III. General Tips
I want to start first by offering some general tips and tricks which will allow you to make gold more efficiently,
easily, and effectively. This section will outline some small steps you can take right from the start, to get your World of
Warcraft character out on the right foot. While you don’t need to follow all of these steps it is recommended that you at
least take them into consideration and in mind when you are playing the game.
- Get the Auctioneer addon! This program is great and will help maximize your returns at the auction house if you learn
how to use it (visit the forums on their webpage). You can download it by CLICKING HERE.
- Learn how to use macros. Not only do they make the game easier for you but they allow you to be more efficient in
your activities. This means that you can quest, farm, level, and grind faster!
- If you want to gain lots of money starting from the beginning, you should choose mining and skinning as your
professions. If you want to make money later in the game fishing is your best bet as you won't make much use out of it
until you have around 150+ fishing skill. While fishing may be boring it pays!
- Do every possible quest you can. Questing is not only the best way to level, but it is also a good way to make money
and gain items. Especially early in the game.
- Learn to use the auction house. The AH can make you some serious gold regardless of if you are dealing in potions,
epic weapons, or reagents. Learning to use it can be tricky and take some time but it pays off well when a hot item
comes into demand!
- Do not buy any items/equips for your character until you are over level 15. You don’t need them and quests will
provide you with good enough items to survive off of early in the game. Don’t waste your time and money!
- Buy your backpacks as early as possible! And remember, the biggest is the best! The more items you can hold the
more money you stand to make.
- Consider having multiple characters on the same server (an alternative character). Create a character that you don’t
play much and station him/her in a capital city. This can be helpful if you have extra materials that can be processed
and resold. Simply send them to your ALT to process and then send them back to your main character.
- Do not take Engineering or Blacksmithing as your professions.
- Pick up every single item you find. Sell grey items to vendors and sell white trade goods, greens, and blues in the
auction house.
- Buy and find limited recipes. Most recipes can be bought from a specific vendor however some can only be bought
once or maybe twice from a vendor in a certain time frame. These recipes with limited availability usually sell very
well.
- If you hold shift but on while looting, you save a few seconds. It all adds up!
- When you sell stuff in the auction house always put a buyout price on your items. This will help you sell them faster.
Also, make sure to set the buyout price slightly lower than what others are selling it for.
- Fight mobs that are 1-4 levels below you. The faster you kill mobs, the more money you will gain and the more items
you will get!
- Get a mount as soon as possible. This should be your main focus. The faster you can travel, the more money you can
make.
- If possible, try to level your character by killing beasts and humanoids. If you are a skinner, you can skin the beasts
you have slain. And humanoids will drop coins every time.
- Look out for neutral auction houses. With a lit le patience you can make good money selling recipes, pets, and items
through them.
- Get WoW addons. There are programs out there that can interact with your World of Warcraft game and assist you in
various tasks ranging from quests, coordinates, item locations, and much more! Visit Curse.com to browse some!
- True money making starts after level 10! So do not waste your time by farming things when you are below 10. You
want to level up to 10 as soon as possible. However, you will also gain lots of money even at level 1 if you choose
mining and skinning as a profession.
