If you’re a serious WoW player, you’ll know how important gold is. You need to have enough to be able to train your skills as well as buy equipment and items. Many players don’t realize how easy it is to make a surprisingly large amount of gold. First of all, don’t even consider buying gold from illegal websites; this is against the WoW Terms of Use and can get your account permanently banned!
So here are the best proven tips and tricks to make gold on WotLK:
1. Choose a gathering profession – They are vital to increasing your gold income.
– Mining: Engineers and Blacksmiths constantly need miners to supply them with ore, and they will pay a lot of gold for it. The best place to farm iron and mithril is the Arathi Highlands and for arcane crystals and thorium head to the Eastern Plaguelands or Burning Steppes.
– Skin: Great for collecting valuable skins even while on a quest. Try Stranglethorn Vale, where panthers and raptors abound.
– Herbalist: A very undervalued profession that can be quite profitable. Grow plague flowers in the Eastern and Western Plaguelands, as well as ghost mushrooms in the Hinterlands.
– Fishing: Pearl fishing can be very rewarding. Black pearls cost around 10 gold per stack, while a single gold pearl will fetch at least 30 gold!
2. Combining the Gathering Professions with the Service Profession is another great way to make a lot of gold.
– Alchemy combo herbalism will bring you a lot of gold very quickly. Focus on making higher mana, higher fire protection, and invisibility potions as these can cost a lot of money at auction and are in constant demand.
– While engineering can be a bit more complicated to make gold, if you combine it with mining, once you know what you’re doing, the gold will start rolling. Sniper codes and salt shakers will earn you more gold.
– Leatherworking works great with skinning as you can wear the armor you make, saving you money on armor purchases.
Also, the leftover armor you make can be sold for a huge profit.