{"id":6052,"date":"2008-10-09T11:56:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T16:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/09\/digging-for-gold-in-the-world-of-warcraft\/"},"modified":"2008-10-09T11:56:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T16:56:38","slug":"digging-for-gold-in-the-world-of-warcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=6052","title":{"rendered":"Digging for Gold in the World of Warcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Brian Benson<\/div>\n

Gold is a necessity in the game because you need it to purchase items like armor and weapons, and it’s definitely handy for winged mounts and skills in the latter part of the game. But gold is not easy to come by so you’re going to have to work for it, like it or not.<\/p>\n

This guide includes grinding, professions, flipping, and\/or purchasing gold from sellers. However, this guide will be focusing on the first three. These skills can easily be learned, and once you have background knowledge on them, it would definitely be easier to make more money in a shorter amount of time. What’s important is knowing where and how to make it. Let me show you how to start <\/p>\n

Grinding for Gold<\/p>\n

If you want to get more gold in very quick amount of time, grinding would probably be the best way to do it. Grinding gold is very tedious work; however, there are locations and techniques that can get you 50 gold pieces in just as quick as an hour, which makes it well worth it. As extra bonus, most of the players like to spend some time grinding while questing. It can easily increase your experience points, which is beneficial to the player in the long run. <\/p>\n

Also, there are a few places where you might want to want to look into when you are serious about grinding. Most chances for high amounts of gold earned per hour would usually be in the higher levels. On the other hand, you could earn a profit through grinding mobs in any place and flipping the items they drop. We’ll delve deeper into that later in this guide.<\/p>\n

Getting past level 50, opportunities just spring up for quality grinding. Winterspring, a region full of mobs, would earn you 50 gold pieces an hour, so make sure you spend a long time here. The best places to start grinding is at the Winterfall Village.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of furbolgs here, and they are relatively easy to kill while having a high drop rate. As a bonus, you can earn your Timbermaw here.<\/p>\n

Another good opportunity for grinding in this region is engaging the Yetis in Everlook Forest. They deal minimal damage and are easy enough to overcome on your own. Look for the Frostsabers because they are very easy targets. As your level of experience increases and by the time you reach Level 80, you’ll be in the Eastern Plaguelands where finding mobs for grinding is also easy.<\/p>\n

Another easy target is the Mossflayer Zombie which can easily earn you about 50 gold pieces within an hour. You just need to have patience, and the right techniques to go with it. <\/p>\n

Professions that Earn Gold<\/p>\n

This method can definitely be more interesting than grinding. However, it may take you a bit longer to get more gold. Although most professions can make you profit, it would be best to rely on skinning, leatherworking, and blacksmithing. A profession such as Fishing is a secondary profession that can also earn you gold. However, you will need to have the basic skill of cooking first in order to make any profit out of a skill such as fishing. <\/p>\n

Alchemy is another good profession, but you eed to spend a lot of time gathering or purchasing the necessary items. A good profession to start with is either kinning or blacksmithing. These mesh well with flipping, which we’ll talk<\/a> about next.<\/p>\n

Increasing your skills can effectively help you earn more gold with your profession. However, this can distract you from questing, so you must know how to balance your time. Getting a skill level of over 300 is pretty good. However, it will definitely require a lot of patience. If you do this, the value of your items will be higher and you may get more profit in the process.<\/p>\n

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About the Author:<\/div>\n
If you wanna get more gold, head to page two of Brian Benson’s World of Warcraft Gold Guide<\/a> to learn about Flipping.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gold is a necessity in the game because you need it to purchase items like armor and weapons, and it’s definitely handy for winged mounts and skills in the latter part of the game. But gold is not easy to come by so you’re going to have to work for it, like it or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-6052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-technology","tag-computers-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}