When you start playing WoW chances are you have no idea how the rich players are so rich and no one to show you how to get as rich as them. In this guide I’m going to reveal some secrets to help you achieve much more than you currently are.

When you begin playing World of Warcraft you are going to start in a “newbie” zone. In this zone there will be not crafting trainers. Its ok, you can’t train in mining until level 5 any way. So hunker down and knock the first 5 or 6 levels out and earn some money so you can afford the training and the tools that you will need.

Once you’re at a point where you’re ready to leave the newbie area, you’re ready to start mining. Ask one of the guards where a mining trainer is and head over to him. Purchase the mining skill and then go into a nearby blacksmith to buy a pick. The pick is the only tool miners require.

You may initially think that Mining would work well with Engineering, Blacksmithing, or Jewelcrafting because these professions depend on mining as a gathering skill. Don’t choose these though, pick Skinning and go and purchase your skinning knife. Skinning is preferable to Herbalism because with the Herbalism profession you’ll need to track the herbs. You can only track one at a time though which is why Skinning has an advantage (gives you an additional income source).

Ok, time to head out and start using your new mining profession. Because you’re still a low level newbie you will start in copper fields. Head to one of the small yellow dots on your mini-map (this is a mineral deposit). As you start mining you should expect to fail from time to time, this is fine and will happen less and less as your experience increases. To get your first increase in experience, take 2 stacks of copper and smelt them in the forge.

Now that you are starting to get some metal bars you can take them to the auction house and sell them. Check to see what others are charging for the same item and then either meet their price or undercut it by a few percent and you will be making gold in no time.

The mining process is the same regardless of which zone you’re in or what level you’re at. The only thing that changes is the quality of the metals you’ll be mining. Just repeat the process of smelting your metals and then selling them in the AH. Sometimes you’ll find you get lucky and you’ll find a gem when mining. Sell these the same way through the AH.

If you followed my advice you will be skinning your way to riches as well. One stream of income is nice but more is much better. Use this simple World of Warcraft Mining Guide and you will be in gold for your entire career.

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