The Cataclysm expansion has brought us many new ways to make gold. Millions of players are rushing to get to level 85 and most of these people will need items both when they hit 85 and when they are leveling up. Gold crafting is a bit different now, in the previous expansion the comps weren’t as high, but people have opened their eyes to the gold crafting aspect of the game, this can be both good and bad for you, most of the time bad.

Most people who used to get their gold from farming now face a lot of competition, the Cataclysm expansion has made gold a very important part of the game and most people just look for some random gold farming advice and are told to farm in the same place everyone else is farming. This will cause these areas to fill up with people looking to make easy gold. When a specific mob is farmed by many people, the items that mob drops will drop in price like a rock. So basically you’ll be competing with 10 other people for an item that won’t sell for more than a level 10 green, if this is what you’re doing then you might as well farm Dead Mines.

If you want to make some real gold in Cataclysm then you need to use the Auction House. More and more people buy most of their items at the auction house. In previous expansions, people used to try to find the items they needed in the trade chat, but now they just go to the auction house and buy the first item they see. This means that most of the gold business in World of Warcraft has been transferred from the trading chat to the auction house, and this is why you should use it.

The auction house is pretty simple, you need to get the additional auctioneer to get the most out of it. With the auctioneer plugin, you’ll be able to post items faster and see the average price of items, so you know if you should buy it or not.

You should look for items obtained from the gathering professions through the auction house, most people who farm tend to dump their items on the auction house for around 20-30% below the next cheapest item, so you will be able to make a huge profit if you manage to snatch these items.