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People tend to ask me what professions you should get in order to make the most gold possible by crafting or collecting in World of Warcraft. I've been meaning to write an article about this but realized my sponsors at Warcraft Formula already written an excellent article on this. As I don't intend to re-invent the wheel, I will use their article, enjoy the reading that follows.

Best Professions for Gold Making as of WoW Patch 3.0.8 Gold making has always been one of the most appreciated and sought after tasks in World of Warcraft. Players strive day in and out to get as much gold in their accounts as possible to buy the things they need for raiding, building their profiles, creating new characters, and getting their professions capped out. The best way to make gold for many characters is to use their professions and that hasn’t changed in Wrath of the Lich King. It’s good to know which professions will reward you the most though: The Gathering Professions Of the gathering profession, pretty much all three will get you decent profits rather quickly. Skinning is likely the least valuable of the three due to the lower demand for leather goods. Mining is always incredibly valuable with an hour of farming ore will often get you between 150 and 250 gold. Herbalism is another great way to make gold as well as there are generally a few more herbalism nodes in any given zone (if your competition is minimal) and all herbs in Northrend will sell for a decent amount of gold due to Inscription and the Azure pigment standardizing their values across the board.

Crafting Professions
The crafting professions are going to vary from profession to profession depending on what your goal is. For gold making, there are a few that stand out amongst the rest as solid ways to boost gold making. Blacksmithing is a great way to make gold now that crafted rares and epics are back in fashion. Don’t expect this to last long as players will replace crafted gear with gear from raids and instances throughout the content.

Alchemy is still a valuable profession but not as much as it once was due to the new potion and elixir restrictions recently put in place for each battle. Engineering has never been a good gold making profession though there are a few new ways to make gold by selling things like Army Knives and Choppers or using Extractors on Eternal Essences. Inscription, Jewelcrafting, and Enchanting are all good professions as they provide a valuable buffing product to every player in the game (who all need multiple of each). Tailoring and Leatherworking are both good but are going to be limited by your customers.

In the end, the gold making options for your primary professions lies in what you use the items for, whether you save gold on items you would need to otherwise buy and whether you are happy with the final results of the process at Level 80. Gold can be made with anything if you work at it, but only if you are ready to do the work.

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The 3.2.2 patch will most likely go onto the live servers this week. The patch brings quite a bit of changes, as patches usually do. I've included the patch notes below. The information is from World of Warcraft's official site at: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/#3.2.2

It's that time of the year again when all our cities get filled with kegs and drunken people of all different kinds. The Brewfest brings quite a bit of different grinds as most of the sesonal events.

Money grinding isn't the first thing that comes to mind with the Brewfest. As with all of the world events there's a bunch of different achievements to be gained. Some easier, some harder... some that is all about eating sleazy food and drinking weird beers.

For the collectors there's a bit of things to do here as well. Since last year the Brewfest brings a boss that is only up during the actual event and there is a daily quest to do that involves killing him. The boss, Coren Direbrew can be found in the Grim Guzzler in Blackrock Depths and he drops a bit of epic quality trinkets and a broken bottle that serves as a dagger. These drops are not bad and are basically the same kind of trinkets that you could get for Emblems of Heroism.

However, the really interesting things Coren Direbrew drops are two mounts. Great Brewfest Ram and for the real lucky people, Great Brewfest Kodo. Apart from the regular grinding with the world events, this boss adds to the grinding for sure. I know that we spent hours down in BRD last year trying to get everyone the mounts. It was a ton of switching between alts to maximize the amount of tries we got, since well, it's a daily quest... you just get one shot per character and day.

Apart from the shiny mounts, there are also two non-combat pets to be gained through the event: Pint-Sized Pink Elekk that can be bought for 100 Brewfest Prize tokens and Wolpertinger's Tankard that can be bought for just 50s.

So depending on how much of the stuff you want to buy from the Brewfest, you can be in for a lot of grinding. And as stated, the Coren grind itself is quite massive if you're unlucky.

Good luck with all the drops and whatnot and watch out for the pink elekks.

Hey all!

I’ve been getting some questions about where to do some good illusion dust grinding lately from people who are leveling enchanting, so I will talk about that for a bit here. This post is not only for people who are skilling up their enchanting though since both illusion dust and eternal essence (and greater eternal essence) are great sources of gold on the auction house. Even if you don’t have enchanting yourself you might find this post useful if you have a friendly enchanter who could disenchant the stuff for you.

Illusion dust, eternal essences and large brilliant shards used to be the highest level of enchanting materials pre-TBC which means that the best places to grind these materials are in the old max level 5-people instances (or 10 people if you consider UBRS, which you should). The instances you should consider for this kind of grind would be: Stratholme, Scholomance, Lower Blackrock Spire, Upper Blackrock Spire and Dire Maul.

Running these old instances every now and then is really a good source of fast gold. You will get quite a lot of greens dropping, however this does vary quite a bit. Even if you are rather unlucky the runs are still going to get you a good deal of gold since you will be looting both silver for the mobs and runecloth. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, runecloth is a steady source of income for several reasons. Apart from the runecloth you will also have the blue items from the bosses that are certain to drop. Even if you are not an enchanter yourself you will make a few gold from each of these blue items.

If you are an enchanter who doesn’t need the materials for leveling up you will be in an even better position. Illusion dust sell for around 1g each, this of course varies a bit depending on what server you play on, but I usually get them sold for 70s-1.5g. Large brilliant shards sell from anywhere around 1.5g up to 7g usually but I’ve noticed that these prices drop or rise quite fast and often. The big money maker from these instances are the essences. A greater eternal essence sell for anywhere between 12g-19g.

If you are not max level and you’re after grinding illusion dust for enchanting while you are leveling you could do this too, it´s a bit slower of course but the bonus is that you get experience while grinding. You want a place with high spawn rate and a bunch of mobs, preferably humanoids so you get cloth at the same time. I personally like to the furbolg villages in Winterspring for this purpose since you also get the rep as an added bonus, why not work on achievements while you can too. Eastern Plaguelands have a few good locations too for grinding. The spots I personally like there are Plaguewood and Zul’Mashar. Certain mobs here drop items that can be used to grind rep with Argent Dawn too so you get the same benefit as from Winterspring.

I hope this helps the people who are looking to make money from enchanting materials as well as those who need it for leveling up their profession. If you know more good spots for grinding these things, please feel free to comment.

Until next time, take it easy grinding.

Hey everyone!

As requested I will write a bit about linen cloth grinding. I’ve mentioned linen cloth already in the post All about cloth, but not very in depth.

Linen cloth is as we know the first kind of cloth you will encounter in your adventures in World of Warcraft and it will start dropping from basically any level 5+ humanoid mob, up to about level 15-18 when you will start getting wool cloth instead. So if your aim is just linen, stick to mobs below level 15.

The reason you might want linen cloth might vary quite widely, but most likely it´s for either tailoring or first aid. Other professions like engineering does use some linen too, but not to the same extent. Anyway, you probably know what you need the cloth for, so I will stop ranting on with that.

As stated linen cloth drops from any humanoids between level 5 and 15. As you are leveling you will get a fair amount of cloth that you can either use right away or sell on the auction house to build your money. Grinding linen cloth for instance is much faster once you out level the mobs a bit. However, you might want to grind them for both experience and the cloth drops, which I can fully understand.

If you are grinding for both experience and drops, you want to find an area that have a high amount of mobs that respawn fast and then you start grinding away. There are a few mobs people usually suggest when it comes to linen grinding and one of the most common is Defias Trappers in Westfall if you’re playing Alliance. For Horde players a good spot can be the Razormane mobs just north east of Crossroads.

People always argue about the ultimate grind spot for things in WoW and the above mentioned are just suggestions. In my opinion most mobs are more or less equally good as long as you stay in the right level range.

If you are a higher level charater that need to grind linen for any reason, be it first aid skilling, new tailoring profession, alt profession or just to sell on the AH you might want to go to Ragefire Chasm or The Deadmines depending on faction and such. You might have less luck with the linen in The Deadmines though since the mobs are higher level than in RFC. Also, in Ragefire Chasm, remember that you only need to kill the humanoids, the worms and elementals will not drop cloth for you.

If you know any great locations for linen cloth grinding, please feel free to fill in.

This article is not written by me personally but by my sponsors at Warcraft Formula and it´s a very informative article, which is why I’ve included it.
Also, I’m back from Easter vacations now and the posts should go back to a more normal pace. Hope you all had a nice holiday.

The New Honor Farming Trends in World of Warcraft
Honor Farming was always a long and arduous task that players would tackle with minimal relish and a whole lot of wonder at just how long it would take and what they might be able to get out of the process. Alterac Valley was the essential battleground to use to get through the content while the new honor farming location of choice is Strand of the Ancients and for a few very good reasons.

The Time Limit
There is a time limit this time around, something that many players will welcome with open arms. In the past, players in Alterac Valley could play games that lasted upwards of five or six hours if both sides were evenly matched enough. This time around, Strand of the Ancients is built from the ground up to be a short, easy fight, only 10 minutes long for each run and even shorter if the Offensive side manages to break through and take the keep. It makes sure that each run of the battleground only takes a maximum of 30 minutes (if the two sides break the first two matches).

New Content
Alterac Valley is old and boring. Let’s face it – no one wants to play the same content over and over again when they could just as easily play something new and exciting with the new vehicles out there. Strand of the Ancients is fresh and therefore slightly less boring.

No Objectives
There is only one objective in Strand of the Ancients. Defend the keep or take the keep. If you fail, you lose, simple as that. If you play through the game at top speed and beat the other side, it can take as little as two or three minutes (for Offense) and that means quick and easy honor points.

More Kills
Honor points are much more based on the kills you get now, partially because there are no objectives beyond winning in Strand of the Ancients. This forces players to spend more time working on actually facing off against each other and getting honorable kills instead of just standing by and trying to get around them and finishing objectives rather than getting kills. More kills, less objectives, and shorter time periods means a whole lot more points more quickly and a more fun time doing it.
In the end, the changes to the honor point system have made honor farming in World of Warcraft a bit easier and a lot more fun. So, take a sigh of relief that you won’t be spending hours and hours going through all those opponents to get your next set of bracers.

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The post for today is more of a general babble about making gold in World of Warcraft. A lot of people seem to think that there´s some magical way to make thousands of gold over night, and sure, there probably is but I haven’t found it yet. If you have, please let me in on the secret.

Of course if you loot a good world drop epic or such, you will probably make a few thousand golds fast, but it´s not really something you can do again easily. And what we’re after is things we can reproduce and do over and over again.

And that brings us to the point of this article. When you are making gold in WoW you have to put in some time every day to get the silver and gold to trickle in. Usually you need to invest more time in the beginning to learn how things work and what are good things to make money with on your server.

A lot of the strategies for making a bunch of gold in WoW are related to using and learning the AH in a good way and it´s the best way in terms of steady income and things that you can reproduce and do over and over. And as I stated earlier, that´s what you’re after - things that you can do again and again and where you can expect a similar result.

If you are leveling and you are after making a lot of gold fast it might be a good idea to pick up two gathering professions (skinning, herbalism and mining) while you are going through the levels and just selling the materials on the AH as you get them. This is of course just to gain gold quickly. If you wish to get professions for end-game already and level them as you go, then you probably have an idea for what you should pick to fit your character. In my experience, there are some professions that are better than others for making gold, if that´s what you’re after. But that will be covered in another article.

Back to subject a bit. What you should do is to learn the auction house and see what things seem to sell well on your server and you can probably get an idea of what to look for in the previous articles here on Easy Grinding. Start with looking at crafting materials, they are usually attractive and it´s a good place to start looking.

You might want to look into getting an addon that helps you with your AH experiences. There are some good ones out there that help quite a bit. I´m personally using Auctioneer at the moment and it have some really nice features even if some seem a bit overwhelming at first. So you could look into the AH addons too.

So, try to learn the AH trends a bit, follow the market on the things you decide to try selling and see how stable the market is. And then start making gold. Tons of gold hopefully. As you learn, expand to include new items.

As always, happy grinding!

Also, as I’ve previously stated I am no expert of any kind and I´m just trying to help by sharing my experience in World of Warcraft, so if you have ideas that I don’t mention or if you feel I´m not making sense, please feel free to comment.

Hey all, sorry about the gaps between posts lately. I´m currently on easter vacations and trying to post as often as I can still, but it´s a bit so so.

This post isn’t about grinding gold or anything and it´s just more of a warning about a mail that is circulating now and just reached my mailbox. This is a mail used to gather information about your account and will most likely be used to hack it and clean it out for gold. Do not click links in mails like these even if you are curious, they will through malware or other means gather information about your login details in World of Warcraft and steal your stuff.

I´m aware of these mails popping up now and then, more often than not lately. But still, I figure it´s a good thing to warn about them when they do appear. The intention is that we will get rich in WoW without having to use crappy means like these sewer slimes does.

Here is the original mail, with the link removed or rather replaced.

And remember, don’t click links in mails, forums and stuff unless you know you can trust the one sending or posting the links. There are very nasty forms of hacking out there.

Until next time, Happy Easter and happy easy grinding!

The title is a bit misleading since what this advice is about is the opposite. What a lot of people do when they are going to sell things on the auction house is to just put full stacks of things out. This is fine in certain cases and doesn’t really hurt, but there are situations where there´s a bunch more gold to be made if you sell things in smaller stacks, or even item per item.

In previous articles I have brushed upon this subject concerning enchanting materials for instance, and I will elaborate that and other things in this post.

As mentioned, enchanting materials are always useful to sell item per item since people who are just buying materials to get one item enchanted will be more inclined to buy small stacks or single items over buying full stacks. The benefit of putting single items on the auction house is that you can ask for a higher price per item most of the time since people will see it as not using as much gold as on the full stack. This is again, due to the fact that us World of Warcraft players have a tendency to be very lazy.

The people who are after the few dusts or essences to get an item enchanted could just as well buy the full stack where they pay a lot less per item, and then they could sell the remaining materials on the auction house again. But I did mention that we tend to be lazy, right?

When it comes to enchanting materials, this tip will work on everything from the lowest version of enchanting materials to the highest one. Many times I have had more success selling mid-level enchanting materials, such as Greater Eternal Essence and Illusion Dust over selling Infinite Dust for instance. This is due to the fact that infinite dust, being the “current dust”, exists in a much greater number than for instance illusion dust and because of this, the market is more competitive which in itself leads to the prices dropping. And the prices can drop A LOT sometimes.

You can make a bunch of gold buying and sellling the current materials on the AH though but you have to be careful not to buy a too big stock and then lose gold when the prices drop the next day. If you buy stuff to resell be sure that you can get it all out in a matter of minutes from when you buy it. This however is only true about certain items with very high demand.

When talking about enchanting materials it´s impossible not to go into vellums and scrolls of “whatever”. If you’re on a server where the prices on dusts and such have dropped very low and you’re an enchanter, it can be profitable to make scrolls of this and that to sell on the auction house, instead of trying to sell the materials themselves.

Next thing to think about is blacksmith materials. This is something that is often forgotten or overlooked and it shouldn’t be, especially not now with Eternal Belt Buckles. These things require 4 saronite bars each and they are often crafted by blacksmiths for free (or a low fee if you bring the materials), which leads to small stacks or single bars of saronite selling like water in the desert. Not that well, but it does sell really good and the funny thing is that not a lot of miners think about this and just sell their full stacks of 20 saronite bars at once.

I have been able to buy saronite bars in full stacks and then reselling them one by one for double the price I payed for the bars in the stacks. The profit is not double though since you will have to pay the AH commission but you will still make pretty good profit on this. Of course blacksmiths might make a better profit selling the belt buckles right away but I have not tried this myself yet.

Another item you might want to look into reselling is Frozen Orbs. However, as with infinite dust, the price on frozen orbs can vary a lot and fast. This does lead to you being able to make a good profit if you’re fast and able to buy a few frozen orbs to dominate the market.

I’ve noticed a trend on my server where there are tons of frozen orbs cheap on AH after weekends, probably because more people have time to play heroics. And towards the end of the week the amount of frozen orbs are quite a lot lower. Which means that you can buy cheap orbs at the start of the week and resell the for profit at the end of the week, but this is risky business and you might end up with frozen orbs that you can’t sell.

Just to point this out again, these strategies does work on other materials as well and not just the ones mentioned here. Of course the idea about saronite is hard to do with other mats. But remember that people leveling up their professions might not want to have to buy full stacks of things either if they just need a few items for that last point before the next orange recipe.

I hope this helps get some more gold rolling in. Happy easy grinding until I write again!