WoW Tips for Gold – The Gathering

Earning gold in the World of Warcraft isn’t that big a deal. It’s pretty easy really. You can start with zip, at level 1, and by the time you hit level 70 be able to spend the 6 grand for your Epic Flying Mount (and training.) Heck, do a few things right and you’ll keep yourself in nice gear throughout your leveling.

Making the gold boils down to three things (four if you’re a Rogue:)

1) You’re going to sell stuff to the vendors
2) You’re going to sell stuff to other players
3) You’re going to do quests and get the cash rewards.
4) Rogues can pickpocket for a little extra cash.

And that’s about it. The obvious next question is: Where the heck to you get stuff that other players want to buy? Basically, you are going to gather stuff, loot stuff, or buy low and sell high.

The easiest way to get stuff to sell is with the gathering skills: mining, skinning, and herbalism. Pick any two, but I suggest mining and skinning. You’ll be fighting many many beasts, so you might as well skin them, and ore generally sells better than herbs.

Of your secondary professional skills, Fishing and Cooking can also add to your cash flow. Skip the other professional skills for now. They have a lot of value, but can be very expensive to level up. We want to earn gold here, not spend it (yet.)

Mining – This is the most reliable gathering skill in terms of the prices that you can get and the demand for the ore. Start in your low level areas and mine copper till you skill hits 65. All ores that you dig up will sell quite nicely on the auction house. Keep them until you have a stack of 20, then sell the stack. Higher level ores will require a higher level skill. The next ore is tin and it requires a skill of 65.

By the time you’re mining tin you will have collected and sold several stacks of copper and you should have a nice little gold stash.

Herbalism – aka Flower Picking is much the same as mining in that you’re going to gather stacks of 20 herbs and then sell them. Get your skill up as high as you can before moving on to the higher level stuff. On some servers herbs sell well at high process, others not so much.

Skinning – All the skins sell well, even the scraps, but they might not sell for very much at times. Sometimes there are just too many people skinning, so the supply pushes the prices down. Still, most skins sell very reliably. While most skins sell for 1 to 6 gold a stack, some skins, such as Clefthoof leather, sell for several gold per piece. You just need a 300+ skinning skill to get them.

Fishing – Any fish you catch will sell, especially if there’s a cooking recipe for it, though the prices might be pretty low. Some though, such as Oily Blackmouth, are required for other professions, such as Alchemy, and so sell for several gold per stack.

Cooking – Foods restore health and some restore mana and some will actually buff certain stats, such as Stamina. Any of the foods that provide buffs will sell, some very well, and the ingredients can all be gathered, some of them with the fishing skill.

The advantage, of course, to gathering for gold, is that you’re not spending money to buy (and then resell) items. You’re also not spending tons of gold to buy up a crafting skill.

There are other ways to make gold, some faster than the above, but the gathering skills will generate enough gold to keep you in decent items all the way to 70. Work your gathering skills with a little extra loot grinding and you’ll have your Epic Flying Mount soon enough.

If you’re already 70 you should be able to work up those gathering skills fast, plus, since you’re 70, you can do all those daily quests which pay 7-15 gold a pop. 100+ gold per hour should be easily within your reach.

Work your gathering skills and by the time you’re level 30 (high even level to buy your first mount) you should easily have enough to pay for it out of petty cash.

There are a number of tricks and techniques for making massive WoW gold, some of which are obvious and some of which are a little more subtle. Pick up some of them, and some videos, from the Azeroth Cookbook ()

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