I was wondering some things about "Gold Guides"Follow

They're all pretty much scams. Getting gold is easy.

a) gather and sell -> works best at the beginning of an expansion or for enchants and gems when a new tier is released and everyone needs them.

b) play the auction house -> buy low sell high, buy greens DE them and sell (doesn't really work as well anymore with the DE option in groups

c) do quests, dailies etc -> The tourney for example will actually start adding up quite quickly.

d) do GDKP runs

Making gold can be very situational. Look for a shortage and fill it, just like any other market. During Sunwell I made a ton on leather and drums.

Edited, Jul 13th 2010 10:41am by Xsarus

If you desperately do want a guide, just torrent them. They're all on there for free.

I downloaded one or two once, just because like you, I was curious to see what they actually said. It was a load of crap. It basically said things like "Grab two collecting professions, farm nodes and put them on the auction house! This gets you money!" and "Loot every mob you see and vendor the grey items!"; basically stuff that should be obvious if your brain is located inside your skull and not your ******.

Exactly. On the off chance the OP isn't advertising his own guides, I also recommend you check out our tradeskills forum. Following the advice there, I've been making over 1k per day for several months. You don't really need a guide, just some consistency.

Yeah, I see¸... that's what I thought. And, thanks for your help, I'll check the links and other forums! :) By the way, which site is good at listing prices and everythings for items on each server or something like this? Does it exists? I've heard about something like this... Thanks

I've actually purchased the Massive Gold Blueprint guide, and it isn't your typical gold guide. The guy who runs it, Jonathan, puts a lot of effort into it and keeps it updated. He's got a lot of interesting ideas that I hadn't thought of before, and he has a forum hosted on the site where he keeps the videos which are the guide (there's no pdf, so you can't torrent it) with all the people who have purchased the guide collaborate on different hot items to go after on the AH and such. It isn't about professions, it's all about playing the AH.

At one time Jonathan had some preview videos up on his site so you could get a rough idea of what he offered in his guide. Not sure why he took them down, but I would say that if you're going to buy a guide, his would be the one to get. I tried Luke's gold guide and it was worthless. It still had tips in it from Vanilla that he hadn't even bothered to take out and like others have mentioned, didn't have any information in it that I couldn't have found for free.