WotLK Gold Farming Tips - Focus on your Professions

If you are one of the many heroes of World of Warcraft - Horde or Alliance - who has decided to fight the Scourge in their frozen lands, then you will quickly realize that Northrend can be an expensive place to hangout. You'll need to pack more than your wholly underwear if you are to survive your first frigid winter in Wrath of the Lich King expansion - you'll also need a ton of gold! It's not that the Warcraft economy has radically changed with the release of WOTLK, it's just that with every new expansion there comes a certain amount of gold inflation. There's new gear to buy, more expensive mounts to lust after and a whole host of new treats once you make it to the magical markets of Dalaran.

To help you on your way and to make sure that you have at least enough gold to pay for your bar bill at the Heroes Welcome (Dalaran), I've put together 5 gold making tips to get you started.

1. Primary Professions - Max out your Primary professions before entering WOTLK to take advantage of both Gathering and Crafting at Grand Master skill level (350). It's no good trying to mine a node of Cobalt, for example, if your Mining skill is stuck at Artisan. The same is of the other Primary Gathering professions of Herbalism and Skinning.

2. Secondary Professions - Max out your secondary professions of Cooking, First Aid and Fishing. Cooking and First Aid will keep you in good health and help you level faster, reducing your down-time between bouts of actions. Fishing will help you level your Cooking once you have reach a skill 350 and above. You'll need it to enter the Daily Cooking Quest in Dalaran as soon as you get there. It's a great, fast way to earn some WOTLK gold.

3. Dying is Expensive - Your expensive WOTLK gear gets a little bashed every time you die and it will cost you an arm and leg (literally, if you play Horde) to repair. Constant repairs will drain your gold so make sure you enter combat buffed and in good health. A good supply of cooked food and bandages is a must as mentioned above.

4. Gather, Gather, Gather - Is a great way to earn gold. You'll find plenty of Herbs, Ore and Game throughout the starter zones the Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord. If you have yet to level your Primary gathering professions when entering WOTLK trying farming Meats from the abundant game and Frostweave cloth from the many humanoids in the starter zones. Both Meats and Cloth sell for much gold in the WOTLK expansion.

5. Cold Weather Flying - Grab this upgrade as soon as you hit level 77 so that you can once more use your flying mount. Make sure you put aside the 1000 gold for the upgrade. You'll be able to cover more ground in a shorter space of time for gathering and reach many inaccessible places in Storm Peaks.

I'm sure many of you already use the auction often to buy stuff and to sell stuff. Most people don't realize that this is a gold mine. Any WotLK gold guide or WoW gold guide will mention these techniques. The trick to using the auction house is MASTERING it. It is extremely difficult to learn it yourself as you will lose a ton of gold at first.

If you want a really detailed guide, and you are serious about wanting to make thousands of gold, you should use a WotLK or WoW Gold Guide.