I have not created a guide in a while, so I thought I would do one for Wildstar.
This is how you make insane amounts of plat. It works on any server, it's 100% legal to do, it's extremely easy to do, no farming involved, can be done at lvl 1.
Right, with that out of the way, how do you do it?
Well, easy enough, you use plat to destroy a servers economy to the ground.
Yep. You need a lot of plat for this to work to start with, get this easiest by buying C.R.E.D.D and selling it in-game.
( Do not buy from gold-sites, all the gold is tracked and you WILL be banned! )
I play on a slow server, so I started with only 40 plat.
Now that crafted gear is the hottest thing on the market right now, we are going to start with Dual Hybrid Power Cores.
These went for 80g per on my server, and there were 24 of them in total on the Auction House. I then proceeded to buy out every single one of them, and relisted them for 1plat 80g. I then proceeded to create a buy order for >1p 79g 99s. So every time someone undercuts me, I will immediately buy it up, and maintain my monopoly. I will then re-list them at my original price. Most people relist a lot lower than you to sell it quickly, so don't worry about this too much. There won't be too many people doing this anyway, depending on the server.
( Here is the big reveal: If you keep up the monopoly for 1+ month, there will be no one left on the server with hybrid cores. Not a single person will have it, because either you have it, or they use it on their gear, and it will never enter the economy, unless people trade of course )
So I see what you are saying, yeah well, duh, so what? I need so much plat for this, it's never going to work.
Well, yes, you need a lot of money for this, but as long as you can maintain a monopoly, you will be the richest person on your server eventually. Note that, eventually. This is going to be a slow run, but you will, and I repeat, will totally annihilate the entire servers economy, and everything is under your whim.
Now that you have made some plat by doing this, let's branch out. Since crafted gear is currently better than raid gear, the current crafted gear is going to be incredibly valuable in the next patch when crafting is getting nerfed hard. This is when you stop selling hybrid cores, and start buying pre-patch Adventus gear with 4+ runeslots, and <120 in mainstats.
Look for what runeslots give what benefits for a character. If you have 4 perfect runeslots and perfect mainstat on the item, buy it out now, and relist it in the future for 10x the price. People WILL, and I repeat WILL buy it because the gear is impossible to get, and it is going to be BiS. People will shell out whatever it takes to get the best possible gear, even if it means farming 2 weeks straight for them.
Now let's look at rune fragments. Oh boy, are we going to ****ing kill this server.
Look at Rune Fragments, on my server they went for 3g 45s each. I bought out 200 of them, and relisted for 18g each.
I then made a buy order for > 17g 99s And as long as I have money in the bank, I have the monopoly. So when people need it, and they don't have anymore outside of what drops in the world/adventure/dungeons/raids they need to come to the auction house, and pay 18g each. This is a huge increase in the original price.
So the lesson here:
Look for items everyone needs, buy everything of that item and re-list it much, much more expensive. Since you maintain months worth of monopoly, there is no way for people to fix the price because of buy order, and when people run out of those items, they have to come to the auction house to get it, at a much higher price than normal. This is how you make your gold.
I hope you learned something from this guide! Now go out there and crush your economy!