Whatgoesup
Lost in Gnomer
Hello everyone, my name is Whatgoesup, and I'm a gold-making addict.
I'm here to let you in on everything you need to know on to make loads and loads of gold in World of Warcraft. From Pet Battles to Prospecting, everything you need to know to make your fortune is in here. I'm writing this guide after many, many requests to let people in on my secrets and besides this being a guide, this is also an AMA (Ask Me Anything), so if you have any questions be sure to ask them and I'll answer them as soon as I can. Also, if anyone uses a gold making method and it's not listed here, feel free to share! I'll look into it and possibly add it to the guide. So, on with the guide!
NOTE I: These methods are not the only methods out there to make gold, these are just the methods I use.
NOTE II: None of the methods are 100% guaranteed to work, they also depends on your realm's economy, the population and wether you have a brain or not.
Table of Contents:
Getting Started
So you want to make gold eh? Well, let me start off by saying that gold-making requires commitment, time, effort and brains. Making a lot of gold does not happen overnight, it is a process of months rather than days. A lot of people think that gold-making is immensely complicated and you need all professions maxed in order to do it. This is not true. I've made several times goldcap without ever using a profession and gold making is not that hard, is just requires four things: Commitment, time, effort & brains. Do note that this guide does not involve any kind of farming. Almost the entire process is done by standing at the Auction House, mailbox and bank.We're besting ther Auction House after all. Now, after this short introduction I'll tell you about the glossary, helpfull websites and addons.
The Glossary
Helpfull links
There are a lot of gold making websites and blogs out there on the interwebz, but most of them share out of date gold-making methods or require you to pay an exessive amount of money in order to get the info you want. When I think of helpfull links there is one website that just stands out, and that is: The Undermine Journal.
The Undermine Journal (US) / The Undermine Journal (EU)
So what does The Undermine Journal (TUJ) do? It does an incredible amount of things! Many of you may know it and use it to look to look for twink items on different realms. But does much, much more. After you have chosen your realm you are located on, you'll see several tabs you can go to. First off there is the "Hot Items". Here you see items that are currently on your Auction House that go for high prices or if there is an incredible amount of the items posted. When it shows us that there is a great amount of a certain item available it usually means that it is cheap and if you use ot, it's a good time to stock up on the item. Furthermore it shows "Busy Sellers". It's a good idea to take a look at what people sell and who sell what. We can use this to identify who our competition is, also we can see their posting scedules so if you compete with them, try posting right after they usually post so you undercut them. Then we also have the "Great Deals" section. Here we find Great Deals, Unusual Items and Pet Battle Auctions. Now, in Great Deals we find items that have been posted a low price and TUJ thinks you can buy and resell for a big profit. Using your brain is crucial here. It's a nifty to tool to snipe items for cheap and resell for a much higher price. Then we have Unsual Items. Here we find items that haven't been posted a while and TUJ thinks could be profitable to pick up. Again, brains are crucial! I don't like the Battle Pet Auctions section and I don't use it. I would advice you to stay away from this. Last but not least we have "Crafted" & "Gathered". Here we find the prices of crafted items, mats for the gathered items and the price for gathered items. It also shows wether or not TUJ thinks it profitable to make an item based on the current mats prices. Again, use you brain! TUJ updates every hour so prices might not be equal in-game and sometimes someone posts one of a certain mat for 1g, while there rest is 5g+ and TUJ bases his advice on the lowest mat price. The last thing TUJ does is if you search for an item it will show you the current price, the average price across all realms, amount posted, most active sellers, a price/amount posted curve over a certain price period and more. All in all a very usefull website.
Add-ons
There are a lot of add-ons there that help in making gold. Some of them aren't needed, but there are a few I see as madnatory. They are listed below with links to Curse.
TradeSkillMaster is without the doubt the best add-on ever made. No question about it. However, it is complicated to set up and it takes a long time. If you're posting large amount of auctions, you must have this add-on. I use it all the time. If you need help setting it up, I found these video's really helpfull: (Be sure to watch all four parts.)
Auctioneer is another Auction House add-on and I use it because I like the Auction House UI it has while searching and also I use the search function for flipping and transmogrification.
Auctionator is also another Auction House add-on. I use the buy and sell function from this add-on when I need to buy mats or when I sell a few items that are not in my TSM groups.
Postal is a mailbox add-on with some nice functions, simple as that.
Bagnon is a bag add-on and it combined all of your bags into one, giving you a clear overview and making looking for items a lot easier.
Next: The first gold-making method we'll discuss, Battle Pets
I'm here to let you in on everything you need to know on to make loads and loads of gold in World of Warcraft. From Pet Battles to Prospecting, everything you need to know to make your fortune is in here. I'm writing this guide after many, many requests to let people in on my secrets and besides this being a guide, this is also an AMA (Ask Me Anything), so if you have any questions be sure to ask them and I'll answer them as soon as I can. Also, if anyone uses a gold making method and it's not listed here, feel free to share! I'll look into it and possibly add it to the guide. So, on with the guide!
NOTE I: These methods are not the only methods out there to make gold, these are just the methods I use.
NOTE II: None of the methods are 100% guaranteed to work, they also depends on your realm's economy, the population and wether you have a brain or not.
Table of Contents:
- Getting Started
- Battle Pets
- Inscription
- Enchanting
- Alchemy
- Flipping
- Tailoring
- The Ore Shuffle
- Ending Statements
- Update Log
Getting Started
So you want to make gold eh? Well, let me start off by saying that gold-making requires commitment, time, effort and brains. Making a lot of gold does not happen overnight, it is a process of months rather than days. A lot of people think that gold-making is immensely complicated and you need all professions maxed in order to do it. This is not true. I've made several times goldcap without ever using a profession and gold making is not that hard, is just requires four things: Commitment, time, effort & brains. Do note that this guide does not involve any kind of farming. Almost the entire process is done by standing at the Auction House, mailbox and bank.We're besting ther Auction House after all. Now, after this short introduction I'll tell you about the glossary, helpfull websites and addons.
The Glossary
- MoP = Mists of Pandaria
- TSM = Trade Skill Master
- ilvl = Item Level
- Misc = Miscellaneous
- AH = Auction House
- DE = Dischenchant
- Min = Minimum
- Max = Maximim
- TUJ = The Undermine Journal
- g = Gold
- PvE = Player versus Enviroment
- PvP = Player versus Player
- CoD = Cash on Delivery
Helpfull links
There are a lot of gold making websites and blogs out there on the interwebz, but most of them share out of date gold-making methods or require you to pay an exessive amount of money in order to get the info you want. When I think of helpfull links there is one website that just stands out, and that is: The Undermine Journal.
The Undermine Journal (US) / The Undermine Journal (EU)
So what does The Undermine Journal (TUJ) do? It does an incredible amount of things! Many of you may know it and use it to look to look for twink items on different realms. But does much, much more. After you have chosen your realm you are located on, you'll see several tabs you can go to. First off there is the "Hot Items". Here you see items that are currently on your Auction House that go for high prices or if there is an incredible amount of the items posted. When it shows us that there is a great amount of a certain item available it usually means that it is cheap and if you use ot, it's a good time to stock up on the item. Furthermore it shows "Busy Sellers". It's a good idea to take a look at what people sell and who sell what. We can use this to identify who our competition is, also we can see their posting scedules so if you compete with them, try posting right after they usually post so you undercut them. Then we also have the "Great Deals" section. Here we find Great Deals, Unusual Items and Pet Battle Auctions. Now, in Great Deals we find items that have been posted a low price and TUJ thinks you can buy and resell for a big profit. Using your brain is crucial here. It's a nifty to tool to snipe items for cheap and resell for a much higher price. Then we have Unsual Items. Here we find items that haven't been posted a while and TUJ thinks could be profitable to pick up. Again, brains are crucial! I don't like the Battle Pet Auctions section and I don't use it. I would advice you to stay away from this. Last but not least we have "Crafted" & "Gathered". Here we find the prices of crafted items, mats for the gathered items and the price for gathered items. It also shows wether or not TUJ thinks it profitable to make an item based on the current mats prices. Again, use you brain! TUJ updates every hour so prices might not be equal in-game and sometimes someone posts one of a certain mat for 1g, while there rest is 5g+ and TUJ bases his advice on the lowest mat price. The last thing TUJ does is if you search for an item it will show you the current price, the average price across all realms, amount posted, most active sellers, a price/amount posted curve over a certain price period and more. All in all a very usefull website.
Add-ons
There are a lot of add-ons there that help in making gold. Some of them aren't needed, but there are a few I see as madnatory. They are listed below with links to Curse.
- TradeSkillMaster NOTE: Only the add-ons made by sapu94 are needed, the WoWuction feature is optional.
- Auctioneer
- Auctionator
- Postal
- Bagnon
TradeSkillMaster is without the doubt the best add-on ever made. No question about it. However, it is complicated to set up and it takes a long time. If you're posting large amount of auctions, you must have this add-on. I use it all the time. If you need help setting it up, I found these video's really helpfull: (Be sure to watch all four parts.)
TradeSkillMaster Guide (TSM) - Auctioning and Group Creation (Updated for MoP) - YouTube
TradeSkillMaster Guide (TSM) - Crafting, Shopping, and Dealfinding (Updated for MoP) - YouTube
TradeSkillMaster Guide (TSM) - Mailing and Destroying (Updated for MoP) - YouTube
TradeSkillMaster Guide (TSM) - Advanced Tactics #1 (Updated for MoP) - YouTube
TradeSkillMaster Guide (TSM) - Crafting, Shopping, and Dealfinding (Updated for MoP) - YouTube
TradeSkillMaster Guide (TSM) - Mailing and Destroying (Updated for MoP) - YouTube
TradeSkillMaster Guide (TSM) - Advanced Tactics #1 (Updated for MoP) - YouTube
Auctionator is also another Auction House add-on. I use the buy and sell function from this add-on when I need to buy mats or when I sell a few items that are not in my TSM groups.
Postal is a mailbox add-on with some nice functions, simple as that.
Bagnon is a bag add-on and it combined all of your bags into one, giving you a clear overview and making looking for items a lot easier.
Next: The first gold-making method we'll discuss, Battle Pets
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