With Gold Gathering Tips for WoW, I will specifically focus on gathering. This will dovetail somewhat with auctioneering and vendoring, but playing the auction house can be like playing the stock market, so we’ll leave the details of that for another page on World of Warcraft Riches.
World of Warcraft features a ton of material to gather. This is one of the great draws of this fantasic MMORPG. The mistake many people make is to not sweat the small stuff. Not sweating the small stuff might be good advice in “Real Life,” but in World of Warcraft you want to collect every little thing you possibly can.
To get started well, you need to do the following:
- When you first start, be sure to choose two gathering professions. Mining and Skinning might be easiest early on, but Mining and Herbalism will ultimately be more profitable. Another advantage of these professions is that you can start them without having to purchase equipment like you do with some other professions — so already, money saved.
- Invest early in plenty of bag space. It may be hard to do because it isn’t as fun and instantly gratifying, but it will help immensely in increasing your fun over the long run.
- Now use your skills and fill those bags whenever possible, even if it doesn’t raise your skill, and even if it feels like you’re filling your bags with junk. Even the gray and white items will accrue more gold than you might imagine as you slowly sell off these raw materials.
- Be sure to collect clothing like linen, wool and leather early on. This stuff always sells.
- Use the Gatherer Mod. You can find this valuable mod at the following site: WoW Gold Gathering With the Gatherer Mod
The Gatherer Mod is a WoW Mod for treasure hunters, herbalists and miners. It will assist you to track nearby deposits, plants and treasure spots on your minimap. Don’t confuse this with a tracking ability. This WoW Mod saves where you found these materials on previous adventures. Whenever you perform a gathering skill on an item, it notes the exact location in its memory. Then later if you travel nearby this valuable spot, it will appear on your minimap. Used properly, this can greatly improve the efficiency with which you gather raw materials to vendor or auctioneer.
If you want to mix in a non-gathering profession at the start, choose either Enchanting or Fishing. Fishing can make some money fast early as most servers pay fisherman per hour. Enchanting can actually work really well with gathering. You can disenchant items and sell them more easily as raw materials or magic reagents. If you choose one of these approaches, for your single gathering profession I suggest starting with Mining and later moving on to Herbalism. Enchanging and Mining can make a good combination with a little knowledge.
Don’t worry that you’re “abandoning” fun skills like blacksmithing or leathermaking. You can come back to them later and make more efficient (and thus more fun) use of them when you’re a higher level and you have more gold.
Lastly, I have two habits to avoid. Many newbies waste their money early on in World of Warcraft with these activities.
- Don’t fall into the wasteful pattern of buying new armor and equipment every level or two. You probably don’t need these incremental upgrades and they waste your gold just when you’re starting to get your WoW Gold finances in shape. And don’t succumb to alluring prices at the Auction House. It’s better to obtain your new armor and weapons through doing instances anyways.
- Don’t lose money at the Auction House through deposits for putting items up for auctions that don’t sell. You’ll need to learn the Auction House a little bit before you can avoid this problem, but pay attention early and recognize which weapons and armor (especially early) just don’t sell well. Instead of losing your 2 gold deposit, try disenchanting and vendoring the item instead of putting it up for auction.
For more aggressive and advanced gold gathering tips for WoW, I suggest investing just a little bit of real world money in either Valkor’s Gold Making Guide or Derek’s Gold Mastery Guide. If you try just one, I suggest Derek’s Gold Mastery Guide; not only does it teach some of the most clever gold-making techniques I’ve ever seen, but Derek puts together an all around great book that will enhance your quest for World of Warcraft Riches in more ways than just gold-making.
I hope I’ve helped you improve your game with these gold gathering tips for WoW.