What is the best way to make gold in World of Warcraft?
Professions are probably the most notorious and arguably the best way to make money in World of Warcraft. There are two types of professions, gathering professions and crafting professions. I wont be talking about secondary professions, but these include first aid, cooking, fishing, and the new archeology (currently first aid is the only one I can see not being profitable).Making money with gathering professions
Gathering professions include herbalism, mining, skinning, and partly enchanting (or should i say dis-enchanting). Gathering professions are the easiest ones to profit off of because there are no overhead costs and you make 100% profit. These professions are smart to level early in an expansion to make lots of money but can still be very profitable mid expansion. Gathering professions can go quicker with flying mounts and there are even addons (at least for herbalism and mining) that will show you herb/node spawns on you map so you can trace the best route to farming them. To make the most money out of your time spent requires some research to your specific realm. Go on and look up some materials that you could possibly farm, then check the price with the availability of them (where they spawn and if they are being camped or not by many others). For example, I go out in the river of TB and farm Azshara's Veil because compared to Vash'jr, it is a lot easier to maneuver around and is usually not overly crowded.Making money with crafting professions
Crafting professions can make as much money as gathering professions or even more, and in a quicker amount of time. Crafting professions however are not 100% profit, so the more research you do as to what your going to want to make and sell, the better off you are in the long run. In my experience in order to be the best entrepreneur, you have to know what kind of things are popular on the AH at that point in time, this requires some basic knowledge such as popular gems, enchants, BoEs, potions/flasks/elixirs, etc. A popular addon used to buy/sell things quickly (especially for buying now that blizz has added some things) is called Auctioneer. If you use this addon in conjunction with research of cost to profit ratios that you come up with, you can be making money very quickly. With this type of money making however, you cant stick to one method for too long as the profits will go down and you might be better off making some other things.Those are my opinions on professions in WoW, as always feel free to comment and maybe request a topic for some of my later posts.
