Low Level Gold Making at Darkmoon Faire

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Many long-time readers here are at the point in their gold progression where they can focus on lucrative, high-payoff gold making ventures like the recent stockpiling and selling of goods for 4.3. But what if you're just starting off making gold? Either you're too low level to max professions or you don't have much capital to invest?

Well, the new Darkmoon Faire has some options for you! One of the new features is the weekly profession quest. I took my main character to the Faire and figured I'd do the profession quests just to do them. I quickly found some roadblocks to quick completion: I had to leave the Faire and return to Stormwind to purchase supplies.

So this led me to thinking, why not sit and sell the reagents needed for the quests? I gladly would have overpaid for them in order to save the trip back to a city. Not all the professions need items from a town, but here are the ones that do:

Tailoring
1 Coarse Thread, 1 Red Dye, 1 Blue Dye, sold by the tailoring supply vendors. Ask a guard for tor the location of the Tailor trainer in any capital if you aren't sure where to go. The base cost before discounts is 10 copper for the thread and 50 copper for each dye, or 1 silver, 10 copper for the group.

Inscription
5 Light Parchment, sold by the Inscription supply vendors. Ask a guard for tor the location of the Inscription trainer in any capital if you aren't sure where to go. The base cost before discounts is 15 copper per sheet, or 75 copper for the group.

Cooking
5 Simple Flour, sold by the Cooking supply vendors. Ask a guard for tor the location of the Cooking trainer in any capital if you aren't sure where to go. The base cost before discounts is 25 copper per flour, or 1 silver, 25 copper for the group.

Leatherworking
10 Shiny Bauble, 5 Coarse Thread, 5 Blue Dye. See Tailoring, above, for information on the Coarse Thread and Blue Dye. Shiny Baubles are available from fishing supply vendors. There's actually a fishing vendor on Darkmoon Island that sells these, but some people might not bother looking. If you skip the Baubles, you'll need 3 silver for the thread and dye. If you purchase some Baubles to save your customers the hassle, you'll need another 5 silver, or 8 silver total.

Alchemy
5 Moonberry Juice, sold by Innkeepers. Stop by your favorite inn to get some. The base cost before discounts is 20 silver each, or 1 gold for the group.

Once you have the materials, park yourself at the faire and advertise in General Chat (/1 will start typing in general chat) that you have materials for these 5 professions. When I was playing around with it, I found it most helpful to play off the convenience factor, and generally sold supply packs for 5 gold across the board. At worst, that's still 4 gold in profit for each pack.

I didn't stay long, because I had other things to do that were more profitable, but if you don't have the capital or professions to do those other things, this is a great start. One particularly useful message I was barking was: "Tailoring, Inscription, Cooking, Leatherworking and Alchemy quest items for sale! Turn 5 gold into 16, get 4 tickets and 5 free skill points in your profession!"

Don't underestimate how much gold people are willing to spend to avoid the hassle of gathering these materials themselves. You still have a couple days to give it a try, but chances are most of the player base that is going to do the quests are already through them. But keep this in mind for the next Darkmoon Faire as a way to make some start-up capital!

Guild Banks for Beginners

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

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Hey JMTC! Kynalla here, and I'm proud to present to you a gold tip for all of the beginners out there which discusses the necessity for guild banks!

In my years as a dedicated gold-maker, the guild bank is a tool that resembles that of epic flying. In The Burning Crusade, epic flying was considered by some as unnecessary which was mostly due to its price. The guild bank has been voiced by some as unnecessary, but in my experience it is the best investment that I, or any aspiring gold-maker could possibly make. 

The guild bank provides storage for both gold and items that is unmatched by your personal bank. With up to eight tabs up for grabs in total in the guild bank, and 96 item slots at your disposal per tab, the guild bank is a weapon in your gold-making arsenal matched by none. Whether you're storing your items for later use in an upcoming patch, or you need somewhere to store your massive stocks of materials, the guild bank remains the supreme way to store one's items. Isn't it ridiculous that you can't store gold in your personal bank? What kind of a bank is that? This is one reason why guild banks excel when it comes to organization and keeping track of your gold. 

Not only are guild banks brilliant for storage purposes, but they're simple to create. In my video I show each faction's respective guild vendors in the two main cities Stormwind, and Orgrimmar. The next steps consist of finding three people to sign your guild charter, and then buying your tabs at your own pace. 

Thanks a lot for watching my video and reading my post, and I hope that it helps you all. 

Feel free to follow me on Twitter if you would like to discuss gold-making with me, or have any video requests!

P.S. I'm very sorry to all of you experienced gold-makers out there, this tip is not directed towards you, but towards our new aspiring gold-makers who are learning the ropes. 

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Alliance Starter Gold Guide

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Greetings Just my Two Copper Gold Blog Community!

My name is Rip and I am an avid WoW player, gold maker, power leveler, and profession guru on the game of...you guessed it: World of Warcraft! I am here today to bring to you my first ever gold idea making post/guide to help the new players out, and it may even make some broke 85s a few bucks too. =P Below is a starter guide for the Alliance! If people like this one well enough, then I shall continue to write more guides, and I will make one for the Horde side as well! Here's to the community and to all you hard working gold makers! /cheers

Alliance Starters: Making gold for your low level expenses!

It never fails that I always see low levels running around Stormwind talking in either trade or whispering me and many other people saying, "Hey I need gold for my mount at level 20!" "Is there a guild charter I could sign for just  few gold!?

I need my mount!" "Hey can you give me ideas on how to make gold? I'm broke and I'm new to WoW!" Well I am here to say this to you my Alliance "newb" friends! YOU CAN MAKE ALL THE GOLD YOU NEED FOR YOUR LEVEL 20 MOUNTS!!!

Now some of you are probably thinking, "Yeah he'll tell us to go farm ore, skin, or herb for 50000000000 hours on end and then I get to try to make the money to post it on the auction house, and then I have to..." I know who you are, and I know EXACTLY how you feel! Which is why I am here to say: NEVER AGAIN!!! No more hours of grinding, no more hours of slaving away, no more hours of misery in trying to make gold and failing, HOWEVER, it will take some time! :D

The first thing you want to do is make a banker toon and post him/her at the Auction House in Stormwind (Dwarven District or Trade District). Then you need to make two more alts that will be "gatherers". One of the alts you need to run to the Inn (Pig and Whistle Tavern) inside of the Old Town District in Stormwind and park him next to Kendor Kabonka. Why you ask!?!?

Well what a wonderful question!!! Let me explain:

In WoW there are many different people, but most of them are lazy when it comes to recipes, pets, mounts, and other items, and they don't bother to use tools, resources, or take the time and effort to save themselves gold. So what do they do? They hop on their jolly old mounts, prancy up to the auction house, and say, "Hello my dear auctioneer friend! I have come to be kicked in the butt by the newbs that are ripping me off royally and I don't give a weasel's hiney!" Which is what they might as well be saying! So you're going to buy the recipes and repost them on the AH for up to 20 times as much as what you paid for them!!!

Now a little tip/hint on this to help you make maximum profit. Make sure that: 1. You do NOT buy the Bind on Pickup recipes, or else you've wasted money! 2. Write down all of the names of the recipes (On toilet paper, a post it note, or you sister's blanket! Although if you get a whoopin' then it's not my fault! :P) and check to see which ones are going for the most! Also look at the supply of them on the Auction House. If someone is posting 5000 Westfall Stew recipes, then he's obviously an ignorant moose, he is blatantly letting the other people know that it's easy to get, and he doesn't care to make a profit. So be wise, and do not over flood the auction house! NOW!!!...on to the SECOND alt!

This one will be a little bit harder to get to where he needs to go, but it is definately worth it! You need to run the level 1 alt down to Booty Bay! WHAT ARE YOU CRAZY THERE ARE LEVEL 20 AND 30 MOBS DOWN THAT WAY! THEY'LL ROFL PWN ME UNTIL I'M CORPSE

DUST! Yes, you will die MWAHAHA, BUT....it will be well worth it! HOW IS IT GOING TO BE WORTH IT!?!?!? What a wonder question! :D

I'll be happy to explain!

In Booty Bay there are 2 key NPCs that will help you make money along with the Neutral Auction House. Those NPCs are Kelsey Yance, a cook/recipe vendor inside The Old Port Authority building, which is the first building you come to on the docks when you come down the ramp from the tunnel out of STV on your left. He sells many recipes that are for fishing, and many people know now that fishing and leveling up your cooking go hand in hand! So once again the high ol' jolly prancing weasel "master" of WoW is going to go to the Auction House and say, "Yes dear sir give me that fishing recipe and take my pocket book! Go on and throw it out the window! I don't care!" What

does that mean for YOU!?!? You get lots of moolah, money, gold, dough, pay, cash, etc. You get the idea! Now on the next important NPC!

The next NPC is in the SAME building right beside Kelsey Yance! That person's name is Narkk! 

What's so special about him!? Why he sells the most fantastic birds you ever did lay your eyes on AND he also sells a limited pattern of: Pattern: Black Swashbuckler's Shirt! What is so

wonderful about that? Well everyone makes a banker toon, some people like to Role-Play (NO WAY GET OUTA HERE!!! Yep...it's true!), and some people like to just run around when they are bored in different outfits! What better way than to wear a pirate shirt, get a hat, and run around with

a parrot on your shoulder me hearties! YARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

Now the general idea here is that you want to check the recipes of the fish on the Alliance Auction House and see what they are going for and if anyone is flooding the market with the recipes! Check and do the same thing that you did with the Pig and Whistle Tavern Recipes from Kendor Kabonka. Only buy what is going for up 3-5 times what you paid for the recipe and post it to sell it! The idea here is that you want to make maximum profit and if you flood the market, then you make people think that it's easy to get, and they will check. If you only post one or two of a recipe though then most people usually go like this, "OH MY GOSH THERE'S ONLY A FEW! I'D BETTER BUY IT QUICK!" That means you get lots of money!

Now I am sure that you are all thinking, "This is a wonderful idea!....but how do I get the money to buy these recipes when it can cost up to a gold!?" That is a wonderful question indeed! Let me help you out there as well! Since you're new, you'll be leveling up a character of course, and as

you level up a character you're going to make money from quest rewards, and you will see many animals, ore veins, and flowers to be picked as you quest in your merry adventures! Now before you wig out and go, "I THOUGHT YOU SAID HOURS OF FARMING WAS OVER!!!" let me explain. As you are leveling up your professions you are questing. You don't need to go way out of your way to find herbs, ore, or animals to skin. Just make sure that once you reach level 5 (or whatever level it is you reach whenever you are out of your INITIAL starting zone) that you get a gathering profession that you think will be beneficial to you in the long run. In example: Mining = Stamina bonus if you're going to tank, Herbalism = Haste bonus if you're going to be a healer or caster, Skinning = Critical Strike Bonus if you're going to be a hunter, rogue, or maybe even an Enhancement shaman. As you continue to quest use your profession to gather materials that you can send to your Auctioneer Alt to sell for money which can then be mailed to your gatherer alts to purchase the recipes.

Now I am going to do you a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE favor and tell you how to save money, and make even more as you're leveling! Do NOT, yes I said NOT, buy gear EVER until you're level capped at 85 (Even then make it, farm regulars, do heroics, the new "Zeroics", or PvP

Battleground

Grind to get gear to save gold)! Now I am going to tell you a tip to get you more gold! When you come across armor that is Bind on Equip that you do not need do NOT just vendor it! Send it to your Auctioneer Alt, sell it fairly cheap, and make a profit off of it. Do the same with any cloth that you find as you are leveling, unless you have Tailoring or First-Aid that you are leveling. Many people want to level their professions fast, and cloth is a fairly commonly purchased item that can give you a decent bit of gold. There is one more secret that I will teach you to master as a new player in WoW that many people don't ever do, or that they learn many ages later! That is the secret of "Confucious say:" Arbitrage! What is this Arbitrage you speak of you say!?!? Well let me tell you! -Rocks in a rocking chair and shakes a cane- Many years ago...oh...

Arbitrage is this: "In economics and finance, arbitrage (IPA: /ˈɑrbɨtrɑːʒ/) is the practice of taking advantage of a price difference between two or more markets: striking a combination of matching deals that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices. 

When used by academics, an arbitrage is a transaction that involves no negative cash flow at any probabilistic or temporal state and a positive cash flow in at least one state; in simple terms, it is the possibility of a risk-free profit at zero cost." HOLD ON THERE I'M NOT AN ENGLISH TEACHER!!! Don't worry I'll tell you in SIMPLE terms!

When you Arbitrage on WoW you're going to take advantage of a market! The Cross-Faction Market! I already here you asking "What is the Cross-Faction Market?!" This is a market that involves you taking an item that is only purchasable by one faction, putting it on the neutral Auction House

and allowing the other faction to purchase it, thereby making it accessable to the other faction! Now you are wondering, "What kind of items are those!?"

It is a simple answer that I shall say that will devistate you: PETS!!! Yes, you heard right pets, companions, animals, kittys, owls, birds, rabbits, and more that are only accessable for one faction unless put onto the Neutral Auction House. "Where can I get some of these!?" you ask!? Well that is to be revealed next:

You must go to a distant land! The land of Elwynn Forest, right outside of Stormwind, and make the perilous, dangerous journey to the dreaded, horrible, money making, schemeing, evil Donni Anthania <Crazy Cat Lady>. She resides in a cozy little cottage right outside of Northshire! As you are leaving

Northshire there will be a tiny little cottage, house, on the right hand side of the road with a fence around it on the side. Inside is Donni Anthania who sells cats, has cats, wears cats, and let's hope she don't eat her cats. The cats cost about 50 silver a piece from her, but when you acquire some, mail them to your "gatherer" down in Booty Bay, and put some on the Neutral Auction House for up to 10-20 times as much as what you have paid for them. I have sold the cats sometimes for as much as 60 gold a piece! That is roughly 30 times as much as what you paid for them! If you want to be safe, then log on to your Booty Bay gatherer and see what each cat is going for, or if there are any on the Auction House. If there are none, then you get to name your own price and don't go 

too low! As I have said, I have sold them for 60 gold a piece!

Well my friends this is just an Alliance starter guide for gold! Feel free to leave any comments, feedbacks, suggestions, or more ideas below! This is a community, so work together, improve, come up with more ideas, and expand your epic bank and become richer! If you like this post/guide then let me know and if so, then I would be happy to make a starter guide for the Horde side as well! Thank you, God bless, and happy gold making! :D

Sincerely,

Rip the Shaman

Why leveling is so important

Posted by The Lost Meeple at 8:00 AM

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We've all been there, started out as noobs and saw that epicly geared guy in Ironforge on his awesome and cool mount ( Magical Rooster :P ). We've all drooled and said I want to be just like him.. rich and have all the gold in World of Warcraft... well.... once I level up to level 85.

Leveling in a key factor when you're trying to make gold. Not only does it directly affect how much gold you can earn earn per hour, but it also allows you to give yourself a nice little "head start" from all of the questing and grinding that you'll do trying to reach that awesome Level 85.

If you're a low level and you're reading all of these gold tips, stop. Seriously, stop reading and go level. While leveling you'll earn at least 10,000g from 1-85. I know I personally made 5,500g just from leveling my shaman from 80-85. Quest gold is simply great if you have little to no gold in your pocket. Leveling is a great way to get yourself off your feet. Most of your income will begin rolling in at 70, from 70-80 expect to make anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000g. If you're a disenchanter, disenchant the greens and list them at the auction house, Wrath of the Lich King enchanting materials have sky rocketed, you'll make a killing by disenchanting your greens, trust me

If you make gold at low levels what are you going to spend it on? Epic flying..? Well that requires level 68. What about a level 85 epic? Oh.. that requires level 85.. darn. If you're going to be serious about making gold I suggest you have at least one character at 85. That way you'll have something to spend your gold on, rather than drooling over 310% flying mount speed.

What I'm really trying to say is, go level. There is simply no reason not to. You'll only benefit yourself by doing so. To the gold guru's: Go level. That's right, not only will questing make you gold but you'll also have access to two more profession slots that you did not have. The more professions the more you can diversify your strategies and make even more gold than you are right now.

Up-and-coming Cataclysm Gold Blogs

Posted by The Lost Meeple at 8:00 AM

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World of Warcraft blogs have been coming out of the ground lately, so I thought that I'd take the time and let you guys know about some of them, there seems to be a lot of them, but hey more information can't hurt can it?

The Warcraft Corner
A brand new blog, with a good layout, it seems Smudger is doing pretty good with the site, I like it very much. I recently just read his post about skinning the crocs in tol borad, I found it very good information and you guys should check it out, as the old farming spot that I posted in got nerfed.

Keep posting, I hope to see some good information in the coming weeks, Smudger.

The Tipped Copper
Another up and comign wow blog that started about a month back, I actually know the guy who posts here, his name is Xeroaze and he plays on my server :P Any who, he's been posting some good information over at his blog, I found some of it to be quite interesting, he just recently re-designed his site and made it more apealing than it already was.

I found his post on the JMTC carnival ( which didn't make it in the carnival, sorry! ) to be very good, he outlines the ways he's currently making gold. There are some great ideas in there, I suggest you go read it :)

Best of luck with your blog, Xeroaze, I hope you keep posting and keep the good work up.

ALTOs Gold"ish" Advice
This blog has been up for about three months now, so it's not quite as new as the others, but that's good. Alto has recently been making excellent posts that are informative, and detailed, I found his post about turning in dream shards to be an excellent post. It outlines how you can buy cheap dream shards, and sell the wrath of the lich king enchants to levelers, and they have a nice markup due to the low competition.

There is some great information to be found at this blog, I looked through his archives and saw a couple posts that popped out of the screen, they screamed for my eyes to read. Keep up the good work Altolycus,  hope to see more great information to come out of you!

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Making Gold At Low Levels

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I recently started a little project of my own. I decided to level a priest from 1-15 and see how much gold I could acquire. I only paid for 2 Deadmines runs, which costed me 20g total, and everything else was quested. Most, if not all of the questing was done in Westfall, as this is an awesome place to earn gold & level at the same time. By level 15 I had 187g in my bags, more than enough to suffice at level 15. Do keep in mind I did not use any professions while leveling, if I would of had , I would of made double the gold.

What Items Sold Best & Why

• Wool Cloth & Linen Cloth, both of these cloths were one of my biggest source of income. Wool cloth goes for 6-7g per stack, I usually grabbed about 5-6 stacks per deadmines run.

• "Of The Monkey" Gear, another great seller. Twinks are always looking for this type of gear, and they always have a high mark up.

• Low Level Potions, I sold several for a couple gold pieces, almost everyone wants the low level health potions as they are always handy.

• Boar Snouts, Flask of Oil, Okra, & Stringy Vulture Meat. These Items are used for a quest in Westfall. Not everyone has the patience to do quests that require things to drop, so they run to the auction house to see if there are any available.

• Moss Agates, these are used for Jewelcrafting, they have a high mark up value due to how rare they can be.

• Small Eggs, & Clam Meat. Both of these are low level cooking materials, they have a high mark up value. Easily farmed in Westfall.

Why these specific items sold

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Blogging Carnival - 20 Strategies on Turning 1000 gold into 2000 gold

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

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The wow gold carnival for September is finally here! Sit back, relax and enjoy the epic pwnsauce that is this month's collection of articles which I've gathered from around the blogosphere. These bloggers will bravely attempt to answer the question: "How to turn 1,000 gold into 2,000 gold?" Let's see how the following twenty blogs tackled this topic and please be sure to comment on the posts. Pass the kodo kabobs please, hungry orc over here! For links to past and upcoming carnivals, as well as how you can join, click here.

This month's carnival has been sponsored by Dominate Wow Gold. Check out their special 20% off deal for JMTC fans which is for a limited time only.

When you finish reading all the posts, be sure to leave a comment here with which was your favorite and why. One lucky commenter who leaves an intelligent comment will be randomly chosen to receive a free Dominate Wow Gold Guide.

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How to Make 15 Gold When You Enter A Major City

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Home sweet home. What are we having? Gnome? Mmmm.

Remember When...

I remember the first time I entered Orgrimmar on my warrior. All I could think was wow... this place is huge, look at all the buildings and people! As a new player I focused on getting my quests done, exploring the city and then moved on to other areas to keep leveling. I missed out on major gold making opportunities I wish I'd known about back then.

Example video from my youtube channel.

How to Make Lowbie Gold

First off, sell any meats you collected while leveling up to this point on the auction house. Outside Durotar were lots of boars which I had killed for a quest and then just vendored the meat. What a mistake! Those 5 boar meats could have netted me 5-10 gold on the auction house. Second, while moving through the city I never even thought of clicking on the enchanter trainer,and if I had bothered to do so I probably would have seen some strange dust and lesser magic essences for super cheap, not to mention a handful of limited supply recipes. Had I bought these items and resold them on the auction house I would have netted an easy 3 gold for the dusts/essences and up to 20 gold each for the recipes. If I was feeling really adventurous I could have also bought a few copper rods and posted them for those too lazy to run to their enchanter trainer. Finally, there was a troll walking around with snakes trailing him of various colors. Buying these and reselling them for a few gold each would have easily pushed me over 15 gold on my first character without even breaking  a sweat, probably even 35-50 gold actually. Maybe then I would have been able to buy some nice gear and saved some time leveling.

For the Comments

There are plenty of ways to use low level materials and vendor items to make gold in major cities the first time you enter them, do you have any other tips you'd like to share? Also try this strategy and tell me how it goes for you. It takes minutes to yield quite a bit of gold for a lower level character.

Note: I ran this experiment on seven servers where I got some money on a new character and ran them to major cities (didn't have the meats and just purchased items if they were available at the time I arrived) and the results were 17 gold, 9.5 gold, 9.4 gold, 26 gold, 114 gold (someone desperate bought both my enchanting recipes for over 45 gold each), 11 gold and 8 gold after waiting a few hours to see what had sold. Not too bad if you ask me and I didn't wait for everything to sell!