Have you already chosen your professions in World of Warcraft? If
you haven't, hold it right there! Not all the WoW gathering and
crafting trade skills go together and to do some decent gold farming in
Cataclysm, you must choose the right ones.
So, which profession combos should you choose to make a decent buck in this game? Here are a few ideas.
1. Mining - Engineering.
Everyone knows that mining will earn you nice money in World of Warcraft, but very few know about the possibilities to make gold when it comes to engineering. Everyone considers engineering a PvP professions and it pretty much is. You can enhance you mining with engineering though. Volatile Air is quite hard to gather in the Cataclysm areas, but if you craft yourself an Electrostatic Condenser, you'll get plenty while mining. If you also are part of a high level guild, you can benefit from the guild perk "Bountiful Bags". This perk grants extra pieces of ore from each mineral vein.
2. Tailoring - Enchanting.
Regardless if you're a tailor or not, you can still get cloth scraps from the humanoid and undead mobs in Cataclysm. However, if you want to skill up enchanting smoothly, you need tailoring as a backup profession. Using your cloth gathered from mobs to craft items, you can disenchant them afterwards for parts and sell them to AH. Now, that's fine for skilling up, but once your enchanting is 525, you don't need to craft anymore. I usually check out the Auction House for green items listed for low prices, buy them then DE them and sell the parts. Hypnotic Dust and Greater Celestial Essences sell like hot cakes.
3. Mining - Jewelcrafting.
The last profession combo excellent for gold farming in Cataclysm, that I'm going to present here, is mining-JC. Gems, especially the blue ones are pretty expensive even uncut. So, if you have mining to backup your jewelcrafting, you won't have to pay outrageous prices for Obsidian or Elementium ore to prospect. This profession combination works for farming sessions in low level areas as well. For example, Thorium still sells pretty nicely but in case you fill up your vault with this mineral and the price drops, you can always prospect it
If you choose the right professions, gold farming in Cataclysm won't be a problem anymore. However, there are many other ways to earn gold in WoW without farming anything, without wasting time and without cheating, of course.
So, which profession combos should you choose to make a decent buck in this game? Here are a few ideas.
1. Mining - Engineering.
Everyone knows that mining will earn you nice money in World of Warcraft, but very few know about the possibilities to make gold when it comes to engineering. Everyone considers engineering a PvP professions and it pretty much is. You can enhance you mining with engineering though. Volatile Air is quite hard to gather in the Cataclysm areas, but if you craft yourself an Electrostatic Condenser, you'll get plenty while mining. If you also are part of a high level guild, you can benefit from the guild perk "Bountiful Bags". This perk grants extra pieces of ore from each mineral vein.
2. Tailoring - Enchanting.
Regardless if you're a tailor or not, you can still get cloth scraps from the humanoid and undead mobs in Cataclysm. However, if you want to skill up enchanting smoothly, you need tailoring as a backup profession. Using your cloth gathered from mobs to craft items, you can disenchant them afterwards for parts and sell them to AH. Now, that's fine for skilling up, but once your enchanting is 525, you don't need to craft anymore. I usually check out the Auction House for green items listed for low prices, buy them then DE them and sell the parts. Hypnotic Dust and Greater Celestial Essences sell like hot cakes.
3. Mining - Jewelcrafting.
The last profession combo excellent for gold farming in Cataclysm, that I'm going to present here, is mining-JC. Gems, especially the blue ones are pretty expensive even uncut. So, if you have mining to backup your jewelcrafting, you won't have to pay outrageous prices for Obsidian or Elementium ore to prospect. This profession combination works for farming sessions in low level areas as well. For example, Thorium still sells pretty nicely but in case you fill up your vault with this mineral and the price drops, you can always prospect it
If you choose the right professions, gold farming in Cataclysm won't be a problem anymore. However, there are many other ways to earn gold in WoW without farming anything, without wasting time and without cheating, of course.
