Let’s Level! 1-525 Engineering Leveling Guide

January 31, 2011

Engineering is a really unique profession that brings with it a lot of opportunities to make gold. Unfortunately, it also takes a good bit of gold to level it to 525, and there’s not a whole lot of return investment in the early levels. If you want to become an Engineering master, you will probably [...]

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Obligatory Auctioneer Addon Review

January 30, 2011

Auctioneer is the backbone of most every merchant’s tool arsenal. In short, it is a convenient ingame addon that build an information database of the auctions from a player’s server. In just a few minutes, Auctioneer can make a complete list of items available and prices at which those items are being sold. As a [...]

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The Daily Quests and You | Making Gold with Dailies

January 27, 2011

Daily Quests are one of the most overlooked gold farming methods in the game. Some players find them tedious while others just don’t realize the profit margin that they are missing out on. Regardless of the excuse, there’s no reason to put your dailies on the backburner. Dailies aren’t just for gold, either. They can [...]

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The Most Valuable Gold Making Advice You Will Ever Hear

January 23, 2011

One of the most common mistakes I see from new gold farmers is that they are followers. They browse from website to website looking for the latest and greatest gold making techniques. All of these techniques either generate a mild degree of success or fails spectacularly. For those that find success, these players are content [...]

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Darkmoon Faire Decks on the Cheap: Inscription Gold Tip

January 23, 2011

One really neat trick to making gold off Inscription is by creating Darkmoon Faire decks on the cheap. A lot of players don’t bother with them, but that’s what makes this a great opportunity for those of us who see the potential! Putting in about 10kg each (the lowest amount was around 8k), I created [...]

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Making Gold with Archaeology

January 20, 2011

Since the beginning of cataclysm, Archaeology has been somewhat shunned by the gold farming community. This is partially due to the nature of the profession–it can be pretty tedious at times–and then also because it has gotten a bad reputation as a gold sink. Despite all beliefs otherwise, Archaeology can actually be a pretty decent [...]

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Making Gold with Vanity Item Vending

January 19, 2011

One of the better ways to make some extra gold with Alchemy is by selling vanity items–particularly if you’re going to show off a little to draw in customers. These items can do anything from turning your into stone to making you grow to outrageous sizes, and they are pretty fun to use and abuse [...]

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Spending Gold to Make Gold : Overcoming Auction House Phobia

January 17, 2011

As much ingame as in real life, fear can be a powerful demotivator when faced with risks. I find that one of the biggest problems that new merchants have is the unwavering fear of losing gold in the Auction House. These players will often freeze when faced with a purchasing decision, or sometimes will avoid [...]

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Farming Gold with Cross-Faction Trading

January 17, 2011

Arbitrage. Some merchants live by it, some merchants fear it, and some merchants have no idea what it even is. Arbitrage is, simply, the act of grabbing items from an opposing faction’s Auction House (or neutral Auction House) to sell on your own faction’s Auction House–or the opposite. The basic idea behind this is that [...]

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Fishing for Easy Gold : The Relaxing Way to Farm Gold

January 17, 2011

One profession that a lot of players are overlooking with the advent of Cataclysm is fishing. For most players, this profession is either a hate it or love it way of making gold. I’d like to say that there’s some middle ground here, but it’s pretty much a dead stop between the two. What a [...]

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