WoW Gold Quick Guide: Why Cash Flow is King in World of Warcraft
The question on the lips of every World of Warcraft player is “How can I make more gold?” When your gold supplies hit rock bottom, you completely lose momentum in WoW – suddenly you can’t buy a mount, repair gear, buy mana potions and items, do anything! Quests, fun, and adventure should be put aside for now as you try to figure out how to make more gold.
But if you can keep a steady stream of cash coming in at all times, then you can master the game and level up super fast without ever stopping.
You can use smart thinking, a little advance planning, and a few techniques to make sure you never have to worry about gold. And up ahead are some very clever advanced techniques, which top payers make sure to learn to fund the costly level 80 lifestyle of flying mounts and epic gear.
Before that, you need to start with the basics: choose your professions carefully. It really is better to choose your profession for the gold it will make you, rather than for fun or usefulness. Trust me, if you have a good amount of gold, you will find the game a lot more fun and it will be a lot more useful than anything else in the game.
If you’re not too concerned, mining and skinning are cool and simple professions that will always find you good gold throughout the game. You are never far from a mine to mine in search of valuable minerals, or a creature to skin for its valuable skin. Two other good professions are blacksmithing and alchemy; they both make you gold too, but they also save you gold. The smithy saves money on repairs for a fighter and Alchemy saves on mana potions for a magic user. Take your time to make this decision.
Right at the other end of the spectrum, the best money makers in WoW have a shrewd understanding of the dynamics of the monetary system and markets in WoW. Like entrepreneurs, they can buy and sell items at the auction house, doing profitable business on a large scale.
To get started, you basically want to buy low and sell high at the auction house. You need to know what things are being sold for by checking prices all the time. Whenever you see a bargain, grab it or someone else will. The ideal is to find motivated sellers, they are people who want or need to sell their item quickly and do not want to wait for a bidding process.
Send them a private message offering them a low price and negotiate hard – don’t go too high, you can always move on to the next offer. Then sell it – take your time and ask around the bidders until you get a good price. One last tip is to always sell on Fridays. For some reason, people always pay more on Fridays, perhaps because it is the weekend and they are in a good mood. If you can master these auction house techniques, you can earn a lot of money in WoW for all your future characters of any level.