The World Of Warcraft:top 5 Gold Making Professions

Inscription is a tough profession to sell on the top 5 gold making professions because it could be the best profession for making gold or the absolute worst. Let’s face it, glyphs can be expensive, but the materials for them cost almost nothing. Understanding this, we can see where the profit margins stand. Cheap to produce but can be sold for large sums of gold.

You’re asking what could be the problem in such an ingenious plan and that’s simply the market. Glyphs are a highly competitive market where you need to undercut your competition and hit a niche where no one else is making a specific (but needed) glyph . If you’re the only glyph on the market, someone will pay whatever to get the glyph and move on with their life. If there are about 10 other people trying to sell it and everyone undercuts each other every 5 seconds then the profits will quickly disappear into auction deposits.

Another problem is that Inscription suffers from the fact that glyphs are no longer extreme consumables. You use them once and you’ve learned it forever. This is a boon and a curse, as a lot of people have gotten out of the Inscription market and don’t strive to restock so much because demand sharply decreases outside of expansions. So although there’s a risk involved, there is profit to make and it’s better than a lot of other production professions – especially considering the ability to sell vellums which always demand a high price.

I had a hard time picking #4, part of me wanted to scream Enchanting and part of me wanted to move that to #5, but then I realized something. Enchanting is one of the toughest professions to make a profit on and requires way more work to peddle your wares. With the ability for anyone to disenchant and the prevalence of Enchanting in groups there is no huge benefit to disenchant your own stuff. So that leaves us with Jewelcrafting.

So why is it a money maker or buy wow gold on bookwowgold? Well, like Enchanting it enhances gear but is a bit more consumable. Players reconfigure gems often trying to min/max their gear and some cuts sell really well. Sometimes you can go as far as buying uncut gems, even at a premium, cutting them and selling them for twice your investment.

Not only that, but it unlocks prospecting which can turn a pile of worthless ore into a gold mine. You can buy ores on market off days and make a huge profit if you get lucky enough with everything. Not to mention you can sell your services to players for huge tips. A lot of players feel obligated to tip at least 20-50 gold for a cut, which is a few simple clicks with their materials.

So Jewelcrafting is obviously one of the most money making production professions and works great with Mining. Speaking of Mining gets its spot on this list thanks to its ability to produce drastic amounts of gold off a few minerals if you get lucky. Not only that, but I have a pro-tip for you that will fill your bank full of gold faster than you can sneeze twice and spin around (well, that’s a bit weird, but the tip is solid):

You must be a Premium Member to view this Pro Tip. Find out more about the benefits of membership. Pyrite, at current market rates, varies between 200 and 500 gold a stack on each server. So one stack (40 ore) is about 5 gold per ore and you get multiple pur mineral node. That’s like an instant dose of cash into your virtual wallet. Mining is a good gold producer since metals are needed for Transmutes, Jewelcrafting, tons of Engineering consumables, and players leveling up their tradeskills.

So if you’re looking to make money, Mining is a good place to start. But, there are always a few better choices. Like I play favoritism with these and Alchemy is one of them. I’ve had Alchemy on all of my toons for one good reason: it prints money. Lots of players don’t see that, obviously, for reasons I’m unsure about. However, Alchemy is the #1 production profession in my book (a little bit of foreshadowing there) because everything it makes is 100% consumable. Since it's consumable, players need to restock, meaning that demand is always there and supply is often scarce since not everyone loads the Auction House up with potions, flasks, and other items on a daily basis.

Think about this. An electronics store will sell tons of a certain cellphone whenever it's first released and then tapers off for a while until a new batch of next generation cellphones show up. Then they’ll sell a ton and it’ll taper off again and repeat. With Alchemy, it’s more like the corner store and you’re supplying it with Mountain Dew. Everyone needs to drink more Mountain Dew (except me, Diet Dr. Pepper all the way) so they’ll buy more and more. Then you also supply the Cheetos and Slim Jims and energy drinks too, which is several markets from similar supplies.

Basically, you can take herbs and turn them into a profit on days they’re selling at the right price point. Throwing all that out, you can transmute Truegold or whatever the flavor of the month transmutation is. Buy the mats on the AH, do the transmute, relist and make an instant profit of several hundred gold (depending on the marketing rates).

Of course, Alchemy isn't everything in World of Warcraft. One profession remains with just a simple turn of the page.Of course, if Alchemy is the #1 production profession then the #1 gathering profession AND the #1 profession for profit would be Herbalism. A stack of Cataclysm level herbs sells for 75 gold on average, which isn’t something to sneeze at considering how easy a stack of them is to come by. Not only that, but you get Volatiles which are an added bonus to your herb hunting.

You must be a Premium Member to view this Pro Tip. Find out more about the benefits of membership. The best way to describe Herbalism is that, while you’ll be rather mainstream farming herbs like everyone else, it does have that hippie vibe of being in the nature and pulling things from the ground. Well, that doesn’t make any sense, but the gold you’ll be producing will.

Well that is our top 5 best gold making professions. What profession do you think makes the most gold? Leave your thoughts in our comments section below.