Title: Making WoW Gold While Playing – Updated for Cataclysm
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Everyone faces a similar dilemma in Warcraft. You want to progress in the game, but you also need more gold. Often the one issue takes you away from the other. Do you farm gold? Or do you level up?
Using the auction house is a good idea as far as gold making goes. Here, you leverage your skills rather than your time to make the gold you need
I have just read of a system that uses primarily cross market trading to make gold. That’s comparing the Horde price for any given item with those at Alliance auction houses. You then buy from the cheaper, transfer to another character of the opposite faction (via the neutral auction house) and sell at the market where the price is higher.
Great idea. However there are one or two major drawbacks in using this as you main gold making method.
Firstly you cannot buy from yourself at an Auction house using a single Warcraft account. You cannot, for example, post an item with a Horde character at a neutral auction house, switch to an Alliance character and pick the item up to market it at the Alliance auction house. The system won’t let you.
You need a second account or a friend to assist you. A second account means actually paying Blizzard for two Warcraft accounts. Having a friend help you means splitting the profits, normally halving them. Not so profitable now is it?
That’s not the end of the problems though. Just buying massive amounts of cheap stock is not going to work straight away. You risk flooding the market, you need a large (and by large I mean several hundred spaces) areas of storage. Your own storage that no-one can steal from, then drip feed to market. Also, this is a common method used by far eastern gold farmers (who have many accounts). You need to be quick. Remember it costs gold to put items on at auction. Flooding the market will end up losing you gold very quickly.
Of course there is a place for cross faction trading. However, I think you should know about the major issues you will face if you are going to go down this route. You wouldn’t want to buy a gold guide and be told on page one “Now go and sign up for a second Warcraft account” now would you?
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