May 20, 2008
How to make gold in world of warcraft in 4 easy steps
In world of warcraft knowing how to make gold world of warcraft is a real life skill integrated in the game. Basically it is like real world economics of buying low and sell high, whether it's commodity, luxury or essential item or food which is required in the game by the millions of players (9 million at the last count) in the game. There is myriad ways to make gold but the most common are making gold at the auction, gathering items which you can either sell at auction or vendors, making money from professions and by grinding.
Making gold from the auction house: for this you will need to use the search button and check the prices of items. Buy low and sell at the higher price is the key. It can become fairly time consuming to spend time in this way at the auction house and it is not uncommon for some players doing this more than anything else such is the time and dedication that you need to put into it. Nevertheless this can be made more comfortable by utilising the auctioneer add on to run down prices leaving you a good idea of what prices are like on your server and enable you to undercut other players so you can sell quicker. Or you can use it to find items that are greatly under priced so you can re-sell quickly at a profit. The best thing you can do is to always make your auction as short as possible, like two hours, at times when the servers are busy like in the evening when everyone is at home.
Skins you can trade for considerably more at the auction house rather than vendors because you will always have higher level players who have lots of gold and will pay for skins to create armor etc, rather than go out themselves killing the mobs. And anyhow they use the skins to make far more valuable items than what they pay for the skins. In fact they pay for the convenience of not having to do the skinning so it is a win win situation.
Players on some servers can make up to 100 to 200 gold each hour. Remeber that it's not just fish that you can catch, depending on your level of xp, but also blue and rare purples that command hundreds if not thousands of gold at the auction house.
Grinding is by far the most boring way to make gold in gold of warcraft but it is the most tried and tested way to make it. And if you know where to look in the games, some zones yield far more than other zones. Knowing where to grind can make the difference of making 100 gold a day from making 100 gold an hour. I know which I option I would prefer.


