Mr.WoW Gold - WoW Gold Guides - Making Gold With Mining
Making Gold With Mining
Chapter One: The Very Beginning
OK, the first thing you must do if you haven't already is get Mining. You can find mining trainers in all major cities. (Ex. Stormwind, Orgrammar, etc.)
The next thing you must do is buy a mining pick, which you can usually get right next to the mining trainer. In that case, they are usually called the "Mining Supplier". Or you can get one from a "Trade Merchant".
You are now ready to start making money.
Chapter Two: Three Types of Money Makers
There are three ways of making money. You can choose any of the three, and they will work fine.
Going To Work
--This is where you will set time to make money, such as saying "Today, I will train my guy 1 level, and do some instances with my guild. Tomorrow, I will go out and mine all day to make gold."--
Balanced Lifestyle
--This is where as you train, fight, do instances, and so on, you will simply look for veins, mine them, and after a while, visit a city and make your cash--
Mixing It Up
--This is where, you will set aside days to make money, as well as set aside days to train, but training will not get in your way of stopping aside to mine veins.--
I suggest the last one, because your being successful at making gold and training at the same time, and obviously having more fun, rather than forcing yourself to walk around looking for veins. Its up to you though.
Chapter Three: Where, What, and How
OK, the first type of mineral you are going to mine is Copper. Copper is extremely easy to find, and can be found near beginning towns. The first thing you want to do is go to your abilities book (Default Button - p) and look for "Find Minerals". Now every time you you see a golden circle on your mini-map, mouse over it. Most likely, if you are in your starting area, it will be copper.
**Note - The "Gatherer" add on is extremely useful in mining. What it does is, every time you mine something, it puts a symbol there, on your mini and world map. This helps your by saying, "Yes, there was a vein there before, and there will be a vein spawn there eventually". get it ASAP. - **
OK, now for alliance, I highly suggest either going to Dun Moroh (Sorry if that is mis-spelled) or Elwyn Forest.And for horde, I would say Trisfal Glades. All of them have tons and tons of copper. Now, what you want to do is go out and mine a lot of copper. I would say about 2-3 stacks (20copper / stack). Then you want to go back to your major city, and smelt these with the Forge. Now, on my server (Dragon Blight) a stack of copper bars will go for 1 gold easily. Now, it may go for 50 silver to 1 gold on other servers. What you want to do with those is sell them, we will say for 3g (1g each stack). In reality though, put them in for 1g10s, or 1g15s. This is so you wont get the auction house cut and only get 95s.
