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World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide
World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide

World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide: The comprehensive guide to making gold in World of Warcraft, packed with the latest tips and strategies, designed to make you millions

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World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide

Chapter 2. Earning Your First Gold

Now that we've learned how to set up our account, we will ease into the gold-making mentality. The most effective gold makers think about gold-making in every aspect of their gameplay and that is how they get the most out of their gold-making endeavors.

This chapter will get you used to the idea of gold-making and how to work it into your daily game life. You will learn about:

  • Why you need starting capital

  • Selling out-of-the-way items to players who are too lazy to get the items themselves

  • Saving gold by reducing unnecessary expenses

  • Earning gold for every activity you carry out in the game

You need to spend gold to make gold


The adage "You need to spend money to make money" holds true in World of Warcraft as well. As we'll discuss in detail in Chapter 3, Exploring Your Major Income Sources, a lot of your income will come from manufacturing processes: taking raw materials (or mats) and turning them into finished goods for the end user. To expedite this process, we will be mostly buying the materials from the Auction House, and so you will need a sizeable supply of gold when you're starting out and building inventory.

Unlike in the real world, where you can get investors or loans to start up a business, in World of Warcraft you will need to collect every bit of copper yourself. It's not until you have built up this starting capital that you can truly start making significant amounts of gold. There are a few ways to go about this and some players may be able to build capital while playing as they usually do, but most players will have to work at building this capital. All the...

A copper saved is a copper earned


A surprising amount of gold can be saved by nickel-and-diming everything in the game; when you're putting so much work into building up your pile of gold, you don't want to waste it!

To keep inflation in check and the economy from getting out of hand, World of Warcraft has several gold sinks to try and keep the gold that is leaving the economy balanced with the gold entering it. One of the biggest gold sinks is armor repair, and an untold amount of gold is lost to this necessity every day. Luckily, there are ways to minimize how much gold is syphoned out of your pockets and into the repair vendors'. Vendors that are associated with factions (typically displayed in the way a player's guild would be, that is, in brackets under the name) give players discounts if they have a reputation with the faction. Discounts start at Friendly with 5 percent and continue all the way through to Exalted, which offers a 20 percent discount; and yes, this discount applies to...

Milking every copper from daily activities


There are many ways to make gold while participating in activities you would normally do (raiding, PvP, Dungeons, Leveling, and so on). With a few simple steps, you can maximize your passive income while participating in the various activities the game offers. Not only can you do this while building up a starting capital, but keeping up these habits even after you get into proper gold-making can also continue to help build up your coffers.

Daily quests

One of the core components of World of Warcraft is the daily quest—quests that are repeatable every day on every character and typically offer gold, reputation, or another currency (typically tokens to progress in an area, turn in for rewards, and so on). Non-Player Characters (NPCs) that give daily quests have a blue exclamation mark over them (or a blue question mark when it's a hand-in).

The following screenshot shows the daily quest givers for the Golden Lotus, located in the Valley of Eternal Blossoms...

Summary


In this chapter, we've learned why you need starting capital and how to build it up, how to reduce your in-game expenses, and how to make the most of the in-game activities you will do anyway.

In the next chapter, we will explore more dedicated forms of gold-making and will put your newly acquired starting capital to use. While you delve deeper into gold-making strategy, don't forget the lessons learned in this chapter as most of them are painless ways to make gold; if you keep them up for long enough, your gold will add up. Moving forward, the most important thing you need to remember is that patience is key; you won't become a WoW millionaire overnight (if that's one of your goals). It's going to take a lot of work.

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  • Earn gold to purchase all the luxuries that World of Warcraft has to offer
  • Master the add-ons you need to make gold efficiently
  • Full of examples, detailed breakdowns, and step-by-step instructions

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World of Warcraft provides an immersive gaming experience with an exciting new world to explore. In this world (of Warcraft), players use gold to improve their characters and buy exciting items such as armor, vanity items, pets, mounts, and so much more. WoW gold not only helps with levelling up, but also helps the player gain respect in the WoW community."World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide" will show you the most effective ways to make gold in World of Warcraft. It includes detailed examples and instructions that will set you up to efficiently make plentiful amounts of gold both now and in future expansions."World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide" will arm you with all the latest strategies to become a World of Warcraft gold tycoon. Start by setting up your accounts for optimal gold making and progress through to advanced market techniques. You will learn to maintain thousands of auctions per day, master add-ons to reduce time spent making gold and increase time spent playing, and set yourself up to obtain anything you want in game. The World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide teaches readers how to go from rags to riches.

Who is this book for?

This book is for every World of Warcraft player who's tired of scrapping for gold or has ever wanted to be the one showing off expensive items in town.

What you will learn

  • Create banking characters to manage your gold and inventory
  • Setup add-ons like TradeSkillMaster
  • Make gold using every profession in the game
  • Trade across factions
  • Profit from patch and expansion changes
  • Earn gold in everything you do in-game
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Table of Contents

8 Chapters
Setting Up Your Gold-Making Empire Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Earning Your First Gold Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Exploring Your Major Income Sources Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using Your Professions Effectively Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Tools of the Trade Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Understanding and Profiting from Market Behavior Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Expanding and Streamlining Your Empire Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Final Stages of Becoming a World of Warcraft Gold Tycoon Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Wes Aug 29, 2013
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This guide is very impressive for the price tag. The amount of information that is made available, is a lot more than I was expecting. The great thing about this guide is that no matter your gold making skill level, you can take something way from this. I consider myself an expert gold maker, but upon reading, I was able to implement several strategies to my own routine and increase my profitability.No matter where you are with your gold making skills, this is a sure pick up.
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First, let me say that Eric (Xsinthis from Xsinthis.net) needs no introduction in the World of Warcraft gold making arena. He is well established and respected among his peers for his ability to make gold, provide strategies, and direction to all who dabble in this gold-making space.In regards to the book, it is something every gold maker should own. Sounds kind of superficial doesn't it? Not really. Everyone who is serious about making gold should learn from every source of information they come across to help define and achieve their gold making goals whether that is your first 5,000 gold or first 1 million. This book contains valuable information for any level, from the beginner just starting out on this journey to becoming a gold tycoon or an advanced gold maker.The book contains exceptional use of pictures and is very clean and easy to follow. It covers a variety of subjects from professions, addons, various markets and strategies, to the theory and time management component. It's all here.For those who have already purchased and own this book, congratulations! I am sure you are on your way and have already started earning your share of gold. For those who are considering it, the price is right and the information you receive is priceless. Add this to your library collection today.Best wishes to all the gold makers out there!Ray (Profitz)
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Anyone who has played the game for more than a few months should already know most of this information. Not what i expected.
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