Low Level Gold Making in WoW

Did you just start a playing WoW or do you have a brand new character and want to learn how to make gold very quickly? This guide is just for you! I have found this on the internet and I feel it will help a lot of newbies to get started and even some people that just started playing on the brand new servers and wants to make gold quickly at the lower levels in the game!

Start as Skinner and a Herbalist or Miner for a while to gather resources. You may have to travel to a main town to learn these skills early - but its worth doing early.

Skinner as you will be killing many skinable mobs early on, and either Herbalist or Miner as the radar marker conflicts - you cant have both a Herbalist and Miner radar blip on. I have "toons" that are both Skinner, Herbalist and Skinner, Miner ... I think the coin generated is a little better as a Miner (esp as you get occ. gem drops in ore placements), but if you choose a dark-elf as a race go herbalist as the starting area has no mining resources - there may be an equivalent horde race !


Collect 6 slot bags as quickly as possible ... some will drop as loot, others can be bought from tailors ... you can do a /who and /tell and offer to buy COD (cash on delivery) via the mail system so you dont have to buy from an NPC vendor or go to an Auction House before you are ready.

Have a "mule" sitting in your factions Auction House Town (eg. Ironforge for Alliance) - create a character that is closest to the Auction House Town .. best a dwarf or gnome for easy access to Ironforge - Humans need to travel via Stormwind and the Underground tram system, Dark-Elves have to travel via foot for about 20 minutes through dangerous territory to get anywhere near Ironforge for the first time ... place your character very near a mailbox that is not busy. There are two mailboxes near the Auction House in Ironforge - one is always crowded .. crowds = lag. Choose the one that is not busy for your log-in/log-out place. This mule you will post your stacks to for sale at the Auction House.


Keep notes of how much a stack of resources (light leather from skinning, copper ore from mining, silverleaf and peaceblossom from herbalism) sell to an NPC vendor but dont sell to the vendor.

Check the Auction House prices using the search facility and take note of the starting and buyout prices for the stacks of resources you are selling. Many items have a buy-out price upto 10-20 times the price an NPC vendor will buy from you. I personally set my prices as follows .... starting price 2x the NPC vendor buy value (around 1.5-2.5s per stack) and a buyout price 5-6 times the NPC buy value unless all the competitor sellers buyout prices are way above or below that, then I set my buyouts at just below theirs.

A couple of hours work at toon level 6-8 will give you 3-4 stacks of light leather, 2-3 stacks of herbs, 1-2 stacks or metals bars (yep, smelt them for mining experience before selling them ... if you are "grey" on smelting copper (ie no mining XP form it), sell the stacks of raw ore) and if you are working in an area of humanoids 1-2 stacks of linen cloth. Dont waste your linen on bandages (FirstAid) .. at least not yet.

Dont waste bag storage space on grey usable items, ruined pelts, broken teeth etc. unless you are filling up an inventory for the run home. Keep green items for Auction House sale if your toon (or an alt) doesnt need them. Always set auctions for 24 hours and put a buyout price about 4-6x the value to an NPC vendor (again check the Auction House current prices so you dont over or under value your items) ... the buyout price allows impatient bidders a way of getting their items quickly - and your money faster.

Mail your major items to your mule for Auction House Placement, dump the rest of the garbage ontot he NPC vendor.

Each stack will sell at Auction House for 5-10s per stack easily and up to 20s per stack if the demand is right, low level "green" items 5-10s each.

My first (and still main) toon never got anywhere near this cash return so early (mage, miner engineer) ... my current level 10 gatherer is getting 1g per 2 hours of game time (mixing it up with questing and general fun) .... a concentrated effort should nett close to 1g per hour - a huge return for a low level character me thinks.

Dont choose your crafting profession too early ... you can always drop one of your gathering professions for a crafting profession once your cash flow is good.

Buying unneeded items early eats money.
Buying unneeded skills early eats money.
Enchanting eats money !
Engineering eats money !
Leatherworking, Blacksmithing and Tailoring can feed an enchanter, make reasonably good money from auctioned items later.
Alchemy can be fun and provide a good range of buff and regen. potions for your own use, then sell once you get to craft the higher demand potions.

Wow Gold Farming in the Scarlet Monastery

Here is another guide that I have found very useful. As many of you know it is extremely difficult to find great guides on the internet and this is a great one to add to the site. Most guides you find out there are pretty good if you want to only make 20-30 gold per hour. This guide is pretty easy to do as long as you are a Level 60 Mage, and it can net you at least 60-80 gold per hour. Great guide. Check it out below!

Level 60 Frost Talent Spec Mage (enchanting profession is a bonus)


I have 10 Arc/ 0 Fire/ 41 Frost spec, but Ice block and Cold Snap are most important for this little run.

Go to Scarlet Monastery Cathedral. Run all the way to main Boss Chamber. Will be easy to dodge aggro as you are level 60. Kill pats if you can't get around. With a little practice you can get there with only 1-2 fights tops.

Once inside you need to move down right or left side and dodge pats so that you are standing close to Mograine without aggroing him. Now the fun begins. But first...

Make sure you have all you spell cooldowns up so you can use everything at your disposal. Make a Mana Ruby for backup mana. You can use potions but these cost money and counter your profit. Your decision.


Ok, now that you are ready you can start the fight. Put up Ice Barrier and pop Mograine with a frostbolt and he will rush you and aggro the whole cathedral to come kill you. Take hits from Mograine until your barrier is removed. You will see the other mobs rushing you from all directions. When Barrier is gone pop Ice Block. This is the focal point of this run.

Ice Block gives you 10 full seconds for all the mobs to gather around you without damaging you. Now they are all nice and packed for some Area of Effect(AoE) blasting!

Ok, as soon as Ice Block expires you want to pop Frost Nova and Ice Barrier again as you strafe (don't backup, slower movement speed) out of the groups melee range. Now commence to laying on the AoE damage. Remeber that Mograine can't be Frost Nova'd so that is why you put your Ice Barrier back up since he will be beating on you while you are AoE killing his minions.

Once all the minions are dead, Mograine should be less than 50% so finish him off. Immediately pop Evocation to refill mana because Whitemane is on her way. As long as you didn't end up close to her spawn point when you killed Mograine (practice will show you to finish Mograine towards the middle of the chamber) then you will get off a full Evocation for plenty more mana.

Now kill Whitemane and Mograine again when she resurrects him. You're done!

This little run nets me 6-8g in change not to mention any vendor trash, greens, blues and cloth that drop off all the mobs you just killed. Plus if you are an enchanter you can DE the Boss blues from Scarlet Commander Mograine and HIgh Inquisitor Whitemane sell the shards in AH.

This run take a whopping 10 minutes tops after you run it a few times to get patrol behaviors memorized and I average 12-16g after counting all the change, cloth, random greens and blues, plus shards.

My AoE spell order tends to go like this:

Frost Nova (and strafe away about 8-10 yards)
Flamestrike (immediately followed by)
Cone of Cold
Cold Snap
Frost Nova (and strafe away about 8-10 yards)
Flamestrike (immediately followed by)
Cone of Cold
Blink (away from mobs obviously)
Blizzard
Arcane Explosion (repeat till all dead except Mograine)
Kill Mograine and Whitemane as explained above.

Most of them die in the Blizzard and Arcane Explosion gets the stragglers. And since it will take a little time to get back to the Boss Room again all your cooldowns should be up so you can start fresh!

As far as gear goes, obviously the better your gear the easier this is. Mine is not that great so any 60 mage can pull this off.

I have 5/8 Magister, 3/8 Sorcerer, Orb of the Darkmoon, and 2 Freezing Band. So many folks will have better.

World of Warcraft Gold Guide Tip #2

Here’s one I haven’t tried yet, but the Warcraft Gold Guide claims it can get 30-60 gold an hour.

Dark Iron Mining – used for crafting high end items and to gain reputation with the Thorium Brotherhood. The best place to mine Dark Iron is in Blackrock Depths.

When you enter Blackrock Depths, use lockpicking or the Shadowforge key to open the door to your left. Go straight ahead into an area called Dark Iron Highway. Kinda makes sense this would the place you mine Dark Iron.

There are a lot of dark iron spawn points in here and according to the guide, you should be able to hit one or two each time. All you have to do is mine the ore, leave, reset the instance, and do it over again. A rogue or druid should be able to stealth in and a hunter can feign death to escape the mobs around the ore. Other classes might need some support to keep the mobs off while the mining takes place.

Since you are reseting an instance each time, the mob and ore locations will vary. Sometimes, it will be smooth sailing to get to the ore and mine it, other times, there will be some many mobs between you and the ore that reseting again is the best idea.

Dark Iron mining can usually get 20-40 dark iron ore per hour. Since 1 piece of Dark Iron Ore sells for between 1-4 gold , that can add up quickly. Also, there is a chance for a Blood of the Mountain drop when mining. So rare that it goes for 30-100 gold. Even if you only got one of those a day to go with 20 iron ore, you would be looking at 50 g for your hour of time.

The Gold guide has a color map of all of the mining points and the best route to take. I’m certainly going to try this technique out when I get the chance.

Tips from the World of Warcraft Gold Guide

I promised I would try to give out a couple tips from the Warcraft Gold Guide I picked up so here you go. This one some of the guys in my guild knew already, but it was new to me.

Defias Windmill is pretty good spot to do some gold farming at just about any level. If you go to the Gold Coast area in Westfall, there is a windmill on a hill. Below the windmill, you can see a murloc camp. Surrounding the windmill are a TON of Defias Trapper mobs. Since these are humanoids, they will drop a lot of linen cloth and other good loot. They normally spawn around level 12 or 13 so they aren’t too tough.

The key is that the respawn rates of the mobs are insanely fast. I took one of my higher end characters there and couldn’t clear the area before more respawned. I eventually had to stop because my character was worn out and I was too. I left with stacks of linen and almost a bag or two full of lower level green items. All of these fetched a nice price at the auction house.

This spot also worked well for some of my middle level guys as well since they could grind away for experience and pick up some decent items that could be sold later.

This was the first I had heard of this spot, but it wasn’t too crowded on the server I was on, so the secret might not be out…..yet. Farm it while you can.

I’ll see if I can find another good tip from the WoW Gold Guide. There are over 100 pages in the guide, so finding a good tip shouldn’t be hard. I can’t give them all away, but maybe one more to get the gold flowing.

The Best World of Warcraft Gold Guide

I picked up this guide the other day after hearing a lot of good reviews from members of my guild. The WoW Cash Creation Guide has already helped improve my gold creation in just a few days. Granted, I'm not sitting around doing nothing and making gold, but it's greatly enhanced my gold making efforts. I'm now making in one hour what I was making in 3 or 4 hours previously. Not a bad tradeoff.

The guide is $37, but considering how much gold sells for on the internet and the risks involved (the company you are buying from actually giving you the gold and the risk that Blizzard might ban your World of Warcraft account), I'd rather take my chances earning my own gold. I've bought gold before online and always felt a little bad about it since I was spending MY money for money in a game. Now that I've gotten this guide, I don't have to worry about buying gold ever again with any of my characters.

I'll try to share a few tips from the guide in the near future. Just don't let the author know I told you about them, ok?

WoW Gold Guide for Low Level Horde Players

Ok, maybe this won’t help every Horde race, but it will get Trolls and Orcs going in the right direction.

Become a Journeyman miner and pick up a mining pick. There are tons of Copper veins in Durotar. These are great for mining. Once you’ve got a bunch of ore, head to the forge and smelt them into bars. Bars tend to sell better than raw ore. Head to Ogrimmar and visit the Auction House. Check the price for copper bars before you list anything for sale. I’m usually able to get a minimum of 45 silver pieces 20 copper bars, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less. A sneaky trick is to set your buyout price slightly lower than most of the other ones. This improves your chances of selling your bars and making some coin.

Disenchanting your Way to World of Warcraft Gold

A buddy of mine was telling me the other day about how he makes some decent gold in World of Warcraft as an Enchanter. He said he went to the Scarlet Monestary and disenchanted every blue item he got. He told me that most of the items dropped Small Radiant Shards (which are fairly popular on his server) that he was able to sell for a good amount of gold (he said 20-30 pieces for 10). He said the rest of the items disenchanted into Large Glowing Shards, which are key ingredients for adding damage modifiers to two-handed and one-handed weapons. He said he was able to get on average about 3-4g per Shard. In one run, he was able to make about 40 g from selling the Small Radiant Shards and the Large Glowing Shards. He said the run took him 45 minutes to complete.

40 g for 45 mins of work? Not a bad return. If anyone has had a similar experience in the Scarlet Monestary, let me know.

Quick WoW Herbalist Guide

Here is a quick WoW Herbalist Guide for someone who is just starting out.

1 – Undead, Humans, and Taurens make the best herbalist since their starting areas are filled with herbs you can pick.

2 – Use Find Herbs most of the time to locate Silverleaf. It usually grows under trees or in shady areas.

3 – Collect some stacks of Silverleaf and then go to the Auction House. You should be able to make a decent profit on each stack. I’ve had some people say that they can get 1 gold for a stack, but I’ve never been that fortunate. I’m happy getting 20-30 silver for a stack. Always check to see what a stack is going for at the auction house on your server before investing too much time in collection.

How to Make Gold in World of Warcraft at Early Levels

1 – Choose Skinning and either Herbalist or Miner as your professions. If you are starting as a night elf, then herbalist is the way you want to go since there are no mines in the night elf starting area. Miners tend to be a little more profitable than Herbalist. You can’t be both a Miner and Herbalist since the radar will conflict.

2 – Try to get 6 slot bags as fast as possible. Easier said than done, I know. Some might drop as loot and others can be bought from tailors.

3 – Create a second character, a mule, near the Auction House town. Early on, this is Ironforge for the Alliance, so a dwarf or gnome would be the best race. Humans and Night Elves have to do some traveling to get to Ironforge.

4 – Once your cash flow is good, you can drop one of the gathering professions for a crafting profession.

5 – Try not to buy unneeded items and skills early on. They can put a hole in your money supply. Better to save up and get the items/skills when they can be used better.

Easy World of Warcraft Gold Making Tips

1 – Choose Mining and Skinning as your two professions. Killing animals is pretty easy to do while you are out grinding and questing. Mines are fairly easy to find in World of Warcraft, so taking a little time to do some mining and then selling off the ore is a good way to make easy gold. You can sell the gold or skins to either merchant or at the Auction House.

2 – Questing is a good way to get gold and items, especially early on. Since many quests offer a choice in rewards, you can choose what item you want. Your choice can be based on an item that will help your character out or an item that will sell for a high price.

3 – As much as I like to get the best gear for my characters, I’ve found that spending money on it early on is a waste. Save the money and use the loot and rewards from quests to equip your character for the first 40 levels or so.

4 – If you want a better chance at getting gold, focus on killing humanoids. They tend to drop gold and items moreso than other creatures in World of Warcraft.

I’ve found these wow gold making tips to be helpful when starting out. It’s good to get the gold flow going early rather than getting to a certain point in the game and realizing you don’t have enough gold for your epic mount.

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