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AH is a great place to make money. Gadgetzan AH is worth checking once in a while, because people tend to neglect it so you can get deals there often. It works more in favor of the Horde I think, however. You will often see underpriced equipment for Shaman for sale for relatively cheap. You can turn around and resell them at Orgrimmar AH for an almost guaranteed profit.

The reason it works better for Horde is that there's consistently more Alliance on a server. So by default, there is more Alliance running instances and getting drops they do not need. There are fewer Horde, so less likely to be items on AH by Horde. Plus, paladin set items are useable by warriors if they have nothing better, so they sell reasonably well on Orgrimmar AH anyway. Shaman gear is typically far less useful to Alliance characters.

Good items to monitor price of are Cord of Elements, and Bindings of Elements, if you plan to buy at Gadgetzan and resell in Orgrimmar. Drakesfire Epaulets I've seen once or twice also at Gadget, tend to be better for shaman than any other class.

Good article. On my server ore is at a premium. So Iron and Mithril sell pretty well. Thorium goes for 4-6g per stack. I was able to do 90g in a weekend for my mount just from ore in the AH when I was in my early 30's.

One thing I have notice and it seems to be a trend in EVERY game with an economy is that as time goes by, the value of items diminishes. Leather used to be an easy way to make money, then everyone took it up because it was so easy, and I've seen prices drop nearly in half in a couple of months. There is the notion that mining and herbalism are harder to do, so those items still sell pretty well.

But the main thing is what if you are on high lvl professions and you are not willing to quit them for a bit of money here and there?
The main idea i have if you are on the lvl of 40-44 is to go to Bad Lands and kill all the stone elementals and pick up every thing they drop, they can drop upto 5 different things at once, and sell it all off, in an hour off creeping/grinding i got 4-5g, as 5 stone of its type will sell for 20-30s+ as it is easy to get, and the reason why i said these lvls as it will only take about 30seconds to kill each one and you gain good xp from it aswel.

With 300 herbalism and 300 alchemy, I can grind in a spot that has constant spawns of high level herbs and be over 100g richer in a few hours. Mountain Silversage goes for 20g a stack, you can find up to 3 in each spawn. It's so easy to make gold! As for reselling items, man do people despise that practice for some reason. I'm betting that the majority of them would do the same if they found something underpriced by 20-30g. One thing I used to look for to resell was Tiny "color" whelplings. I would buy all that were listed for around 25g and resell them, usually that same day for 50g+.

I was just going to say that as an Herbalist/Alch I can make 20-30g without trying very hard. Fadeleaf/Blindweed both are easy to gather and make 4-8g a stack. Ghost Mushrooms sell for 4-5 gold EACH. I just started gathering mountain silversage and golden sansam, so I'm sure I can make some bank off of those too! :)

I have a Hunter lvl 22 and cant figure out how to get money very well. My proffesions are Herbalism and enchanting...

but since gold is so hard to get, how they get 1000 Gold for mount? and why would they buy it???

I've been a level 60 rogue on Dunemaul now for about 3 weeks and without anymore quests to do, the only goals are to get either sick equipment or get an epic mount.

I find that farming Blood Elves in Azshara is very quick and easy. I get about 5 silver per kill and each kill takes me about 7-8 seconds (my stealth doesn't even get to finish cooling!!)In 8 hours, I made about 100g from kills alone, not including the items that dropped which I either vendored or AH'ed. Blood elves are about level 50-53.

As for an epic mount, at level 60 there really isn't much left to buy at AH anymore, so why not spend the gold? You can make it back easy enough.

Wow... just a very big difference from one server to another. On my server its 25s for light, 35s for medium, 45s for heavy... less than half of what you're getting


Enchanting is also way underpriced - people selling +5 2h weapon enchants for 4G where the reagents/their sources could be sold for 5G.

I've sold stacks of light leather for 1g...

In my low 50's I was easily making 20+ gold an hour just mining. Mithril bar stacks sell for 5+ gold, thorium for 7+, iron for 1.5, solid stone for 1.2, heavy stone for 1.8, dense stone for 2, truesilver is about 30s a bar, gold is around 20s a bar.

It would generally take me around 2 hours to fill up my packs, with 5-6 stacks of mithril bars, 4 stacks of solid stone, a stack of iron, half a stack of heavy stone, half a stack of thorium, a few dense stone, and a smattering of gold and true silver. Star ruby, citrine, or aquamarine dropped a couple times an outing.

Add it all up and you're looking at around 45 gold for a couple hours 'work'. I wasn't high enough to avoid all aggro in the searing gorge, so I was slowly leveling and getting the occasional vendor trash to sell as well.


Also, while leveling in Un'goro I pulled 2 arcane crystals from the rich thorium veins in that zone, to go with a couple stacks of bars and stones. They sold for 29g each within minutes of being put on the AH.


Skinning doesn't seem like it compares at all to mining or herbalism in terms of being able to go out and farm for gold. It's certainly nice to have as an addition while leveling, though. (And there's also the fact that using both mining and herbalism at once is not the easiest thing to do...)

i compleaty agree with all of your money making ideas and will all work.
do u know any ways of making fast amounts of money and exp when your only lvl 16/17. the ah is the fastest way i have found but if there are any better ways then could u plz help.

Me do da mining ting, but me dont sell usually, cuz me do engineering, and also help me wife out wid blacksmithin, so me dint have much money when me hit 39, best cash me could do den wuz grinding.

Me went to gadgetzan and went north through mountains, right as you exit mountain path to yer right is a lil pond with aligators, kill dem fer great grinding exp, and approx 4 gold per hour plus some green and potentially blue drops.

but fer makin da lil extra me needed at da end to git me mount, me put a stack of iron bars on AH split up to sell dem 1 at a time for 20 silver each 20 bid 20 buyout, dey sold purdy quick.

Engineers basically lose lots of money, lots and lots, but makes me a warrior much more powerful, and fun. But there is a couple ways to make some cash:

First one you run across is mechanical squirrel, you can usually buy dat schematic from AH, then sell da squirrels you make to AH, some people want one for some reason.

Second is EZ-throw dynomite, never tried selling these but dey would prolly sell ok.

Third is Advanced target dummy, make a stack and go to desolace, sell dem dere, people need dem for a quest me tinks, cuz dey always shouting any engineers that can make me Advanced target dummy please please please???

Fourth one me find is prolly da best, and me do it every time me go through Ironforge. Go buy engineer's ink and blank parchment and make a Goblin rocket fuel recipee, cost approx 25 silver to make, but you can easily sell it for about 2 gold, me usually see what others are currently selling it for and put my bid and buyout just under theirs. Me also /2 Any alch's wanna buy [Goblin Rocket Fuel Recipee] for 1 gold before I put it on AH for 2 gold buyout? Me got couple responces sometimes, and just make as many as people respond, den meet up wid dem and sell each, and put one on AH. Got hassled in /2 once buy some smartypants who said 1 gold you crazy, only costs about 2 copper materials to make, me said it just like any other craft, you pay for me to know how to make it, not for materials.

Other potentials are fishing lures, guns, ammo, and scopes. too much competition here cuz peeps level up on ammo, and guns and scopes havent sold good for me even though peeps need them. If you can get sniper scope cheap (not likely) you can make cash selling them.
Sorry fer me poor comunication skills

Being a high end engineer has prolly cost me about 200 gold, but it is worth it when I can throw a bomb that does sick damage and stuns for 3 seconds aoe after gathering up 6 mobs for my group, or when things get worse, I can also throw down a target dummy to taunt extra mobs, and when we are in real trouble, pull out the dragon, and then use jumpercables on the healur. I think anybody who wants to be a serious tank, should be an engineer, leave the flower picking to the druids, and the skinning to the hunters IMO.

Sorry was lengthy.
-Tanku (Stormrage)