When you are new to the game, it can be very difficult to figure out how to make gold in WoW. I found that even when I had been playing the game for a while and had several high level characters, I still had trouble gathering the gold to buy my epic mounts. What made things worse was that other players seemed to easily find all the gold they needed for everything they wanted to do in the game.
If you find that you have the same problems, fear not! Help is at hand! It really is easy to make gold in WoW once you figure out a few simple tricks. All you need to do is figure out what items other players are willing to buy and how you can easily and quickly get a lot of those items.
The most important trick is to understand that other players will pay well for items that will advance their characters and also that many of them will rather buy those items from you at the Auction House than go out and find them themselves. Good examples are items that can be used to upgrade professions and items that can be used to quickly boost factions.
Some items only sell well during special events. This is good news for you, because it means you can buy them cheaply at other times, and then sell them for much more when in demand. Keep an eye on the patch notes and other sources for information on recipes and special event quests and stock up on the mats they’ll use. A good one is the small eggs, which are usually very cheap, they are popular during Winterveil every year because they are an ingredient for the quest item. Ginger cookies.
A plugin like Auctioneer is very important and will help you earn gold much faster and with less effort. Auctioneer maintains a database of information about items on the auction house and their prices so it can tell you what the best price is for your items at any given time. It also has some great features that allow you to find items that are selling cheaply so you can buy and resell them for a profit.
But the most important advice I can give you is one that works at any level and that doesn’t cost you much to start; i.e. take two gathering professions (Skinning, Mining, Herbalism). Don’t worry about crafting professions (blacksmithing, tailoring, engineering, etc.) until you’re higher level and have some gold in your bank because they can be expensive and time consuming. Start with mining and skinning. Mining is very profitable right now and skinning is easy because you’re killing the beasts while doing the quest anyway, so you won’t have to put in the effort to skin them.
Once you’ve discovered a few secrets like these, you’ll never have to worry about your bank balance in WoW again. The gold will keep coming!
