WoW Guides For Gold

This post is mainly for newer players who have not played World of Warcraft much before and are trying to get their first character going. For you more experienced players we have plenty more tips coming soon.

Most people think of high level characters, bringing in hundreds or thousands of gold per day, when they hear the phrase “gold farming”. However, new people are joining the World of Warcraft community every single day, so what about making some gold in the lower levels? The first step to being able to afford your repairs, food, weapons, or whatever you need to buy is picking a profitable profession. Sticking with gathering professions is the general rule of thumb i.e. skinning, herbalism, or mining. Skinning is by far the easiest, because you will be killing plenty of animal mobs that you skin as you go along through your quests. Another upside of skinning? One of the first types of skin you will be receiving is “light leather”… and yep, light leather is used by several crafting professions (leatherworking and tailoring use a lot of it).

Therefore you can expect to sell plenty stacks of light leather on the auction house. The downside to skinning, if you want to call it that, is you will need lots of bag or bank space! Collecting all that leather can take a hefty toll on your available bag slots, so upgrade your bags as soon as you can. If you have a guild, see if anyone is a tailor. They may need to make bags to up their tailoring level, so you may be able to get some bigger bags cheap or even free. If you don’t have a guild, check bag vendors before wandering into the auction house to buy over-priced bags.

I became Honored with the Violet Eye Faction running through Karazhan. What better way to celebrate being Honored than to check the Karazhan vendor, Apprentice Darius.

When you are Honored with the Violet Eye, you can buy the Inscription of Endurance, Design: The Frozen Eye and a non-binding Recipe: Flask of Chromatic Wonder. The last one caught my attention. The recipe sells for 1 gold and it is non-binding therefore you can sell it in the Auction House for more.

I checked the Auction House and I was surprised to find out that it is priced at 40 gold. Now that’s a lot of profit from something that’s readily available from a vendor, if only you know where to look. The price may change from time to time so you must not saturate the market with it. Although you also need to be Honored with the Violet Eye to learn the recipe.

Reselling recipes on the Auction House might be the oldest trick in the book to make gold but it’s still feasible. You just have to know where to get the recipe, plans or schematics. Some people are just too lazy to look for the recipes and the vendors that sell them. This need is something that you can supply and therefore make gold out of it.

I was wondering why Blood Elf Bandit Masks were priced high on the Auction House. It is a level 5 head gear with no bonus attributes. Then I learned that this is favorite item for those with level 19 twinks.

What’s nice about the Blood Elf Bandit Mask is that it does not bind when equipped and it can be worn by any class. The downside is that only the Blood Elf Bandit drops this mask. Imagine that. He is located at Azuremyst Isle, the Draenei’s starting zone.

Only one Blood Elf Bandit spawns in the isle at a given time and in certain locations only. If you know the locations, you can easily farm for the mask with your high level alt.

I advise that you use your high level alt with epic mount in farming for this mask. Though the bandit can be easily killed by your lower level toon, its spawn locations are far from each other. Therefore you can easily go from point to point with the use of your epic mount. Also, sneaking to the isle from Darkshore will not be an easy task for low level characters.

A Blood Elf Bandit Mask on my server goes for around 50 gold. There are reports that in some servers it go to as high as 70 gold.

My main character, Nance, hit level 70 on the 4th of July. By the time I had purchased the entry level flying skill and mount he was basically broke. All I had left was about 800g on my Auction House mule, Daugherty.

So I put my nose to the grindstone and ten days later, on the 14th, I had managed to come up with almost exactly 5,200g between the two characters to buy the Artisan flight skill and the epic flying mount you see in the screen shot above. That means I made about 460g per day using the techniques detailed on this blog and using some new things I noticed in Valkor’s Gold Making Guide.