This is for you level 70 characters working on getting your tier 4 or 5 dungeon gear who hate farming. There are places to farm that might give you more cash per hour, but they just aren’t as easy. The mobs are a snap for almost any class or build; they drop high value items, and limited junk. The spot is in Netherstorm; at the ruins of Alkron.

This works best if you have enchanting and skinning - two of my favorite end-game professions. On my server almost everybody mines, so you end up rolling for all the nodes in instances. Another good end-game gathering skill is herbalism, but it seems like only the leatherworkers skin. But since leatherworking is a lot like tailoring in the fact that it takes a whole lot of mats to make one recipe, the demand for knothide leathers is just as high as for metal bars in most cases. Especially since the materials are more limited on the ah since most people don’t skin. You can actually make a pretty decent run just cleaning up leftovers in high traffic areas of Nagrand, where nearly everything you kill can be skinned. There will be times when I can skin 20-40 mobs without ever taking a single swing because there are two or three people working on the mastery quests in the northern part of that zone. I just run around making free money off their kills.

(Revision to skinning and AH sales. Prices for skins seems to rise and fall more than most items, particularly compared to other mats. Mat prices tend to stay fairly static for long periods of time. This is not the case with skins. Prices for almost all levels of skins can vary widely on a single server over time. At the time of the writing of this article, Heavy Knothide on Fenris realm was selling for nearly 7.5 gold each. In just a couple of months, those prices fell to 10 gold a stack. Nature abhors a vacuum, and the low supply caused a LOT of players to go train skinning to get in on the profits. Supply soared and prices dropped like a rock. It took nearly nine months for skin prices to rise back to around 60 gold a stack. If your server happens to be in a high supply low demand phase, just hang out, prices will rise again as folks drop skinning because they aren’t making enough money with it.)

But the Alkron ruins are simply the best. In an average hour you can expect to farm something like 130-160 gold worth of items if you have skinning and enchanting. The mobs there are well spaced, so you almost always get them 1-on-1, and they don’t have any really annoying skills or tons of armor or hit points. The worst part may be for casters since the artifact seekers will use mana burn on you from time to time as well as spell lock. I will just assume you know how to deal with that. All the mobs are level 67 or 68 and you can kill more than 100 of them an hour. This should get you about 6 gold in silver dropped from the doomguards, 80-120 knothide leather scraps, 20-30 knothide leather, 30+ marks of Sargeras, 2 or 3 Fel Armaments, 3-5 vendor trash items worth around 5 gold or so, and the odd green item which you can either sell at ah or disenchant for a guaranteed 6-10 gold if the item doesn’t sell for that much.

Prices for the marks of Sargeras and fel armaments will vary from server to server, but they are used for Aldor rep and Aldor enchants. A pretty good average for these is around 15 gold for the armaments; and up to 1 gold each for the marks. Add in the profit from the leather and now you’re making some really serious coin for a very minimal amount of work. I go there quite a bit during trash time while waiting for the guild to get together on a dungeon run. I’ll just fly up there and bust a few heads for 20 minutes or so while everyone else is getting done with their current quests or instances. I am able to keep about 1,500 gold on my alt all the time doing this just 20 minutes here and there every time I log on. I have never liked to farm for hours at a time, but this would be the perfect place to do it if you are strapped for cash, or don’t mind going in circles for hours. Either way, it’s worth it - and quite possibly the easiest money you will make compared to anyplace else you could possibly go.

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Enchanting can be a very lucrative career profession. The only thing I hate about it is standing around in a major city spamming the trade channels with: level 345 ‘chanter LFW can do [some enchant] [another enchant] blah, blah, blah. Only to have to get into a 2 minute conversation with everybody anyway about every one of the 40 or 50 enchants I can or cannot do and what the mat price is and what I charge for it. It can really be a hassle. But you can still make a TON of gold with enchanting and never enchant anything but your own gear.

Just like fishing and cooking are great for new toons and making bags is perfect for the mid-level characters, there’s just no beating enchanting for making the big bucks for your epic and flying mounts. Questing in outlands will land you the most amazing greens, and I would personally swear that they drop twice as often as in Azeroth. Most of these greens are better than the level 60 dungeon gear from before the Burning Crusade patch. However, because of the stats most people need on their items, about 25% of these drops are completely worthless. I mean you can’t sell them in the auction house at all. You can’t even give them away. So the greens in outlands can be pretty hit-or-miss. They will either leave you agonizing over whether to equip it, sell it at the ah, or vendor it away.

Don’t worry about that if you have enchanting. The great thing about this technique is that you don’t have to mess around with maxing out your enchanting skill to make money at it. At skill level 275 you can disenchant nearly anything you would ever want to. The blues which might require a higher level enchanting skill to disenchant you don’t have to worry about either. Almost every party will have at least one other enchanter, if there is a roll everyone passes on, just let the guy who spent 2000 gold getting his enchanting to 375 disenchant it and then everyone can roll on the shard instead of the item.

So you can do this without having to spend a ton of money leveling up your skill. The greatest thing about disenchanting items for money is that there are NO auction deposits for enchanting mats. Which means you can go for the highest price possible and re-list them all 100 times if necessary to get the very maximum price. On top of that, the amount of materials needed to get even one skill point in enchanting past 325 is insane. So the materials are in high demand no matter what your server. Plus, at the level of the people buying these materials, money has usually ceased to be a big deal, because you can easily earn 100 gold just off of trash items in a few hours grinding.

So when you begin dreaming about that flying mount - you might go retrain in enchanting and spend a couple hundred gold getting it leveled up. After about three weeks of casual questing in outlands, I was able to disenchant enough mats to sell the whole pile on AH for well over 1,500 gold, enough for my flying mount and a riding crop to boot on one of my alts. So whether you are farming, questing or raiding, enchanting is one way to make some serious dough without having to advertise. Next, our favorite farming spot.

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Bags can make you quite a bit of gold. Just like fishing and cooking can make you some decent low-level money, using tailoring as your profession and making almost exclusively bags can also be a lucrative career between the levels 20-60.

Tailoring is one of those professions that is just not a fabulous money-maker overall. I know you can find people who say they make a pile of gold every week on it, but honestly, the materials for tailoring are hard to get in the quantities you need unless you are buying them at the AH. The problem with this is that on many servers the price for the materials will be more than the price you can get for the finished product. But there’s a little hope in tailoring, and it’s in making bags.

The very best way to take advantage of this is by using skinning and tailoring. This way, you can get almost all of the materials you need just by doing your regular questing runs with very little farming involved or purchasing from the auction house. The exception to this rule is going to be buying some (or massive amounts of) cloth.

Go get your skinning and tailoring training and save up every scrap of cloth you ever find. Using the Thottbot techniques you learned in a previous article, level up your tailoring to maximum as fast as you can. It will help if you are level 35 or better when you do this, otherwise you’ll cap out before you can make the best bag of all. It also helps if you know a leatherworker who can turn all those stacks of leather scraps into light leather for you, but otherwise just sell them and buy what you need for the bags. You won’t ever need a ton of leather for bag making.

Now you need to get a little more skillful about using the auction house. If you are not using auctioneer I highly recommend it, it will save you a lot of effort in this step. Look at the mats required to make your bags. After you have sold a few of them, you will be able to determine the maximum price at which you can sell every bag you make.

We’re not interested in the real maximum price, but the highest price at which they sell like hotcakes. You have to pay a deposit for every bag you place at auction, and if your price is so high that you have to re-list those bags more than two or three times, you’ve probably lost money instead of making any. Then figure out from that max price what you can afford to spend for a stack of materials and still make a profit from the bag.

For instance, on one server I know that if I buy stacks of 20 runecloth for 1gold 50 silver or less

Stacks of rugged leather for 3 gold or less

I can make 75s on as many runecloth bags as I can possibly make, selling them for 2 gold 95 silver bid, 3 gold 45 silver buyout. You can see that If I post my bags at 2g95s they will sell super fast compared to the other prices.

This may not be true on every server precisely, but you will be able to find this same sweet spot probably somewhere near this range. There are times I will buy 200 gold worth of runecloth and make 90 or 100 bags because I know that I will turn that 200 gold into 450-500 in less than a week for about one hour’s worth of work.

You see, everybody needs four bags (or three anyway for people opting for a quiver or other specialized slot container), and everybody wants bigger bags. You can get more than 400 gold on most servers for a primal mooncloth bag. Too bad the mats will cost you about 395 gold to buy if you don’t farm them yourself. I have found that the very best money-making bag out there is the runecloth bag. It’s the first really serious bag upgrade people do, and the price is reasonable for the amount of money someone usually has by the time they can use this bag.

The other nice thing about bags that makes people spend pretty freely for them is that in most cases for the lower level bags they do not bind on equip. Which means you can turn around and sell them back on the AH later when you get even bigger bags, or a similar size bag drops from a mob. SO people often see it as a push. “I’m not really paying 14 gold for a set of bags, because they will still be worth 14 gold three months from now when they get new bags!”

The neat thing is that they will give YOU their 14 gold! Next up - disenchanting for the big bucks.

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How would you like to spend under 6 silver, and make 15, 25, even 50 gold within a few hours later?

If you’ve been getting my email alerts for any length of time, you already know that I love selling things to twinks. Twinks go ga-ga over every last possible point of agility or intellect, and invest tons of gold into their twink characters.

Well, what we have here is the only +agility bow/gun/thrown weapon that a twink 19 rogue can get. Everyone who’s building a 19 twink rogue will simply have to have it, and will be willing to pay lots of gold for those two little points of agility.

There are a number of factors that make this item so special.

• These are only available from a single vendor, who is only friendly to Horde (sorry Alliance guys!)
• They only spawn in the vendor’s inventory occasionally… perhaps once per day
• Another item (nice, but less desirable) frequently spawns in its place

The vendor is question is Eralan, the poison vendor in Tranquillien (in the Ghostlands.) Based on our tests (this is not definitive), it looks like Eralan spawns a special item for sale about every 4 hours. 75% of the time, that special item will be the Sinister Scimitar. The other 25% of the time, she will spawn Throat Piercers.

If she spawns a Sinister Scimitar, then someone will have to buy it. Once it’s been bought, she should spawn a new special item for sale within 4 hours.

As you can see from the auction house info from Allakhazam.com, the average selling price across all servers is over 33 gold, with a median and most frequent selling price of 20 gold.

Make yourself a Blood Elf alt toon, and run him to Tranquillien. Make a habit of logging in and checking Eralan for this item as often as possible, and whenever you find it, email it to your bank alt, and make yourself some easy gold.

And don’t disregard the Sinister Scimitar. It’s not half bad, and still can fetch 5 to 7 gold on the auction house:

The easiest thing to do is to just sell it on the Horde auction house, but if you really want to maximize your gold, you’ll want two accounts (on a PvP server), or an Alliance accomplice to get the item from the Horde side to the Alliance side. Since they are so rare in the Alliance auction house, you’ll want to make sure to spam trade chat to let everyone know that they are available.

Have fun selling twink gear… it’s a techinque we use quite a bit to Dominate Our Server.

-Gavin

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This week I’m going to talk to you about using Trade Skills to fatten your virtual coin purse.

As you know from my previous emails, I’m not a big fan of doing trade skills before level 60, because it slows down your leveling time.

Remember that this is coming from a guy who wants to hit 60 with a character as fast as possible. If hitting 60 as fast as humanly possible is not your goal, then by all means go right ahead and work on the trade skills and professions of your choice.

However, I want to give you some tricks to make sure that you actually MAKE money from your trade skills, instead of losing
money.

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If you’re going to be playing the auction house, timing is everything. Buy items on weekdays (during the day, if possible) and sell them on the weekends. Prices tend to go down during the week (when there are fewer people playing, and therefore less demand), and rise over the weekend (when most people play.)

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Many players pride themselves in having items that no one else has. This emotional attachment to their “stuff” is something that extends to pets as well!

As alliance, you’ll find that you can sell kittens (obtained from the cat lady in Goldshire) to horde players for 2-4 gold each on the neutral auction houses.

As horde, you can buy snakes from the snake vendor in Orgrimmar and sell them to alliance players for the same amount.

When you find these pets for sale at neutral auction houses, buy them and resell them on your main faction auction house. You’ll be able to sell them for a lot more there.

If you’re lucky enough to have two accounts, or if you have a “friend” in the opposite faction, you can work together by feeding each other pets through the neutral auction house and reselling them on the faction auction house.

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