Making gold is an essential part of World of Warcraft. If you are able to spam potions, afford all quest components, got easy access to resist gear and don’t have to worry about the cost of items you will usually get the upper hand in PvP encounters and when competing with guild members for raid spots. For those that do not daily come across random blue and epic drops the following hints provide you with useful gold making information throughout the levels:
All Levels
In the Hinterlands there's a vendor at 34,37 (cosmos locs – see the Macros and UI Add-Ons chapter). The path up is at 32,40 - when you walk up the side heading east, you will see a strange gear rotating out of the ground, the hut with the NPC is there). The vendor sells mithril dragonlings for 10s. You can resell this recipe for 7-10g in the AH. (http://www.thottbot.com/?i=15912).
For levels 1 to 30 I recommend to focus only on reselling items as anything you might be able to farm below level 30 is not really worth the return on the invested time. Aside from that the money you can make from gathering skills like mining and herbalism usually already exceeds your expenses.
Level 30
By killing Basilisks south of Duskwood in Stranglethorn Vale
(http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/mob.html?wmob=688) you can manage a decent 10 gold per hour. Grind here for a few hours while leveling up and you shouldn’t have to worry about your mount at level 40.
Level 35

Below Admons End in the southern mountains area of the Badlands (http://wow.allakhazam.com/dyn/mobs/zone17.html) you will find Earth Elementals (http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/moblookup.html?mname=rock +elemental&level_min=35& level_max=40). They are excellent grinding targets. If you don’t have enough gold for your mount yet, you should give this spot a try. The elemental earth stones dropped by

them sell really well in the AH (10 gold a stack) and counting in the additional loot you receive, 10-20 gold per hour seems to be an adequate range.
Level 40
In the Arathi Highlands you’ll find the Circle of West Binding - a smaller version of the Fire Plume Ridge in Un’goro Crater. There are about 10 Burning Exiles level 37-39 that hit rather hard and got melee-unfriendly damage shields. If your spec allows for some serious spell damage, they are easy prey. Exiles drop Elemental Fire (1-2 gold each), burning pitch (vendor trash) and coal. The gold is decent and the easy experience makes it a really rewarding location.
Level 45
In your high 40ies you should head over to Azshara to farm ghosts - easy kills that drop Mageweave and cash. With a lot of the commercial gold farmers been banned you can make some serious money here again. The Lichlings are casters with few hit points that die even faster than the apprentices you find around there. You can make up to 30 gold per hour after developing a kill-route and selling Mageweave, rare drops and looting cash.
Level 50
Felstone Field in the Western Plaguelands is a great place to grind for money in your early 50ies. Runecloth, potion and money drops are plentiful. Rare drops and lots of uncommon loot should net you a decent income. Since Argent Dawn faction is required for many high level tasks you want to hunt here anyway at some point. This way you can make experience, cash and faction at the same time.
Level 55

From level 55 on you might want to start farming Scarlet Monastery Chests (locations: http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e274/firehazard00/smchests.jpg). Move into the instance, stealth to the chest spots, kill nearby mobs, loot, run back, reset the instance – and start from the beginning again. In most cases

I recommend waiting till you are 60 – not really much you should spend your money on till then and you have way more and easier options then.
Level 60
Farming Wildheart bracers and belts (both BoE): You can easily get up to 5 in one play session that sell for up to 30g or more per piece. They drop pretty commonly off normal mobs in Brs/Strat/and Scholo. The best way to get these is off the first few mobs in BRS:
●Zone into BRS and wait for the patrol to go to one side
●Kill the orcs in the following order
●First pair
●Single patrol
●Second pair
●Pair patrol
●If you’re in a small group, then try the lower area and the small rooms there.
●Reset instance and repeat.
Essence Farming: In northern Felwood there are a group of toxic horrors (http://www.thottbot.com/?n=4047279 around a small pond of “water” (http://www.thottbot.com/?m=404727). Ideally you want to farm here during the off-peak hours to avoid competition and PvP fights. Aggro two to three mobs at a time in case you are confronted with farmers of the same faction. With 7 to 10 gold per essence you can make a decent profit around this spot.
Hakkari Thorium Vein farming: In Zul’Gurub (http://worldofwarcraft.gameamp.com/modules/game_map/game_map_images/166_full.jpg) there is a lot of profit potential for druid/hunter (alternatively druid / rogue) duos. Move to the first vein (right before you get to the exploding bats). The hunter sends his stealthed cat to the vein, jumps out of prowl and aggros all the mobs. This gives you roughly 10 seconds to mine the vein. You’ll need to be fast. Rogues would use ranged weapons and sprint to the zone before vanishing. Reset the instance and repeat the process. With a 30% Souldarite (http://www.thottbot.com/www.guilduniverse.com/witsend?i=51098) drop chance on top of the Thorium and a decent market on your server, you probably look at up to 50 gold per hour if the strategy gets executed flawlessly.

Level 70
Now that you are in Outland, gold is easy to make. The single best way to make gold at level 70 is to go complete all the quests you skipped while leveling. In the place of experience, you are now rewarded with gold. You'll get about 10 gold per quest turn in. Combine this quest grind with your gathering profession, such as mining or herbalism, and the various drops you get in this process, and you'll make a good bit of gold for your investment of time. Since you are level 70, you should be able to complete these quests quite easily.
There are also Daily Quests that can be done. To quickly increase your Gold do the daily quests (and work your gathering professions while doing them). You can easily make 100-200 gold just doing the ten maximum daily quests, and gathering any herbs or ore you come across in the process.
Daily quests are repeatable quests first introduced that reward gold and reputation rather than experience. These quests have significantly better rewards than normal repeatable quests.
You may complete up to 10 daily quests per day per character. Check the status of your quests by mousing over the daily quests completed out of 10 in the upper-right corner of your quest log.
Pick up daily quests at:
●Honor Hold / Thrallmar (PVP rewards)
●Sha'tari Skyguard (Sky Sergeant Doryn located at Blackwind Landing Terokkar Forest.)
●Ogri'la (Chu'a'lor located at Ogri'la in the Blade's Edge Mountains.)
●Sha'tari Skyguard and Ogri'la shared quests (Skyguard Khatie located at Skyguard Outpost in the Blade's Edge Mountains.)
●Netherwing (300 riding skill required to do these quests). (Speak with Mordenai in the southeast corner of Shadowmoon Valley.)
●Instance Quests
There are two daily instance quests—one heroic and one normal—which randomly rotate to a different dungeon each day.
Normal Dailies reward 1 Ethereum Prison Key, 16 gold, and 250 reputation with the Consortium.

Get the daily instance quest from Nether-Stalker Mah'duun in the Lower City of Shattrath.
Heroic dailies reward 2 Badges of Justice, 24 gold, and +350 reputation with the Consortium.
Get the heroic daily from Wind Trader Zhareem in the Lower City of Shattrath.
●Battleground Quests (available from an BG officer of your faction, rewards gold and honor).
●Cooking Quests (given by by The Rokk in Shattrath City, rewards gold and a cooking recipe).