Ok, since people are always complaining about their in-game finances I thought it would be fun to load this pic. Keep in mind that I've enjoyed the gold game in all the MMOs I've played and some poeple don't, which is cool.

In my opinion Gold is easy enough to come by that there's no reason for anyone to complain about it, but you do have to play the gold game at least a little bit. Work your mining and skinning (or herbalism) skills and sell the stacks on the Auction House. Gathering the right ores, herbs, and skins pays better than doing daily quests for hours and certain techniques pay much better than that.

For example, this pic:

Note the screwy number for total gold. This has to do with the way the game stores certain data. There is an absolute gold cap of 214,748 Gold 36 Silver and 46 Copper. You cannot exceed that number on your character, you will just get a warning message along the lines of "Gold limit reached..."

Hovever, the stats page has no such protective limit. Exceed that cap and you get a screwy number like you see in the pic. So yeah, I've earned over 214,748 Gold 36 Silver and 46 Copper with this character since mid October, when the pre-Wrath 3.0 patch was released.

I probably spend 2-3 hours a day on this, sometimes a bit more when making glyphs or taking care of inventory.

Also note:

• the number of auctions
• the gold earned per day (best is just over 6k in one day)
• and the fact that I've spent more on postage than on vendor sales.
• There's more stuff stored in a private guild bank.

The basic routine is that I make the glyphs on my level 80 and mail them to the banker for sale on the AH.

Update June '09: I got bored and slowed way down. Gold total is around 250k, spread over four characters. About 205k on this one.

So how do you make a killer gold stash?

1. I don't farm anymore, I don't gather much, I don't do dailies (not for cash, anyways.) Everything is either through playing the AH, selling glyphs, or selling incidental sellable loot gathered along the way. So if you want to do this and drop the farming/grinding game forever, then buy the Massive WoW Gold Blueprint. Let your level 1s do all the work and let your higher levels play the game.
   
   
2. If grinding/farming is your game and you don't want to play the AH game then you should check out Zuggy's Gold Guide. He gives you a lot of techniques for making tons of gold without playing AH games. Zuggy has updated his guide for Wrath of the Lich King, so it offers current strategies. By the way, Zuggy does offer some solid AH techniques. He will also give you the option of picking up his professions guide along with the gold guide, if you want to learn this inscription stuff (or any other profession) quickly and efficiently.