New Player Gold FAQ

**Raidings Overrated** · 08-19-2008

[Making Gold]
Q. Gold? What's that?
A. At low levels, you might not even have gold yet.
For those unaware:

100 copper - 1 silver
100 silver - 1 gold
100 gold - A lot of money

Q. So, how do I make gold? And fast.
A. Making gold is almost an inappropriate term. Quite often, you'll be making
silver over and over again, which will turn into gold. Very few drops in this
game sell for a gold or more. When they do, it will almost always be at the
auction house.

Q. Auction House?
A. There are three Auction Houses in the game: Ironforge (Alliance),
Orgrimmar (Horde), and Gadgetzan (Both). These can be either an
excellent place to make money, or a slow, certain doom that results in you
blowing all your money on equipment. Be advised, you WILL want to buy anything
you can use once you get to the auction house. That being said, you can greatly
increase your revenue by visiting here frequently. As a very basic example,
consider linen cloth: A stack of 20 sells for 2s60c to vendors.
While this isn't nothing, the same stack can go from anywhere to 25s-30s
(or more, if you're lucky) at the AH. That's a 1000% increase.
Generally, any profession created items or items needed by professions sell very
well at the AH, as well as any rare items. More detailed specifics will be
covered elsewhere in the guide.

Q. What if I don't wan't to/Can't get to the AH?
A. Well, you have a couple of options: - Save your "greens"/rare items in
your bank - Collect EVERYTHING you see, and NPC it - Try trading to other
players on an individual basis

I highly reccommend saving anything that looks valuable, and eventually selling
it at the auction house, because it most likely is. As far as regular junk is
concerned, you should have no trouble getting 5 bags of some slot value very
early on, so pick up everything you see and sell it. It does add up.

Q. That's all good and all, but so far you're just telling me to "kill stuff".
A. Again, specifics will be covered later. However, in general, if you want
immediate "money", humanoids drop copper/silver, as well as various types of
cloth. Both add up VERY quickly if you decide to "Farm" them for a while. They
also seem to drop equipment more often than other types of enemies, so you can
almost never go wrong with fighting them. Other than that, nothing short of game
experience and selling items to vendors will let you know what enemies are worth
more than others. Spiders tend to have good drops as well. It all depends.

Q. What professions make the most gold?
A. I'm not nearly experienced with all the trade skills, especially at 200+
skill levels, but in general, if you want to make money, especially at lower
levels, you can't go wrong with skinning/mining. Both ore and leather sell
very well at the auction house. Even a stack of copper bars goes for
upwards of 20s/stack.

Q. I followed your advice, and I barely make anything!
A. Context is important:
At level 1-10, you'll be lucky to sell any individual item for more than a
silver. Stacks of things will still sell generally low, as will equipment. Also
consider that killing level 8 humanoids will get you around 30c, while fighting
level 30s can get you upwards of 2s if you're lucky. Don't expect to make gold
at any decent rate before level 20. At level 25 you may start to see gold
amounts increase slowly. The only exception to this is of course, professions.
You can make a bunch of gold mining and skinning early on. At low levels, it's
more about being able to afford skills for your class and professions than
anything else.