If your are just starting the game and want to know how to make gold and need some direction here is some information for you. You start off the game by either being a Skinner, Miner or a Herbalist for a while so you are able to gather resources. You may need to travel to one of the main towns in order to develop your skills early.
You can choose to be a Skinner, you will probably be killing many skinable mobs early on in the game, and either Herbalist or Miner as the radar marker conflicts. You can not have both a Herbalist and Miner radar blip on. The coin generated is probably a little better as a miner then anything else.
Your goal should be to try gather six slot bags as quickly as possible. Some of the bags will drop as loot, but you can buy more from tailors. You could also do what is called a 'who and tell' which allows you to offer to buy cash on delivery via the mail system so you do not have to buy your gold from an NPC vendor. This also means you have no need to go to an auction house until you are ready.
Go ahead and place your character very close to a mailbox that is not busy. There are two mailboxes near the auction one is always crowded and remember that crows equal lag. Choose a mailbox that is not busy and use it for your log in or log-out place. Post your stacks for sale at the Auction House. Be sure to check the prices and take note of the starting and buyout prices for the stacks of resources you are planning on selling.
You will find that a lot of the items have a final price of up to ten to twenty times the price of what any NPC vendor will buy the gold from you. When setting your auctions make them run for 24 hours and then set your buy out price to about four to six times the value to any NPC vendor. This level of pricing allows you to take advantage of impatient bidders so you get your items for sale bought quickly and also obtain your gold faster. Keep these simple steps in mind and you will be on your way to making a lot of warcraft gold.
