Making gold while playing World of Warcraft may seem like a daunting task. However, there is a way many players were able to create massive amount of gold. You will be surprised to see how much you can make if you try this technique!
Players with a large amount of gold are not playing days and nights and they are not cheating. They are simply making their money by making use of the auction house, selling actual items that are useful to others. But the trick is not just to buy low and sell high, even if you can make some gold that way.
What you should be doing is making and selling goods and watching the market for shifts. Crafting professions in WoTLK are very profitable when you use them properly. You should however stay away from engineering because it takes a lot of time and a lot of effort for a very small return over your investment compared to other professions.
The list of profitable professions changes from expansion to expansion. You want to keep a close eye on the forums and rely on word of mouth for changes or new professions coming out in the expansion packs.
Predicting what items players will need and learning how to create them is important to help you obtain the gold you are seeking. Good items that are very profitable are the newly added ones. For example, at one point the best money maker was inscription. However, once glyphs came out they took the place of inscriptions as far as profit goes.
Belt buckles have made many blacksmiths a fortune in the game. Pay attention to any patch notes mentioning balance changes, new abilities and new items. These changes can either give you a new source of profit or remove one just as fast. This is important to keep in mind when using short-term items to make gold, because they can lose their value quickly.
Look at the new items that are coming to your profession and think about your own characters and what they need. If you really want one of those new items for one of your characters, chances are that other players will want them also. This could be a good opportunity to make gold quickly.
Gathering your own materials will not save you money, as many players believe that it will. You have to take time into account. Instead of spending an hour to mine, you could spend that hour making items and selling them. The gold that you get from mining may appear profitable, but nothing compares to the profit of blacksmithing.
If you have completely emptied the auction house of the materials that were up for sale, you might need to gather that extra herb needed to finish a flask yourself. Try not to make a habit of gathering as you consistently buy out the auction house because other players will eventually step in to fill the supply gap.
Once you are comfortable with large investments, find a player who is a gatherer and set up a deal with them. Gatherers tend to avoid the auction house if they can because they are taxed heavily on their sales and they lose a lot of substantial money due to the deposit if their items don’t sell. Because of this, you can choose to have them sell you raw materials under market price. They love such offers because it’s a win-win situation: they make a lot of gold quickly selling you their materials, and you make a lot of gold creating new items.
The default auction house interface is slow and many players look for alternative UI add-ons. The Auctioneers add-on is very popular but it’s not the one you should use. The best add-on is Quick Auctions because it is faster and less tedious to use. Quick Auctions is designed to move massive amounts of items by allowing you to easily set up your prices and quantities.
Now that you know the secret to making a lot of gold in World of Warcraft, you should be able to easily afford that epic flying mount!
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