When most World of Warcraft players search for a leveling guide, they are only looking at the leveling aspect of the guide. Leveling is of course the most important thing in the game. And now with the new Cataclysm expansion it’s a few million players leveling up to 85, but what are you going to do once you hit level 85? Most people just try to reach level 85 as fast as possible, but they don’t think about what they are going to do next.
The second most important thing in World of Warcraft is making gold, and if you don’t have gold when you hit 85 then you might run into a few problems with getting gear, buying food, repairing your items when they break, and of course the latest enchants and glyphs. The difference between a player that has gold when they hit 85 and the ones that don’t is huge. Some people will have to spend days farming stuff to sell at the auction house just to afford playing the game. If these players had done a few things differently when they were leveling, they wouldn’t have to do this.
I’ll give you a few tips in this article on how to make gold while leveling, so that you can enjoy playing at level 85.
Making Gold From Professions
This is what most people forget when they are leveling. Making gold from professions is really easy and it has minimal effect on your over all leveling speed. There’s two different kinds of profession in World of Warcraft, there’s Gathering professions (Mining, Skinning, Herbalism, Fishing) and there’s Crafting Professions (Jewelcrafting, Inscription, Blacksmith, Leatherworking). If you’re just new to the game then you should pick up a Gathering profession. I personally recommend that you get Mining. People can pay up to 50-60 gold for a stack of copper ore, so you basically just need to mine one stack and you got enough gold for your level 20 mount. You should be able to make around 1,000 gold before you hit level 30 by just using mining.
Vendoring Items
Most people are doing a huge mistake while leveling, and that mistake is throwing away gray items. I did this on my first character and I probably lost around 5,000 gold by throwing away the gray Items I got from mobs. You might not think that a gray items is worth a lot of gold, and you’re right.
But if you find 100 items that you can vendor for 50 silver, then you got yourself 50 gold right there. One of the reasons why people throw away gray items is because they are low on space, that’s why I always recommend that you get the biggest bags possible as fast as possible.
