Maddy`s blog

In the following article you`ll find some tips about gold making. These worked for me and this is how I play.

1. If you have a main and some low level alts, do not send gold to them. You should be able to play without any help, after all, how did you raise your first char anyway? The only things you must send your new character are 16 slots bags so you can loot more and sell more.

2. Always loot everything, every grey item, every useless thing because you vendor these. Don`t be lazy to pick up your loot, it`s gold after all.

3. Never buy items of armor or weapons from AH if you have a low level char because you don`t really need it, you won`t even notice the upgrade (who cares at lvl 40 if you have 4 more STA or 3 more INT?) and you can get better from quest rewards or instances. Also the low lvl blue items are considered twink items so they are in 99% of the cases overpriced. I would like to ask who bought Feet of the Lynx on a non-twink char? Exactly.

4. Your main can have non gathering professions, my warrior is Tailor/Enchanter, but the rest of the chars-always gathering professions because you`ll get to level them from 1 to 70 and pass by a ton of ore, animal corpses and herbs and you want to collect everything to sell to AH. My druid is Herba/Miner and my shaman is Skinner/Miner. This is also good because I have mats to create my own potions for raids, with the help of the friendly guild alchemist.

5. Don`t be lazy to mine Iron, Tin or pick up the pre-BC herbs. These sell like crazy at the AH. I made a lot of gold selling Heavy and Thick Leather when I was leveling in Stranglethorn Valley, skinner`s paradise.

6. I find the best times to put items on the AH the weekends because people have more free time to play, hence they will use AH more and buy what they need. I usually collect the cloth that drops and throw it on the AH in the weekend. It sells instantly.

7. If you are a member of a raiding guild you`ll have a lot of expenses (repairs, consumables). Think twice if it`s worth to blow your stash of gold on an epic mount. If that leaves you too broke to afford raiding, you have a problem. An epic mount won`t boost your DPS or repair your items.

8. Never lend large amounts of gold. 10g, 20g is OK but nothing over 100g unless that person is family or a RL friend. Would be frustrating to lend your hard worked money to someone that won`t give it back and you have no legal way to get them back. No use bitching at GMs. Side note: always ask your guild enchanter for services, don`t trust Mongoose mats to JohnDoe who will probably logoff after you traded him the mats. GMs don`t interfere in these matters, you can bitch all you want. Play safe.

9. Complete all the quests. This isn`t so important for the pre-BC world, the rewards are crap and the money is little, but in Outlands things change. Don`t move to the next map if you still have quests on the previous one. Not only you get reputation with the faction, but you get items and a hefty amount of money for the quests. I completed all quests in Outlands with both my warrior and druid. That is enough to let you buy a normal flying mount and still have gold.

10. If you are on your crafter main just loosing time and staring at walls, read the trade chat. Offer your services, but make sure you offer them at people that mention “will tip”. I had a lot of bad experiences with people that didn`t tip. I am also a little blunt and say “Tipping would be nice”, so they get the point. I made a Mongoose a couple of days ago for a rogue and she tipped me 30g. Best tip I ever got for an enchant with the client`s materials was 100g, I couldn`t believe my eyes.

Hope it helps, good luck!