If you play WoW, at some point you have probably ended up pulling the levels faster than you can bring in gold, and as a result, something you need has fallen by the wayside. Maybe it was a mount, or some gear that would have really sped up your leveling. Perhaps you hit the level cap and couldn’t afford to upgrade your garbage leveling gear. Either way you need some WoW gold secrets to avoid ending up in that place again.
1. Loot everything. This is one of the most common gold-making mistakes I see players making. Gray and white items, commonly known as vendor trash, add up to a very large percentage of your income while leveling or running instances. If you have room in your bag, loot it. If it’s vendor trash, sell it to your local merchant, and if it is green or better put it up on the auction house. Invest in the best bags you can afford so you never have to pass up free loot.
2. Quest rewards are good money. Weapons and plate armor make a very pretty penny, so if there is nothing you need from the quest, or if you just happen to be a plate wearer who gets to sell something expensive with every upgrade he gets, go with a weapon or a piece of plate. Outland and Northrend are both gold mines for this, as you end up doing so many quests that only about 1 in 4 gives you a solid upgrade. Remember that bigger weapons fetch a higher price than smaller ones, and main armor slots sell better than the offset slots. When in doubt, check WoWHead for the prices.
3. Learn a gathering skill and use it frequently. If you do just this, you will make twice as much as the people who don’t gather. Just picking up herbs or mining or skinning on your way to quests and dungeons brings in a fortune, and if you decide to actually invest some solid time into gathering, you will make a killing. Mining is usually the best, with herbalism and skinning trailing in a tie for second place, but this may vary depending on your server economy. If you take any two of those professions, you’ll be rolling in gold.
4. Instead of selling cloth in stacks, sell it by the piece. While you are at it, double the price. Now fill a few pages with your cloth pieces, and watch the sales roll in. Most players don’t bother to look ahead and try to find the full stacks, they’d rather not put the effort in. As a result of this, you get a tidy profit. You also get some extra sales from the professions that don’t need bulk orders of cloth, like engineers and blacksmiths.
5. Don’t stop questing. This can have a huge impact on your gold per hour. If there is any opportunity to do a quest on the way to whatever you are currently doing, take it. At the level cap, experience is converted directly into gold, which makes this rule even more of a must-follow. There are also daily quests in pretty much every zone in Northrend, so this isn’t exactly a strenuous task.
