Cataclysm: A Time for Gold Blogs

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

Wrath of the lich king was an awesome time for the wow gold blogs and I have seen an explosion of creativity and interest with regards to making money in world of warcraft this expansion when compared to burning crusade and vanilla combined. Wow.com created gold focused articles, sites like jmtc and other blogs appeared entirely dedicated to accruing gold, and the jmtc gold forums allowed for players of all types to anonymously share their ideas. Blizzard also took more notice on how gold is made in their game by paying attention to the profitability of each profession and making changes occasionally to nerf overpowered methods such as disenchanting easily crafted gear. Basically, wow gold knowledge has exponentially increased since wotlk hit store shelves. There are still a vast majority of players who are pretty clueless when it comes to the economy, but thanks to sites like this one and the new found interest in gold making throughout the wow community there are many many more players every day hitting the gold cap. Now the emphasis is on skill, not time invested (although you need a good bit of time total to hit the gold cap) which has brought a whole new dynamic to making gold. In vanilla it really was all about farming and having the best recipes in the game for your profession, and other than those two methods you had to rely on ah flipping or cross server trading which was not as good as it is today (just because there were less items to flip and less people leveling new toons). As time passed players were getting more experienced and leveling more toons, creating even more opportunities for making gold. That's what it's all about after all, creating the opportunity and  then exploiting it for the most gold possible.

I expect cataclysm to see even more intense gold making culture rise up out of the wow community. Blizzard has announced several additions to the craftable items available to professions in cataclysm which include pets, vanity items, and much more! There is also a rise in the number of players who are making gold their primary focus in the game, a method of playing unheard of in vanilla. There's just something amazingly rewarding about seeing all that money from successful auctions flow like a river into your bags. There's also a special satisfaction that you feel when you know you're buying up thousands of auctions with the knowledge that you will get ten times what you paid back by the end of the week. Whether you're flipping, crafting, or farming, you will definitely have more information at your fingertips in cataclysm than you did in wrath of the lich king. Thankfully this time around the gold making community won't be as isolated as it was in wotlk, as there are now literally hundreds of additionally sites which have appeared since I started JMTC. I'm not sure just how much of a catalyst this blog actually was or whether the move towards more and more useful gold information was just a cultural trend online, but I'm glad I made this blog and I wouldn't miss cataclysm for the world... of warcraft.