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World of Warcraft gold is fortunately a totally unlimited resource. Actually it is limited so that you cannot carry more than one billion gold but speaking of gold’s natural limit—there is none.

Generally speaking the game economy is a peculiar thing requiring a separate and almost as serious a study as the real world economy, and although it possesses fundamental differences such as the materialization of gold out of thin air every time you kill a mob and its disappearance into thin air when you sell anything to an NPC, the basic principles of economy persist in the World of Warcraft. The relation between demand and supply is the same, time still costs money, rare is more valuable and friends tend to do favors for free.

Of actual ways of making wow gold there are several types: grinding rare items, farming resources, crafting and the rest, that is more complex schemes.

Grinding is simple and is basically the conversion of time into money with some use of luck. You kill certain mobs specifically targeting for some valuable and rare drop, i.e. 359 bind on equip items (as of Apr 2011) or [Parrot Cage (Hyacinth Macaw)] or [Blood of the Mountain] or anything else that you can sell for much money.

Farming resources is also simple and is just another form of time-money conversion. Resources will always be in demand and if you pick your professions such that you can gather any of these then you can also sell them. Generally the prices are not high but that depends on the amount you can gather.


Crafting is not as simple as the previous two and also requires investment in the crafting profession, which could be pricy. However when you have your profession score at top and the basic set of recipes you can start crafting for money.

The rest moneymaking techniques are complex and usually require more than two professions meaning that you need to use an alt or ask for your friends’ help. The process usually involves finding a transformation scheme from one type of resources to some other such that will earn you some money. For instance, you can buy ore, prospect it into gems, craft jewels from them and disenchant those jewels and sell the dust, which is usually worth it.

Since the ultimate selling spot is the Auction House you should always remember that the key to selling anything there is keeping your offer the cheapest so that is appears first when other players want to buy anything. Noting that you can easily guess that some people just earn money by buying and reselling things from the Auction House. A certain profit and entertainment can also be obtained by buying and selling things between Alliance and Horde auctions.

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