When you first start off with World of Warcraft you start off dead broke. Without gold you can't do much. You need gold and you need a lot of it. Being able to make a lot of gold is the real difference between the big-gun players and the amateurs who are just wondering around.

There are a lot of gold guides on the internet with a lot of amazing tips and strategies for making gold. I've read most of them and some strategies work better than others. The fact remains that for a noob it can be a daunting and even impossible task to figure it out for yourself. You may find it hard to believe, but the more advanced players can gather 100 gold in an hour without breaking a sweat.

I have a lot of my personal favorite methods for making easy gold in WoW, but I would like to share 3 very easy and very effective tips that you can safely use to make a lot of gold fast.

1. Loot
So few players do this and it blows my mind. Maybe it's because they don't know how profitable it is if you do it every time, but when you make a kill, you must loot your kill. Even if you drop some random lvl 78 mob and you think it won't have any gold, you must. I've quite literally struck gold with this method on many occasions.

2. Don't Ignore The Less Obvious
Okay, so you know that dark iron mine you pass without thinking twice? Well, as ironic as it can possibly be, that "dark iron mine" is actually a gold mine. It seems like the name scares a lot of players into not even thinking it could hold gold, but it does. A lot! It is one of my great gold sources in all of Warcraft.

3. Become a Smart Trader
Rich players are like rich people. They don't want to work hard anymore. This is where you come in and how you can make a fortune in wow gold. All you need to do is to go to the auction house and look at what the rich players want to buy. Then, go back to the field and find exactly that. Go, back and sell it to them. The thing is that rich players are willing to spend a lot of gold getting what they really want. This is a really smart strategy and some of the richest Warcraft players use it. Nothing is stopping you from doing it.

Making gold in Warcraft is not nearly as hard as most beginners make it out to be. You just need to have the right strategies. Some players even stoop so low as to buy WoW gold - which is of course illegal. Don't do it. It takes the fun out of the game, it's unfair and it can get you banned. Now, go and make some gold.