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With the advent of Wrath of the Lich King and the change of World of Warcraft, there are new talents, new builds, new gear, new areas to explore and the like but one of the areas that has not changed much is in the gold making techniques.
Gathering is to some extent unchanged, with the exception of discovering the new things to collect up. Probably demand for green drops from mobs will be strong for a while since much of it is better than the epic stuff people had at level 70. Certain crafted items, in particular glyphs will sell very well and the materials make the popular enchants and crafted items will sell very well. Here the only real difference will be in exactly which crafts and enchants are popular.
When it comes to skinning, you are able to skin everything as you can and sell the scraps too. Keep an eye on the Auction House for which skins sell best and which hot crafting recipes require those skins.
Speaking of mining, cobalt and titanium await you. For instance, Engineering, Blacksmithing and Jewelcrafting will create a demand for these ores and that demand should stay strong for a long time.
Now that Wrath of the Lich King is here people will get back to raiding which will require the usual collection of potions, created from the various herbs that you will be picking. Plus there's Inscription, which has driven the price of herbs way up, since the inscription ink come from herbs. With much of the player-base being in Northrend, gathering away, Northrend herbs won't stay very high priced for long, which is great for scribes but not so great for herbalists. Outland herbs have been cheap now, might go up as the gatherers head to Northrend.
Some fish will likely be needed for Alchemy, as well as for cooking, and some might turn out to do interesting things such as Savory Deviate Delight. Of course, certain foods are in demand for the buffs they provide and those foods should sell well.
Keep a close eye on any white or better items you loot in your day to day monster mashing. Some of these items will be valuable.
Without a doubt, there will be a number of new "limited items" appearing on various vendors. Keep an eye on these as several might sell for a very nice profit on the Auction House.
Speaking of the Auction House, this is really the area where people can make some serious gold. Here there are two basic ideas, both of which require a good understanding of the market on your server.
One is to buy wow gold low and sell wow gold high. It is a tried and true one. Take herbs for example, if an herb normally goes for 30 wow gold a stack and you see that someone has dumped a bunch of stacks for 5 gold, buy them up and resell them. If prices are starting to look depressed then just hold those items for a few days and keep a close eye on the AH. Post them at a higher price when the market allows.
The other is to find hole in the market and fill them. If a certain glyph is rare and selling for a high price then see if you can make a few of that glyph and sell them for that high price. If the market needs a few more of a certain herb, because prices are so high, go out and farm a few.
At length, you should consider using a low level alt to do all of your buying and selling. You will be able to focus on making gold and not spending it on better stuff, it is less distracting than if you use your main character. Above all, you can make a level 1 character to be your "Banker" and run to the nearest big city and park in the Auction House. Then you have your main character mail this character some starting money. As your other characters collect sellable loot and limited items they mail all of those items to the banker for resale.
Gathering is to some extent unchanged, with the exception of discovering the new things to collect up. Probably demand for green drops from mobs will be strong for a while since much of it is better than the epic stuff people had at level 70. Certain crafted items, in particular glyphs will sell very well and the materials make the popular enchants and crafted items will sell very well. Here the only real difference will be in exactly which crafts and enchants are popular.
When it comes to skinning, you are able to skin everything as you can and sell the scraps too. Keep an eye on the Auction House for which skins sell best and which hot crafting recipes require those skins.
Speaking of mining, cobalt and titanium await you. For instance, Engineering, Blacksmithing and Jewelcrafting will create a demand for these ores and that demand should stay strong for a long time.
Now that Wrath of the Lich King is here people will get back to raiding which will require the usual collection of potions, created from the various herbs that you will be picking. Plus there's Inscription, which has driven the price of herbs way up, since the inscription ink come from herbs. With much of the player-base being in Northrend, gathering away, Northrend herbs won't stay very high priced for long, which is great for scribes but not so great for herbalists. Outland herbs have been cheap now, might go up as the gatherers head to Northrend.
Some fish will likely be needed for Alchemy, as well as for cooking, and some might turn out to do interesting things such as Savory Deviate Delight. Of course, certain foods are in demand for the buffs they provide and those foods should sell well.
Keep a close eye on any white or better items you loot in your day to day monster mashing. Some of these items will be valuable.
Without a doubt, there will be a number of new "limited items" appearing on various vendors. Keep an eye on these as several might sell for a very nice profit on the Auction House.
Speaking of the Auction House, this is really the area where people can make some serious gold. Here there are two basic ideas, both of which require a good understanding of the market on your server.
One is to buy wow gold low and sell wow gold high. It is a tried and true one. Take herbs for example, if an herb normally goes for 30 wow gold a stack and you see that someone has dumped a bunch of stacks for 5 gold, buy them up and resell them. If prices are starting to look depressed then just hold those items for a few days and keep a close eye on the AH. Post them at a higher price when the market allows.
The other is to find hole in the market and fill them. If a certain glyph is rare and selling for a high price then see if you can make a few of that glyph and sell them for that high price. If the market needs a few more of a certain herb, because prices are so high, go out and farm a few.
At length, you should consider using a low level alt to do all of your buying and selling. You will be able to focus on making gold and not spending it on better stuff, it is less distracting than if you use your main character. Above all, you can make a level 1 character to be your "Banker" and run to the nearest big city and park in the Auction House. Then you have your main character mail this character some starting money. As your other characters collect sellable loot and limited items they mail all of those items to the banker for resale.
