Making WoW Gold

Please don't believe all the hype you read about making gold. Obviously, you need the money to compete, but there are very few easy, little effort ways of getting the gold you need. Save your real money and do not waste it buying unnecessary guides. All the information you need is obtainable through this website and your Guild. Through experience you will have discovered good locations for picking up profitable items. You will know that your high-level toon can go back to certain locations and easily “farm” items you can sell at the Auction House (AH) for profit. There is a good add-on called Auction Master which you can download from Curse. I now use the Curse Client for automatically updating my downloads. Auction Master will take some getting used to but should help you in finding out what sells and for how much. The market prices vary from server to server. There is not one WoW market price.

Back to “farming”... one of the things you can do is go back to Dungeons you completed at lower levels to pick up some profitable items for sale in the AH, but be careful. You must remember these are full of “elite” monsters and that if you are not considerably higher ranked you will die easily. It may be more profitable and less wearing to farm Reagents, which are always in demand. WoWWiki gives a good guide to the various locations. Farming only really becomes worthwhile at max level.

I also have another site for you to look at: - WoW-Professions.com gives an excellent guide on where to find the resources you need. Please ignore his money-making links though. Remember max rank in 5 days really means 24 hours x 5, which in reality equates to a lot more than a few days of play. Assuming of course that you need to eat, sleep, work or study!

The farming tips are very helpful and will save you so much time in levelling your professions and provide you with a way of making good gold. 

Another little tip is not to buy all the Profession recipes. Only buy what you need to rank up your skill level and for your characters' needs; and what will sell for good money in the Auction House.

Guilds

Right from the start you need to join a very high ranked guild, the guild maximum level is 25, for the buffs you will get and can purchase from the Guild vendors found in Stormwind and Ogrimmar.  Ask the guards for directions. 

Here's the Ogrimmar link... WoWHead . Scan that list and you will find a tabard that will increase your guildreputation gain, and battle standards that will increase the rate you gain experience; one by as much as 15%, but only during usage and within a radius. The bad news is that you cannot buy until you have sufficient gold, have the relevant guild reputation and achieved whatever requirement is required. The good news is that the tabard binds to your account, meaning it stays with you and can be transferred and used by all your characters.

The original idea behind guilds was a helpful noble one, but nowadays they do not really cater for the needs of the new player. If you have real life friends playing the game I would suggest that you form your own soon after getting the above buffs. There need to be at least four of you and you will need 10 gold to purchase the guild charter but do bear in mind that you will lose the Guild buffs you have gained, until your Guild has reached the appropriate levels to have that bonus.

As a guild, you will find it easier to progress and communicate in-game with each other. As a group, you will also be able to take on different classes and professions. With your professions, you will be able to help each other out and exchange items as a form of barter. This should make life a lot easier and cheaper :-)

Also, look up the Guild add-ons available through Curse. One available is an in-game forum, which makes communication very easy. SuperGuildInvite allows you to invite people to your guild just by simply running it. I also think Guild recruitment earns you guild experience, although I have seen nothing to confirm this. Let me know what you learn from trying this. You will only be able to recruit if the Guild Master has enabled the function for you.

Gems

Did you know you can improve your toons abilities by placing gems in equipment (clothing and weapons) sockets?  Well, yes you can. PvP and PvE play have different requirements. Only higher end gear can be gemmed. If you have the Jewelcrafting profession you will be able to make your own. I used to have links to a couple of useful websites, but like a number of WoW sites they are now no more!

Reforging

When your toon reaches the level where its gear is at or above 200, you can reforge a percentage of one of the secondary stats on the gear for another stat. Do not do this as just a matter of course though. Make sure you know what the best stats are for your class first. It could be that some gear is as good as it needs to be. There is no point in changing from, say, Mastery to Haste on a piece of gear and then doing the opposite on another piece. You will find the Arcane Reforger in capital cities. The precise location is best found by asking a guard for directions. When ranking up it seems to me to be pointless to be constantly reforging gear. So, save money and only use on top end gear.

Best Advice for PvE and PvP Play

For PvP advice the best free site out there, as far as I am concerned, is Icy-Veins . All you want to know about equipping and playing PvP with your chosen class is here.  The Blizzard official forums are usually very poor, although you do occasionally get some input from good players. There was a very good Blood DK PvP guide (pre MoP) on there, whereas Arena Junkies concentrates on just Frost and UnHoly.

The best site for PvE is Icy-Veins. You will not like the fact that it is necessary to gear your class in different gear for PvE and PvP at higher-end play. At that level players using gear without enough resilience in PvP will not last very long; and similarly, solely clad PvP players will not last long in Heroic Dungeons because they will not be wanted, as their damage and defensive stats will be poor. It is wise not to annoy people by competing without excellent gear and these two sites will emphasise the point.

Dungeon and Heroic Dungeon Guides

Forget the Blizzard Dungeon guides, they really are worthless. The best sites I have found are these:

Icy-Veins

Ten Ton Hammer

It is imperative that you read up on how to play the higher-level dungeons, because you will be very unpopular if you do not. They are far more demanding than the dungeons you are familiar with and getting killed is easy if you do not follow the advice.

Other Ways of Improving Your Play

You may want to look at using a better mouse, keyboard etc. Although a lot of people get by on just the basics some people use programmable gaming keyboards and mice (such as the Belkin n52te). I'm not making a recommendation, only pointing out a possible way of improving your game play.

Too Long, Did not Read Level-up Quickly Guide

1. Quest to max level to rank up, while queuing for random dungeons
2. Do not bother with production professions until after max level, but do have two gathering professions for an XP boost.
3. Immediately join a high ranked guild for buffs, some of these give experience gains
4. Purchase guild vendor buffs, when they become available, to speed up experience gains (note usage details)
5. At max level buy Heirlooms for your next character
6. Buy potions to boost XP gains (will be expensive for new players)
7. Repeat processes 1 to 6 for your new characters. Heirlooms are bound to your account and can be passed back and forth through the post.

Following my guidance will greatly speed up your levelling and with heirloom geared characters you will easily be levelling at least 50% faster. The first character will of course not have the benefits of heirlooms and its rate of progression will be slower than your later ones, but with my advice you will still level faster than most new players.

It's worth remembering that without the information in this guide it would have taken you a lot longer to progress. If you encourage your friends to start playing WoW you can get a huge XP boost for your character. Blizzard advertises this widely.

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