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Whats the fastest way. I used to rake in alot of money in the AH selling Bars and Ores but then outland hit and NO ONE LIKES FEL ORE so after buying the riding skills and the mounts i quickly got knocked down to about 800g QQ. Now im 4bars into 76 and in Northrend but i only have about 2500g which is nice but its not nearly enough.

Cobalt can sell anywhere from 30g-60g a stack depending on the market which is a good thing but it doesn't seem to be enough. I vender sell all my green drops and my professions are Mining(skill 419) and BlackSmithing(1## i forget i don;t really level or use it)

So what should i do, i was thinking about switching professions anyway to take up herbalism and alchemy but herbs don't seem to sell for nearly as much and im not sure what you can do with alchemy money wise.

Any suggestions.

Leveling in northrend and wanna make money ? Sounds like you need skinning ;d


Was talking to vandango last night .. and he persuaded me to get it too. So dropped a low lvl proffession I had and started on it at 01:00 AM. 5 hours later I was 450/450 with about 800G in mats in my backpack. Ranging from Borean Leather to about 12 Arctic Furs ( Sell for 60G each ) Very, very easy proffession to lvl .. and if you are an AoE class you will love slaughtering groups of mammoth's : )

use this for 1-375.

http://www.wow-professions.com/wowguide ... guide.html ( Best guide EVER )

375-400 you go farm rhino's in Borean Tundra.
400-430 you farm shoveltusks in Howling Fjord
430-450 ... well you can stay there but I farmed the ammoth's near Sons of Hodir dailys.

Without actual farming .. so just leveling from 375-450G I got 800G ... so ye ;d

i loved skinning when i had my druid, i guess i'll drop BS because thats not doing anything for me right now and pick up skinning till im financially secure...then switch to a profession that will boost my stats....sadly Enhance shammys have no real Aoe...

Well, if you combine Skinning + leatherworking .. it's ideal. Farm mats with Skinning .. bundle the leather into heavy's then sell that for 5G a piece .. or make epic enchants which can benefit yourself or sell for like 200G a piece ;d

You don't really get the most out of skinning without Leatherworking, the leg armors are a great source of income if you farm the mats yourself. If you're too lazy you can buy the mats and still make a decent profit for very little effort.

I think combining professions works a lot better. Just like in the real world there's the poor people supplying the mats and the rich west and makes into final products and get the big money.
Take for instance herbalism + inscriptions. Herbs all over the place so it's easy to farm, you mill the herbs and make glyphs (always sell good, at least now without dual specs) and more importantly you can make random Darkmoon cards.
A darkmoon card can sell from 1k - 2.5k gold. The mats for a darkmoon card are, relatively, pretty cheap at around 350-500g (farm it yourself even cheaper).
Now the herbs you would've farmed and sold at the AH would've net you 350-500g. A darkmoon card 1-2.5k (with luck might I add, it's still a random card and some aren't as popular as others).

As you can see making the final product nets you far greater amounts of money for even less work than farming.
Most, if not all, epics from professions are BOE. So pick a profession that will make you gold, not for the items it will make you.
Ditch Blacksmithing for sure, it's the most expensive to level and it won't really make you much money.

if you can get jewelcrafting up to max cutting gems always a decent income

I have to agree with wong here.

I took mining/JC on my retired raid character and i couldn't for the life of me EVER change this.

You mine 1 hr, get rare gems from the ore nodes, and green ones + eternals (LOADs of them), you can prospect for more rare gems, and if you cut the blue ones into much-needed gems you make so much profit

EDIT: And always a free 100-300G per day with the Dragon's Eye JC Daily, which takes 20 minutes, and that's if you get one where you have to go far

I also agree with the suggestion to get matching professions. I leveled Mining and Blacksmithing on my paladin and am now raking in the profits, even though all I'm selling at the moment is basic cobalt gear.

If you have mining, keep it at least to sell titansteel or your cooldown for that. Pick up skinning and sell everything.

Really?
Kinda curious as to how you make gold with Blacksmithing, does it make up for the investment, BS being the most expensive profession to level.

The best way to get money is to do your damn quests and when you hit 80, finish the rest of the quests.

Sitting around farming crap when you could be leveling is a bad decision. Just don't spend your gold on stupid shit.

As long as you have epic riding skill, you don't really need to spend much gold on anything in northrend except the 1k cold weather flying.

Hasn't made up entirely for the investment, but is making it up fairly well. Boots sell for about 12G, chestpieces about 15G. Haven't tried for basic weapons. Later on after I do gear for myself and guildies, I can sell titansteel shit for 2k a piece.

To be honest, I doubt any of those matching professions for Mining is any good money maker, such as Blacksmith and Engineering but hmm those Dragon's Eye from Jewelcrafting dailies can be decent moneymaker but their price are pretty much messed up on my realm. If I were you, I'd rather just tag Mining with another gathering profession such as Herbalism or Skinning. Not sure if Skinning makes a lot of gold, but I'm pretty sure Herbalism does, with the elixirs, flasks and Darkmoon Cards going about. I'm a Blacksmith myself, and I think it actually cost me more gold getting it up then earning gold from it. I like the bonuses though, sockets, and I can make some enhancements and gears for myself since I got materials from my own Mining.

I have to agree that questing is the best way to earn gold. I was gonna finish up the quest achievements at Northrend in pursue for my Loremaster and Seeker title, I did like over 100~ quests in both Storm Peaks and Icecrown to wrap up this continent and I earned nearly 2000g, from both gold rewards and selling of quest rewards. And it took like what? 2 nights of questing? After that my gold supply went low again so I went to quest at Outland and I believe I got quite a bit from finishing the quests at each area, though they are annoyingly hard to find since the number required for a quest achievement at a certain map only allows you to miss roughly only 1-2 quests. In most of the cases, I actually had to do them all the quest I can get to get the achievements, since I have horrible reputation with Burning Crusade factions so I'm not entitled to higher reputation quests.

And I forgot, when you're trying to get your Blacksmith up, you'll understand why those damned Thorium Ores are sold for such a high price.

100 quest in 2 nights is alot for me >>

I hated Thorium. So hard to find. So expensive to buy. 12 bars to a piece is not cool.

I went 298 -> 300 using Dark Iron designs. I went into BRD just to get the ability to smelt it. >_<

damn...i hate BRD with a passion but i got into the habit of mining every node i saw so i was never short on thorium to sell when i was in Azeroth. I'd go back to farm it but i lost all my gather nodes when my lappy took a dive.

I just ran laps of Burning Steppes.
Silithus has more rich nodes, but I'm not going into those nests. **** that.

Well I will only say as a newb and I am truly one here (only level 27 on my first ever toon in wow) that I got two gathering professions (mining - skinning) and I had made 200g by level 25. That was mainly just skinning what I kill doing quests - skinning anything left by others(I always ask first if they are nearby) and grabbing nodes as I travel to and from quests. I also only can play a couple of hours a day and that isn't everyday.(a lot of that spent walking as I have no mount yet )

Now that is nothing at you guy's level, I understand that, but at my level with nothing truly to buy (first mount coming up soon)I have a small cushion that makes the game that much more enjoyable for me; knowing I can buy a mount and the riding skill, buy profession skill, recipes, expert books, new class skills etc. I have 3 alts with journeyman levels in other professions (leatherworking, bs, eng, herb/inscrip,) that also make a bit of G - but I make most just off the mats.

I am having fun and I look for to the days when I look back and say 200G was a mere pittance - I make that selling a single stack of xyz mat. Cheers!

Well, I have mining / Skinning .. not really had any other gathering proffession . .but I assume skinning is very profitable.

I like cooking so I have to grind multiple mobs for meat. Seeing as these are all beasts I insta skin them after too. So win win there.

30 mins of farming those Lion Seals at the very south of Howling gives me:

( Looks at inventory )


Edit: 1 full hour =

You have leveling to do. Whether thats quests or money. You got about 4 levels before epic flight.

Which, you will lose once you get to northrend, until level 77. LOL. So guess what? Its not a real emergency is it.

Outside of that

Save your money from quests.
Always pick weapon, or plate rewards unless you need something.
Save all greens from questing and instances. Have some D/E them. Sell them in mass.

Once you get to northrend, you can mine shit people actually want.