MINING/ENGINEERING

Engineering isn’t a really good way to make gold in my opinion but if you still want to pick this as a gold earning profession: Here are the usefull stuff.

For yourself: Engineering provides you a nice Hand enchant which grants 400 haste on use with a 1min CD.

Till 450, Engineering will only profit you by some usefull bombs and scopes (if you are a hunter) besides the hand enchant. You can consider making yourself some bombs to help you out in questing and BGs.

When 450 engineering only profits you with some Scopes to sell on the Auction House and Mechano-Hog mounts. Mechano-hog recipe can be bought from the Warsong Offensive Vendor by reputation. And to make it you will need a lot of mats (which cost around 12K in Total if you buy them). You can grind the Titansteel bars yourself with mining and buying Titansteel CDs.

Mechano-Hogs can be sold for 12-15k G depending on the server but there is always a risk of people not buying it and being stuck with the 12k G spent for the mats. Making the mechano-hog is really risky.

Apart from the mount you can only make scopes and sell them on the auction house at 450 skill level. Hunters will probably be looking for these scopes and they go for around 40g per scope.

These are what you can do to earn gold with Engineering, But again it is NOT a recommended way to earn gold. By making these few things to earn gold, you can also farm mines with mining to sell on the Auction House. But the profit you will earn is nearly Half of the other profession combinations. You should only pick this if you really want the mount or hand enchant, scopes and bombs.

TAILORING/ENCHANTING

Another pair of professions: Tailoring and Enchanting. Tailoring is basicly useful for making Cloth items so you would probably want to pick these for a cloth-wearer character such as a Priest, Warlock or Mage.

Tailoring and Enchanting both dont have a skill bonus, but with Tailoring you can enchant your own cloaks with embodiers with skills such as “your spell casts have a chance to increase your spellpower for 299) which are quite powerfull compared to regular cloak enchants, and enchanting allows you to Enchant your Rings: which no one else can do.

To be able to level tailoring you will need a huge amount of cloth so you should choose levelling in areas with a majority of Humanoid mobs. To be eble to level Enchanting you will definitely need a profession which crafts disenchantable items such as Tailoring, Leatherworking and Blacksmithing.

 But since Leatherworking requires Skinning or Blacksmithing requires Mining in order to save a huge amount of gold, the best choice is Tailoring becaue Tailoring doesnt need a gathering profession to accompany it.

You will basicly be levelling Tailoring with Enchanting by making items with Tailoring and Disenchanting them with Enchanting to get enchanting Mats to skill it up.

At low levels there arent much to do with enchanting then to skill it up and enchant your own items.

With tailoring you can make some green items to sell on the auction house for a low price to earn a few extra coins.

Tailoring starts profiting when you are able to make Netherweave bags. You can sell them on the auction house and trust me, the first bag people buy for their alts is Netherweave bag! Even though they only sell for around 15g you can make nice amounts of it if you make enough.

At 450 You will be able to make Frostweave bags, and some usefull leg enchants for Casters only. You would want to consider making lots of leg enchants according to the demand on your server, and also making loads of Frostweave bags to earn some gold.

You should also look out for nice epic item recipes. People will want to get them or have them crafted. Just like in Leatherworking or Blacksmithing, you can either make them yourself and sell them on the Auction House for 1.3K to a maximum of 8-9k Gold, or craft them with peoples own mats for a nice amount of fee.

Enchanting on the other hand is quite useless untill you are able to make some usefull enchants (approximately around 400 skill point to 450)

When you have enchanting skilled high enough, you can start selling the extra mats on the Auction House, Since EVERYONE WILL NEED ENCHANTS and not everyone picks enchanting, so they will buy the mats from the auction house.

After getting to 450, you can start linking your enchanting on Trade to find costumers ( and trust me you wont wait a second to get one!) and start enchanting their items for a nice amount of fee. Enchanting items dont really require a high amount of fee, but many people will get enchants done and you will see that you are actually making nice amounts of gold off it!

MINING/JEWELCRAFTING

Mining/Jewelcrafting is probably one of the most gold making professions in WoW.

We did talk about mining in the Part VII, so we will talk about the basics of Jewelcrafting and making gold off it.

Jewelcrafting is simply about making jewelery such as rings, Necklaces and gems out of mines and uncut gems. So again you will need to grind every mine you encounter and you will also want to keep any kind of gem you find! (Like Malachite, Shadowgem, Tigerseye in low levels, Aquamarine, Jade and Citrine at higher levels and so on)

You will basicly need mines + GEMS to level your Jewelcrafting.

The Bonus of Jewelcrafting is that you can create and use 3 Gems which only Jewelcrafters can use, and which are nearly twice as powerful as regular Epic Gems. So Jewelcrafting can be picked by anyone.

Jewelcrafting can pay off at any level, but of course the higher skill you have, the better profit it gives.

Starting from low levels you can make various Rings, and Necklaces. Dont bother selling the greens on the Auction House since they wont really profit you. But definitely sell the blue rings and necklaces on the AH at low levels. Twink players will definitley like those blue miscellaneous items you sell

Jewelcrafting needs caution when levelling tho. If you try skilling it up by the wrong way it will only cost you more mines and Time. Visit wow-professions.com for an epic JC Levelling guide!

At 450, Jewelcrafting can earn you around 2K gold per 3 hours or so (depending on your luck).

You will first have to start off by getting some useful epic gem recipes. To do that you need 10x Titanium Powder to get 1 Jewelcrafting token from the trainer in Dalaran, and 4  tokens to get 1 epic gem cut recipe.  You can earn 1 token every day by just doing the daily JC Quest. Dont miss that one!

You will have to farm lots and lots of titanium ore as well. Titanium ores can give Titanium Powders when prospected by chance. And with farming titanium + doing the dailies you will earn new recipes everday. Do this untill you have enough recipes to link your Jewelcrafting in Trade to craft gems for a fee (usually 10g per cut but depends on the server)

When you are picking your recipes to learn you must be VERY CAREFUL. If you pick the wrong recipes you will be wasting 100g-175g worth gems!

Here is a list of Gems which sell the most on the auction house: Try getting these recipes first!

Solid Majestic Zircon

Runed Scarlet Ruby

Bright Scarlet Ruby

Bold Scarlet Ruby

Thick King’s Amber

Quick King’s Amber

Mystic King’s Amber

Brilliant King’s Amber

The off-gems (Eye Of Zul, Ametrine and Dreadstone) can also be sold for a good price on the auction house. Especially the ones which give stat + stamina for PVP but the selling of these depends on your servers. So you might want to check the AH prices before getting recipes for these gems.

After having these recipes, you can begin farming titanium ores to prospect them and get some Epic gems out of them, cut them and sell them. You can of course sell gems without cutting them but Cut gems are worth more gold than uncut gems.

Remember to make Icy Prism EVERYDAY! it has a 20hour CD and you basicly can do it everyday. You have a chance to get epic gems out of it and you probably wouldn’t want to miss it!

Coming to the Rare gems: they are also worth some gold on the Auction House. But the value differes a lot. You should be carefull before putting some on the Auction House and check if theyre sold or not.

You will gain approximately 2-4 Rare gems per 1 stack Titanium ore Prospect so you will want to cut and sell these as well even though they arent worth as much as epix. But they sure do sell on the auction house. The most valuable rare gem is Scarlet Ruby. You can either sell it cut or uncut because people will need to buy scarlet ruby moe often than any other rare gem.

You would like AtlasLoot to see what gem recipes you can get from Dungeons&Raids and Faction Reputations before getting started. Rare gem recipes can sometimes be bought from factions with reputation (For example Runed Scarlet Ruby recipe is sold by a Kirin Tor Vendor and needs exalted reputation to buy)

After checking those recipes and getting some usefull rare gem recipes as well, you are ready to grind some insane gold out of Jewelcrafting!

MINING/BLACKSMITHING

Another profitable profession combo is Mining/Blacksmithing. Mining allows you to gather various ores and smelt them into bars and blacksmithing allows you to make useful items of the bars.

Mining’s bonus skill is Toughness, which increases your stamina so it is more useful to pick this as a Tank class character.

Just like any other gathering professions you will have to gather every mine you encounter from the beginnig. As you skill up you will be able to gather different kinds of mines. Mining gives you a skill, Track Minerals , which you MUST have it on all the time,  and allows you to track mines on your minimap.

Blacksmithing doesnt profit much at low level. It still makes gold but not as much as when its 450. At low levels, you can make Green items which are basicly designed for Warriors, and Paladins, and sell them on the Auction house. Twinks will definitely prefer Greens to Whites on their Chars so they will buy them.

At 450, Blacksmithing starts profiting really good.

The first profit of Blacksmiting is Eternal Belt Buckle, which EVERYONE needs to add an extra socket on their belts.

You can make tons of Eternal Belt Buckles and sell them on the Auction House. They sell for good prices on every realm. On my realm they go for 35g per one Eternal Belt Buckle. NOT BAD!

Secondly, You should keep an eye out for at least 245 level item recipes. You can either make them on your own and sell them on the Auction House for at least 1.3K to a maximum of 8-9K, OR you can link your Blacksmithing in Trade channel to Craft items for people with their mats for a good amount of fee.

245 Level items can be crafted for around 100-150 g fee and the ICC recipes which are 264 level, can be crafted for at least 250g fee Depending on your Server and peoples demands.

You can also make level 60+ greens to sell on the auction house, since enchanters will buy them if not to use, but to disenchant at least. They can go for a couple of golds buyouts on the AH.

Mining also has its profits if farmed at 450. Titanium is the most valuable mineral on WoW and will remain so untill The Cataclysm comes out. Titanium sells pretty good in Ores or in Bars. And miners can also create 1 Titansteel bar every 20 hours which sells for at least 120g in the Auction House per 1.

You can either choose to farm titanium and sell them in ores or bars (both sell for around 300g per stack), or farm titanium, ask for Titansteel CD’s from people (the fee is around 20g) and sell them in Titansteel Bar stacks in 5, 10 or 20 (which I definitely recommend if you want big amount of gold at once)

Saronite is also a valuable mineral. Some professions use saronite (like engineering) and they will probably buy some from the Auction House, and if nothing else, 1 stack of Saronite Bar has 25g Vendor price. You will encounter many saronite deposits when farming Titanium, DONT PASS THEM! They sell for nice prices in the AH as ores or bars, or you can simply sell them to Vendors for a  25g/stack price.

HERBALISM / INSCRIPTION

Another pair of professions to get gold is Herbalism and Inscription. We have talked about Herbalism before, and now we will talk a little about inscription and how to make gold with it.

The bonus skill of Inscription is that it allows you to make shoulder enchants on yourself when its at 450, so it doesnt really matter what race/class you are to pick this one.

Inscription allows you to make scrolls, armor and weapon vellums and Glyphs.

You basicly gather herbs with Herbalism, mild them with inscription and use the inks you get with milding to scribe. So you will have to gather every single herb you encounter while levelling. Very much like all the other professions, inscription gives its best profit when its 450 but it also allows you to make gold during the skilling process.

To level inscription from 1-450 the fastest way, you can visit wow-professions.com and search for a inscription levelling guide. The best guides are in that site!

Coming to the important parts of this profession: Making gold.

Inscription basicly profits from the Glyphs, but not all glyphs cost good in the Auction House.

Instead of making every glyph you can, focus more on the glyhps people will HAVE to buy. For example Minor Glyphs which are about “your [skill] no longer costs a reagent” will definitely sell well on the AH. Mages dont like gathering Light Feather for Slow Fall ability, or Shamans dont like buying Ankhs for their Reincarnation abilities so they will definitely buy those minor glyhps.

As major glyphs, you should focus on the glyphs which class/specs should Definitely have to be a good Tank/DPS/Healer. To figure what these glyphs are, you can search Wowwiki for the best spec talent builds with glyphs and focus on making those to sell at the Auction House.

Another part of inscription which makes gold is the armor and weapon vellums. Those vellums allow enchanters to scribe an enchant on the scroll and sell them on the Auction House instead of trading the mats and enchanting them personally. So its basicly easier for enchanters and they will buy those vellums on the auction house.

You can make a certain amount of vellums, sell them on the auction house and make gold of it. Of course like all the other professions you will have to farm some herbs in order to craft goods to sell, and again for Herbalism, you can use the materials you need, and sell the rest on the auction house.

Herbalism Tips: At 450, the best selling herbs on the Auction House are Lichbloom, Frost Lotus, and Icethorn since they are used to make flasks by alchemists, and Crystallized Life can be sold for good prices on the auction house as well. But of course as Eternal Life.

Keep an eye out for the crystallized life you get from herbs, convert them into Eternal Life’s and sell them on the auction house as well. Eternal Life is used by various other professions such as Alchemy to transmute gems.  

Basicly: Focus on the commonly used Glyphs, sell them on the AH, Gather herbs, sell those you dont need, and sell Eternal Life’s on the auction house!

HERBALISM/ALCHEMY

Herbalism is the gathering profession of two other Professions: Alchemy and Inscription. We will be giving tips about Alchemy here to help you make a fortune with Herbalism and Alchemy.

Taurens have a racial skill bonus +10 on Herbalism so you may want to consider chosing this for a Tauren character. But its not a big deal.  Herbalism’s skill bonus is a Healing overtime effect, so it would be better off to choose it for a non-healer character such as a DK, Warrior, Hunter, and Rogue.

Herbalism gives you the skill to Track Herbs. You must have this tracking on all the time to gather the most herbs around while levelling and questing, Even in dungeons.

At low skill levels, herbalism doesnt give a fortune, but as you keep skilling it up to 450 the profit builds up. At low levels you can use the herbs to improve your alchemy and sell the rest on the auction house with a price of 3g per stack up to 30g per stack depending on the herb.

So Basicly, have your Track Herbs on all the time and gather every herb you can!

And with alchemy you will start off with making healing or mana potions and battle or defence elixirs for your own profit. At low levels you will also like considering making a few extra Healing and Mana potions and all other useful potions such as the Battle elixirs increasing your Agility, Strenght or Intellect and selling them on the Auction House.

People will need those potions while levelling and will want to buy them from the AH. But like all the other professions, Alchemy gives the best profit at 450 skill level.

As you level up and skill up in Alchemy, you will begin to make more powerfull elixirs. Sell every thing which you will not need while levelling on the Auction house untill you have 450 skill level.

At a skill level of 325, you will be able to choose of the 3 masteries of Alchemy, Potion Mastery, Elixir Mastery and Master of Transmutation.

Potion Mastery allows you to get greater results when creating potions

Elixir Mastery allows you to get greater results while creating Flasks and Elixirs

Transmutation Mastery Allows you to get greater results when Transmuting.

Our suggestion is Either Elixir Mastery or Master of Transmutation. The more Flasks or Gems you have, the more gold you will make!

When your alchemy hits 450 you can start farming Frost Lotus to make Flasks and sell them on the Auction House. The Best place to farm Frost Lotus is Wintergrasp. (For a Detailed map you can go to www.thottbot.com and search for Frost Lotus )

The best way of making gold in Alchemy and herbalism is the Flasks and Gems. The Flasks are sold in seconds after you auction them, and the gems are something EVERYONE needs. So if you chose Transmutation mastery: Transmute 1 epic gem every day: and Farm Frost Lotus for a while when you think you have enough flasks to earn gold.

Dont forget to take the Transmutation Quest from the Alchemy Master in Dalaran. That will allow you to make Cardinal Ruby which Alchemy.

When transmuting you should feel free to buy the mats for the epic gems since the profit will cover that up and even bring gold into your backpack.  For Cardinal Ruby for example: Eternal fire is around 30g, and Scarlet ruby is the same, so spending 60g and you will earn at least 170g from the Cardinal Ruby on Ah. That means 110 g profit. Not Bad!

You can also consider getting the gems cut before you sell them to make even more profit. There are loads of Jewelcrafters to cut a gem for 10g so basicly for example for a Runed Scarlet Ruby, you will spend 60+10= 70 g and earn around 220g from it = 150g profit in total!

IF you have Elixir Mastery, what you can do is quite simple. Farm frost lotus, make flasks and sell them on AH.

And while farming frost lotus you will find a great amount of Frozen Herb, Icethorn and Lichbloom. You might also want to consider selling them as stacks on the AH after using the amount you need for flasks

Icethorn has a 20g/stack price on my server and if you ask me, its not bad at all! Since you will gather around 100 icethorns after farming for 1 hour.

PROFESSIONS

Now we will be giving you some useful information about how to combine your professions and make a fortune out of it! And since every gathering profession has its own bonus skill: We will also be talking about the best class/profession combinations as well.

SKINNING/LEATHERWORKING

Skinning is the best gathering profession to combine with leatherworking. Since the items you craft in LW requires a big amount of leather, Skinning will help you out. You basicly skin the corpses of Beasts with skinning to gather leather and you would want to level in places with a big amount of Beast kind mobs

Skinning’s bonus skill is Master of Anatomy: Increases critical strike rating. So basicly you can pick these professions with any class which might use a little more critical strike rating.

 But to be able to actually USE and sell the good epic crafts when you level your profession to 450: we would suggest you to pick this profession with a Rogue, Hunter, Shaman or Druid. Leatherworkers only craft Leather and Mail items so it would be useless for your own item benefit if you pick this profession with a cloth or plate wearer class.

Leatherworking also has its own enchants which only the Leatherworker can Profit such as Enchants on Bracers which give extra 130 Attack Power , 102 Stamina or 70 Spell Power. So Hunters, Rogues, Shamans and Druids  will be the classes to profit the most of Leatherworking profession.

And coming to the gold-earning part:

From 1 to 450 skill level, skinning allows you to save some leather to level your Leatherworking and also allows you to sell the rest in the Auction House. Some other professions also require Leather every once in a while and people will HAVE to buy some from the Auction House. For Example to make Boots in Tailoring: the tailor needs the leather as well as cloth.

Skin every beast you slay. Even in Dungeons! And after being done with that kind of leather in Leatherworking: Sell the rest on the auction house. Do this untill you are level 80 and your both professions are 450.

After hitting 450, you will be able to gather Arctic Fur from beasts with a rare drop rating. Arctic Fur is a rare leather used in Various professions including Leatherworking

. To be able craft the Epic goods of Leatherworking you will need approximately 5-8 Arctic Fur depending on the recipe. Keep an eye out for the Beasts in dungeons and gather as much as arctic fur you can.

Another thing to be farmed in skinning is Borean Leather. It has a good selling price in the Auction House and is easy for you to skin.

And for Leatherworking: Keep an eye out for the epic recipes which drops from certain Raids. (To see what raids drop recipes you would like the addon AtlasLoot) These recipes are Bind On Equip items and are sellable. 

After Having a few epic recipes (Dont bother for epic items below level 245 since they wont be much profit) you can either craft these items yourself and sell them on AH with at least 1.5K Gold price to a maximum of 5-6K gold, you can also Craft them for people with a certain amount of fee with their mats. (For example in my Server the 245 epics require 100 gold fee to craft, and 264 level epics require 400 gold Fee to craft. Not bad at all!)

Leatherworkers also make Leg Enchants which sell for a really nice price in the Auction House. Whenever you have the mats, Make the most commonly used Leg Enchants and sell them on the auction house!

Some certain classes especially Tanks will need the Leg Enchants and will buy them from AH. Those enchants have a price around 150g to a Maximum of 350g depending on the server. And the leg enchants which give Stamina + Resillience are an excellent material for PVPers. They will certainly buy those from the Auction House!

So basicly, go out skinning farming every once in a while for Borean Leather, Keep an eye out for Arctic Fur from dungeon&Raid beasts, and definitely go raiding for the epic item recipes! Spam your leatherworking skill in trade and people will /w you with the item they want to be crafted. Offer a reasonable fee and earn gold!

GENERAL TIPS

We Will start by giving you a few general tips about making gold easy, efficient and fast. These arent all necessary to follow but you should at least keep them in mind while you are playing the game, so that you wouldnt waste your time on doing the wrong things to make gold in the first place.

*Get the Auctioneer AddOn! This AddOn will help you maximize your profit from the AH when you learn to use it (Visit their forums to learn more about the AddOn) (You can download all the WoW AddOns from www.curse.com )

*Complete every quest you can. Quests are not only a way to level fast but also a way to earn gold and items. (To be able to complete quests quicker, we suggest you the QuestHelper and Cartographer Addon combo)

*Learn how to use the Auction House Properly. Even though it may take some time to learn every single trick of the AH, the profit is unbeliavable.

*Do not bother to buy items for you character untill you are level 80. Since the new LFG system allows you to instantly find dungeon gruops and gives you a Sack Of Helpful Goods which contains one Rare item of your level; You really dont need to spend all your money on low level items. And if you also have the Shoulder, Chest and Weapon Hierlooms your job is even more easier.

*Buy your backpacks as soon as possible! The bigger you have, more money you make. With big bags you can carry and sell more items in a shorter time period.

*Do not take Engineering or Blacksmithing as your professions untill you are level 80 and able to farm all the materials to level these professions.

*Loot every single item you find. You can later on sell the grey and white items to the vendors, and sell the Greens, Blues and the white trade goods in the Auction House. (Tip: Holding down shift while looting will make you instantly loot all the items on the corpse. Saves time!)

*Buy and find Limited recipes. Most recipes can simply be bought from a vendor but is for a limited time period. Limited availability recipes usually sell very well.

*When you are selling items on the Auction House, Always put a buyout price as well as bid price. it will help you sell your items quicker. Remember to always put your items slightly cheaper than the person on the top of the list in the AH.

*Try to get a mount as soon as possible. This should be your main goal. The faster you travel, the faster you make gold.

*Try levelling in areas with Humanoid or Beast mobs. You can always loot coins and cloth from Humanoids and you can skin the Beasts.

*Get the AddOns that will help you through the proccess. (Cartographer, Questhelper, Gatherer, Auctioneer, AtlasLoot are the 5 most important AddOns to make gold)

*True money-making starts around level 20-30 so dont waste your time trying to make gold before that! Level up to 20 as soon as you can, then you will find all you need to start making gold.

KNOWING THE WOW ECONOMY

To be able to earn tons of gold you definitely need to know how the WoW economy works. World of Warcraft is basicly a free-market economy. And since its a game, its a little different from the real world, with more advantages.

 And the most essential thing in the WoW economy is the Auction House. That should be the main base of your task to earn gold. The Auction House is of course not the only way, since we can always grind, run instances and much more but it is easy, open 24/7 and charges fairly low Tax for the items you put on!

In addition: Monopolies and Cartels are totally legal in WoW unlike the real economy. And this is because WoW is designed in such a way that monopolies and cartels actually help the economy! Driving up prices stimulate the economy and helps not only you, but all the players to profit more from the WoW economy.

Another very important thing in WoW economy is the price differences depending on servers. Not every server has the same price of the goods in the AH, so you should’nt just go around the web and depend on the prices you see there, but you should personally check the AH prices to determine what items to grind, recipes to get and make

. The prices of the goods in AH depends on the demand on that server, and changes majorly. To Give an example: in my old server Sylvanas (EU): Silver Bar was an expensive item and was sold in seconds after I put it in the AH (A price around 100g per stack) but in my new server Bladefist (EU) even though I put 1 stack of silver bar for 45g it doesnt sell at all.

Gold. Every player has a dream of thousands of gold in her/his backpack. We will be talking about how to legally make that happen without using hacks or anything illegal!

Of course there is a lot to know about making gold in WoW but giving them all away at once will just be confusing. We will basicly introduce you to this series of articles and show you the steps to being rich in WoW one by one.

As a seasoned WoW Player I use the auction house very often everyday. It takes about 30 mins total per day but the profit is definitely worth it. AH is one of the keys to get loads of gold ingame. If you dont spend any time in the Auction House, you dont have a chance.

One of the best ways to earn gold is Rare-spawn mobs. Their drops are better than the average mobs. The only thing you should know about Rare Mobs are their spawn times and locations which we will be giving them later on in this article series.

Professions are the corner-stones to making gold in WoW. You will definitely need a good combined profession binary to make gold. We will be talking about the most profitable professions as well.

There are also certain Territories or dungeons where you can farm gold, items and recipes We will show you everything you need to earn gold in this series : How to Make Gold in The World of Warcraft.