Yes, plenty of time to read it at work/college. Don't be such a dick.

shut up

And another secret news flash, you don't HAVE to read everything on this "wall of text"

Yes. We do.

I remember last year as a lowbie I was able to make a decent amount of money selling the cookies needed for the Greatfather Winter quest for around 5g a stack. I think I was the richest level 20 in the guild at the time.

This weekend I'll be grinding out the last bit of honor I need for the season 1 mace, doing some arenas, and probably some heroics.

Haha seriously, I've been collecting those things for months just to make a killing during Winter Veil.

I grinded my mount-gold in Scarlet Monastary. Pretty nice droprate of ah-greens in there. The downside beeing that i can't stand the place now though...

it's all about professions, imho... mining has been very profitable to me, but i have been leveling so fast lately that it got left behind... (i'm 64 and a few days short of my second month in the game)

Enchanting was a bit of a money sink at lower levels, but when i started running instances regularly i managed to get a pretty decent stash of mat... i use dusts to level up the skill and try to save shards... when i hit 60 i was 150g short of my epic mount, so i sold part of my shard stash and had the money the next day...

Also, get auctioneer, it will make working the AH a breeze

Good luck...making money is part of the game, and if it were so easy, it wouldn't be a game...or as fun?

Anyway, you have to figure out how to make money in a way that you both enjoy and acceptably profitable for you. I don't like to play the AH, but I don't mind farming, but I play more "grown up" hours (4-7 PM, Saturday/Sunday days) and have trouble with PUGs and not as many guildies on running instances. I make a lot of money with crafting and also skinning.

I have to agree. Run around mining and either skinning or herbing and sell everything you pick up. If you weren't lucky enough to get drops worth the mount costs, this is about the only way to get the cash.

I got lucky on my first two toons to get mounts. Both picked up pretty pricey blue BOE's while lvling through mid thirties. Funded their mounts that way.

I'm pretty good at making money. That said, you need to do different things at different times to make gold. At low levels, you need to farm those mats such as small eggs, and definately have at least one gathering profession. Mine/skin is good for pre-outland. Herb is fantastic, not many do it, so there seems to be a benefit for that. Otherwise farm for mats that others need. Spider silk from ashenvale spiders (among others) is always in demand and sells for a gold or two each. All those green items that drop - sell em or disenchant em (and sell the mats you dont need). All the white items (white text), sell em on AH. All grey items, sell to vendor.

In OL, its a little different. Greens have a hard time selling on AH (for me), and skinning starts to suck. Mining is hugely profitable, and jewelcrafting becomes useful (but not profitable until youve sunk 1000s of gold for patterns). Herb is fantastic in OL, you can fly around to destinations, grab a herb or three, by the time you get there you have a stack which sells for 15g (on my server). Thus i strongly recommend herb in OL for that reason.

Further in OL there are things that will sell for alot, for ex rep grind tokens that are sellable (from scryer/aldor), coilfang armaments for CE, etc). Fishing and cooking also become hugely profitable.

I don't do much crafting but my guess is none of the crafting profs are actually profitable, nobody wants your lame crafted items. Crafters always make the mistake of selling for cost of mats alone. Its as cheap to farm for mats for pots, put it on the AH, and buy the pots from AH. This is probably due to a lack of understanding of economics by some (and those who do can't compete w/ those willing to lose money or break even on their crafts).