A Cataclysm gold guide has proven to be quite a friend lately, and I'm going to tell you here, exactly why.
I've been playing World of Warcraft for quite a while and I thought I knew how to make my gold. Well, enough gold to pay the repair bills, get my consumables and sometimes, enough to buy one or two epics for sale at AH. However, as a player that respects himself, I wanted to have a very posh mount, that not every other player has - the Vial of the Sands.
You know about this mount and what it does, right? In case you don't I'll explain in a few words. This mount, or should I say, this alchemy potion, turns your character into a drake, and also allows you to carry a group member on your back, basically anywhere. How cool is that! Anyway, it also costs about 40k gold.
So, I started to farm the 40k amount and that's when I realized that my techniques sucked big time. Since I didn't want to buy gold from the online sellers and risk to get my account hacked or banned, the other alternative for making WoW gold was a Cataclysm gold guide.
Now, before I started to work with a Cataclysm gold guide, my main farming method was to gather Embersilk and Frostweave cloth. Not a bad choice if you have the Tailoring profession on a character and the Northern Cloth Scavenging passive ability. This way you can make 450-500 cloth per hour and make nice gold by selling it.
Which I did...
But after filling up about 3 pages in AH with cloth scraps, the prices went down badly and I had to sell them cheap. So, I had to find other alternatives to make gold.
Since the only profession I had was Tailoring, I had to farm gold without relying on it. That's when the Cataclysm gold guide came in. It taught me mulitple ways to make money in WoW without relying on any profession, and I'm going to mention here 2 of them.
Auction House Trading
You probably have an idea on what this method is about. Buying stuff low, selling it high. Of course, it only works if you know what to buy to resell, when and that are the right prices. Also, it's important to know the demad for every items for sale at the Auction House on your server. Fortunately, every aspect about this method was covered in the guide and profits started to pour for me in short time.
Expensive Loot Farming
There aren't many items, materials or consumables in World of Warcraft, apart from minerals, plants, leather or enchanting materials, that can be farmed without professions. However there are a few that can bring you a lot of gold. To give you an example, Essence of Air has become lately, one of the most profitable items that can be farmed without any profession. It's a material for certain enchantments that can be applied on Heirloom items and sells like hot cakes, for high prices. There are also quite a few other items which can be farm with a character with no professions and to learn about all of them, it's best to check with a WoW gold guide, as I did.
I hope these two methods about making gold in World of Warcraft are helpful enough. And I do have to mention that after one week of working with a Cataclysm gold guide, I managed to get my Vial of the Sands I wanted for my main. I'm a drake-Death Knight now, muahaha!
