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WoW Gold Secrets by Luke Brown

My review of Luke Brown’s Gold Secrets guide

WoW Gold Secrets is a comprehensive and detailed guide to making gold in World of Warcraft.  With 325 pages of content, 3 bonus guides, a profit chart, and free lifetime updates, the guide totally over-delivers.  The presentation is great, too.  The author clearly put some work into the WoW-themed design, making it feel like a perfect companion to the game.

The table of contents is huge, and covers pretty much every niche you could think of and some that you probably haven’t.  The writing is done in a first person style, and holds your hand all the way through.  The individual sections are really well written and informative, and the author makes it clear that some techniques may be more effective than others depending on your server.

I obviously can’t go over every method in the book, so I’ll just say this much.  As you probably guessed by my earlier post, I HATE farming gold.  I’d rather do pretty much anything else in game, but as someone who likes to keep my gear up to date and have the best gems and enchants available, I spend a LOT of it.

Usually when I logged in, I spent 2-3 hours on daily quests and grinding, and on some days I would spend another hour or two mining.  That’s almost a part time job, just to keep my characters in decent shape.  It got to the point where I was seriously thinking about just buying gold, risk of getting banned and all.

Trying this guide was my last ditch effort before risking a ban just so I could stop farming.  I read through the guide, found the techniques that I thought would take the least amount of time, and started using them.  And guess what?

I spent less time farming, and actually made MORE gold!

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I cut my dailies down to just the ones I needed for rep grinds.  I only mined while waiting for random heroic groups.

I’m going to be totally straight up with you guys here.  I am a pretty lazy guy.  I wanted to take the work out of making gold in WoW.  I work 40 – 50 hours a week at my day job, I don’t need to turn World of Warcraft into a second job.

I ended up using mostly auction house techniques to earn my gold.  Combine that with the auctioneer mod and the bonus guide to using it that comes along with the guide, and I had myself a cash cow that could be milked on short notice for 10 minutes of my time.  I used the Profit Chart that was included with Gold Secrets, and did less of the stuff that didn’t work and more of the stuff that did.

Now to be fair, I’m not making the author’s listed 497 gold per hour.  You might be able to get there depending on your server’s economy, but mine is trash.  I’m not doing too bad for myself though.

My current average is 426 gold per hour of play time, and yes, that includes the time that I’m PVPing and waiting for instance groups.  Pretty good, especially when you consider that I only really spend about 20 – 25 minutes a day playing the auction house.

The guide also claims to offer gold-making solutions for characters of all levels.  Last time I started a new character on a new server, I didn’t have the gold at 20 for my mount, so I decided to test this theory out.  I started a Night Elf priest on a new server,  and by the time I bought my Nightsaber at 20, I had almost 300g to spare.  Now, when I first leveled my Undead Rogue to 60, he barely had 100g when he dinged.  It’s pretty clear that the lowbie strategies work too.

If you have ever had issues with keeping your characters in decent gear for leveling, getting upgrades enchanted and gemmed, or earning the gold to get your epic flying mount, this guide WILL change how you play WoW.  If you’re anything like me, you’ll find that your play time just got a LOT more fun.

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Durotar is my favorite.  It’s huge, and you can go from one end to the other on an epic mount in about 10 minutes.  So what do you do during those 10 minutes?  I like to pull up my favorite WoW mining guide and follow the route for some quick and easy copper ore.  I usually end up with 4 or 5 stacks in 20-30 minutes.  I could probably do it faster, but to balance out my karma I like to occasionally stop and help a newbie polish off a quest or two.

Now I’m not sure about your server, but on mine, copper ore goes for about 20g a stack, sometimes more on weekends.  Anywhere between 80 – 150 gold for 30 mins work?  Sign me up.