Knowing how to make gold in world of warcraft is a real life skill integrated in the game. It reflects real life economics of buying low and sell high, be that a luxury, commodity or essential item, food or anything that is needed in the game by the 9 or so million players logging on wow worldwide. There are many, many ways to make gold in wow. The most common are to use the auction house, gathering items that can be sold to vendor or preferably at auction, and making money from professions and good old fashioned grinding.



Making money from the AH (auction house) is easy. Just use the search button to scan prices in the autcion house and sell your items for the best price you can get to make a profit. To do this can be fairly time consuming and many players tend to do this almost full time as they have little time to do anything else. However this can be made easier by using the auctioneer add on to scan prices giving you a good idea of what prices are like on your server and enable you to undercut other players so you can sell faster. Or use it to find items that are greatly under priced so you can re-sell quickly at a profit. The best thing you can do is to always make your auction as short as possible, like two hours, at times when the servers are busy like in the evening when everyone is at home.

If you want to get money from professions, the two you should follow looking to take up are skinning and fishing. Skinning is great to take up particularly as you level upwards and kill monsters that you can skin. Skins you can trade for considerably more at the auction house rather than vendors because you will always have higher level players who have scores of gold and will pay for skins to make armor etc, rather than go out themselves killing the mobs. Beside which they look to use the skin to make items they can then re-sell quickly at a major profit over what they pay for the skin so really this is a win win situation.

Players on some servers can make up to 100 to 200 gold each hour. Remeber that it's not just fish that you can catch, depending on your level of xp, but also blue and rare purples that command hundreds if not thousands of gold at the auction house.

Grinding is by far the most boring way to make gold in gold of warcraft but it is the most tried and tested way to make it. And if you know where to look in the games, some zones yield far more than other zones. Knowing where to grind can make the difference of making 100 gold a day from making 100 gold an hour. I know which I option I would prefer.