The Best Profession

Are you one of those players, and there are alot, that beat yourself up over what profession to choose? Well I'll make it easy for you. You ready?

IT DOESN"T MATTER

In the end when you hit 60 you will find yourself not making anything for yourself but instead selling everything you make for some quick cash. Most people think it's a great way to make gold but sadly it's not the truth. When you consider the amount of time it takes to gather all the material to make your "Black Dragonscale Shoulders" that sells for 115G on average it's just not worth it.

Now I'll tell you my profession. In the World of Warcraft I am what one would call a Stock Broker. Another name for this is an AH whore. I like the second one better. Basically I buy everything that's under market value and sell it for what it's worth.. or more. For example, the other day I saw a Tigerstrike Mantle http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=13108 on the AH for 78s. On average it sells for 65G. That's a 64G profit. Rinse and repeat and you will have alot of money really fast.

By now you're telling yourself that "people cant make mistakes that often right?" Well they do and those that take advantage of it will reap the rewards. The richest person in WoW has over 100k gold and thats not including all the items he has in his banks. He is on Boulderfist and lives in Hawaii. How do I know this? He opened his trade window.. the bastard. Fortunately he taught me his tricks.

Understand that you cannot do this the second you start playing as you have to build a bankroll first. The more you have to spend, the more you stand to make.
How does one build a bankroll? Well thats where two professions come in. Herbalism/Skinning are two of the three gathering professions. Herbalism sells for more then Mining ore and bars and since you can only track minerals or herbs, take Skinning as your second profession. Swiftthistle sells between 15 and 18 gold a stack and you can start harvesting it at your third questing area (i.e. Westfall). Once your gathering gets on a roll you will soon be able to start making some money. You can also use this addon to keep track of where you have gathered things in the past: http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/addons-44-1-gatherer.html

The second step would be to make an alt that stays at an AH so you can mail your money makers and save time instead of flying back to an AH and checking auctions.
Now that that's over with you're saying, "well how am I supposed to know what everything is worth?" And I say to you.. you're not. So how are you supposed to take advantage of the AH? With this: http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/addons-...auctioneer.html

Auctioneer is an addon that scans the AH and keeps a record of it on your CPU. It will show you average costs, tell you what you should sell your items for, and even show what items are below cost. Know however that you should scan the AH at least ten times throughout a weeks time to sort out people that are just posting dumb. There is no way you can lose money with this if you're paying attention to what you're buying. You don't have to spend more than ten to twenty minutes a day doing this and after you get used to the big money items you won't have to use it anymore.

After you make a substantial amount of gold using this system then you can go into crafting professions so you can make things to sell for big money. Use the same principle of buying mats way below cost so you dont have to waste time farming for them.

When you have gold it makes it alot easier to level your toons. Instead of farming for weapons and armor I just buy it. Saves alot of time for important things like.. well.. killing stuff and killing stuff is what WoW is about.

Hope this helps all you gold strapped players.

Good Day