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The State of Gold Farming in World of Warcraft

2012-01-02T13:59:00.000-08:00

For the majority of the last few years, players have been told over and over again that farming for gold is not a good way to get filthy rich. Sure, you can make a decent amount of gold if you’re creative enough but usually no more than 700 gold an hour. Yeah, it’s a lot, but it’s not nearly enough to hit the 1 million mark (it would take 1428 hours or 59 straight days of play to reach the mark making that much).

So, it’s no wonder that people are interested in guides like Cataclysm Scalper that promise to help them make gold without having to farm. Farming doesn’t work anymore because it isn’t ENOUGH for a lot of players. If all you want to do is run instances and buy crafting mats, it’s probably plenty for you, but if you’re interested in building a strategy that will let you earn 5 figures a day, every day, you need a guide like Cataclysm Scalper to help you get there.

What Does Cataclysm Scalper Do Differently?

Instead of providing a static book that was rarely updated and included a lot of abstract descriptions, he wanted to write something that would actually SHOW players how to make gold with in-depth examples and strategies mapped out in the form of charts and walkthroughs.

He’s done that and much more by including detailed in-game screenshots, walkthroughs of the game’s most interesting aspects. That’s not something you’ll find in almost any other gold making guides, probably because it would take SO MUCH TIME to do. So, if you are tired of gold farming like pretty much everyone else, get over to Jonathan’s site and find out how to get past it once and for all.

Building the Ultimate WoW Gold Farming Tactics

2012-01-02T13:53:00.000-08:00

I don’t know about you, but farming for gold in World of Warcraft is not exactly a “fun” exercise. It’s time consuming, more than a little boring and generally doesn’t pay off very well. But, with the right tweaks, you can inject a little bit of entertainment into your gold farming and ensure you make a huge pile of the stuff for every minute you spend logged in.

Turn Farming into a Social Event

Most people think of farming in WoW and remember long hours spent waiting for a particular item to drop or clicking the same boring nodes over and over again. But, it doesn’t have to be like that. Make a game of it and invite some friends.

You can go farming in instances too where you can bring three or four buddies and take out big time bosses on your way to find some of the best loot the game has to offer. I don’t recommend you do this if you’re aiming for 1,000+ gold an hour, but if you just want to kill time and make gold, it’s the way to go.

Outsource to Other Farmers

Create a farming empire by outsourcing your gold making to other people. If you can get 5-10 other people on board farming for items that you can flip for a profit on the auction house, you’ll instantly make a lot more gold than you would otherwise. How does it work?

First, advertise your mat buying services in a major city. Many players fresh off a farming trip will want to get rid of things fast. You need to offer fair prices, but they can be 20% below the common auction house sale prices and you’ll still make a profit. Remember too that there is a standard auction house fee so you’ll need to cover that.

Finally, you could just skip farming altogether. Don’t feel like you need to go out and “earn” every gold piece you gather. The richest players in this game did it by building up their auction house prowess, not by farming endless mobs and profession nodes.

Farming in World of Warcraft will never be as much fun as taking down an epic 25 man boss with 100 million HP. But, it can be a lot more fun than sitting around and waiting for a fish to bite on your shiny bauble in Durotar. So, get in there, build a strategy that works and most of all, have some fun. This is a game after all.

Five Add-Ons Every Gold Farmer in WoW Needs

2012-01-02T13:47:00.000-08:00

In World of Warcraft there are a lot of ways to make gold but not all of them are very time efficient. If you want to make the big bucks and work your way toward the mythical 1 million gold cap, then you’re going to want to install a few tools that will help you along your way. These add-ons will do just that.

1. Auctioneer – The classic auction house add-on is called Auctioneer and will provide the kind of long term strategy boost you need to be effective in all aspects of the AH. From daily scans to easy checks for low priced value goods to the extra built-in adds on like disenchantrix and bean counter, Auctioneer is a must have for any gold hound.

2. Auctionator – This add-on is very similar to Auctioneer, allowing players the ability to scan auctions and effectively research the different prices that each item will sell at in groups. Instead of single items, you’ll see every stack currently selling at a given price range, allowing you to buy them all out at once.

3. Market Watcher – Another auction house scanner, Market Watcher allows you to research the values of specific items on a watch list which you can then plot and chart over a time period to see how those values rise and fall. There are websites with similar data charts, but Market Watcher lets you personalize your data more easily.

4. Postal – Postal is a tool to make your mailbox more efficient. It allows you to open more mail at once, access more mail when you have tons of incoming messages and expand the sending limits when transferring items and gold back and forth.

5. Gatherer – Gatherer allows you to create and follow plotted points across a major zone to find verified ore and herb nodes. This also works for fishing and skinning, though the data is not nearly as accurate with either of those professions as with the two main gathering profs.

With these tools, you’ll be well on your way toward the massive piles of gold you’ve always dreamed of. Of course, you’ll still want to learn how to use those tools effectively, and that is going to require a decent amount of additional work spread out over the course of a few weeks or months, but for now, just getting everything installed is a good start.

Cataclysm Scalper Reviewed – Is it Worth It?

2011-09-10T03:34:00.001-07:00

For the last few weeks I’ve been seeing a lot of buzz about the new gold guide on the market from Jonathan. It’s called Cataclysm Scalper and it’s been built around a few very simple ideas that we’ve seen many times before – most of them dealing with the Auction House.

By now, you should know that the only real way to make gold in World of Warcraft is to use the Auction House to trade goods based on economic conditions. This isn’t new and a lot of good guides have been written showing players how to take advantage of the tools and add-ons out there that analyse the auction house.

But with the Undermine Journal now defunct and with other guides failing to update or adapt to post-cataclysm changes, a lot of us were looking for something new to take on the mantle of “ultimate auction house guide.” Cataclysm Scalper hoped to do that and has mostly succeeded.

What Cataclysm Scalper Does Right

The reason I can so highly recommend Cataclysm Scalper is that it actually SHOWS you almost everything you need to know to be effective in the game making gold. You get the text descriptions and walkthroughs, but you also get a series of images and videos, plus a slew of tools that show you how to develop your own spreadsheets, charts and diagrams to track prices and choose the right items to buy.

I’ve never seen it done before and probably for good reason – it looks like a lot of work. But, it’s absolutely successful in that you now have every tool you need to be effective making gold. If you’re like me and are tired of old, unupdated guides trying to tell you what to do, get over to Cataclysm Scalper.