Best Gold Making Methods - Gathering Professions Are the Best Way to Make Money in WoW
Emma Martin
March 26, 2009
When I'm trying to level up a new character in World of Warcraft, I don't really worry too much about making gold until I get well past level 40. But since I don't want to be broke all the time and want to be able to afford to skill up and take care of things I need to do to level fast, here are some WoW gold farming ideas about professions in particular that I've come up with to help out.
Figuring out the best gold making methods has more to do with making sure you are in the right profession than almost anything else. In order to make more gold, I like to have a solid profession that isn't going to cost me more than I make. And I'm talking about costing me both time and money in game. My goal is to level up as fast as possible. So any kind of crafting profession is right out. In my opinion it takes too much time to level the crafting professions and they also tend to require expensive equipment.
If you really want to be a blacksmith or get into Engineering (it is handy if you are into PvP), go for it, but if your focus is more gold and fast leveling, skip them. Expensive professions, in the long run, are just going to make you hate the game as you struggle to get them to level 375, all the while spending mountains of gold to do it. In most cases, you will actually spend more money than you make so it is a losing situation all around.
The best professions for making gold don't require too much skill and they are cheap to learn. Mining and Herbalism are both great for this. So is skinning and it is dead easy to skill up skinning.
Fishing is a secondary gathering profession that is worth your time too. All four of these professions are relatively easy to skill up and you're barely notice the time you put into them. Of the four, mining may require a little more effort, but it can pay off quite well in terms of making more WoW gold.
Now the reason the gathering professions are so great is instead of having to use all of the stuff you gather -- mats, ore, herbs, hides, whatever -- you can turn all that loot into cold hard cash in the WoW Auction House. I find it much more profitable to sell stuff I find to other players rather than using the raw materials myself in crafting.
Figuring out the best gold making methods has more to do with making sure you are in the right profession than almost anything else. In order to make more gold, I like to have a solid profession that isn't going to cost me more than I make. And I'm talking about costing me both time and money in game. My goal is to level up as fast as possible. So any kind of crafting profession is right out. In my opinion it takes too much time to level the crafting professions and they also tend to require expensive equipment.
If you really want to be a blacksmith or get into Engineering (it is handy if you are into PvP), go for it, but if your focus is more gold and fast leveling, skip them. Expensive professions, in the long run, are just going to make you hate the game as you struggle to get them to level 375, all the while spending mountains of gold to do it. In most cases, you will actually spend more money than you make so it is a losing situation all around.
The best professions for making gold don't require too much skill and they are cheap to learn. Mining and Herbalism are both great for this. So is skinning and it is dead easy to skill up skinning.
Fishing is a secondary gathering profession that is worth your time too. All four of these professions are relatively easy to skill up and you're barely notice the time you put into them. Of the four, mining may require a little more effort, but it can pay off quite well in terms of making more WoW gold.
Now the reason the gathering professions are so great is instead of having to use all of the stuff you gather -- mats, ore, herbs, hides, whatever -- you can turn all that loot into cold hard cash in the WoW Auction House. I find it much more profitable to sell stuff I find to other players rather than using the raw materials myself in crafting.
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