Make Gold With Gathering Professions In Mists Of Pandaria

I have found over the last few weeks that the gathering professions are probably the best professions and strategy for making gold fast during the initial stages of the new expansion.

There's huge demand for materials from players wanting to level their professions quickly, this the prices for certain materials at the moment are fetching high prices. Although the buzz has died down a little the demand in game is still huge and players are still meeting these prices to reach the leveling cap and level their professions.

Skinning

Skinning has proven to be a great gathering profession for making stacks of gold. Skinning isn't as profitable once an expansion has matured a bit but is still able to make some nice gold at the moment.

The simplest tactic for profiting with skinning is rounding up the hides of dead animals from players that have already destroyed them. Finding heavily populated areas of players with lots of creatures about for the layers to kill.

Then it's a simple case of moving between the bodies and rounding up the hides ready to sell on the market, this saves a huge amount of time in not having to kill the creature before gathering the hyde or "grinding".

You probably wont be the only player using this tactic either so you'll need to find good areas with little competition to stay ahead of the pack.

Mining

Mining has also proven time and time again to be a great gathering profession for making gold especially during the launch of a new expansion. Mining is much more competitive than skinning though meaning it will be harder to round up those precious ores.

Mining is different from skinning in the fact that you want to find areas that aren't heavily populated so you can gather the ores with little competition.

The supply and demand of Ore has hit the roof and although dying down there will continue to be high demand for the new ores so now's a good time for making gold with mining. Mining is generally considered on of the harder professions anyway and there's always a steady demand for Ores.

Herbalism

Herbalism is another profession where players gathering are going to want to find the least heavily populated areas. Herbalism wont have a demand as high for as long as skinning or mining so the key is to get your wares on the market quickly before the market is flooded driving the demand down and therefore the selling price down as well.

There were also other changes to the professions in Mists of Pandaria that could be used to a players advantage in generating gold during the early phases of the new expansion.