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. If you can’t use any of the quest rewards, choose the weapon or plate. As a rule, this will net you a better vendor price, though there are some exceptions. When in doubt, don’t hesitate to check Wowhead.com. 1 or 2 gold per quest can really add up in Outland and Northrend. If multiple weapons are available, keep in mind that 2 handers usually sell for more than 1 handers, which usually sell for more than ranged weapons. If multiple armor pieces are available, legs, chests, shoulders, and helms are usually valued in that order.
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. Sell pieces of cloth individually. It may take a little more time, but it is worth it. The auction house sorts by price, so if you are selling a piece of linen cloth for 2 silver, and a stack of 20 linen cloth goes for 20 silver, your single pieces of cloth will be listed ahead of their full stack. You can generally get away with doubling the price per unit and just filling up the first 2 pages, because people are lazy and most will just buy the first item listed if it’s not unreasonably priced. This also has the added benefit of allowing blacksmiths, engineers, and leatherworkers to buy exactly the amount of cloth they need, since they rarely need it in bulk.
5. Quest until you run out of quests, then quest some more. This is absolutely crucial for keeping the gold rolling in. There are plenty of opportunities to do quests on your way to instances or other quests, especially with the amount of daily quests in Wrath of the Lich King. Once you hit the cap, you’ve got that handy little experience to gold conversion thing too, so following this rule is kind of a no-brainer.
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