Low Level Gold Farming Tips
When it comes to making gold at levels 1-30 in World of Warcraft, there's no getting around the fact that you can simply make a lot more money when you finally start moving into the higher levels. Many players will find that they prefer to focus on leveling until they hit at least level 40. But since you do need to buy items and spend money skilling up, etc. long before you get there, it would be silly not to think about the best ways to earn money between lvls 1-30. Here's a few gold farming ideas that may help you out.
Farming Cloth
One easy way for low level characters to start making some money is to farm cloth. It is a high demand item and you can pick up linen cloth right from lvl 1 and will be able to farm wool cloth at level 14-30. Silk cloth becomes available at level 28. So you can see that there's plenty of opportunity here.
In addition to selling cloth, it will also be useful for you to keep some of it as you can use it to create slot bags.
Linen cloth is very easy to pick up as pretty much every humanoid you encounter before you hit level 20 will be dropping it. So just start on your quests and don't worry about it. But be sure to grab it along the way.
Wool also drops off humanoids, but if you're looking for the most bang, you can find some pretty lucrative drops at Ragefure Chasm, Ghostlands, and Thousand Needles.
Set up an Alt character
While an Alt character doesn't have anything to do with making you money directly, creating an Alt character will save you a ton of time because you won't have to running back and forth to the auction house. You just transfer any worthwhile items you find to your alt and then when you log back into WoW as the Alt, take the stuff to the Auction House. You should keep your Alt character someplace near the Auction house, preferably at the Inn so you can get the benefit of 4x rest XP.
Having an Alt will free up your main character to spend more time farming or working on quests which means that you'll level up faster and finally hit the levels where you can really earn much more gold.
Sell on the Weekends
To take best advantage of pricing differentials in the Auction House, it is best to sell stuff on the weekends and do any buying on the weekdays. So if you get some great drops, don't necessarily be in a rush to log into your Alt and send him or her trundling off to the Auction House. Sure, mail whatever you find to the Alt, but leave the selling until Saturday or Sunday, when the servers are at their busiest.
While I think that generally it will pay off more to concentrate on leveling fast at lower levels, you can mix and match your strategies a bit -- maybe focusing on maximizing how much gold you earn while questing. For the best tips on low level gold making, get Luke Brown's Gold Guide.
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