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Beginners Guide To Using WoW Gold Wisely

Ok so you just got the game, installed the four disk installation, waiting all night for all the patches to download and now you’re ready to play. After a couple of levels you’ll come across a few different profession trainers. Thing is, later in the game you might regret one or two of the things you’ve decided early on in the game, because you just didn’t know better. For example, one of the most frustrating parts of WoW is the fact that you have to run just about everywhere. There are flight paths yeah, but only in areas you’ve already explored. So you gotta run all over the place first. Now this can take time and an impatient gamer, like me, will find this tedious. But it gets better. At level 40, you can buy a mount. Now a mount isn’t the expensive part, it’s the first riding skill you need to train which is steep. All in all, for training and mount, you’re looking at around 90 gold. (There is one class which doen’t need to pay for this, as it’s part of their abilities - but that should not be what you base your character decision on :p )

My very first character, years ago, I was so annoyed when I realised how expensive it was and that I didn’t have enough gold… I still had A LOT of questing to do on foot before I could save up that kind of gold. But a few simple pointers and tips, will help you with this right from the start.

Firstly, choose your professions wisely.

Ok so there are a few professions which might be a little lucrative, over others, but it’s not really the main 2 professions you choose which will make that difference. It’s the 3 extra ones, cooking, fishing and first aid.

Cooking can actually be lucrative. I almost never use the food my character cooks, I simply sell it because it always makes me so much silver.

Fishing is a bit of a hit and miss really. I myself have stopped fishing altogether, because it just takes soooo long and so far I’ve only found one fish worth fishing for, as it makes a great cooking recipe, but again, to be able to fish in that particular area, your fishing skill needs to be a certain amount already. Frankly, I couldn’t be bothered. But I do know of a one or two other players who seem to think it’s lucrative.

First aid is in my opinion a total waste of money. The thing is, for example with your cooking, you’ll get a lot more for a piece of cooked boar meat than a raw piece. It just makes sense to cook your stuff because you get more for it. With first aid you don’t. Vendors give you more for your raw linen than a linen bandage. As for helpful during game play, well I suppose it depends on your character. Obviously, any classes with healing abilities DO NOT need first aid. I don’t train first aid, regardless of my class. If I ever play a warrior, there are other things I’d rather use like food, which you just pick so much of up. – Silk usually sells quite well in the auction house, so a total waste of money if wasted on first aid. Read below for more on the auction house.

Auction House, auction house auctions house! The auction house, or AH, is not just there for you to find the missing parts of your quest or upgrade your own armour. If you have something of value, auction it off. You’d be surprised at how much gold you can make like this. I missed out most definitely, with my first Night Elf Druid, she was my test dummy for sure. When using the AH, do a little search for what other people are selling, see if what you’re wanting to sell will actually get a buyer. Might also be handy to Google what it is you’re wanting to sell first… so you know what it’s used for, not everything will turn a profit. There are a few addons which will help you know right away what items you loot are used for - reagent info.

Class Training is always fun. It’s fun to learn new abilities and spells every 2 levels. But once you get use to your character, you’ll see that some of those abilities or spells, you’ll never even use and then regret paying all that silver (and eventually gold) just to train it. There aren’t much, but there are one or two things which I don’t train. I suggest, READING what each spell does, know your character, cause you have to know what you’re doing if you’re gona effectively do quests whether that be soloing or in a group. This is usually best after the first couple of levels though, once you get a feel for the class you’re playing.

Plan Ahead when questing, to save money on flight paths. If you’re still low level you’ll see that it doesn’t pay off to fly up and down all the time. If you have 3 quests in one area, do them all first before flying off, to save yourself the extra cost of flying back later. This is also a real time saver of course.

Be Patient About New Armour & Weapons. The thing is, you’ll most likely end up looting or getting a quest reward, which is better than what you have. So at first, hold back on splurging on a new kewl mace or mail pants. Of course, some professions will help you make new and better items, like blacksmithing, tailoring or leatherworking.

Remember that blacksmithing makes weapons and mail armour wile tailoring makes cloth and leatherworking mostly leather. Not all classes can wear mail or even leatherworking. Some can only wear cloth.