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World of Warcraft Gold Guide Tips and Strategies for Beginners | | By Joen Bueza
Many new players find it difficult even frustrating to make gold. I've seen new players begging for gold in the trade and chat channels till they get some gold out of pity. It's really not their fault, it's not that they're lazy, they just don't have a clue on how to earn gold. They think WOW is just another video game. Unfortunately, while it is a game, you do have to earn
money to buy things you want or need. In this WOW gold guide you'll learn straight forward steps on how to earn gold while still enjoying the game.
Having leveled 5 toons myself, a level 70 warrior, a level 70 rogue and 3 battleground twinks, it does take a bit of effort especially at the lower levels. However, once you know how and where to grind for gold, you will find that it's actually pretty easy.
Read on as I mention some quick tips to help you get started.
Learn two gathering professions early on
It may not seem important, but the sooner you get your professions the faster it will be for you to start earning gold. As soon as my warrior hit level 6, I ventured out of the human starting area (Northshire) and headed over to Goldshire to pick up mining from the mining trainer.
From there, as I explored Elwyn forest while doing quests, I discovered copper nodes along the way. After a couple hours of mining, I had a stack of 20 copper ore which I quickly smelted into bars. I then turned around and sold that same stack of copper bars at the Auction House for 1g 80s! This may not sound like a lot but a 1g 80s is a small fortune for level 6 who just started playing. I soon realized that I could earn even more gold by taking up another gathering profession and that was skinning. For me it was a good idea since I was killing a lot of wolfs, bears and boars.
You need to equip more bags!
Once you start making a little gold it's time to get some more bags. More bags equals more gold for you. Especially with two gathering professions, your backpack will fill up fast forcing you to sell what you have loosing valuable grinding time. In the World of Warcraft, time is money and wasted time is time you can't afford to lose.
Create a bank alt
You'll find it inconvenient to go back and forth to a town or city to sell stuff that you've farmed especially when you're venturing far from civilization. In this case it's a good idea to create a alternate character that can do the selling while your main character is gathering. Once your bags are full, mail everything to the bank alt.
You'll need to get that bank alt to a major city because you'll be listing stuff at the auction house most of the time.
Kill everything in sight
Killing mobs may be boring but it's guaranteed income. When ever you kill mobs, they will drop all kinds of loot. There are 6 different types of loot. Purple-Epic, Blue-Rare, Green-Un Common, White-Common and Grey. In the lower levels, you'll mostly get green, white and gray loot. You won't see any purple or blues until you hit higher levels, at least this is how it was for me. Always use the green loot (gear, weapons) for yourself or put them up at the AH. You can sell the white items at the AH but from my experience, they didn't sell well so I always sold them to vendors along with the grey items.
If your an enchanter, you can dis-enchant the green items and sell the mats at the auction house as well. Wait till you have a stack of one item. For example, if you get strange dust from a single item, wait till you have about 20 of them and sell it as a stack.
Start doing instances when you reach a high enough level One of the first instances for Alliance is Dead Mines in Westfall. Dead mines has plenty of excellent loot for lower level players especially rogues. Depending on your class you can start this instance at 16 or so. You'll need a group to get through it.
You will see your first Blue drop from here.
If you have a high level friend that can complete a certain instance by himself, ask him if he can run you through it. You'll make a ton of gold this way because you are the only one getting all the loot. Since your friend is a high level, he has no need for the loot. You can always pay him some gold for his time, but most friends do it for free. You can also ask people you don't know and some of them will do it for free but most will charge you.
Don't go crazy at the auction house
Once you've accumulated some gold, you'll be tempted to buy a lot of stuff like gear, weapons, etc at the auction house. Don't do it. Save your gold. You'll find everything you need from quests and loot. You will need all that gold to get your mount at level 40. Even more gold at level 60 for an epic mount and then 70 for a flying mount. Finally, 5,000g gold for the epic flying mount!m
These are the same basic techniques I have used since I started playing WOW almost two years ago. It has allowed me to get the things that I really needed such as my mounts, gear, epic weapons you name it. Follow these steps outlined in this guide and you'll achieve the same results I have. |
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