WoW Leveling Guide 60-70

This is new update guide for Burning Crusade. this guide give information how to level up to level 70, the new top level for burning crusade. It not complete yet but it can be very useful. It untilizes the CT_Mod to map out all the quests that are being done for each area as you level from 60-70 in the Outlands. u can get more information about this guide from this link.
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World of Warcraft Guides: Make Gold As A Newbie!

World of Warcraft Guides: Learn How To Make Gold As A Newbie (lvls 6-10)

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.

Another Guide to Making Gold in WoW

Not as complete as I want it to be, but I'll try.
Farming is the process of either running around killing mobs and collecting drops, or
running around gathering raw materials.
Contents
Vendor trash
Raw materials
Recipes
Items
Vendor Farming
First Aid
Alliance
Horde
Miscellaneous Vendor Farming Products
Farming loot falls into the following categories:
Vendor trash
Vendor trash (grey item name) is completely useless loot which NPC vendors will
nevertheless buy from you for good money. No one knows why the hell they want this
crap, but some of it can bring in quite a bit of silver. The trick is knowing which to keep
and which to throw away, especially when your inventory is full. Some addons can
remember vendor prices for vendor trash, so you know which is worth more and which
less. Good examples of vendor trash which bring in some nice money are Speckled Shell
Fragment, Basilisk spine and Soft patch of fur.
Raw materials
Raw materials are used (and used up) in crafting, and can be broken down into the
following categories:
1. Food
2. Herbs
3. Ore
4. Leather
5. Cloth
6. Ingredients
7. Items?
Recipes
Recipes are pieces of paper which teach you specific crafting abilities. Depending on the
profession, they have different names, such as Recipe?, Plan?, Schematic?, Formula?,
and Pattern?. Some recipes are easily found, some are sold by vendors, some are sold by
vendors on a timer, and some must be found by grinding.
Items
Uncommon and Rare Items are any items which are not white or grey. White and grey
items are typically either vendor trash or some kind of raw material. Uncommon items
are green, and rare items are blue. Epic items are purple, and Legendary items are orange.
If you're not going to use these items yourself, you can either disenchant them or sell
them.
Vendor Farming
Vendor Farming is the most morally dubious form of farming. It involves knowing where
to buy skill books and recipes, actually getting to the vendors selling them (they're
usually far out of the way), and then unloading those books and recipes on the Auction
House. The easiest products to vendor farm are first aid recipes.
Vendor Farming is a kind of service. You're making things accessible to people in a
hurry! Many people will happily shell out an extra gold or two rather than waste ten
minutes of their time finding the proper vendor.
Some aggressive people farm vendors on timers, and camp that vendor 24/7 to prevent
anyone else from buying. Since they subsequently charge insane prices for these
products, it's very hard to call this practice a service. It's a monopoly, and a form of
scheming.
First Aid
First aid skill books available for sale from NPC vendors include: Expert First Aid,
Heavy Silken Bandage, and Mageweave Bandage. You can buy up a dozen of any of
these (they're not on a timer) and unload them at the Auction House for double the
vendor price. People always buy these, since they're either too lazy to spend twenty
minutes running (or five minutes flying) to the vendor, or they don't even know where to
get them in the first place.
Alliance
The first aid vendor for the Alliance is in Stromgarde in the Arathi Highlands. He is in
the Alliance-controlled portion of Stromgarde, which is on the right-hand side
immediately next to the entrance.
Horde
The first aid vendor for the Horde is in Brackenwall Village in Dustwallow Marsh. Balai
Lok'Wein is under a tent next to the western entrance of the village.
Miscellaneous Vendor Farming Products
* Frost Oil Recipes
* Deepdive Helmet Schematic: There is a little hut on a cliff in Azshara with an npc that
sells the engineering schematic for the deepdive helmet. He sells it for 35 silver and on
my server these plans fetch around 8–10G on the AH. People dont know its available on
a vendor. Easy way to get there is to swim along the east shore of Durotar into Azshara
and you should see the hut on the cliff as soon as you get there. The plans respawn after
about a half hour or so.
* Mechanical Dragonling Schematic: NPC vendor in the Hinterlands
* Mithril Dragon Schematic: Use the Tarren Mill flight path, then just run around to the
back of Durnhold Keep to the entrance there.
Crafting involves either creating new items, or improving existing items. It typically
takes an assload of money or time to skill up your crafting, especially if you're going for
enchanting. You need a constant and changing supply of raw materials to skill up, and
you need a lot of gold to buy new recipes (from vendors or the Auction House) once your
existing recipes stop giving you skill points.
Contents
Raw materials
Recipes
Professions
Raw materials
You can get raw materials from the Auction House or by Farming. If you buy from the
Auction House, beware of Speculators.
Recipes
You need recipes in order to advance skill in your chosen profession. You can buy
recipes from NPC vendors or from the Auction House. You can also grind to find a
recipe, but they are very uncommon drops.
Beware! Many Auction House recipes are actually available from NPC vendors; they're
just in out-of-the-way places far from civilization. Schemers exploit this by camping out
vendors and buying recipes as soon as their timer runs down. It can sometimes be
difficult to obtain a recipe except through dealing with them.
Professions
1. Alchemy
2. Blacksmithing
3. Cooking
4. Enchanting
5. Engineering
6. Leatherworking
7. Tailoring
Speculating is a very lazy and parasitic method of making money in WoW. It can take
many different forms, but the basic concept is: Buy low, sell high. Speculating involves
doing almost no work aside from sitting in IronForge/Orgrimmar and constantly bidding
on auctions. Some people frown on this as unfair, manipulative, and mean. Some see it as
a natural extension of the economy.
Contents
Price Fixing
Tips
Pitfalls
Money Makers
Day trading
Equivalencies
Crappy Greens and Disenchanting
Faction-Specific Items
Personal Accounts
Ethical Concerns
Price Fixing
One method of speculation is Price Fixing. It is a little risky, especially when the item
you're controlling has a high listing fee at the Auction House, but the profit margin can be
extremely high if you're lucky or skilled. Price Fixing also requires a large grubstake in
order to take control and maintain it long enough for you to cash out.
The basic method for price fixing is:
1. Choose a market.
2. Choose a price point.
3. Buy out everything below the price point.
4. Start relisting your product at a substantial premium above the price point.
5. Continue buying out other auctions (or raising their bids) to keep your artificially high
prices competitive.
6. Profit.
Tips
1. Don't list all your product at the same price. Vary it a little. Don't list at exact 1 silver
denominations. Take a hint from retailers and list at 99 silver, 99 copper instead of 1
gold.
2. List using two or more characters so the takeover is less noticeable.
3. The weekends are generally a bad time to list, as everyone has the time to grind and
find things themselves.
4. Don't buy out product that is very close to your price point. Let it sell and save yourself
the trouble of picking it up and selling at a loss (due to AH fees)
5. Enchanting reagents have no listing fee. Within reason, don't compromise on price;
just keep relisting at high prices until it sells.
6. Sell at gradations of price. The higher priced product will make your cheapest
offerings look more reasonable, and when they're gone, the next cheapest will then be
attractive.
7. When possible, overwhelm the market to push other people's product listings off the
first page.
8. Don't try building up your stock quickly. Spend a few days bidding on items with no
buyout. You'll find that you win a surprising number of auctions cheaply.
9. If someone starts undercutting you, either wait them out, let the market crash and
rebuild your stock, collude with them, or buy them out and start listing even higher.
10. Don't try to control the markets with horrible listing fees. It is almost impossible to
make a profit in the Silk cloth market, since the listing fees are so freaking high.
11. Don't try to control ore or common herbs unless you know what you're doing and
you're willing to risk some cash. Low level ore is too common, and high level ore is
generally too expensive. Low level herbs such as Peacebloom are both common and in
low demand.
12. Looking at other sellers on the auction house as competitors is wrong because there's
almost always more demand than there is supply when it comes to lower level trade
goods.
13. If the prices get fucked up and nobody is buying what you have to sell at a reasonable
(read: high) price anymore, don't give up and list for lower. Keep 4–6 auctions at your
standard price and relist if they don't sell. If you do this enough, things will correct
themselves. Don't sell for less unless you need money now. And, really, if you have so
little money that you desperately need more you shouldn't have been doing this in the
first place.
14. Set a buyout price! People hate waiting.
15. Don’t set your initial bid price too much lower than your buyout. That’s a good way
to lose money. Conversely, you can bid on the low bids that other people set, and then
sell them back at a profit.
Pitfalls
Price Fixing can bankrupt you in several ways.
1. Overestimating demand.
2. Underestimating supply.
3. Insufficient cash to control the market.
4. Lack of patience and dedication.
5. Intense competition at just below your price point.
The only way to really undercut a price fixer is to buy out all stock, and relist at a 5 silver
or smaller price diference. If you have enough stock listed at close enough – but lower –
than mine, you'll drive me away from that market. Someone did it with Mageweave
(which is almost a loss at the best of times due to 30s deposit on listings) and I've since
sold off the 50+ stacks I had at an incredible loss. If you list mageweave 10s lower than
me, I lose way more than I would stand to gain by buying you out and relisting. --Lukano
Money Makers
Many people have reported great success price fixing the following products:
* Wool
* Linen
* 6, and 8 slot bags
* Ghost Mushroom
* Copper bars
* Greater Fire Protection Potions
Day trading
Some markets fluctuate over a period of hours or days. Before you decide to invest your
time and money, learn the pattern of a particular market. It varies per server depending on
the size of the economy, secondary economies from large guilds, profession distribution
on that server, and other factors.
* Felcloth
* Arcane Crystals?
Equivalencies
In an economy with intelligent, informed traders, you would expect two equivalent
products to command the exact same price. Not true in WoW, because most players are
dumb and uninformed. Sad, but there is no denying it. Thus, we see strange happenings
which are only corrected slowly by the enlightened few. For example, you would expect
steel prices to be fixed to iron prices, since it only takes a bit of time and coal to make
steel from iron. Not so! For some reason, steel and iron seem to be only loosely
connected.
The same applies to many other equivalent products, some of which can be transformed
only one way, while a select fewcan go back and forth. You can exploit this without
even feeling guilty about it, since you're kinda-sorta performing a service. Kinda. Sorta.
1. Iron + Coal -> Steel
2. Copper + Tin -> Bronze
3. Cloth -> Bolts of cloth (careful, bolts are typically not in demand)
4. Greater Essence <-> Lesser Essence
5. Metal bars -> Engineering parts
Crappy Greens and Disenchanting
One rewarding equivalency tactic is disenchanting. You can disenchant any uncommon
or rare item to get dust, essence, or shards (Rares always give you shards, but the cost of
the item is often far more than the cost a shard at the AH). Chance and the level of the
item determine what enchanting reagent, and how much of it, you will receive. You can
make an absolutely insane amount of money if you know the long-term break even point
for a certain level of item. That is, if you buy one hundred items at an average of 1 gold
each, and they disenchant into reagents worth a total of 125 gold, you can earn yourself a
tidy profit auctioning off the reagents you collect.
1. You need an assload of cash to start with. You need to be able to bid on every single
low-priced uncommon (green) item with no buyout in the entire Auction House.
Depending on the time of day and the size of your server, this could mean shelling out 20
gold or 100 gold. Most of it you will get back when you are outbid, but some of your bids
will go unchallenged.
2. Patience. If you win only a few items and they all disenchant into a single vision dust
each, keep buying! Many of your disenchants will result in valuable essences and shards,
just wait! (Note that the level of the item determines how many dust you will get)
3. A good strategy is to bid on any armor or weapon above level 40 or level 45 which is
listed at less than 1 gold. Go through every page in the search results and bid, bid, bid.
Librams, bags, and bullets, however, can NOT be disenchanted, so don't waste your
money.
4. Items level 45 and above will get you the most bang for your buck, but if you lower
your expectations to 40 you can still make money. You just don't make as much on
average, but you're dealing with higher volume so you may actually make more money
this way.
5. You can combine your bargain disenchantable shopping with price fixing of the
reagent market.
6. Set a buyout price. People hate waiting.
7. Enchanting components have no worth to vendors, which means the Auction House
requires no deposit! Don't settle for less, never lower your prices if you can help it. Just
keep relisting until it sells!
8. Use Thottbot to determine what disenchants into what, and AH searches to determine
your server’s prices. I sometimes use Allakhazam to estimate how well those prices
actually match demand..
9. There are a lot of enchanters who live hand to mouth; that is, they buy what they need
when they need it. It's a good idea to list your essences and shards singly, and your dust
in stacks of 2 or 3 instead of 10. You can do this by holding down the shift key and leftclicking
on a stack, choosing a number in the dialog that pops up, hitting enter, and then
dragging and left-clicking to drop that number, splitting the stack into two stacks. The
fastest way to go about this is to use the right-hand shift key, left-click, then hit enter
right away and clicking an empty inventory slot to drop a single dust. Do this twice
intead of typing “2” or using the arrow buttons. If you sell in stacks of 2, make sure you
inflate your price far past the typical price/dust of a 10-stack. Don't worry! It will sell.
Many dumb enchanters only want a specific amount of dust, they don't care about the
savings they will get from buying in bulk.
Faction-Specific Items
One complicated equivalency which few people bother correcting is in faction-specific
items: pets. Alliance pets are generally cute: kittens, pandas, parrots. Horde pets are icky:
cockroaches and other yucky things. If you're on a non-PvP server, or you know someone
on the opposing faction, you can do some dealing in the Gadgetzan Auction House to
transfer faction pets. A 50 silver pet can easily fetch a few gold at the opposing faction's
capitol city Auction House as long as you don't flood the market and you keep the
technique to yourself.
Ethical Concerns
* Speculation cheats people out of their hard-earned money.
Okay, here's the thing: you can go get this shit yourself. All you have to do is to find a
place where level 15–25 humanoids spawn and you're golden. Free wool for as long as
you care to stay out there. I have absolutely no problem with jacking the prices up on
these goods because the people buying them can all go get them themselves.
Leather, for instance. If someone is buying my leather there's one of two explanations:
they don't want to go out and get leather themselves OR they've decided they can
maintain leatherworking without having skinning as their second profession. In the first
case, who cares? They're paying for the privilege of not doing the work themselves. The
second case is even worse; why should I do the work and make only a tiny profit because
some guy doesn't want to have any gathering trade skills?
Seriously. People make too big of a deal out of AH prices, especially trade goods. No
trade good being sold on the AH isn't freely available, just stop being lazy. Hell, if I
could sell copper stacks for 5g each I'd do it in a second. — Paradoxish
OH NO KINGSBLOOD SELLS FOR 2G APIECE WHATEVER WILL I DO AS AN
ALCHEMIST
Oh, I guess I can go fucking pick it myself. What a concept.— Nail Rat
Scheming is the most heinous form of Speculation. Most forms of scheming involve
tricking people, either directly or indirectly, into (deliberately or accidentally) buying
your goods at an inflated price.
Contents
Good Seller, Bad Seller
Sole Supplier
High Buyout
Scams

Botting For 150 Gold A Day World of Warcraft Horde

This will work for horde only!, First you need to head over to blasted lands and go into garrisonarmory. These mobs are below level 50 and drop up to 5 silver. Green items, Purples and loadsof mageweave.

Like i said these dwarfs and gnomes are around 46-49 level and here is the best part. Theyhave a chance to drop imprefect ( more common ) or perfect ( hella hella rare ) DraenethystFragments. you can turn these into the collector quest for Green items and either AH , Vendoror Disenchant them.

Now during a 6 hour bot session i am constantly killing as these mobs do not hurt me and wasable to collect up to 15 of these imprefect fragments. That means in a 6-8 hour session youcollect 80-90 Gold of creatures, A ton of greens and maybe some blue or purple drops, and upto 15 more greens from the collector quest.

This is how i setup my rogue..

I path a hallway and just go after everything and use Autobag to delete the common drops likeMageweave, Soft banana bread, Superior healing pots, moon berry juice ect.. The grays armorand weapons that drop here are worth about 60-80 silver to 1 gold, so i keep them. I keep 2empty travers packs and 2 empty mooncloth bags so they are filled with greens grays and if imlucky a purple.

I have been able depending on drops make about 150 or alot more gold if i am lucky in a 6 to 8hour session

Buy World of Warcraft Gold

This strategy to make gold has yet to be used to its full potential. Some people do take advantage of this but not enough so you can still make a lot of gold using this technique. The only question people have about this is....where do I find the limited supply items at? Don't worry I do go through that in other guides on the site.

First and foremost, what is a limited supply item?

A limited supply item is an item for sale from a vendor but the vendor only has a very limited supply of items for sale. You can know this by the item having a number in the bottom right corner of the picture. These items do respawn...while some take 30 minutes to respawn others take up to 24-48 hrs!

The limited supply items you want to look for to make a lot of gold are usually recipes. I found those to be the most profitable. Typically you can buy a recipe for around 20s and sell it on the auction house for 1-2 gold or more in some cases. I have purchased a recipe before at 25 silver and sold it for 10 gold.

Why on earth would anyone pay 10 gold for something they could buy for 25 silver?

That's easy! People are lazy! They don't want to take the time to go to a specific vendor so they can get the item really cheap. All you really have to do is go to these vendors and buy the items and then place them on the auction house! How Simple!

World of Warcraft Gold Guide

This is another fantastic guide that I have found on the main WoW community forums. This one is basically a how-to guide on making tons of World of Warcraft gold. It will tell you what to do so you will always have enough money for that mount and anything else you may need gold for. Read on for the World of Warcraft gold guide.

Again, this is how I made my money. Ive been playing this game since the first week it came out and Ive never made an altthis guide is truly the path I took from lvl 1-60 (with a few modifications here and there as lessons learned from my mistakes!) Theres hundreds of ways to make money in this game. You be a gatherer the entire time, selling mats and make money. You could do nothing but manipulate the Auction House and make money. You could grind areas that are known to drop rares and epics and make money. Theres tons of ways, this is just my way. Enjoy!

Phase One Levels 1-40 Hunting and Gathering

So youre just starting World of Warcraft, youve picked your race and class (gnome rogues ftw!), and youre at the point where you get to pick two professions. You might say to yourself oooh Im a rogue so Ill get leatherworking so I can make my own armor! or Im a warrior so Ill get blacksmithing so I can make my own weapons!OK just stop right there n00b! Lemme tell you a little secret about all those cool crafting professions

***With the exception of a handful of items per crafted profession, you wont make money! And hey guess what, those few items that are profitable are pretty much unattainable at lower levels!***

I hate to rain on your parade so early on, but its better I tell you up front than watch you waste what little gold you earn trying to level up your crafting profession. The problem with crafting professions is that you fall into the trap that I like to call Skill Leveling Fever, where you will do whatever it takes to raise the skill of your profession. Some of you will say Ya Gen, but thats why you take a complimentary gathering profession so you can farm your own mats. This is true, but you will VERY quickly reach a point where the materials you require will be unattainable at your characters level. And what are you gonna do, wait until you can farm them yourself? Hell no, I know you better than that! Youre gonna go run to the AH and start buying materials for the sole purpose of leveling your crafting profession. Welcome to the poorhouse!

So instead, pick two gathering professions. The cool thing about gathering professions is that you start making money right awaywalk up to a mineral vein or a plant or a dead animal and grab those mats! Its 100% profit! And since you are going to be spending a LOT of time running around doing quests and killing animal sit only makes sense to take advantage of gathering professions. Mining and Herbalism are the biggest moneymakers, but since they share the minimap, I usually will pick mining or herbalism and then pick up Skinning.

The one negative thing about gathering professions is youll find your bags fill up VERY quickly. Dont worry, the first thing youre gonna buy are 14 slot bags. These things cost like 2g50s on my server, which youll have after selling like 4 stacks of whatever you got. Buy 4 of these 14slot bags, youll need the space! At this point some people make alts that sit near the Auction House and they mail all their mats to the alt. This is a good idea for someto me it would drive me nuts having to mail stuff all the time

Also, items with grey text are vendor trash, meaning you sell them to a vendor. ALWAYS pick up the vendor trashat your level every little bit counts. If its WHITE text, that means its used in a profession somehow. Hold onto it and see what its worth on the Auction House. If you can sell it to the vendor for 25s but sell it on the AH for 50s youve just doubled your profit! Dont laugh at 50s profit eitherdo that 1000 times (which you will do this 1000s of times in this game) thats 500g!

You should be making more than enough money to pay for new skills, updated armor and weapons, gryphon flights, stupid noncombat pets (hey I love em too!) etc. But keep in mind you are working towards two things when you hit lvl 40:

1. Buying your mount, which is going to cost you 90g
2. Preparing for your first crafting profession, which will take money to level and buy schematics/patterns/recipes/etc.

You cannot enter Phase Two until you have purchased your mount and have like 100g in savings. Trust me on this one.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT PHASE ONE:

Q: Gen, you are a god among gnomes, and handsome to boot. But if you tell everyone to take up gathering, who will buy the materials were gathering?! If theres no money in crafting, nobody will buy our materials!

A: It actually makes a perfect circlelowbies gather the mats, while highbies buy the mats and make crafted items (well discuss highbie strategy in a bit). These highbies in turn sell their items (for a profit) to other highbies and lowbies who NOW have money to spend (because theyre not wasting all their money trying to level up crafting professions!) It works really well like this.

Q: Gen, you are kind, intelligent, and have abs you could wash clothes on. My character is lvl XX, and Im a lvl YY Crafting Profession and a lvl ZZ Gathering Profession. And Im BROKE! Should I drop my crafting profession and take up a second gathering profession?

A: It depends on several things. If you are already close to lvl 40, you might as well keep the crafting profession UNLESS its really low level (like less than 125 or something) then ya drop it like a bad habit. If you are relatively low level but have a mid-level crafting professions, I would still drop it and take up a second gathering profession. Youll end up making much more money by the time youre 40, which is the real goal of this guide.

Q: My materials arent selling! The market is flooded with them and I keep getting them returned in the mailbox!

A: Ya thats going to happen from time to time. Some days you can sell a stack of something for 1g, the next day the entire AH is flooded with stacks selling for 20s. Its what I call the Retard Factor. The best thing you is get a general idea of how much stuff is selling for at that time, price your materials a little bit less that that, and hope for the best. Dont throw your hands up in despair when someone undercuts youits gonna happen. Just take your unsold mats and put them back on the AH someone will buy them, trust me!

Phase Two Levels 40-59 Its fine learn 2 craft

Youve hit lvl 40, you have your mount (sure beats walking huh?), youve learned all your new skills, and youve decked yourself out in some fancy new duds. Now what?

Well, you *could* stick with your two gathering professions. They will still make you a lot of money, actually more money than in the first phase because youll know have access to higher level materials. If you dont feel like busting ass trying to make money with crafting professions, stick with gathering by all means. You could stop reading this guide right now and have enough money to make you happy.

Still reading? Okay good lets talk about your first crafting profession

Pick a crafting profession that sounds fun to you. Dont worry, its going to make you money (except maybe Alchemy Im sorry I *still* havent seen proof that you can make lots of money off of Alchemy). What your going to do is drop the gathering profession that doesnt complement your new crafting profession. For example, if you want to take engineering, drop skinning and keep your mining. The one profession I do not recommend you take at level 40 (besides Alchemy) is Enchanting. Enchanting is a great profession but its not for the faint of heart, and its a #@%$! to level up. If you are dying to be an enchanter now, welcome to the poor house otherwise try to hold off until youre level 60 (well be discussing that in the next phase).

Now that youre level 40, it should be very easy to powerlevel your new profession to a certain point. Do everything possible to farm your own mats while leveling, it will save you a ton of money. This is important because you need your money for

SCHEMATICS, PLANS, FORMULAS, RECIPES, ETC!!! These are what separate you from all of the other people taking up crafting professions. I see twenty new threads every day asking how do you make money in leatherworking or whatever, and people usually reply you dont take herbalism its a goldmine. Im going to let you in on a little secret.

It takes hard work and a LOT of time and gold to make money in crafting!

You will NOT be rich from a crafting profession just by learning what the trainers provide! You have to spend gold on schematics/formulas/plans/etc to make the stuff that people really want to buy. Im not saying that every plan on the AH is going to be a moneymaker, but the ones that ARE moneymakers youre going to have to pony up the cash. Dont bother farming for them its a waste of effort just pay a reasonable amount for it on the AH.

Guess what? Youve just put yourself above probably 75% of the other crafters out there! Why? Because 75% of WoW players either dont have the gold to buy plans, or they refuse to spend money on them because people price gouge on the AH. Now instead of competing with 1000 engineers, you are competing with 250 of themand out of that 250 there will be quite a few that arent as aggressive in making money like you, you sly dog!

Its important to remember that crafting professions are a long term investment. Unlike gathering, you actually have to spend money for crafting professions to make money. On my server sniper scope schematics go for 100 gold. 100 gold is a ton of money, but as soon as you pay it off (you can make 2-3 gold profit off of each scope), youve got another weapon in your arsenal of moneymaking!

The questions I get asked all the damn time (people even create alts on Malygos to bug me during my Molten Core run lol) is what items sell for a profit, how much do you sell them for, etc. And the answer is find out for yourself. Make a spreadsheet or list of everything you know how to make. Then for each item list out how much RAW material it takes to make that item. What do I mean by raw material? Its the total amount of uncrafted items you need to eventually make the item. For instance:

Hi Impact Bombs x 8 = Mithril Bar x16 + Solid Stone x16 + Mageweave x4

Notice that Hi Impact Bombs really take Mithril Casings, Solid Blasting Powder, and Unstable Triggersbut the RAW material list is as stated aboveget it?

Ok now that you have that for every item you can make, figure out the UNIT PRICE for each raw material. UNIT PRICE is how much it costs if you buy one Mithril Bar on the AH. Dont look at the prices for just one Mithril Bar though look at how much a stack costs and divide by 20.

Got that? Great! Next step is to find out how much you can sell each item for. Do a search on the AH to see what the going prices areit might take you a few days to get an accurate number due to the Retard Factor of people putting up items for ridiculously low or high prices. If the items just dont show up on the AH, determine if anyone would actually *buy* the item first, and if you think they would just take a guess of how much you could sell it for.

You know what the final step is right? I sure hope so. You know how much it costs to make the item, you know how much you can sell the item fordo some simple subtraction to see if you can make a PROFIT off of your items! You will be surprised how many items will make a profit. The obvious choices are items needed for quests, items that need to be purchased several times (such as armor kits, sharpening stones, scopes, potions, etc), and blue items.

The two top comments I get from this section are:

Gen, you really expect me to make a spreadsheet of all my crafted items, with materials, and costs of mats etc etc? that seems like a lot of work cant you just tell me which ones sell best?

Get out of my forum! If you cant do the legwork and put the effort into itgo pick flowers and collect rocks.

Gen, why do I have to make a spreadsheet based on cost of mats in the AH? I can easily go farm my mats and make 100% profit!

Ah HA! This is the statement that is the death of crafters everywhere. Im going to make the next statement in all caps not because Im angry, but because I want it to stick out so much you cant help but read it and remember it:

***IF YOU CANNOT BUY THE MATS ON THE AUCTION HOUSE, CRAFT YOUR ITEM, AND SELL THAT ITEM FOR A PROFIT DO NOT MAKE IT!***

Seems so simple yet time after time again people will say things like yeah of course you arent going to make money if you buy your mats on the AH you have to farm the materials. Well, if the materials are worth more than the finished product, why would you bother making it? Just sell the materials for a larger profit! The purpose of the spreadsheet is to help you identify what items you can make a profit on.

The next logical step is to realize that if you can buy the mats on the AH and still make a profit, why would you spend all that time farming materials? In the time it takes you to farm the mats to make one item, you could buy the mats to make 10 items.

You should be making more than enough money to pay for new skills, updated armor and weapons, repair costs, stupid trinkets (I love my Orb of Deception!) etc. But keep in mind you are working towards two things when you hit lvl 60:

1. Buying your epic mount, which is going to cost you 900 gold
2. Having nearly all of the schematics/plans/etc for your crafting profession, and being able to make a steady income off of it.
3. Having at least 100 gold (preferably more) saved to help you level up your 2nd crafting profession

Do not bother with Phase Three until you have the above three items complete. Patience is the keyif you rush into this stuff you will have more expenses than you do income.

Phase Three Level 60 Farming is for suckers

Ok so youre sitting pretty at level 60, congratulations! Youve got your epic mount, youve completely owned your crafting profession, and you got your nest egg of gold. And your entire time spent in WoW now consists of you either in a high-end instance or sitting in Ironforge trying to get a raid group together. And that means youre not running around gathering! Plus by now youve probably said to yourself Man, I dont even need to farm mats anymoreI can buy them off of the AH and still make a sweet profit! Welcome to Phase Three

Now Phase Three is 100% optional. Some of the gathering professions are useful in high-end instances. With mining you can get Dark Iron Ore and Blood of the Mountain, which both sell well AND help you raise your reputation with the Thorium Brotherhood. With Skinning (plus an enchant and a finkles skinner) you can skin Corehounds in Molten Core and The Beast in UBRS. Both have their uses for sure. But this guide is about how I made moneyand since I HATE FARMING (farming is for suckers!) I dropped my gathering profession and picked up a 2nd crafting profession (in my case enchanting).

You level the 2nd crafting profession the same way you did the first, with the exception that you dont have a gathering profession to assist you in the leveling process. So that means youll be buying your materials from the AH (yeah you could make alts or whateverI just dont like making alts). The key is to level as cheaply as possible until you can get to the point where you can make a profit (or even break even) on the things you create as you level up. Again, same thing as the first crafting professionbuy up all the patterns/plans/etc that look like you could make a profit with, make a spreadsheet, etc etc. This will be a slower process than the first crafting profession, but you already have your epic mount, and youre hopefully getting good weapons and armor from instance runsso theres really no rush anyway.

Theres one more thing you can do to make some extreme money, but keep in mind that everything requires an investment of time and moneyand this will require a lot of both. There are lots of faction based patterns/plans/etc recently implemented in WoW. Some of them are as simple as killing tons (and I mean thousands) of Furbolgs until you are honored/revered with the Timbermaw Furbolgs, some as daunting as turning in thousands of Dark Iron Ores to the Thorium Brotherhood. Were talking a couple thousand gold worth of investment right there if you dont mine it yourself. 99.9% of the players in this game wouldnt touch this with a 10 foot pole, simply because they either dont want to waste their energy to achieve this level (which is totally understandable you have to be crazy to do this), or they dont understand the benefit of knowing how to make these epic items. Its basic logic thoughlets say you invest 2000 gold to become revered with the Thorium Brotherhood. You learn how to make the revered epic items. Congratulations youre probably one of the .01% of the people on your server than can make them. And you know what? 99.9% of the people on the server want those items because theyre some of the best gear/weapons in the game! Theres one guy on my server that makes weapons for 4000-5000g each. It doesnt take a math genius to see that the return on investment can be very lucrative! Some of you will say Oooh but Gen how in the hell am I supposed to get 2000g to invest in this? Well, you could either plan ahead and mine the dark iron ore yourself (for Thorium Brotherhood, for the others anyone can do it), or do what I did and sell what you can sell like a madman and save save save! Others will say Yeah but Gen all of those high end materials come from Molten Core and they cost thousands of gold to buy the mats! This is true, but as I said before this is the upper echelon of making money, and it takes big money to make big money. You dont go to Las Vegas with 20 bucks and expect to win thousands of dollars do you?

Phase Four Any Level Oh you crafty bastard!

So this isnt really a fourth phase, its more of a bonus chapter of things I did/do to make money. Theres no real rhyme or reason to it, its just the extra things Ive done along the way that arent really profession related. I never mentioned them in my first guide because A) I wanted to keep it legit, these things arent anything you can do to depend on an incomebut if they happen look out! And B) Im still making money on several of these so I didnt want to spill the beans just yet lol! I wont go into super detail here because I want you to use your brainnot to figure out exactly what I do, but to figure out things I havent even thought of!

Oh Im a poor guy! On rare occasion you will see someone selling an item in the trade channel. If its something you know is a hot seller, msg them and ask the price. Sometimes they will flat out be stupid and give you a low price. Buy it, wait one day, and put it on the AH for what its really worth. If they reply with a price thats pretty much what its worth, say oh gee, I can only afford *insert low number here* I doubt youd sell it for that. Oh well thank you I appreciated it. You will be surprised how many times they will sell it for that amount or close to it. Ive done that at least 20 times with sniper scope schematics alone! Am I proud of myself for doing it? No, I am not. Am I happy to have the extra gold? Hell yes!

Wholesale Materials If you find yourself crafting the same items over and over, youll start to pick up a trend of certain materials that you use in large quantities. The best thing to do is to buy them in bulk for a cheaper unit price. Sure, youre eating more money up front, but your profit margin will be way larger (what, you werent going to pass those savings onto your customers were you?!?!) Theres several ways to do it, but my two favorites are the AH and gold farmers. On the AH you might see 100 stacks of heavy leather, all with 2g buyout, with a 1g min bid. Bid them all at min bid. Chances are youll win a percentage of them at half of what you would normally pay! For gold farmers, if they can understand you (LOL), strike up a deal with them to COD the materials to you for a reduced cost. I have many farmers constantly working for me!

WTF is that??? troll the AH for items people auction, and browse thottbot and allakhazam theres tons of items that you can buy, do something with, and resell for a huge profit. I personally know of a few items that I can make 50 gold + profit on every time, and a buddy of mine has found another completely unrelated item that does about the same. What are they? Not telling!!! But do the research and youll find several little nuggets of moneymaking!

Hey hey! I got blah blah on the AH! Im not condoning spamming like a fool, but a well crafted funny msg every 10 min or so about something SPECIAL youve put on the AH will really help sell your product! Do not do this for everyday junk like light leather and copper bars this is something you use for rare/epic items or things that are in HIGH demand. Be witty and funny and people wont be as annoyed by you. Hell, ask people in Malygos, I spam stuff and say pst the gnome in the wedding dress! cuz yeah I wear one and a Goblin Rocket Helmet and two Cookies Tenderizers and Im a male gnome you got a problem with that?!

I think thats about all Ive got for version 2.0 well let this thing run 31 pages and break, just in time for version 3.0. Hopefully by that time Ive learned new ways to make money for you guys!

Good luck and stay wealthy!

World of Warcraft Power Leveling Guide

The first thing you have to remember is the whole purpose of power leveling is to maximize experience in the least amount of time. There are a whole lot of different World of Warcraft guides pertaining to power leveling but the most important aspect is to do what works for you and throw everything else out.

I'm going to list a basic formula for power leveling. Follow this guide and power leveling will be a breeze.

First, some world of warcraft guides tell you to do quest after quest while other guides tell you to grind your heart out. Actually, the best way is to combine the two, but only do the quests that have you kill X amount of creatures or collect dropped items from creatures you are grinding.

NOTE - Be sure to check the drop rate of the items needed and if the drop rate is extremely low don't do those quests.

Next, you will want to download and install an addon which will show you the amount of experience obtained per hour. I usually shoot for about 20-30k per hour from level 30-49.

In my opinion, you will want to just do quest after quest until level 20 because gaining levels at this point in the game is extremely simple and fast just by doing quests. After that feel free to throw in grinding with the questing.

Basic WoW Gold Tips

1. It's really easy and should be done right from the start of the game. Grab the 2 primary professions, mining and skinning. While you're out leveling yourself you can easily skin the animals. You're bound to eventually enter a mine which will have many minerals. Be sure to mine those ores. You can easily sell off the extra items to merchants or players.

2. Make sure you grab quests every chance you get. You can easily gain additional exp, gold, items and faction while you're leveling. You may even complete some of your quests with out even knowing because they normally require you to kill off mobs or require you to travel/speak to other NPCs. The quests of World of Warcraft are more player friendly than other MMORPGs.

3. Don't spend any money buying World of Warcraft items, equipments and other accessories early in the game. Low level characters from 1-40 are not gear dependent. Along with that fact, you'll get a nice load of items from just completing quests.

4. While you're out leveling, there are certain monsters that has better drops than others. An example would be humanoids. They tend to drop more gold and items than any other creatures in the World of Azeroth.