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World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide

By : Eric Gilmour
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World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide

By: Eric Gilmour

Overview of this book

World of Warcraft provides an immersive gaming experience with an exciting new world to explore. In this world (of Warcraft), players use gold to improve their characters and buy exciting items such as armor, vanity items, pets, mounts, and so much more. WoW gold not only helps with levelling up, but also helps the player gain respect in the WoW community."World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide" will show you the most effective ways to make gold in World of Warcraft. It includes detailed examples and instructions that will set you up to efficiently make plentiful amounts of gold both now and in future expansions."World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide" will arm you with all the latest strategies to become a World of Warcraft gold tycoon. Start by setting up your accounts for optimal gold making and progress through to advanced market techniques. You will learn to maintain thousands of auctions per day, master add-ons to reduce time spent making gold and increase time spent playing, and set yourself up to obtain anything you want in game. The World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide teaches readers how to go from rags to riches.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Farming


Farming is the process of going out into the gaming world to collect base materials by looting, gathering, or skinning (only for collecting leather). This is not to be confused with the new Tillers farm added in Mists of Pandaria.

While farming is the manual labor in World of Warcraft's gold-making scene and is looked down upon by many of the game's richest players, it remains a reliable source of income and an integral part of the in-game economy. Farming also requires no start-up costs or investments and thus is always a positive gold gain. Finally, many players find the simple work relaxing or enjoyable and will often spend time gathering while waiting for raids to start, dungeon queues, and so on.

The downside to farming is that it typically offers a much poorer return for your time. The Gold per Hour is lower than the manufacturing processes, which will be discussed in this chapter. Farming is also a heavily botted activity, where you will be competing with the Auction House...