Cashflow is King in World of Warcraft

September 20, 2009 · Filed Under Video Games · Comment 

The question on every player’s lips in World of Warcraft is ‘How can I make more Money??!’. Nothing will stop you in your tracks quicker than hitting rock bottom in your gold supplies – from one moment to the next you can’t repair equipment, buy healing and mana potions, purchase mount, purchase items, even purchase food and drink. And your questing and leveling has to stop for the moment while you figure out your situation.

If you can manage to keep a steady flow of cash coming in at all times then you can rule the game and level super-fast while never pausing. This is a brief introduction to earning gold, for a more detailed article go here: Click Here

You can use some clever thinking, a bit of planning and a few strategies to make sure you never have to worry about gold. And there are techniques which are very ingenious and entrepreneurial too.

But you must get the basics right – first and foremost choose your professions wisely. Don’t pick your professions because they seem fun or just very useful. Believe me, if you have a good supply of gold coming in you will find the game a lot more enjoyable, and it’ll be hell of a lot more useful than anything else.

You can always go for the old faithful professions – skinning and mining – assured to make you a steady flow of cash all the way through the game. Everywhere you go there are creatures to skin and areas to be mined for ores, which you can sell. Other professions like Blacksmithing for fighters and Alchemy for magic users work in a similar way by saving you a lot of gold which you would need for mana potions and equipment repairs. So chose your professions wisely.

For more detail on professions, check out this article: WoW Money Guide

Professions are the most simplistic of money-making methods in WoW, the most advanced are as ingenious as entreprepeurialism in the real world. Many people develop an understanding of how the market systems work in WoW. These guys can buy and sell anything at the auction house, making big profit margins in the process.

If you would like to learn how to do this, the ideal guide is one lie Gold Secrets, which teaches the techniques step by step (you can read a review of Gold Secrets right here: Click Here). In the mean time, these few tips can get you started in these techniques.

The basics are to buy low and sell high in the auction house. If you look at the prices all the time, you can get a good idea of what things are worth at any given time. Always buy a bargain quickly before someone else does. The ideal it to find motivated sellers – people who want or need to sell their item fast and don’t want to wait for a bidding process.

When you have found one and a bargain, offer them a low price by prvate message. You will make a good profit because you are not in a hurry to sell, you can wait and take bids until you are happy. A final tip is to always sell on Friday. For some reason people always pay more on Friday – maybe because it’s the weekend and they’re in high spirits.