money making - so easy, you'll think you've gone retarded!Follow

I've been a long time viewer of Allakhazam since my days of Everquest but have only recently become a member.

I've been using the guides here to help give me the edge on my WoW character. While many of the guides are great! I personally have found the gold making guides to be complex or confusing. I have written up a little guide that I hope will help people.

I apologize if this isn't in the proper location, lol




This is going to be a very simple guide. I probably won't go into great details because figuring these out should be fairly simple for everyone. I've gone through a lot of guides and tutorials about money making and they are all bullcrap or way to complex.

First we'll do professions. Let me state now that if you want to make real money, you'll drop the professions you have and pick this up (unless you already have them, then you probably don't need this guide).


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Mining + Enchanting (or Disenchanting, more so)

1. Mining - There isn't much to be said about this. Even a stack of copper ore can easily go for 2g on most servers I've played on. At level 10, 2g is the world! So you can imagine what the other ores sell for. Pretty simple, huh? Mine ore, Auction it! And always check current Auction House pricing to compare your Buyout price to.

2. Enchanting (disenchant) - I really didn't pick this up to throw enchants on myself, though it has come in handy. It's fairly simple, through-out the game, you're going to come across gear that you don't need. The materials that will spawn due to disenchanting are worth more (almost always) than they are going to be putting it up for Auction or vendoring it.
- what I like to do is, when I build up mats, enchant my gear with whatever I can, and Auction the rest. Materials (or mats) go for big bucks on most servers.

Wow, that's so easy huh? So easy it must not work? WRONG!, Using this technique, I was able to build vast amounts of gold on my newly formed horde character by level 15. At that level, I had over 45g... which if you don't have a high level alt on a server to back you up, is a ton of gold!
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Helpful tips....
Sometimes you'll come across a vendor who sells a limited number of greens. These are usually cheap and produce materials which can sell in auction for more than you paid for the item.

Even when you hit higher levels (20-30-40) and are running short on gold with no veins to mine in sight, make a quick run to a newbie zone and farm it. This is a great way to gain some quick cash!

Feel free to replace mining with herb. I just find mining, at lower levels at least, as/more consistent and hence why I recommend it as a money maker.

Edited, Sep 18th 2007 8:33am by UnderTheGun

Well I never read the actual forums, after posting I seen that this is a huge discussion for everyone. Still, some people may find it helpful, and I looked forward to my first post being a contribution to the site.

oh well

You have a level 15 character with 45 gold. Where did you find enough greens by lvl 15 to disenchant to get all that gold. You must have had a higher level alt feed you some o' dem greens...

OhMikeGod said in the DE for money thread that he created an alt that started DE with 50s and was able to ramp it up. Having a high level alt is just going to speed up the process.

Also, to D/E an item, what level in enchanting do I need to have?

I play three characters at the same time. I have 3 accounts and one computer. I started all three together and they are now lvl 38 mage, lvl 37 pally and a lvl 38 hunter. This allows me to always have my own group, the mage is for dps, food+water and ports, the pally is rezzes,heals and buffs and the hunter is tank. The unique thing for me is that as a single player i have 6 professions: mining,herbalism,skinning,leather-working, enchanting,tailoring. I basically gather everything and DE where I need to. I also every day buy up bargains and resell usually in one day.

I would get two addons to help:
The new 4.0 auctioneer, http://auctioneeraddon.com/ This has a mode to scan AH and find bargains for you.

The gatherer addon http://gathereraddon.com/dl/ remembers where you found minerals, plants, chests and marks them on your map. This allow sgoing back to the same spot. A unique feature of the gatherer is that it shares the locations of the things you find with all the members of your guild (their maps update with your info).

Currently i find skinning/leatherworking getting me about 1g per stack of leather, DE getting me lots of ingredients and mining always selling. My herbalism is only 120 so it hasn't been as fruitful, but i raised it 20 points u=just yesterday. When i reach lvl 40 with these three i will be able to do more with the mounts.

I would say the easiest way to get money so far has been using the AH and the auctioneer. I found someone selling 20 tin ore for 15s, bought it and sold it 15 minutes later for 1g.

As i go on quests with my three i just gather everything. I always empty my bags (put partial quest items i am not working into the bank). I do not need to bring water or food thanks to the mage. My pet is a boar so it eats anything so i have no recurring costs. My builds are a fire mage, a healing pally and a beast master hunter. It is enjoyable to play.

good luck

uhh how do you make money at 70?

I'm poor, and farming to get my leatherworking up is a huge pain in the ***. I have never figured out how to make money.

disenchanting? eventually you will have to enchant stuff as you won't get skill ups from disenchanting. You can't disenchant high level items if you enchanting is low (I know, I tried :)). so you have to use those disenchanted mats for enchanting. Money lost right there. Enchanting is no way to make money until you have it maxed out or close to it. You need enchants people actually want. No one wants my low or mid level enchants :(

I have to face it and realize the way to make gold is boring. dailies.

instead I'll just abandon my char. At 70 the game ceases to become fun and turns into a job.

My sense is that you've "never figured out how to make money" because you spend more time whining than reading/learning. With as many posts as you have, I'd have thought you'd read some guides here that explain various aspects of how to make money. Since I'm feeling like a pompous yet charitable *** tonight, I'll review the basics for you one more time.

1) There are too many players and too few "production" professions (ie. BS, LW, Tailoring, etc.) to expect to be able to turn a profit from any of them in any significant amounts. The market for most items these professions create is almost always flooded, and in their haste to recover at least some of the value in materials that went into producing their goods, players undercut one another to the extent that they'd have made more gold selling the raw materials than the finished goods.

2) Blizzard knows this. Why do you think a lot of the really good crafted epics are BoP? It's an incentive and reward for people to skill up the profession, since earning gold isn't a benefit that comes with the package.

3) Enchanting is only expensive to level from 350 onwards. There are a couple of demanding spots prior to that, but it all balances out. By the time you're rolling with enough seed money to cruise the auction and buy all of the green items priced low enough to turn a reliable profit, you're producing a very large quantity of materials on a regular basis. Some of those go to skilling the profession, the rest are sold to cover costs (and usually with a noteworthy profit on top of it).

4) Spending gold is the fastest and easiest way to make sure you remain broke. Since leveling in WoW is such a rapid process, spending gold on blues/purples prior to level 70 is a phenomenal waste. Going the extra mile and putting pricy enchants on anything pre-70 (unless you're a twink) is also a phenomenal waste.

I don't even put any serious effort into earning gold anymore. I cruise the auction for 65-70 greens and keep a very small supply of the resulting materials on auction. If I were to suddenly anticipate a major expense on the horizon, I could empty my enchanting materials out of the bank and onto auction and when they sold I'd have an extra 2000g or so to play with. That says nothing of the several hundred gold worth of ore sitting on my various alts. Since hitting Exalted with Skyguard, I might do 2-5 dailies a day while I'm trying to find a group for the next instance, but beyond that my on-hand reserve hovers at a fairly steady 1000-1500g. Socketing gear is very pricy and I just respecced so I sell a little of this and a little of that, run the occasional daily, and then buy a gem or two. I have no concerns about the sustainability of my income, and keeping an adequate trickle coming in is almost an effortless process.

Dont forget the alt's which are powerlevelled to 300 or 375 enchanting, the sugerdaddies will invest in a quick level-up and pay for it (vision dus, nether essences)

You can take it slow and use a portion of your mats for enchanting your own bracers, etc for skillups. This is the no money out of your pocket approach.

Alternatively, if you are impatient like me, you can invest a few hundred gold power leveling to 300 enchanting.

Let's see, I spent a couple hundred one day, but have gotten back several thousand in profit. I now have an alt with his own self supporting business, and the daily profit keeps coming in.

Either way, it's an opportunity to make cash without much risk, and without having to always kill stuff.

well I don't know about you guys but I found enchanting to be easy as heck! Disenchanting crap items you find from mobs or in quest is great. On top of that, if I ever had a few extra coins to spare, I always went into the auction house, searched for items around the level I needed for disenchanting, bought them till I felt the prices were getting too high (you can usually get 3-5-6 at a reasonably cheap price).

From there, I'd use my own gear for enchanting purposes and level my skill up. I was about 250 within a week doing this method.

I only got my skill level over 300 to be able to disenchant any epics I found useless that were soulbound. Other than that, just get yourself to 275 and you shouldn't have any worries about disenchanting for money!


And I should mention, you don't have to disenchant higher level items to make money from the mats. PEOPLE WILL BUY THE LOWBIE STUFF!