Whenever you need to supply yourself, you need to look for a merchant who has what you need. There are also merchants and vendors that can repair you when you have damage to your equipment or items in your inventory. You will have to search for one that can repair you. You can also sell items from drops that you do not want to merchants to get them out of your inventory.

You have the opportunity to purchase additional bag slots for your bank. They go up in price each time you buy and extra slot from — to 1g to 25g and up. You must buy the slot and then also have a bag to fill it with. So the bigger the bags in your slots, the more room you have. When you start collecting a lot of things in your bank, you will want to organize it so that you can find things easier. You may also want to keep a stock of trade skill items. For example, if you are a tailor, you might keep extra thread there so that if someone suddenly wanted you to make something, you wouldn’t have to run all over the place getting supplies. You can have your thread, cloth and anything else you need right in your bank.

You will need money to use the windmasters, to learn trades and new skills, to buy supplies for many professions and to play in the Auction House. Money comes into play when you are looking for items made by other players and items that do not come from drops. You also need money for your mount when you reach level 40. So you can see that it is important that you have a steady flow of income to help you with things you need throughout the game.

The economy is set up so that if you plat the game normally, you will have enough money to do most of the things you need or want to do. When you play you will get money, items, and drops to sell for money so you are constantly making more if you keep questing, grinding and just killing stuff. However, if you always want to have the best or be a step ahead other players, you might need to find some tactics for making more money so that you can more easily achieve this.

In the game there are copper, silver and gold coins. When you kill targets, you get money and items that can be sold for money. Before you start training skills, this is the way you make money. So the more you kill, the more money you will have.

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Sometimes you will see people with stacks of items, items they just want to get out of their inventory or items they do not realize the worth of and you can grab a great deal. Even if you can’t use it yourself, you can resell for profit. So keep your eyes on that trade channel. You can also use it to sell your items or services. For example, if you are an enchanter, this is where you can advertise it to other players.

The best thing you can do is get to your local AH and look around. The price to list items varies on how much you are listing for and how long the listing is for. You can also browse through everything and see all the different listings, different categories and different prices on things. This gives you an average idea on prices and what items are commonly found in the AH as well as those that are not commonly found.

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Travel

There are different ways to travel within the game. You are going to want to learn these ways and take advantage of them as they will be very important to your success in the game. Even from the very beginning at low levels, you need to know how to get back and forth from different places in World of Warcraft.

The regions are:

•    Northern Kalimdor
•    Southern Kalimdor
•    Lordaeron
•    Khaz Moden
•    Azeroth
•    Outland

Hearthstones

One of the first ways to move around in the world is through your hearthstone. Your hearthstone will automatically be set for your starting town. To reset the stone, you need to talk to an innkeeper in a town. Once you talk to the innkeeper, you can reset your stone to take you back to that location every time you hearth. When you click on the Innkeeper it will ask you “Make this inn your home” and you click on this to reset the stone. Most people will set their hearthstones for a major city or capital city like Orgrimmar. This makes it easy to get back to the auction house, bank, trainers and other locations you will need regularly in the game.

Mounts

You are going to hear quite a bit about mounts in the game of WoW. Mounts are available when you finally make it to lucky level 40. There are different mounts depending on your race and class. When you have honor, you can also get a discount on your mount. Below is a list of the mounts and their prices.

Riding is a skill, just like First Aid or Mining. Riding costs quite a bit to learn, so saving up to get trained in Riding at level 40, 60, and 70 will be one of  your main goals in WOW. It will cost 90 gold for Apprentice Riding, 600g for Journeyman Riding, and 1,000g for a flying mount in Outland.

Flying Mounts

In Outland at level 70 (the Burning Crusades area) and in Northrend (at level 77) you can purchase and ride flying mount.  There are a wide variety of flying mounts available. Many are only available for purchase when you have enough reputation with the correct faction.

Trainers

Your trainers are very important. Throughout the game, you are gong to find yourself looking for them quite often. But if you want to be really successful, you don’t want to waste any time. So learning where your trainers are or how you can quickly and accurately find out where your trainer is, will help you get through the game more efficiently.

Another thing to keep in mind if you are having trouble finding your next trainer is to read the message from the last trainer. For example, if you need Artisan, and you talk to the Expert trainer, they will tell you where to go to find the next trainer.

Dying and Resurrecting

You are likely going to become familiar with this image above. When you play, you will die. And when you die, you will come face to face with the Spirit Healer as a ghost. When this happens, you have a choice.

You can run back to your body and resurrect and you will come back with half health. The downside is when you rez in the middle of a mob or some other dangerous location. If you are in a group, they can protect you until you heal. Another downside is that sometimes it can take a very long time to run back to the location of your body and it’s pretty easy to get lost the first time this happens as well. Your body will show up on your mini-map to help you find it.

If you don’t feel you can run back to your body safely, you also have the option the let the Spirit healer bring you back to life. The only downside to doing this is that you will have “rez sickness” for a period of time afterwards. Items in your inventory will also be damaged and if you try to auction it later, you will have to repair it first.

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You will want to become familiar with your spellbook so you know what items are available for you to use. When you level, you can go to your trainer and if you receive new training, your skills will go into your spellbook. Be sure to update these on your hotkeys so you are using the best spells you have.

You want to be sure to go back to your class trainer regularly to get new spells. When you have them, you can check your updated spellbook and then update your hotkeys to be most efficient.

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How about a sneaky strategy?  Buy 5 different tuxedo patterns from the tailor in Ironforge for around 40 silver each, then turn around and sell them in the auction house for 2 gold or more. Or this: there are two thorium recipes off of the engineer supplier in the gnome area that can be resold in the Auction House. This works because sometimes people don’t know that vendors sell these recipes. Keep in mind they’re all limited sell so if a recipe isn’t there check back in 20 minutes.

The arcanite rod enchantment and some other high level recipes can be found in Moonvale. Sometimes they can be purchased for 1-2 gold, then turned around and sport a buyout price in the Auction House for 5-7 gold.

Do this right; keep all these balls juggling. You should have about 20 auctions going at a time. Be wily; don’t have 20 of the same item at auction. Move your inventory in and out, following or even anticipating Auction House trends. You can make scads of gold (20-30 gold a day is possible) from about 30 minutes work. You can do it at any level.

Create an Auction House agent. This is an alt character whose only function is to check the mail, put stuff up for auction, run to the bank if needed, and then put the profits back in the mail to your character of choice. This can save you tons of time at having to check into the big city when you could be out questing or grinding.

Keep your eyes open for recipes you can loot, or buy, and then resell to the lazy and the uniformed at the Auction House. Ashenvale is a good place to look. You can get the expert cooking book and the big bear steak recipes (the bear recipes cost 20 silver and you can get lucky and sell them for 1 gold a lot of times, and they are in unlimited supply). Look for a Wetlands vendor in the middle of the map. Even in Stormwind, in the old town district, upstairs in the pub, a guy sells about 20 different cooking recipes, many of the same ones you have to quest for.

If you’re going to invest your time in fishing, then keep your equipment upgraded and in good shape. At a skill level of one buy a Bauble to add to your pole to increase your fishing by 25. By using this Bauble you will find better stuff at a lower level and raise levels faster.

As you level up your fishing skill you’ll catch better stuff. Hunters need to feed their pets to keep them happy, some cooking recipes call for the fish you catch. Supply these needs, at a good profit to yourself.

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Vendors give the worst price. But if your bags are full and you want to get back to questing or grinding, then dumping stuff on the vendor will satisfy your needs. If the cost to repair an item is greater then selling price don’t bother just destroy it!