World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide -- Table of Contents -- World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Setting Up Your Gold-Making Empire -- Setting goals -- Why goals help you keep your head in the game -- Setting up your main banking character -- Choosing your bank alt -- Choosing a character name -- Choosing your character's operating city -- Stormwind -- Orgrimmar -- Shrine of Two Moons / Shrine of Seven Stars -- Shattrath -- Choosing a character class -- Whether or not to remain anonymous -- Setting up your bank alt -- Managing bags on your bank alt -- Profession-specific bags -- Using banks for storage -- Storing items in mailboxes -- Dealing with hate mail -- Picking your first professions -- Optimal profession pairing -- Profession priority -- Leveling alts -- Filling empty profession slots -- Leveling professions -- Secondary professions -- A warning against gold-buying and other Terms of Service infractions -- Gold-buying -- Botting -- Item duplication -- Scams -- Summary -- 2. Earning Your First Gold -- You need to spend gold to make gold -- Reselling vendor pets -- Neutral vendors -- Pets from in-game events -- Faction-specific vendors and pets -- Alliance -- Horde -- Fishing -- The Tillers, farming, and Sunsong Ranch -- A copper saved is a copper earned -- Costs associated with the Auction House -- Milking every copper from daily activities -- Daily quests -- Player versus Player (PvP) -- End-game Player versus Environment (PvE).

Raiding -- Gold Dragon Killer Points -- Dungeons -- Leveling -- Summary -- 3. Exploring Your Major Income Sources -- Farming -- Gathering -- Mining routes -- Herbalism routes -- Skinning -- The concept of manufacturing -- The shuffle -- Pricing -- Summary -- 4. Using Your Professions Effectively -- Alchemy -- Learning new recipes -- Potions -- Flasks -- Elixirs -- Transmutes -- Masteries -- Blacksmithing -- Armor -- Item enhancements -- Enchanting -- Engineering -- Inscription -- Glyphs -- Shoulder enchants -- Equipment -- Trinkets -- Jewelcrafting -- Gems -- Leatherworking -- PvP gear -- PvE gear -- Item enhancements -- Tailoring -- PvP gear -- PvE gear -- Item enhancements -- Summary -- 5. The Tools of the Trade -- TradeSkillMaster -- Installing the add-on -- Starting TradeSkillMaster -- Module Options -- Auctioning Groups/Options -- Add/remove -- Overrides -- General Settings -- Post Settings (Quantity/Duration) -- General Price Settings (Undercut/Bid) -- Minimum Price Settings (Threshold) -- Maximum Price Settings (Fallback) -- Advanced Price Settings (Reset Method) -- Reset Scan Settings -- Management -- Shopping Options -- Crafting Options -- General Settings -- Price/Inventory Settings -- Queue Settings -- Mailing Options -- Module Features -- Accounting -- AuctionDB -- Item-Tracker -- Crafting Professions -- Crafts -- Materials -- Options -- The TSM Auction House tab -- The Undermine Journal -- The realm page -- The item page -- The seller page -- Summary -- 6. Understanding and Profiting from Market Behavior -- How gold behaves as a currency -- Gold sinks -- The Black Market Auction House -- Repairs as a gold sink -- Auction House cuts as a gold sink -- Market cycles -- Daily cycles -- Weekly cycles -- Patch cycles -- The patch effect on bot programs -- Expansion cycles -- Holiday seasons -- Supply-and-demand.

The relationship between raw goods and finished products -- Wealth disparity -- Game holidays -- Summary -- 7. Expanding and Streamlining Your Empire -- Time management -- Daily routine -- Time investments -- Inventory -- On-hand inventory -- Stockpiles -- Economy of scale -- Cross-faction trading -- Server transfers -- Profiting from transfers -- Summary -- 8. The Final Stages of Becoming a World of Warcraft Gold Tycoon -- Using multiple accounts -- Setting up Altoholic to share information across accounts -- Setting up TradeSkillMaster to share ItemTracker data -- Obtaining suppliers -- Flipping items -- Unusual items -- Remote Auction House -- Buy -- Sell -- Auctions -- Tips -- Identifying gold-making opportunities on your own -- Other resources at your disposal -- Blogs -- The Consortium -- Gold Capped -- Twitter -- Summary -- Index.