Grind Hater

I personally hate grinding. But I guess to a certain extent, grinding in World of Warcraft is a must; there is no getting around it. I was grinding my way up when I just started out. Truth be told though, if not grinding at the level cap, you’re not doing most efficient method. If you’re not at the level cap, you want to get there as quickly as possible.

However, for the benefit of all and for completeness sake, I will be covering grinding at low levels. You will need to spend a good deal of your time just going out and killing mobs for a few hours if you want to get your materials, gold, experience, or whatever it is you are looking for. However, if you know where to look, which items to try and get and how much time to spend in each area, you can severely reduce how long you spend grinding and how dull the whole process becomes.

What You Will Grind

For the most part, the rest of the guides you have received have gone over exactly what you need to grind for and how long you must spend grinding to get them. However, there are bunch more things you can keep an eye out, including those that might change with time and become more valuable. These items are always fluctuating, but one thing remains the same; people want them and they are hard to get. If you can meet that demand, you can make a lot of gold in the process.

Vanity Items

The vanity item has no purpose other than to look good on a player. Things like Rare pets, shirts, and seasonal items are all fun little easter eggs that most players are willing to spend a large sum of gold to get and if you can farm them, you can cash in on that demand. You will find a complete list of the various rare pets you can farm for in the Warcraft Millionaire Gold Making Guide. Here are a few more things you can look out for that will net you a nice profit:

Styling Adventure Hat

These hats are major money makers for skinners and leatherworkers, both because of the ingredients needed to make them and the price for which you can sell the hats themselves. You will have to seek out the mobs that drop the pattern for this in Durholde Keep (see the Warcraft Millionaire guide for more information on other vanity hats and where the patterns drop) and it is a Bind on Pickup drop so you personally have to go find it, but if you get one it is well worth your while.

The ingredients you will need include

x6 Heavy Knothide Leather

x2 Cobra Scale

x8 Primal Life

x4 Zhevra Leather

x3 Rune Thread

With the exception of Zhevra Leather (which can still be found in The Barrens rather easily) most of these materials are pretty rare and hard to find drops that will take you some time or cost you some money to acquire. However, the turnaround on the hat is so much greater because of it.

The Orb of Deception

This item is extremely well known and can make you a large sum of money if you know how to utilize it properly. The item also does not drop in Outland so the price only increased further. The best mobs to try and farm the item from though is Razza and Skarr the Unbreakable. These rare spawns are found inside Dire Mauls Arena and will not be around often, but they drop it at a rate of 6.2% and 10%. Even if you wait around for 6 hours grinding on mobs around the area, you will make your money back if you get the Orb drop. You can watch your chat screen and both mobs will start yelling when they have spawned. The current going rate for this item in the Auction House is well over 500 gold, so make sure to take advantage of this while you can.

Set Selling

If you can sell items that help people complete a set (or better yet, an entire set), you can make incredible profits.

Things like the Twill Set or any of the class sets in the game will sell for massive profits ( you can sell the very easy to farm Twill Set for 42 gold with the shovel). The only problem with these is that you cannot list them for auction – you must list them directly to players in the trade channel. However, if you can make these sets you will be very successful.

Who wouldn’t want to look like a Pirate or have a Tuxedo in the game? They will pay greatly to do so.

Blood Elf Bandit Mask

This vanity item is huge right now because itis hard to farm for and can be used by any class or faction right now. All it is though is amask and with no stats it’s a pure vanity drop. However, if you can get one, it sells fo upwards of 50 gold. To farm this item, just find Blood Elf Bandits and farm them for a while – the drop rate is very low, but the mobs are incredibly easy so it shouldn’t be too tough.

Shirts

Undershirts are another big vanity item. Tailors out there can easily make a good deal of money on these as they are cheap to make and sell for a lot of gold. You can even find these sometimes at vendors for relatively cheap. Additionally, tailors use them level up, so you can buy them up for very cheap on the Auction House a lot of the time if you know where to look.

For the first time player, visiting the game’s built-in Auction House feature can be somewhat overwhelming. Players who have never used it before will be overcome, wondering how much to charge for their items, what to expect from their auctions, and what to use for buyout prices. It’s impossible to provide you with a complete list of every item that sells in the auction house or how much things sell for. The game has an active economy, very much like the real world economy you see displayed on tickers and in the newspaper every day – things change often and the prices of your items will never be quite the same.

For this reason, Warcraft Millionaire will show you how to use the Auction House than you know what things sell for. When you learn how to use the Auction House correctly, it will not matter what items you are dealing with or how much they have fluctuated; you will know where to look and what to expect, making it that much easier to understand what you will be getting out of your time there.

Basic Tips for Getting Started in the Auction House

Many people think they need to head out into the world and spend a couple dozen levels moving up in the ranks of the game before they can set foot into the Auction House and start making gold. They think it’s impossible to start a Level 1 character and immediately take advantage of the opportunities this amazing aspect of the game has to offer.

That’s a complete misconception though. Starting at Level 1, before you have gained a single experience point, you can run yourself to the nearest major city and start using the Auction House. In fact, this is exactly what I have done before and it has made me a large sum of gold as a result – there’s no reason to ever spend time leveling up your character or gathering materials if you want to just start selling and making money.

This is the most fundamental way to use the Auction House; start a new character run to the nearest city and start buying and selling. Warcraft Millionaire will show you how to use the Auction House to buy and sell in a little while, but before that, you should stop and take stock of some of the things you should understand and be aware beforehand are.

Like any part of the game, if you jump into the Auction House head first without any kind of planning, you are going to have severe problems making any gold. Luckily, Warcraft Millionaire has created for you a 7 step preparation process that goes over every aspect of the Auction House that you need to understand. You may decide to bypass some of these steps – things such as Professions or grinding – but keep them in mind as useful possibilities.