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Making Money in World of Warcraft

This is the first of several articles that will enable you, Joe Q WoWplayer, to increase the amount of gold you can make in World of Warcraft. The guides should be useful to both casual and hardcore players. Before I get too far into this, let me say immediately: There are no guaranteed ways to make money. What follows is merely advice and suggestions which I have found works for me. Prices and methods can vary wildly from server to server and faction to faction. Use common sense, study how the prices on your server ebb and flow, and they should work for you too. Above all, don’t blame me if you end up broke.

To begin with, there are various addons I would recommend for anyone wanting to maximise their profits, or simply make some actions easier to perform. All addons are available from curse, and probably any other addon site you prefer to visit.

First, the essentials:

Auctioneer – Tracks and records the prices of everything on the auction house, and recommends prices for you to list your own items, usually automatically undercutting the competition up at the time by a few percent. Absolutely required for using the AH with any degree of success. I’ll be covering much more on Auctioneer in a later article, but for now, install it, and use one of your characters to do a full scan of the items on both your faction AH and the neutral AH. These scans (in my experience) take about ten to fifteen minutes on the faction listings, and perhaps five on the neutral ones, and should ideally be done at least once a week to keep everything current. Auctioneer also provides all this gathered information whenever you mouse over an item it’s already seen on the auction house, and makes recommendations as to whether you should auction, vendor, and/or disenchant it based on those prices.

Gatherer – By the same people as Auctioneer, this addon is only immediately essential if you’re planning to have a gathering profession, usually either herbalism or mining. If you install this, it will track the positions of any herb or ore nodes on both your map and minimap. Nodes always come back after a period of time, and marking the position of them will make it much faster and easier to run through profitable gathering areas later.

Little Sparky’s Workshop – This addon works with Auctioneer to show the costs to make any items you can make with your profession, and the price you could potentially sell that finished item for on the AH. If the cost of making it is lessthan the price you’ll get for the item, it’ll be highlighted. Comes into its own when you have multiple items you can make with the materials you have.

Altoholic – Designed for those of us who like to play tons of multiple characters, this addon is also extremely useful even if you just play a single char. Altoholic will keep track of everything in your inventory, as well as everything in both your personal and guild bank, and items your other characters have. This means you can search by name for an item you may have stashed away without having to drag your ass back to town and look in the bank manually.

It also has various options to track your professions, both primary and secondary, and will offer suggestions as to what/where to go to work on gettting them higher. If you’re in a guild or have friends, it will also display their professions and recipes.

There are also a couple of addons which I can’t in all honesty say are ‘essential’, but I find them very convenient:

Postal – An addon for managing your mail. Essentially, it allows you to open every mail in your mailbox and gather the contents with a single click. Optional settings allow this to only open, say, successful auctions, items you won, or expired items, or any combination thereof. There’s a certain satisfaction to opening your mail manually, but when you start getting large volumes of gold and goods through the AH, you’ll be glad of this addon.

Crapaway! – No, really. Great name, isn’t it? What this addon does is sell every grey item you have in your bags when you visit any vendor. There’s really no reason to not have this, as there’s maybe one grey item in the game with any vendable worth, and you’ll never see it. Grey items tend to build up while you’re questing and farming; unless you’re carefully obsessive-compulsive with cleaning your bags out, you will miss some. Greys sitting in your bags are wasted space and unclaimed revenue.

Once you’ve installed the addons, your character(s) will be ready to start making money. And the best place to start making money is the auction house, which will be covered in detail in the next article.

World of Warcraft: An Overview to the Druid Specs and How to Gear for Each

Druids are a cool class because they can really perform in any way. They can cover any section of the group that needs to be covered. They can do damage, take damage, or heal damage. It’s really a unique and complex class, because they’re great for a few different reasons. You really need to spec in the section that you’d rather do, but it’s quite easy to respec and get gear for each spec, especially if you’re someone that plays on private realms.

Restoration druids are quite popular, especially when it comes to “stealth runs”. I love being a restoration druid because of how wanted they are. Restoration druids are some of the best healers, and they can also stealth up to where someone will need health. They’re quite easy to maintain, actually, and their healing over time spells are some of the best and easiest to manage keeping someone alive against attackers. As a restoration druid, I was easily able to heal one player who was taking on custom t7 bosses by their selves. I didn’t run out of mana, since my spirit was so high as a restoration druid and the fact that I primary used the healing over time abilities, which don’t take nearly as much mana for the healing that they do over the course of time. They’re also instant cast spells, so it really all works its way out in the long run.

When you want to equip your restoration druid, keep in mind that you’re trying to get your healing bonus up. The better you have for a healing bonus, the more effective and easy to mange your healing will be. If you can heal more per spell, you won’t need to cast as many spells; therefore you’ll heal more damage, and you’ll also have to use much fewer spells. Make sure to get enchants on your weapon for healing bonus, as well as rings and gloves. Everything else, just get intellect and spirit if you can manage.

Feral druids aren’t exactly that popular in end-game anymore. This is because they’re sort of weak in comparison to everything else in the end of the game. Of course they can have quite a bit of attack power with equips, and especially a certain druid staff, but they’re unable to equip a weapon, dramatically decreasing their damage per second. However, this is still a great leveling class. If you’re someone who wants to be a feral druid, just make sure to keep your attack power way up there. This means that you’re going to want to increase your attack power directly, or increase agility and strength. If you increase agility, your crit rate will also go up. If you increase strength, your armor will also go up.

Balance druids are another really popular class of druids for end-game content. They’re extremely good for doing ranged dps, because they’re awesome spell casteres with really fast spells. The other great thing about this spec is that they can cast from the moonkin form, meaning that they can have tons of armor while still being a caster. This is a great advantage to the druid caster form. Make sure to equip this guy to do maximum spell bonus damage. The more damage you can do, the faster you can whipe out your enemy. Make sure to get enchants for spell damage as well. IF you have to, cloth is a great way to get your magic damage up even further.

Overall, all of the specs for druids can be great, as long as you equip them right and know how to use them.

Easiest Way to Train Magic in Runescape

So, the easiest way to train magic is High Alchemy Spell because by putting your noted items at the same point as the high alchemy spell in the inventory where the high alchemy spell you need is to double click on your noted items to have your magic exp increased. Many people do this while doing other things like watching movie or even when hanging out with people in real world.

However, many people find it expensive to do this magic training as you will lose money if you buy the items in Grand Exchange and high alched them. Many people lose about 200 gp, 300 gp or even 500 gp because they simply don’t know what are the items that will cause a little loss instead of pretty big loss.

I’ve did a research on Grand Exchange and found 10 best items to be alched. This is the calculation I made today and assuming that the Nature Runes is bought from Grand Exchange at 250 gp. Here are they:

For Member Only :

Air Battlestaff :

Grand Exchange Price : 9,100 gp.

High Alchemy Price : 9,300 gp.

Money Earned (- Nature Runes) : 9,050 gp.

Money Loss : 50 gp.

Water Battlestaff :

Grand Exchange Price : 9,132 gp.

High Alchemy Price : 9,300 gp.

Money Earned (- Nature Runes) : 9,050 gp.

Money Loss : 52 gp.

Forinth Brace (5) :

Grand Exchange Price : 2,366 gp.

High Alchemy Price : 2,520 gp.

Money Earned (- Nature Runes) : 2,270 gp.

Money Loss : 96 gp.

Red D’hide Vambrace :

Grand Exchange Price : 2,016 gp.

High Alchemy Price : 2,160 gp.

Money Earned (- Nature Runes) : 1,910 gp.

Money Loss : 106 gp.

Binding Necklace :

Grand Exchange Price : 712 gp.

High Alchemy Price : 855 gp.

Money Earned (- Nature Runes) : 605 gp.

Money Loss : 107 gp.

For Non-Member and Member :

Rune Sword :

Grand Exchange Price : 12,300 gp.

High Alchemy Price : 12,480 gp.

Money Earned (- Nature Runes) : 12,230 gp.

Money Loss : 70 gp.

Rune Battleaxe :

Grand Exchange Price : 24,800 gp.

High Alchemy Price : 24,960 gp.

Money Earned (- Nature Runes) : 24,700 gp.

Money Loss : 100 gp.

Rune Mace :

Grand Exchange Price : 8,501 gp.

High Alchemy Price : 8,640 gp.

Money Earned (- Nature Runes) : 8,390 gp.

Money Loss : 111 gp.

Rune Dagger :

Grand Exchange Price : 4,678 gp.

High Alchemy Price : 4,800 gp.

Money Earned (- Nature Runes) : 4,550 gp.

Money Loss : 128 gp.

Rune Med Helm :

Grand Exchange Price : 11,400 gp.

High Alchemy Price : 11,520 gp.

Money Earned (- Nature Runes) : 11,270 gp.

Money Loss : 130 gp.

Those are the items that will only cause you a little loss of money. They’re all below 150 gp. It’s recommended that you buy more than one type item on the list as most of them will take sometimes to have its order completed (up to 24 hours).

That’s all the guide I can give you! Happy Alching!

Three Easy Ways to Bank Big Runescape Rune Gold

This is a short write-up of a few fool-proof methods that can be used to banks lots of Rune gold in the amazing massively multiplayer online role playing game known as Runescape! This Runescape guide is far from comprehensive but it does review some really good ways to accumulate massive amounts of rune gold.

One of the most consistent ways to collect lots of rune gold in the land of Runescape is to kill the chickens and collect their valuable feathers that the leave behind for you. If your Runescape combat rating is below thirty, this is probably the best way to collect rune gold quickly. Each of these chicken feathers sells for 10 or 20 rune gold so collecting a bunch of them can really pay off. An added benefit of this chicken killing method of collecting rune gold is that you also increase your combat score while increasing your rune gold bankroll.

Buying items in world one and then selling it at a higher markup is also a pretty failsafe method to accumulate large quantities of the coveted rune gold. This method, also known as “merchanting”, requires you to stay on top of the marketplace so you know what items are hot and which one can produce the most rune gold for you. This method is certainly a bit more work than killing the chickens as described in the previous paragraph but it is still a very good method for adding to you growing rune gold collection. This is probably the best way to bank rune gold.

Making arrows is another fairly simple method of banking lots of rune gold while on your Runescape quest. Be sure to make and sell iron arrows or better. Bronze arrows sell for a paltry 10 rune gold each so it’s hardly worth it to make and resell these. The other types of arrows, such as steel, mithril, adamite, and rune are all much more worth the trouble as they sell for as high as 400 rune gold each in world two.

Well, there you have it. I’ve provided you avid Runescape gamers with a few fool-proof ways to rake in the rune gold with very little to no effort or expense. I’m sure there are better ways to bank rune gold, like the ones included in some of the eBooks you can find but I can assure you that the rune gold gathering methods I’ve outlined in this article are all 100% legit and legal. Try them out and see for yourself!

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