Tips for gold making while leveling in early TBC

Hello! Posting a set of tips for my assumptions on how to make money in outland from day 1. June 1st is almost here!!

Leveling and making gold at the same time?! Preposterous!

I came at this from the angle of someone with no primary professions so anyone can use these to make a decent chunk of change in early TBC.

List of Things to Hold onto while leveling in The Burning Crusade Classic:

These are the items each of the following professions need to level so hold onto them while on your adventures in Outland!

Cooking:
Ravager Flesh, Clefthoof Meat, Warped Flesh, Raptor Ribs, Serpent Flesh

Fishing:
Furious Crawdad is best meat to level cooking from 350-375 but is hard to farm. Will be a fantastic seller, Low drop chance farm in Terrokar forest from 325+ fishing.
Enormous Barbed Gill Trout and Huge Spotted Feltail are both fish you should not throw away and hold onto for a bit into the game. They’re for endgame cooking recipes. Will go up in value as the game progresses.

First Aid:
Can sell Runecloth in prepatch too! Runecloth, Netherweave Cloth are going to be needed for everyone to level their First Aid.

Jewelcrafting:
Primal Mana, Primal Earth

Blacksmithing:
Primal Water, Primal Fire, Primal Mana

Engineering:
Mote of Fire, Mote of Earth, Primal Fire
Schematic White Smoke Flare sold by Wind Trader Lathrai(And one other vendor on each faction in the out of the way new cities) is a good Schematic to grab and relist on the AH for a quick few gold in the early days of TBC. Its a limited stock schematic and people will pay to not have to wait for it.

Leatherworking:
Pattern: Heavy Knothide Leather sold by Cro Threadstron in Lower City in Shattrath. Also sold by vendors in the new cities for each faction. Limited Availability Pattern that you can resell on the AH during the first few days at large profit.
Primal Mana, Primal Fire, Primal Water, Primal Earth, Primal Air

Tailoring:
Runecloth, Netherweave Cloth, and Primals

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Look up obscure vendor recipes and rush to be the first on your server to buy them.
There’s definitely a few in Netherstorm

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I make most of my gold through enchanting. I get tipped pretty much 5-10g per enchant by spamming a macro in stormwind. Also I went from being poor at 400g to 3300g from GDKPs.

Vendor everything and have a vendor price addon. You can afford regular flying just from questing to 70 in Outland.

I actually typed out what my usual TBC goldmaking strategy is and then realized “Why would I make this public?”. Not that it’s SUPER secret, but it’s not too well known and competition would lower its efficacy. So nvm.

Honestly the best way to make gold early expansion is questing at max level. No secret sauce there. Do all of Netherstorm at level 70 and there’s 3000g.

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People who buy up vendor recipes and try to resell them on the AH for a huge markup genuinely trigger me. I know it shouldn’t, but it does

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It’s pretty lame. I especially hate the folls who camp the vendors.

Saves me a trip so i buy em. Lazy me, but rich me don’t care.

Level through dungeons, do quests at 70, profit!

It’s thousands of gold per zone.

The best and funniest is to buy white clothing items from vendors (that never run out) and mark them up 10-50x their purchase price and watch lazy rich people buy them.

I’ve done a bit of that in Classic. I usually make 2 or 3 gold profit. Is that a “huge markup”?

On another character, I don’t mind paying 5g for a 2g recipe, if it saves me an hour of travel time, then waiting for a rare spawn vendor. Especially if I can’t even GET to Winterspring at level 30, what with all those grizzly bears in the cave. And I’ll use that recipe to make stuff at a profit of 1.5 gold per.

No, I’d consider that a reasonable markup. Some profit is reasonable when saving someone the time of heading to an out of the way vendor or for a limited supply recipe.

My problem comes in when people camp (or bot) a vendor non-stop and then mark up 50x.

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So, don’t buy it and camp the vendor yourself.

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I love items on live that you literally just have to go out to some inconvenient place to buy, but they’re not even limited stock, that sell for like 10-50x because people are lazy.

In a world with no bots, sure, that’s fair. But I don’t think it’s the legit campers buying them up most of the time.

Knowing the opportunity costs of travel is not laziness.

I do.

24/7? Not humanly possible.

buying something for 20k that sells for 200g is pretty damn lazy.

lol

It’s always funny to see people placing value judgements on behavior that has no impact on them.

I’ve always wondered how people who aren’t online 24/7 know that other people are online 24/7.