Making Money

[K9]

My recollection is that I would walk out of a Naxx run usually a couple hundred gold richer than I went into it all told. Add badges to that and if you can get it done in a couple hours seems like its probably a good deal.

Seconding this, but this is more compensation than a genuine income.

I have a modest yet steady income from glyphs and enchanting scrolls. I do have very definite ups and downs in motivation to make gold though. I'm not into big expenditures. While running two raiding toons adds up in consumables, gems and repairs, I don't buy masses else. So long as I'm above 3K gold on my main and 1K on my alt I'm comfortable. Other than for the sake of having loads of gold I don't have any great need to spend ages trying to make money. As I say though, it comes and goes. The only excess expenditure I ever make is levelling professions, but that's all done now.

Enchanting scrolls astonished me with how well they sell, and having an alt to make vellum is handy. Glyph income is steadier, but comes in smaller chunks.

[caladein]

Raids were definitely good money if you weren't wiping, especially Naxx/Ulduar.  ToC isn't bad if you can blow through it.

Dailies and Random Heroics are more consistent and less retard-prone though.

[WindupAtheist]

I usually do pretty good on cash. I handed my buddy 3k out of the blue a couple weeks ago and told him to finally go buy his epic flyer. I've passed out another 200 each to a couple other lowbie friends since then. I've still been able to keep up with buying top-notch gems and enchants for my new gear.

That Scholo vendor trash adds up when you can plow through like it was Deadmines, then run and sell to the ghost vendor right in front of the place. Do that while you wait for heroics to pop, mix in some dailies, and AH anything you come across that will sell. Oh and don't forget to loot the dead enemy players in Wintergrasp, at somewhere around a gold each it adds up too.

Oh, just want to second the thing about auctioning gems bought with honor. I turn all my stonekeeper shards into honor tokens, honor into gems, gems into AH cash.

[Rendakor]

Enchanting scrolls don't sell too well on my server; they used to, but since the flood of chanting mats everyone is just getting things made themselves rather than buying scrolls.

[Ingmar]

You recollection is terrible.


Do your dailies like everyone else and maybe you won't have to scrounge cash off of alts every time you need new enchants!

Upgrade your gear more than once an expansion and maybe you'll see my issues. 

[Fordel]

You mean like TBC where you were still broke and I wasn't? 

[Signe]

Get a room!

[Rasix]

Get a room!

[Khaldun]

If you keep honor points coming in, selling gems on the AH is a good steady stream of cash. If you're geared with all the Triumph shit you need, orbs for the moment are also selling at reasonable prices, just keep accumulating as much Triumph badgery as you can.

[Evildrider]

If you keep honor points coming in, selling gems on the AH is a good steady stream of cash. If you're geared with all the Triumph shit you need, orbs for the moment are also selling at reasonable prices, just keep accumulating as much Triumph badgery as you can.

You can also trade down triumphs to heroism and buy gems. 

[john4]

If you keep honor points coming in, selling gems on the AH is a good steady stream of cash. If you're geared with all the Triumph shit you need, orbs for the moment are also selling at reasonable prices, just keep accumulating as much Triumph badgery as you can.

You can also trade down triumphs to heroism and buy gems. 

Building on that- consider alchemy, its a secret goldmine.

Transmute: Majestic Zircon costs (on my server) 30 gold and yields an epic gem worth 200 gold.  I have two transmute-mastery characters so pump out between 2 to (theoretically, due to transmute mastery) 10 gems a day, though I would say it averages out to around 3 gems. 

That nets a 240-ish gold profit per day for doing absolutely nothing.  Sure beats out those time consuming dailies.

[SurfD]

i like alchemy as well, mainly because i have found a few pots that i can sell for nearly 50% profit even after buying all the mats to make them from the ah.

Another trick i have discovered (if you are a stealth capable herbalist) is to get yourself saved to a 10 or 25 man Ulduar that has cleared up to, but not actually cleared, freya (bonus if you can kill the 3 keepers but not the boss).

I can stealth around freya's room as a druid and herbalise 90% of the nodes in around 10 minutes tops.  This usually almost ALWAYS guarantees me about 3-5 frost lotus and 4-5 stacks of assorted herbs.

And since everything in there respawns after the instance soft resets, you can go back in 30 minutes and do it all over again.   Extend your raid lockout indefinately and it is literally your own personal gold mine (provided you never want to run that version of ulduar again on that character of course :P)