Interested in farming some WoW gold, are you? Whether you’ve just arrived in Azeroth or are a veteran WoW gamer there are some gold farming tips that you should know. You’ll be amazed at how many miss out on these most basic of tips, and soon realize not only how much gold they miss out on, but how much you could be earning every single time you log on.

Here are the 7 most essential gold farming tips every player should (bust most don’t) know:

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1. The Auctioneer Addon

“The Auctioneer Addon? A secret tip toward making masses of WoW gold? *rant* *rant* *rant*”

I can hear the cynics now, and they’re right, Auctioneer is no secret – it’s well known by many WoW gamers. But ask them to perform advanced functions within the Auctioneer, the automated wizardry that makes the top gold farmers thousands each day, and all of a sudden they’re not so keen to talk.

Get yourself a copy of Auctioneer (free to download here) and read the supporting material at the website. Mastering this tool, combined with some advanced Auction House strategies, will have you making the easiest WoW gold you could ever imagine.

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2. Limited Supply Items

This another common piece of knowledge that is so often overlooked. Limited Supply Items are, surprisingly, items that are sold in limited supply by special vendors across Azeroth. Those wanting these items quickly and conveniently will happily pay a sizeable premium for these items on the AH, rather than trekking to a vendor themselves.

See the further reading below for how to get lists of all Limited Supply Item vendors.

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3. The Grab and Bag Habit

Effective farmers get into the “Bag and Grab” habit early and benefit from it later. Getting into the habit of maximizing your available bag slots and grabbing everything but the most worthless trash is key from very early in the game.

This may sound basic, but players miss out on thousands of gold per day due to insufficient bag slots and being too selective with looting. Increasing your loot capacity, vendoring often and not being afraid to delete items in favor of more valuable ones (when your bags are full) is a simple but effective way of earning more gold.

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4. Make A Mule

A Mule is a low level character that holds auctionable items and a bankroll (amount of gold) for playing the Auction House. Park your Mule outside the mailbox of a major city and have him do your Auction House work. The Mule allows you to quickly take advantage of good deals to be had on the Auction House, and simplifies the process of selling your auctionable items.

Be sure to give your mule a few coins to cover the cost of setting auctions, and before you know it that collection of greens and blues will become a pretty pile of gold. Then it’s time to start playing the Auction House for some serious profits (see the further reading below).

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5. Gather Up Some Gold

Professions are great fun for any WoW gamer, but too often profession combinations are chosen that simply don’t yield a good income. Choosing a gathering profession (Mining, Herbalism or Skinning) guarantees you a supplementary source of gold while you’re questing, grinding or simply travelling about.

By far the best post-WotLK gathering profession is Mining which is enjoying a second “golden age” (I’m sorry – it had to be said) after the addition of some new veins and mining spots. Stack up some ore and get yourself to the Auction House – there’s good money to be made!

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6. Seasonal and Promotional Items

Whether it the season to be jolly or just another Blizzard marketing campaign, these special items are worth acquiring and holding on to. WoW gamers are notoriously vain when it comes to dressing their characters in the latest, greatest and rarest trinkets they can get their hands on.

Grab a few of these items, wait a few months and then pay a visit to the Auction House. Those who have long since forgotten about your items, or who weren’t around to get them for themselves, will certainly be interested in providing you with a tidy profit.

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7. Timing Is Almost Everything

This is by far the least known area of making WoW gold and yet by far the most profitable if done correctly. Timing your buying and selling activity with consideration to supply and demand is a skill much sought after in every aspect of real world business. Mastering this concept has and will continue to create the richest people on the planet.

It’s no surprise that knowing when to buy and when to sell can make you MASSIVE profits on World of Warcraft. You might be surprised to learn that various items and consumables can be purchased for 50% their regular value and be re-sold within 24 hours for 200% their value.

See the further reading for more information on this powerful knowledge.

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Further Reading

Azeroth is a world that is constantly changing, whether due to content updates or player trends. Gold farming is heavily influenced by these changes – you can have a strategy that will make you the richest player on your server that will not work after a major patch or trend shift.

To be a successful gold farmer you need up-to-date information that has been well-researched and can be put into action. Unless you’re willing to make gold farming your full time career, we suggest you take a look at the Warcraft Millionaire web site. Brad Johnson, the site’s author and leading gold farming expert, has taught hundreds of WoW gamers how to become profitable gold farmers with the bare minimum time investment.

This guy keeps his research, strategies and advice fresh by scouring the Beta’s for new content that can be taken advantage of for the profit of his readers. Expect regular updates and the best WoW gold farming tips you can find – visit his website now.

Nevertheless, if you enjoy grinding mob after mob, waiting for that rare drop and watching your gold-count go up and up, here are some recommended WoW gold grinding spots for you:

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Level 12-20 – Defias Windmill

Head over to the Defias Windmill in Westfall and you will find yourself a group of Defias Trappers. These human mobs have a 90%+ drop rate on Linen Cloth, but that’s not the best part. For some reason, and it’s been like this for a long time, the mobs respawn at an immensely fast rate – so fast that you’ll struggle to kill them all before they start respawning!

From just level 12 you’ll find yourself stacking up linen cloth and making a tidy profit at the Auction House. Some grinders continue hitting this spot way into their mid-20’s, so you might have some competition.

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Level 40 – Scarlet Monastery (Graveyard)

One of the major downfalls of grinding is potential competition from other gamers or professional gold farming operations. This is what makes the Scarlet Monastery (and other instances) so appealing for grinding – no worry about being ganked and no other players to compete with.

The Graveyard section of the Scarlet Monastery provides one special mob that is particularly profitable for grinding; the Unfettered Spirits. Make your way up the stairs and you’ll find these mobs roaming around with Anguished Undeads and Haunting Phantasms (both Elites). You’d be best advised to stick to the Unfettered Spirits as they can be taken down easily and drop Elite-like loot.

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Level 60 – Deadwind Pass

Runecloth is still a sought after commodity in the Auction House and stacks will fetch you a decent return. Head over to Deadwind Pass and find yourself groups of Ogres (varying from levels 50-58). These mobs have a high drop rate for Runecloth as well as dropping 7-8 silver per mob.

This an another spot, similar to Defias Windmill above, where mobs will respawn quickly and never have you waiting around, but be warned; this is a popular area for professional gold farmers on medium and high population servers.

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Level 70 – Arklon Ruins (Netherstorm)

The Arklon Ruins in Netherstorm used to be a decent Mote farming spot until it was nerfed, but still remains a profitable grinding spot. Be on the lookout for Artifact Seekers and Felblade Doomguards, who have a high drop rate of both Marks of Sargeras and Fel Armaments.

This spot is particularly good to build up some exceptional Aldor reputation, or alternatively head on over to the Auction House to make a decent return on selling your wares. Though not as competitive a spot since the release of Wrath of the Lich King, this can still be a popular spot where you might find yourself competing with multiple grinders.

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Level 80 – Northrend

Found a little south of Venompsire in Dragonblight, Northrend is a dream for AoE classes but can be taken advantage of by any class. A ground mount is advised to search the area for the groups of several humanoids that roam the area. These can be quickly dispatched as a group and then it’s a simple case of collecting your coin and any worthwhile items.

This is a reasonably good spot for high level players, allowing you to achieve 80-100g per hour if you’re an efficient grinder.

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The fact is that unless you’re a big fan of grinding or are skilled at doing something brainless whilst watching a movie, grinding in isolation is a thing of the past. To really take advantage of the areas above (and even more profitable spots) you need to adopt advanced strategies to boost your gold making potential.

Brad Johnson, expert farmer and author of Warcraft Millionaire, comments that whilst WoW gold grinding isn’t dead, it needs to be combined with increase efficiency methods and advanced auction house strategies to be effective. The big money simply isn’t being made in grinding WoW gold anymore – it’s being made in much less time intensive and much more profitable ways.

To read more about advanced gold farming visit Brad’s web site.

Introduction to Warcraft Tycoon

Based on information from one of Azeroth’s most influential guilds, Warcraft Tycoon offers a concise guide to high value items that can be farmed or purchased for sale/re-sale on the Auction House.

The guide is said to be written from the advice of a leading guild master who taught one of his former guild-mates (the author) how to make up to 2,000g per day in WoW.

Accessibility

Warcraft Tycoon could be described as chaotic – there is very little structure to the guide. Rather than being a step-by-step introduction of farming techniques, the guide works more like a list of profitable farming locations, items and techniques.

For a new player, and even for experienced players who are new to gold farming, the guide can be a little intimidating. The information provided is filled with jargon and assumes the reader already has knowledge of many of the techniques that are described.

We advise new players, or those looking for a structured walkthrough of gold farming, to look elsewhere for a gold guide.

Ease of Use

Through our testing of this guide there has been some disagreement on the topic of “Ease of Use”. Some of us have found implementing the advice given challenging, as the structure often requires you read the whole thing through once to understand it. However others have found the conversational tone and chaotic very entertaining – so entertaining that the information has been absorbed much easier.

If you learn best from a humorous “notes-on-a-napkin” approach, then this is a good guide for you. If you prefer more structured, step-by-step learning, you may struggle with Warcraft Tycoon.

Value For Money

At the time of writing, Warcraft Tycoon sells for $47.00 with free lifetime updates for all major patches and expansion packs. Whilst we have suggested this is a reasonable price for other guides, the lack of detail in certain areas and the overall size of the guide (half the size of competing guides) makes this not as good value for money.

Warcraft Tycoon is a great guide for certain players, but we feel its current price makes it a little over-priced when compared to other guides.

Overall Effectiveness

The information given in Warcraft Tycoon is very useful if you can figure out how to use it effectively. It falls down in effectiveness by simply not giving full and detailed instruction on how to use techniques or even find techniques to achieve what it suggest.

The Auction House section of the guide is an exception, as it provides detailed analysis of the techniques used and outlines some great strategies to use with other content in the guide.

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Visit the Warcraft Tycoon web site to view sample chapters, read user testimonies and learn more about the guide.

Introduction to Secret Gold Guide

Secret Gold Guide is one of the newest gold guides to hit the market, produced after the launch of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. The author, Hayden Hawke, is a long time WoW player who felt frustrated with the amount of outdated and irrelevant information many other guides provided.

The guide is regarded as one of the best organized on the market, giving an overview of each gold farming method and then expanding to talk about how the techniques can be implemented.

Accessibility

To utilize the guide to its full effect, readers must already have a basic knowledge of World of Warcraft and some of the common terminology that is used. However, the guide assume the reader is a completely newcomer to gold farming and the techniques that are introduced.

The guide walks the reader through all the necessary techniques to become a proficient gold farmer, but the real value of this guide lies in the supplementary manuals – over 150 pages of extra material. These cover the gathering professions, fishing, cooking and crafting in great detail, leaving the reader in no doubt of how each area can be profited from.

The guide also has an interesting manual on “Dual-Boxing”, which is particularly useful for those who aren’t familiar with the term or practice.

Ease of Use

An absolute newcomer to World of Warcraft may struggle to figure out the terminology used in this guide, and implement basic techniques that the author assumes the reader to know. However, the guide does refer to additional online resources that can provide this information for first-time players.

The writing is conversational, making it very easy to read. The fact that the guide is so well broken up into different sections, and conveniently linked up with the guide’s chapter navigation, makes it ideal to browse through and pick up specific tips and techniques.

Value For Money

At the time of writing, Secret Gold Guide sells for $47.00 with free lifetime updates for all major patches and expansion packs. This is a mid-range price for gold guides today, with some less-detailed guides selling for $5-$10 less, and more extensive combo-guides (which include leveling and PVP info) selling for considerably more.

At over 350 pages (including the supplementary guides) this is a bargain for any World of Warcraft player looking to build up their pile of gold and enhance their enjoyment of the game.

Overall Effectiveness

As the guide has been compiled and published after the launch of Wrath of the Lich King, all the content provided is relevant and can be put into action. The guide covers all major aspects of gold farming, including a few unique techniques that aren’t explored in other guides.

The guide is ideally suited to a player with little existing knowledge of gold farming or trading via the Auction House. It provides an excellent foundation and supports development of your gold farming skills, to the point where you can be making hundreds of gold each week.

Those who have previous experience and want to explore the most advanced farming strategies may be disappointed with this guide, as it mainly focuses on intermediate strategies. Those who learn from this guide will become excellent gold farmers, but might not acquire the same knowledge from more advanced guides.

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Visit the Secret Gold Guide web site to view sample chapters, read user testimonies and learn more about the guide.

Introduction to Gold Secrets

Luke Brown’s Gold Secrets is a modular gold guide, made up of separate guides focused on different areas of WoW gold farming. Along with the update for Wrath of the Lich King, the guide now stands at 365 pages – one of the largest guides on the market today.

Accessibility

By breaking up each gold farming method into its own guide, Gold Secrets does a great job of taking the reader by the hand and guiding them from start to finish. This approach is great for those who want to isolate their learning to one key area, but can cause problems for new players who have skipped over vital, necessary information.

With that said, if you are willing to read the whole thing, Gold Secrets is a great option for new players as it gives comprehensive description and walkthroughs of each method used.

Ease of Use

As mentioned above, separating the guide into sub-guides has its advantages, but it also causes the major disadvantage of this guide; it’s not very easy to use. The guide is informative, but the reader can often become confused by the inconsistent organization of the guide and perhaps miss out on key details because of this. This might not be such a big issue for those who are willing to read page-to-page, but it does become an obstacle for those who want to learn and then practice right away.

The writing is clear, in a conversational tone. The author avoids using jargon or abbreviations too much, and the language is kept simple – ideal for a new player.

Value For Money

At the time of writing, Gold Secrets sells for $37.00 with free lifetime updates for all major patches and expansion packs. This represents excellent value for money; Gold Secrets is one of the most comprehensive guides on the market and priced $10 lower than its nearest competitors.

Considering the quality of the advice given, and the proven ability it has to make gold for players, we consider this to be the best value for money guide on the market.

Overall Effectiveness

The techniques Luke provides are solid, tried and tested gold farming methods that simply cannot fail in making piles of gold for the reader. His focus on only the most important and profitable methods means that players can skip filler information and go straight to what works now. This is even more so due to a recent Wrath of Lich King update to the guide, adding pages of new content to the guide.

The only limiting factor to the guide’s effectiveness is its lack of consistent organization, which can frustrate some readers. If you can deal with a slightly chaotic approach to learning gold farming, this guide really does provide it all and makes an excellent source to learn from.

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Visit the Gold Secrets web site to view sample chapters, read user testimonies and learn more about the guide.

Introduction to Ultimate WoW Guide

Dave Farrell (AKA Dugi) is a true veteran of World of Warcraft, with one of the highest play time ratings (last recorded at over 7,500 hours in-game) on any server. Dugi was one of the first gamers to produce a power leveling guide, a PVP strategy guide and, most recently, a gold farming guide. He now offers all guides, either separate or as part of a combo-deal, under the name Ultimate WoW Guide.

The Gold Guide

Dugi’s Farming Gold Guide differs from most other farming guides as it is presented as an interactive website and video series, rather than an eBook. This is a great method for interactive learning, and combined with the other tutorials, leaves you in no doubt of how to replicate the results.

New players will benefit from not only learning how to become an excellent farmer, but also an effective power leveler and PVPer (optional of course). This makes the combo-guide a perfect choice for new WoW players who want to improve their overall game and enhance their enjoyment of it.

Some of the techniques explored by Dugi are unique to this guide, but we found that some other essential farming techniques are not explored as fully in other guides. This is not to say that the guide misses anything out, but rather it might not benefit advanced farmers as much as other guides can.

The Leveling Guide

Ultimate WoW Guide offers an in-game leveling plugin for both Alliance and Horde players. Using a directional arrow and map customizations, this directs the player to the quests they need to accept and complete to level in the quickest way possible.

The guide includes many of the same features included in other popular leveling guides, but also offers additional guidance that is not. The In-Game Talent Guide, Class Gear Guide and Level 60-80 Instance Guide are examples of how the author has thought more about the needs of gamers, and provided for those needs through this guide.

Though the gold guide section of Ultimate WoW Guide can be criticized for not being advanced enough, the leveling guide is by far the most advanced in-game leveling system on the market today, and highly recommended to gamers of all levels.

The PVP Guide

We’ll be honest – we don’t really do PVP. We’re gold farming experts who know what we’re good at, and squaring up in the Arena is not what we’re good at.

So instead of trying to convince you that we know our PVP stuff, we suggest that you view this collection of information, video and testimonials to learn more about the PVP Strategy Guide.

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It doesn’t matter what your level is, nor does it matter how much gold you begin with – any player can utilize the Auction House to make informed buying and selling decision, and end up with huge profits. And we’re not just talking about an extra few coins – after just a few weeks of refining your Auction House strategy you could be making thousands of gold per week from just a few hours work.

Here are our Auction House tips for getting you started:

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The Auctioneer Addon

Auctioneer is a free Auction House analysis tool that will allow you to capture, analyse and profit from Auction House data on your server. By scanning the Auction House a couple of times per day, you will quickly build up a profile of buying and selling trends on your server.

The Auctioneer Addon provides several functions for you to view this data and makes suggestions on which under-priced items you should buy and how much you should re-sell them for. The practice of buying low and selling high is just one method for making profit at the Auction House, and is made as easy as pointing-and-clicking with the Auctioneer addon.

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Timing Your Auctions

In business, as in playing the Auction House, timing is extremely important. Being able to buy up an item (or a whole range of items) when you know they are at their lowest price, and then re-sell them when they’ve hit their peak is a powerful skill.

From personal experience you may have already observed this happening. A common price fluctuation is that of Linen Cloth and other similar items. Before your server becomes busy (usually in the day on a weekday, or in the morning on a weekend) you will see such items at one price, but 2 hours after the masses have logged on you’ll see it at a much lower price. This is the principle of supply and demand in its simplest form.

It’s this concept of supply and demand, closely observed and optimized, that allows certain players to make insane amounts of gold for just a couple hours of play time each day.

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Knowing Your Wares

Have you ever been to the Auction House and bought an item, even though you knew it was a little over-priced? For many reasons, including convenience, urgency and even vanity, most players knowingly and willingly overpay for Auction House items on a regular basis.

The valuable knowledge in this scenario is knowing what and why, and to a certain extent when too. There has been extensive research done post-WotLK to identify which items players over-pay for and for what reason. Forgetting all other factors and practices, this knowledge alone has made many WoW players very rich and envied individuals.

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Becoming A Successful Auction House Player

Whilst such profitable knowledge is very appealing, few are willing to undergo the days, weeks and months of independent analysis necessary to gain access to it and formulate lucrative Auction House strategies. Thankfully there is a resource for would-be Auction House players who want to by-pass all this and get down to making some gold.

Warcraft Millionaire is the bible for many wealthy gold farmers. The guide focuses heavily on developing a strong Auction House strategy, that increases the coin you receive for your own items but, more importantly, teaches you to make masses of gold from re-selling items.

The guide is written by Brad Johnson, the first WoW player to reach the character gold cap (214,748 gold 36 silver 47 copper). Visit his website to find out more about what Warcraft Millionaire offers and how you can get involved on the Auction House playing phenomenon.

NOTE: All the guides listed below come with a 60-Day Instant Refund Guarantee (more details).

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#1 Warcraft Millionaire

Our Review (Summary)

The guide contains some quite unique methods of farming found no where else on the web. This is the guide for you if you want to be the envy of all your friends and are willing to put the time into it… (Read Full Review)

Rating: 9 / 10

Price: $47

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#2 Ultimate WoW Guide

Our Review (Summary)

A unique combo-guide including a comprehensive gold farming guide, the game’s most advanced in-game leveling plugin and a complete guide to the world of PVP. Interactive website and video tutorials… (Read Full Review)

Rating: 8.5 / 10

Price: $37 – $97

Visit the Ultimate WoW Guide Web Site

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#3 Gold Secrets

Our Review (Summary)

A huge, 365 page guide fully updated for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack. The guide features several sub-guides that teach the reader about everything about gold farming… (Read Full Review)

Rating: 7.5 / 10

Price: $37

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#4 Secret Gold Guide

Our Review (Summary)

Not to be mistaken with Gold Secrets, this guide is a new post-WOTLK offering from Hayden Hawke (the first female gold guide author). The guide claims to earn readers 25,000g per week from a… (Read Full Review)

Rating: 7 / 10

Price: $47

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#5 Warcraft Tycoon

Our Review (Summary)

One of the most popular WoW gold guides that has recently been over-shadowed by more recent guides. Provides the reader with insightful information, but falls down on the level of detail… (Read Full Review)

Rating: 6 / 10

Price: $47

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Introduction to Warcraft Millionaire

Warcraft Millionaire is the result of several months of study and analysis by Brad Johnson; a leading gold farming expert and first player to reach the character gold cap (214,748 gold 36 silver 47 copper). The guide became popular for it’s unique approach to gold farming, giving the player full knowledge of each gold farming method, but focusing highly on Auction House strategies.

Since its release Warcraft Millionaire has become one of the bestselling guides on the market, with many gamers boasting about the profitable and sustained selling/re-selling strategies they have developed through this guide.

Accessibility

Many players who are new to World of Warcraft, or who don’t have previous gold farming experience, have criticized previous guides for their lack of accessibility. Unless you knew the jargon and were familiar with practices spoken of, you would struggle to effectively implement the techniques described.

Warcraft Millionaire has addressed this issue by assuming the reader has no previous experience of WoW. This includes a “Newbie Guide” section to teach the reader the absolute basics of farming gold, but also to promote good overall gameplay.

This approach does not negatively affect intermediate or veteran gamers however. The guide is broken up into sections and can be read depending on what is relevant to the reader, making it easy to focus on a specific area of farming, or learn the guide cover-to-cover.

Ease of Use

Each section of the guide begins with an extensive contents list, each of which provides an anchor link to allow you to skip to the part of the guide you want. Breaking the guide up in such a way makes it easy to read and come back to regularly, allowing you to practice what is written in-game.

The writing is clear and in simple English, with not a spelling or grammar error in sight (which is rare for a gold guide). The only criticism we have is that after a term is introduced, it is used throughout the guide in its abbreviated form. This might require new players to skip back to check on the meaning, though the process of learning these terms is useful when in-game (where everyone will use them).

Value For Money

At the time of writing, Warcraft Millionaire sells for $47.00 with free lifetime updates for all major patches and expansion packs. This is the same price that all major gold guides are selling for, with the exception of combo-guides that include leveling and class guides as extras.

Given the amount of gold a player can make, and overall time they can save, within a short space of time, we rate this as very good value for money.

Overall Effectiveness

This guide has proven its effectiveness through both the success of its author and the widely documented successes of its users. At 200+ pages it covers every method of making gold you could possibly imagine, but the Auction House strategies are what makes Warcraft Millionaire really stand out.

The fact that the guide offer a no-questions-asked instant refund up to 60 days after purchase shows the confidence the author has in the guide’s ability to deliver – and we agree that it does.

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You should forget about gold farming until you’re level 40+, settle for the second-rate quest gear and wait until you’re a higher level, right? WRONG!

Low level gold farming can be a fun and profitable experience from level 15-20 onwards for both Horde and Alliance characters. You won’t be able to achieve the same results you could at a higher level, but if you’re new to the game its great practice for making the big money later in the game.

Here are 5 tips to help you profit from low level gold farming:
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1.    Don’t Start Too Early

It’s a sad fact that, unless you’re an Auction House mule, trying to farm gold before level 10 is time badly spent. You can easily power through to level 10 within a few hours with the coin and items you pick up along the way.

At levels 10-15 you will start to see better returns on grinding and quest rewards, but this level range is best spent upgrading your skills (see the Gathering advice below).
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2.    A Full Bag = An Empty Purse

Vendoring items is a key part in earning your first few gold, and keeping space in your bag is essential. Every time you pass or come near to a vendor you should be selling every bit of vendor trash you have, even if it’s just a few pieces. Make this a habit and you will soon see why effective gold farmers learn this rule as early as possible.

If you’re far from a vendor and your bag is already full, don’t be afraid of getting rid of lower value items to make room for more valuable ones. It may seem wasteful, but until you’ve got ample bag space it’s something you’ll have to do.
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3.    Gather Up Some Gold At The Auction House

At levels 10-15 you should focus your efforts on leveling up a gathering skill to 75. This will put you in an excellent position to start selling on stacks of gathered items at the AH to richer, higher level characters (or low level twinks).

Which one should you choose? Both Herbalism and Skinning are reasonable choices for you to pick up auctionable materials along the way, but for real profits you should consider Mining. Recent updates have seen an increased demand for both Copper and Tin Ore, with stacks selling for as much as 2g.

Install the Gatherer Addon to view plants and veins (and treasure locations) you can collect from on your minimap.
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4.    Grinding Defias Trappers (Alliance Only)

These pesky mobs gather around the Windmill in Westfall, occasionally dropping some decent weapons and armor, but most importantly dropping A LOT of linen cloth. Stack this up and make your way over to the Auction House.

This method alone can make you up to 5g per hour.

You should be able to take the mobs from level 10, but for best results we advise waiting until 15 so you can plough through them quickly.
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5.    Light Feather Farming (Horde Only)

Light Feathers are sought after by Mages and regularly sell on the Auction House for around 1g per stack. The Great Plainstriders who drop them (located near the Crossroads in the Barrens) are level 10 mobs and can be easily killed whilst you’re still level 10-12. Take into account that the drop rate for Light Feathers is 90%+ and you have a very lucrative low level farming spot.

These mobs have also been known to drop leather and certain recipes, which are also auctionable and can add sizeable amounts to your earnings.
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We hope this short low level gold farming guide has been useful to you and will prepare you well for later levels – but this is just the tip of the iceberg! For a more complete strategy that will have you farming maximum gold from levels 10 – 80 you should check out Warcraft Millionaire. This comprehensive guide covers everything from grinding to professions, Daily Quests to dominating the Auction House.

Brad Johnson was the first WoW gamer to reach the gold cap (214,748 gold 36 silver 47 copper) for a single player and documents his techniques in his 200+ page guide. It is widely regarded as essential reading for serious gold farmers and was recently upgraded to cover all new content in Wrath of the Lich King.

You can learn more about Brad and Warcraft Millionaire by visiting his official web site.