How To Make More Gold With Your Professions

If you want to know how to make gold in World of Warcraft by using your professions, then this guide was written for you. Specifically, we're going to talk about making gold with enchanting, mining, herbalism, jewelcrafting, cooking, fishing and skinning. While we're not going to cover every single profession – that doesn't mean you can't find very lucrative aspects in other professions which can make you rich!

By the time you've read this guide, you'll know about several different ways for making gold with your professions.

Let's get started.

The first profession we're going to talk about is enchanting. There are several ways you can make gold with enchanting, which makes it a great profession. First, you can sell the disenchanted materials within your guild or on the Auction House. Some of the shards can sell for a lot of money, and even the low level mats will be bought by people who are leveling alts.

You can also sell enchants for a fee. One way to do this is to use your own mats and potentially sell the enchants for several hundred gold. Alternatively, you can use your customers mats and charge a small fee on top.

Another way to make money with enchanting is to create the different stat-boosting oils. Some of these can sell for a lot of gold, and even the cheaper ones will still be bought by low level characters looking for an edge in PVP, speeding up farming, or trying to level quicker.

As you can see, enchanting can be a very lucrative profession to have.

The next profession we will talk about is mining. Although it can be a lot of work to level this one up, it has many potential ways of becoming profitable. One way to make money from mining is to sell the ore and bars you create to other people who need these materials for leveling other professions.

Alternatively, you can simply charge a fee for smelting. Depending on your server, this can be an easy way to make a few extra gold occasionally. You can also charge for shattering primals.

Next, we have herbalism. Since WotLK herbalism has become a hot profession, because herbs are an important aspect of leveling the new inscription profession. This means you can gather herbs to sell at the Auction House, and make a killing. Some people became very rich by gathering herbs before the new expansion pack, and selling them on release day to make huge profits very easily.

Another popular gold-making profession is Jewelcrafting. Although this can be an expensive one to level up, it has great earning potential. One way to make gold with this, is to prospect ore to find rare gems which you can then sell on to other players or use in your own designs. You can then sell your creations on the Auction House, sometimes for a lot of profit. You can also just cut rare gems and sell them on to others.

An often over-looked profession for making gold in WoW, is cooking. The best way to make money with this, is to either produce foods which boost stats (popular for raids) or make foods which transform your character into something else. These especially can sell very well (and for a reasonably high price) on many servers.

Another profession which goes hand in hand with cooking, is fishing. This can be a long grind to level up, but it is worth it when you reach the higher levels. If you haven't leveled up cooking, you can still make gold by selling what you catch. This is also a great profession for a hunter, so you have food to feed your pet.

The final profession we will talk about in this guide in skinning. This is an easy profession to level up, and its good for gathering materials quickly for selling on the Auction House. You can often sell the materials to leatherworkers and several other professions. There are many areas where it's easy to gather mats quickly, but these don't always sell for much gold. You can also farm for rarer materials and sell them for lots of gold – but it takes longer to gather these rarer ones.

In conclusion, we have shown you how to make gold with several popular professions in WoW.  Now that you have read this guide, you should be able to pick a profession which you like the look of, and find several ways to make as much as gold as you need from it!