In every world, even cyber worlds like Azeroth, gold makes the world go around. If you're going to invest heavily in playing PVP, you're going to need a lot of gold. Enchants and the worth-having gear in the Auction House cost a lot.
In this section we’re going to show you how to make the gold you need.
Schedule It
Time = Gold. That's the secret. You may see advertisements that offer to sell you the secrets to making thousands of Gold in five minutes (ok, that's an exaggeration). The fact is, it doesn't work that way. You're going to have to invest time to make Gold. Of course, some investments are better than others!
The first thing to do is regularly set aside some of your WOW time to make Gold. You can use some of the methods we describe here to make that gold, but the first rule is to schedule yourself Gold-making time. PVPers, Raiders, they all have to do this.
Grinding
This is the no-brainer method to making Gold. You can do it at any level. Grinding simply means killing mobs and looting them. Over and over. It can't fail–and it's the slowest way to make Gold.
Grinding has one advantage; you can get XP if you grind on mobs of your level.
Here's a few general tips for grinding:
●Humanoids drop Silver and cloth (cloth of whatever kind sells well in the Auction House)
●Research (on Thottbot or WOWHead or your favorite site) on which mobs drop things you need (for example, a Small Flame Sac to make Dragon Breath Chili) and go grind that mob. Also grind on mobs that drop items for professions, and then sell them in the AH.
●As you would for mining or herbalism, develop a grinding route on mobs that are lucrative (for example, Naga Explorers that drop various types of pearls)
●Grind on mobs that drop both meat and loot (meat can sell well in the Auction House, or use the meat for your cooking efforts)

●Go to someplace like the Arathi Highlands and grind on one or two mobs exclusively, such as dinosaurs and spiders. You'll get huge stacks of two or three different kinds of loot, allowing you to hold a lot of it as it stacks in your inventory. Then run to the nearby base and sell all your stuff. Rinse and Repeat.
Grinding may not be the best way to make gold, but it has a few advantages, such as gaining you XP to level, and getting crafting items to use and/or sell.
Auction House
Here's where the real masters make Gold. Using the Auction House wisely, some players acquire thousands of Gold. Here's a few strategies:
●Get yourself an Auction House mule. A Mule is an alt that always stays in your capital city, with the purpose of getting the mail, putting things in the Auction House, and mailing back to Gold earned to your other characters. A Mule that has Enchanting can disenchant items that might sell better as dusts or shards. Making the mule your battlegrounds twink gives it double-duty.
●Keep your items in a constant rotation through the AH. Always add to them with the results of your grinding, raiding, professions, and questing.
●Speculate: know BOE gear, know which quest items are sold in the AH, know crafting items and know what they are worth. Look for them in the Auction House, waiting for some noob to sell them way below value. Here's an example: the Assassin's Blade is a favorite BOE weapon of Rogue twinks. It usually sells for around 100 Gold. Scan the Auction House for the Assassin's Blade. Every now and then you'll find someone has placed it for sale at about 50 Silver. Buy it, and resell it for 100 Gold (or whatever a good price is on your server). Develop a list of equipment, quest items, and crafting materials that cost a lot, but might end up in the AH at low prices. Buy low, resell high. Repeat.
●There's more traffic on an Auction House on weekends. Use this to your advantage. Say you have an Elemental Earth you want to sell. On the weekend, there may very wall be other Elemental Earths in the AH. But, during the week, its possible there will be no Elemental Earths for sale.

That's when you sell yours, and if yours is the only one, or one of a very few, you can really jack the price up. Otherwise, a huge load of your more pedestrian stuff for sell will move on the weekend. It's all in the timing.
●Corner the market: pick an item and corner the market on it: buy it all out of the Auction House, and then sell it at your price for a healthy profit. Some Core Leather products that sell for a lot and are hard to produce are clients for the Corner the Market strategy.
●Auction House add-ons, such as Auctioneer, suggest pricing strategies and keep track of pricing trends for you.
Professions
The professions you select should be your most steady source of Gold. The gathering professions (Mining, Skinning, Herbalism) will pay out a steady income, if you put some regular time into them.
Run routes for Mining and Herbalism, and put the proceeds in the Auction House. Route running is best done in the early or off-hours, to avoid competition from other players.
For Skinning, educate yourself on which leathers are most in demand, and where to get them, and go grind on the beasties involved and make the leather.
One income strategy as you are leveling is to take two gathering professions. If you have Skinning and Mining as you level, your everyday questing will be much more profitable. Many of the beasts you'll kill can be skinned, and mining nodes (and herbs to be harvested) are everywhere.
One you hit a high level (60 or 70) drop one of the gathering professions and quickly level a crafting profession.
Crafting professions can make Gold, but they also require an investment of recipes and materials. Selling your crafted items can be profitable. You need to calculate the cost of your materials and recipes, and your time in the price you charge. (Auction House competition may make this difficult. Always check the competition when making up your own pricing.)
You can also advertise your crafting services in the trade channels (/2 in a capital city). Crafter typically ask for materials and tip in exchange for their services.
While it is easier to make Gold with some professions than others (for example, Alchemy will make more Gold than Blacksmithing) any profession can be a money-maker if you work at it.

Soloing Instances
Soloing Instances is a great way to make gold, and it's funner than most of the other ways. Depending on your class, your level, your gear, and your skill, most instances can be soloed.
A well-geared Paladin can solo an instance (slowly) probably better than any other class. Warlocks and Hunters also do well in soloing instances.
Be sure your inventory bags are as empty as you can make them before you head out to the instance. Once there, wipe out everything in it, and loot it all. Low level instances should net you (if you're lucky) a BOE twink item or two that will sell well in the Auction House. High level instances can net lots of sellable items and a pretty good gold count. The higher the level for the instance, the better the take.
Well-geared and skillful level 70s can take a run at Scholomance and Stratholme. Using the buff tips from the PVP section will assist greatly in soloing high-level instances.
Daily Quests
One way to quickly increase your Gold is to 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.
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. These are for level 70 players only.
The PVP daily quest not only awards gold, but a nice honor bonus as well. Anyone who reads this guide will want to jump on that. The PVP daily quest is available to lower level players as well as 70s. Pick up this quest at your battlegrounds hub.

The Babysit
This is easiest method of earning your gold. Basically, you have a friend or guildmate run your low-level character through an instance.
As an example, let's say you are leveling a Rogue, and you're at about level 15. Get your level 70 friend or guildmate to run you through the Deadmines. Equip your character with a complete set of empty inventory bags.
Your friend kills everything, you run behind him (not to close to draw agro, close enough to yell for help when patrols catch up to you) and you loot everything.
Run it two, three, four times in a row, resetting the instance in between runs. You'll leave with your bag bulging with greens, with gear you'll equip, and with lots of stuff to sell in the Auction House.
As you level, and as your friend is willing to help, run other instances, looting everything, selling it, and making lots of gold.
Repay your friend my running his low-level alt through instances, and letting him get all the loot.