WoWconomics

Blacksmithing can be rather expensive to level, especially if you don’t have access to a miner.
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Alchemy is one of the cheaper crafting professions to level. But with the addition of Inscription, it has made it slightly more expensive to level.

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Herbs are used on a daily basis by most characters in one way or another. They are needed for consumables for every raid, and are now needed for glyphs and Darkmoon Faire cards through inscription. This makes the demand high for high level herbs, thus making it a good money maker.
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Engineering can be rather expensive to level, especially if you don’t have access to a miner.

Below is a general guide on how to level it. The results on how much you spend (or even gain) leveling will depend on your server prices. The trick is to pay attention more to the process on what I select than the actual item it’s self. If the item in the guide says to make it to say 135 but it’s still green and will make you a profit on your server to DE/sell, keep making them until gray, these are “free” levels when you look at the net cost to you. Read the rest of this entry »

Enchanting has a reputation of being one of the most expensive professions to level. But with the introduction of vellums in the game, you no longer have to lose mats from re-enchanting an item over and over again. However if you do not want to spend time selling lower level vellums (can sometimes take a while to sell) you can wait to use vellums until you get to level 300 enchants.

You can put enchants on a vellum to save to use on an alt or to sell on the AH. Because you can resell these items, I will concentrate on trying to give a variety of enchants to diversify the types of auctions you can list.
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Leatherworking can be rather expensive to level, especially if you don’t have access to a skinner.

Below is a general guide on how to level it. The results on how much you spend (or even gain) leveling will depend on your server prices. The trick is to pay attention more to the process on what I select than the actual item it’s self. If the item in the guide says to make it to say 135 but it’s still green and will make you a profit on your server to DE/sell, keep making them until gray, these are “free” levels when you look at the net cost to you.

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Mining can be pretty lucrative since it is used for 3 professions. However you need to reach a high level in order to make some decent gold off the profession.

Most guides give you the maps, zones and type of ore to look for while leveling. But what if you want to just level it as quick as possible or you have a Death Knight that you want a profession on? The quickest way is to smelt you way up. Read the rest of this entry »

Mining can be pretty lucrative since it is used for 3 crafting professions. However you need to reach a high level in order to make some decent gold off the profession.

Getting started

Leveling Mining can be done one of two ways. The traditional way is leveling the profession by going out and finding nodes (which will be discussed in this blog) and smelting (which will be discussed tomorrow)
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Jewelcrafting is one the least expensive professions to level when you consider the net cost to level. Since you can make gold off selling most gems in the last levels for more than it costs to cut, it’s a profession that actually reduces in “net cost” per level as you get higher.

Below is a general guide on how to level it. The results on how much you spend (or even gain) leveling will depend on your server prices. The trick is to pay attention more to the process on what I select than the actual item it’s self. Read the rest of this entry »

Tailoring can be rather expensive to level. Especially if you make 10 of an item and flood the market all at one time to drop them to make some gold back.

Below is a general guide on how to level it. The results on how much you spend (or even gain) leveling will depend on your server prices. The trick is to pay attention more to the process on what I select than the actual item it’s self. If the item in the guide says to make it to say 135 but its still green and will make you a profit to DE/sell, keep making them, these are “free” levels when you look at the net cost to you.

I also tend to lean towards DE’ing items than selling them. You will usually recoup more of your cost of leveling the profession to tip a friend to DE all your items than to list the items for sale. The reasoning behind this is Enchant mats have no listing fee. You can re list the item till it sells with no cost to you if it doesn’t and many craftables have a steep listing fee, which cuts into recouping your gold from leveling. Enchant mats also tend to sell quicker. Someone power leveling enchanting will buy about 4-5 stacks of a dust in 1 day, while someone leveling will most likely buy only one item.

General rules when leveling crafting professions:

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