I’ve been playing World of Warcraft for about as long as Blatzkowitz, and there was always one skill that evaded my grasp no matter how hard I tried to attain it, making gold. Recently I’ve figured it out, and I can log on for 2-3 minutes a day and still make over 1000g a week. It’s with a heavy heart that I divulge these seemingly common sense secrets, because it might inhibit my own ability to make gold. And yes, I am fully aware that there are a boatload of gold guides out there, but this one is free, and this one is 5 simple points that can make you a lot of gold (provided it doesn’t burn a hole in your pocket).

Making Gold is like Running a Marathon

Over the years I’ve read the plethora of gold making strategies that spewed forth from the supposedly gifted hands that farmed their purported riches, and most of them were crackpot schemes aimed at making you a WoW millionaire overnight. Many of these guides are targeted at making people with a healthy amount of gold, more gold. Deep down inside we all know its too good to be true, but it’s the same reason people keep playing the lottery. Everyone thinks they have a shot at winning big, that they can win even if they try to run the race like the hare.

In reality, it’s far easier and far less taxing to run the race as a turtle.

It’s ludicrous to tell someone with 300g that they can control the market and drive up prices by buying up all the undercutter’s product and reposting it for a small profit. Unless you’re talking about the linen cloth market, it’s just not going to happen; and if you are, it’s not going to be over a 1s profit. These strategies just aren’t useful to the majority of WoW players.

Don’t Play the Auction House

Far and away the easiest way to get gold is to level a DK and not spend any money on mounts, but only if you can stand to play a DK for 25 levels. But this guide is aimed at those who hate DK’s or 80’s who want to make gold on their main. So I present my first rule of thumb, Don’t Play the Auction House! Guess what, 90% of the guides out there focus on one thing, making the writer, and the top 1% like the writer, MORE GOLD. Don’t believe me? Chess legend Gary Kasperov vs. you for the world chess tournament… who wins? I think you get the picture, if not… I’m sorry it had to come to your attention this way, but you might be retarded.

If you were suckered into playing the AH only to lose gold, and couldn’t figure out what you did wrong. You aren’t alone! A majority of the WoW population will never be successful at playing the Auction House. Why? Because there are hundreds of people on each and every server who live the Auction House. Some spend every moment they are logged checking prices on the AH, scavenging for a posting with a fumbled zero, and monitering the market niches they control with an iron fist. Most use mods to keep archives of the every item’s prices. They will never sell an item for less than it is worth, and they have the gold to make it sell for more than it’s worth. They are the reason you will never win.  But just like life, diligence pays off a hundred times what luck can bring you in a moment.

Practical Steps

I realize that most people will read this and say, “Hey, this guide sucks noodles.” But if just one person takes it upon themselves to do a few dailies, even just the easy ones, and not blow that gold on a crazy scheme, I’ve done my job. My wish is that just a few people would do dailies each day, until the next part of the guide comes out. And furthermore, not spend that gold. I know it sucks, but just try it and see where it gets you. I promise you won’t lose gold.

Keep in mind that this is just a few pixels in the picture, this single strategy won’t make you money very fast. But there are still four more practical strategies to come that you can use to easily make gold.