| History has shown that there are three main | | | | much anything you want in this game. |
| ingredients to the success of the World of Warcraft | | | | The Upper Limits of Gold Making in the WoW Auction |
| economy - players repeatedly farming raw materials, | | | | House |
| wasting ridiculous amounts of gold on things that they | | | | How much gold can you make? Because of the way |
| can't resell or reuse on other toons, and using the | | | | the programmers at Blizzard coded the gold routines, |
| Auction house to buy, sell and trade items. These | | | | there is an upper limit to how much gold you can have. |
| three things have allowed WoW to have a stable | | | | That number is just south of 214,700 gold. On the |
| economy and caused the game to flourish in ways | | | | surface, that might seem unobtainable, but you don't |
| that no other MMO has yet to do. Item prices are | | | | have to search the Internet long to find many players |
| predictable, strategies are consistent and the WoW | | | | who have already done it, and some players who |
| auction house is the primary source of gold for most | | | | have done it multiple times. If you maxed out your gold |
| players in the World of Warcraft universe. | | | | on every toon in your realm, you would have over 2.1 |
| The Secret of Using the WoW Auction House | | | | million gold. And that's just per realm. Please don't think |
| If you want to be successful in using the WoW | | | | that will happen quickly, it won't. However, if you |
| Auction house, you first need to realize it's all about | | | | master the auction house and use it wisely, it is a goal |
| data. The standard World of Warcraft client interface | | | | that is completely achievable. |
| for the auction house is beyond awful. If you rely on | | | | For many, the prospect of making gold in the WoW |
| the stock client to make money at the AH, you are | | | | Auction House is so great that they completely |
| doing yourself an injustice. Fortunately, the WoW client | | | | abandon all other forms of making gold. Lots of people |
| is extensible and you can download modules called | | | | spend their time focusing on methods to maximize |
| "add-ons" that will allow you to access more data and | | | | gold production and minimize their time investment. This |
| more effectively hold auctions that will work towards | | | | is a popular strategy that, in the long term, will work far |
| getting you more gold. This means you will need to do | | | | more efficiently than farming and questing, due to the |
| a lot of market research, item scanning, and a whole | | | | higher overall yield for time investment. Keep that in |
| lot of trial and error. Once you figure it out though, you'll | | | | mind and you'll make far more gold in the long run than |
| be able to make so much gold that you can do pretty | | | | if you are out farming. |