what profession WoW can i make the most money off of?

[Schadenfroh]

im in it for cash, i have 9 gold to invest in a new paladin character.

 

[Sideswipe001]

Long term, enchanting.

And mainly it depends on if you want to make money of vendors or off auctioning. If you want to just get cash off vendors, skinning, fishing, and mining.

 

[Cheetah8799]

Leather and herbs sell well at the auction house. So does linen and other fabrics that you get off of mobs. Enchanting may be great later on, but early in the game you will end up burning up a lot of magic items that you could sell for more. Of course if this is a secondary character, then that doesn't matter much I suppose, so you could disenchant everything and then sell the stuff you get from disenchanting.

I think though that pretty soon the AH prices are going to stablalize and you may not make so much on lower level stuff that you collect. You'll need to be selling the high end stuff to make any money.

 

[LeetViet]

Skinning and Mining, people pay alot for raw materials.

You can get linen cloth, wool cloth, silk cloth, mageweave cloth, etc. off Humanoids of the appropiate levels.

That's three ways to make alot of money easily. Do not sell to vendors, you will get more than 2x vendor price at the Auction House, especially with buy out.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Cheetah8799
Leather and herbs sell well at the auction house. So does linen and other fabrics that you get off of mobs. Enchanting may be great later on, but early in the game you will end up burning up a lot of magic items that you could sell for more. Of course if this is a secondary character, then that doesn't matter much I suppose, so you could disenchant everything and then sell the stuff you get from disenchanting.

I think though that pretty soon the AH prices are going to stablalize and you may not make so much on lower level stuff that you collect. You'll need to be selling the high end stuff to make any money.

i have a 2nd charachter with 9 + gold to invest, if it yields good, i might consider the investment worth it

 

[Savarak]

no WoW = 15 bucks saved/"earned?" a month

 

[LeetViet]

Originally posted by: Savarak
no WoW = 15 bucks saved/"earned?" a month

10 gold on eBay = $15+ or ~ US = even or profit?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: LeetViet

Originally posted by: Savarak
no WoW = 15 bucks saved/"earned?" a month

10 gold on eBay = $15+ or ~ US = even or profit?

i can sell the gold on ebay? link?

 

[LeetViet]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: LeetViet

Originally posted by: Savarak
no WoW = 15 bucks saved/"earned?" a month

10 gold on eBay = $15+ or ~ US = even or profit?

i can sell the gold on ebay? link?

Technically Blizzard owns everything but you can charge for the time. Just search on eBay for world of warcraft or wow.

 

[NeoV]

ok, how do I get mining skills?

where are these auction houses?

 

[LeetViet]

Originally posted by: NeoV
ok, how do I get mining skills?

where are these auction houses?

Go to a Mining Trainer, and there's an Auction House in Ogrimmar and Stormwind.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Originally posted by: Sideswipe001
Long term, enchanting.

And mainly it depends on if you want to make money of vendors or off auctioning. If you want to just get cash off vendors, skinning, fishing, and mining.

That stuff should all sell for more to players at auction.

Probably the easiest thing to do is gathering. Mining/skinning or Herbalism. Demand for leather and metal bars is high though.

If I was doing it over again I'd just go dual gathering. The crafting professions that actually make items are only really good if you're spending more time on it and have a number of guild people piping raw materials to you so that you can become one of the highest skill level people fast. I could easily afford all the gear I make if I just sold all these raw materials, or I could have a guild person make the stuff if I gave him raw materials.

But alas, I don't want my 220 skill in Leatherworking to go away...

 

[imported_obsidian]

I feed all the magic items that I find worth under 10 silver to an enchanter in my guild.

 

[PremiumG]

does gold divide up into smaller dividends? I mean 10 gold sounds like you can buy max 10 items...

are there smaller denominations?

 

[microAmp]

Originally posted by: PremiumG
does gold divide up into smaller dividends? I mean 10 gold sounds like you can buy max 10 items...

are there smaller denominations?

Gold, silver, and copper is what I've seen.

100 copper = 1 silver
100 silver = 1 gold.

 

[r6ashih]

lvl 12 rogue here... most money i've had is 23 silver.

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: r6ashih
lvl 12 rogue here... most money i've had is 23 silver.

34 Rogue here Savign for my horse =/
only got 14g though not counting 4g to train next level

 

[Malladine]

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: r6ashih
lvl 12 rogue here... most money i've had is 23 silver.

34 Rogue here Savign for my horse =/
only got 14g though not counting 4g to train next level

Ditto except i am a priest.

To answer Schad: skinning, mining and herbalism are all good money makers certainly. Though I do see more skins in the AH than anything else usually so perhaps one of the others.

Oh and anyone considering using ebay read wow homepage please, before you DIE :frown:

 

[ggnl]

Originally posted by: Malladine

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: r6ashih
lvl 12 rogue here... most money i've had is 23 silver.

34 Rogue here Savign for my horse =/
only got 14g though not counting 4g to train next level

Ditto except i am a priest.

To answer Schad: skinning, mining and herbalism are all good money makers certainly. Though I do see more skins in the AH than anything else usually so perhaps one of the others.

Oh and anyone considering using ebay read wow homepage please, before you DIE :frown:

Ditto again. 34 rogue and I can't seem to keep more than 15g. I make a lot of money, but I've been spending it all on raising my crafting/secondary skills that I've negelcted for a while. Cooking, first aid, and leatherworking are all around 190 now.

To Schad: I think the answer is to take two gathering professions (mining, skinning, or herbalism). The crafting professions (leatherworking, blacksmithing, alchemy, tailoring, enchanting) are all money sinks.

And about ebay: I'm glad they're banning the ebay sellers. I personally don't have much of a problem buying/selling in-game goods for real cash, however, I think it brings an unwanted element to the game. When you're playing for money your interest in the fun/community aspect of the game goes out the window real quick. I play for fun, I don't want to have share a server with people that will do anything to get ahead because they're playing for money.

 

[mchammer187]

i make all my money auctioning stuff in IF

iridescent pearls, moss agate etc. fetch about 1g each

i don't make any money off of leathworking and skinning though because i use all my leather just to skillup

at about 190 leathworking 260 skinning


the only moneymaking profession i can see is mining / skinning or maybe enchanting

a stack of iron bars can go for about 5g at the AH

stacks of heavy leather are about 1g

so if you dont have any manufacturing skills you can make a whole lot of money

even spending more than i make from leatherworking i have about 25 g in the bank

but i rarely buy anything other than skills and maybe a weapon from time to time at the AH

 

[Zanix]

The temptation to buy that game after playing the beta is just horrible. I've already warned my gf that I'm thinking about getting it.

 

[Malladine]

Originally posted by: mchammer187
a stack of iron bars can go for about 5g at the AH

They're worth 4gold max imo

 

[mchammer187]

Originally posted by: Malladine

Originally posted by: mchammer187
a stack of iron bars can go for about 5g at the AH

They're worth 4gold max imo

it really varies depending on the server

most of the population is probably below 30

and i don't even see mageweave for auction on our server yet

i'm sure the prices will drop eventually however

but right now i can assure that on my server (sargeras) you can get 5g's for it

 

[EvanB]

Far and away the best money makers are skinning and mining. Enchanting does not overcome the loss of having to disenchant the items you could have sold. Its ok, but if you want to make the most money, do the collection professions.

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: LeetViet

Originally posted by: Savarak
no WoW = 15 bucks saved/"earned?" a month

10 gold on eBay = $15+ or ~ US = even or profit?

i can sell the gold on ebay? link?

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