Here’s a compilations of World of Warcraft gold tips and strategies that I believe every WoW player should know. I have gathered them from my personal experience and they have served me very well in the past.

1. It’s been mentioned many times, but if you are just starting the WoW, your first character need to take on gathering professions. In my opinion, Mining and Herbalism are two of the most profitable at this time.

2. When leveling or grinding for gold, you should vendor all the ‘grey’ items (lol, duh!). You should post ALL the other items onto the Auction House.

3. Save all your level 40+ greens, tip an Enchanter to disenchant them. Dusts and Shards currently sell very well, and I only see this trend increasing with the Wrath of the Lich King due to arrive soon.

4. Get addons: Auctioneer, Gatherer, Atlasloot, TitansPanel (or FuBar). This provides some very useful additional information that the default UI does not offer.

5. Become a supplier for “crafters” in top guilds in your Realm. These chumps go through mats like water, they are constantly in demand. Even selling them at a lower price will benefit you in the long run.

6. A tip when mining, Silver refill Tin nodes. Gold refills Iron nodes. Truesilver refills Mithril nodes. So if you are just looking for Truesilver, you must NOT ignore the Mithril nodes as this will reduce the overall chance of Truesilver node spawns.

7. Take on the profession Inscription when Wrath of the Lich King launch. New professions will be in very high demand with little competition.

8. Watch the Blizzard calendar and pay attention to in-game events. Certain items will be in very high demand in certain times of the year. A fortune could be made by purchasing or farming these items in bulk prior to the event.

9. Understanding supply and demand. There is a given supply for every item in World of Warcraft, and there are also a given number of people looking for that item (demand).

Let’s look at this example, a server with 85% population being level 70s, the prices of some lower level items might be insanely high, this is because not only are these items in demand by lower level players, but also high level player’s alts. Depending on the item, they could also be in demand as mats for leveling professions.

10. WoW is very fair, there is no single way to farm the most gold, there are many! Just find the way that suits your play style the most and enjoy your way of gold farming. It’s a game after all!

These 10 Gold Tips have certainly helped me tremendously in World of Warcraft, I hope it does the same for you.