| World of Warcraft (often just referred to as | | | | You can have two main professions for each of |
| WoW) is a massive multi-player online role-playing | | | | your characters, and these professions can help |
| game (MMORPG), forming a virtual world that, in | | | | you earn gold. Some professions are gathering |
| many ways, resembles the real world. | | | | professions - you mine, skin the beasts you kill, or |
| Just as we need money in the world we live in to | | | | pick flowers, whereas other professions need |
| buy food, shelter, education, clothes and other | | | | some crafting, like leatherworking, jewel crafting, |
| material goods, you need gold to purchase the | | | | enchanting etc. |
| same items in WoW. | | | | Again, you can either sell the items you have |
| You can earn gold in several ways in WoW but, if | | | | gathered or crafted in the auction house, or |
| you're not good at it, or if you are impatient and | | | | through the trade channel. |
| want it now, you might be tempted to buy gold | | | | What Happens If You Buy Gold? |
| from one the many available gold sellers. | | | | This is an obvious and easy solution in that, if you |
| This is prohibited by Blizzard, the company that | | | | need gold here and now, you simply buy it. But I |
| has created WoW, and gold sellers are responsible | | | | would advise against it. |
| for a lot of spam, besides the theft of characters | | | | In the normal trade situation, let's say you put up |
| and gold from other players - a fact of which you | | | | your copper ore for 1 gold per stack. The market |
| may already be aware. | | | | price is 5 gold per stack, so you sell your gold |
| What very few people know, though, is that | | | | very quickly. Soon you have to get a flying |
| buying gold will, in fact, end up ruining you and | | | | mount, but you cannot barter on the price, since |
| your fellow players in WoW. | | | | it's sold from a vendor at a fixed price. You still |
| In this article I will tell you how you can earn gold | | | | need 100 gold for this mount. |
| in WoW, and how it will ruin your economy if you | | | | So you either spend more time mining (which is |
| buy gold instead of earning it yourself. | | | | boring) or you figure out that you have to raise |
| How to Make Gold in WoW | | | | your price to make ends meet. |
| You can make gold in several ways in World of | | | | If, at this point, you add a gold seller into the |
| Warcraft. Some people combine all the following | | | | equation, you will never learn this valuable lesson. |
| methods. Others simply choose one or two of | | | | You will keep selling copper for 1 gold per stack, |
| them. It doesn't really matter which path you | | | | and you will have to keep paying real money to |
| take. | | | | buy virtual gold. What is worse is that other |
| When you kill mobs and beasts, you acquire their | | | | players might be forced to lower their prices too, |
| loot. Some of the loot will be gold, silver or | | | | in order to match yours, so they will have to |
| copper; some will be items which you can either | | | | either work harder on mining or they, too, will |
| sell to vendors at a fixed price, or to other | | | | have to buy gold. |
| players through the auction house or trade | | | | Learn From the Game, Gain Experience, and Earn |
| channel. | | | | Your Own Gold |
| If you put items up for sale in the auction house, | | | | Trust me, it's much more fun to learn how to |
| you choose a bid price and a buy-out price. The | | | | earn gold yourself, than to enter the bad spiral of |
| other players can check the auction house and | | | | having to buy more and more gold in order to |
| see if there are any items on which they want to | | | | survive in the game. You might just as well learn |
| bid, or wish to buy immediately. | | | | this lesson right at the beginning. |