World of Warcraft Ninja Secrets

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!