Skill Currency

Skill Currency

Skill Currency

Posted on: November 27, 2011 - 6:02 pm
by Admin

Any one who has read the J.R.R. Tolkein's The Fellowship of the Ring knows that all that is gold does not glitter, and the World of Warcraft (and indeed any mmorpg player) knows this in ways that Tolkien never met.

Even non-shiny items can be turned into gold in online games. Knowing how to get gold is necessary for all World of Warcraft players, at least until they reach the higher levels of the game and most of their gear is obtained by raiding.

This gold guide is not intended to make a character rich, and the author feels that the term “gold guide” is not quite appropriate. The reader should come away from this article with the tools knowing how to make a steady income in the game, rather making extravagant promises, such as the possibility of 70 gold per hour.

Getting World of Warcraft Gold

The process of characters earning money starts by going out and killing his first monsters in the newbie zone. A character can loots items that sell for a few silver, but the quickest way to gain cash in the early levels and one that greatly speeds up the process in later levels is completing quests are are a number of sites that sell gold or other mmorpg currencies, but the companies that provide these services are frowned upon by the mmorpgs makers.

Making gold is not as hard as it sounds, and it gets easier as the character levels, although the prices he pays for repair of his items, gryphon travel, and the amount a character pays on food and drink increase. The first thing a player can do to increase the amount of gold into his coffers is to take up a trade skill.

Not all trade skills in World of Warcraft produce a profit. Engineering, for example, is included solely as a flavor skill and it takes considerable time and effort to raise the enchanting skill. Other skills, specifically the gathering trade skills such as fishing, mining, skinning or herbalism are pure profit.