more work. You will need materials for the cooking which are gathered from animals or from fishing. Combine this with Fishing and Skinning to make the max amount of money from it, as you can skin the animals you kill for their meat as well, more on skinning to follow. Read on...

Skinning:

Awesome brainless skinning can be leveled quite fast. You simply need the skill and a knife bought for silver at a vendor. Skinning pays out good to high level leatherworkers, engineers, blacksmiths, people that don't usually have skinning as a second main skill. I have to buy leather all the time on my engineer/ miner to make items for AH sales like pets. Skinning gives you the power to get quality leather to the people that need it.

Enchanting/ DisEnchanting:

Well Enchanting costs money, but disenchanting and selling the very valuable mat's is another story. Disenchant anything that is "Bind on Pickup" you can not use. Disenchant  anything thats useless and at least a green. Enchanting can make money if you use these FREE materials to enchant "Velums" and sell them on the aution house, other players can then use these to "enhance" their armor, and high level ones tell for a ton.