How to Save World of Warcraft Gold like a Pro
How to Save World of Warcraft Gold like a Pro
Why Save?
If you are a long time reader of the blog, or even a new twitch follower or chat to me on twitter, then you will know that
The single most important reason why you are not rich is because you are spending your gold.
Warcraft gives us so many ways to make gold: quests, garrisons, professions, farming, selling, even the WoW Token.
Yet the number one query I get is “I don’t have enough gold“.
You. Have. Spent. It. All.
How to Keep your Warcraft Gold
Piggy Bank
Make yourself a piggy bank character. Or designate an unused alt as your piggy bank character. Not your bank alt, because you’ll just spend it.
If you’re going Pro with this, and have a second account, mail your gold to a character on your second account. No more temptation to touch it.
Pick a set amount per day and mail it across. Without fail.
Pros, if you make 50k a day, mail 40k a day across.
Beginners, if you make 1,000g, then mail 500g across, keep 300g for reinvestment, and 200g for play money.
How much to Mail to your Piggy Bank?
Challenge yourself.
If your daily income is 100-200g then set aside 150g for savings. Make it so that it hurts just a little bit.
Make it so that you are stretched a little bit, challenged to make a few more gold, challenged by yourself to sell a few more items, to spend a few less gold.
Advanced Gold Saving with Trade Skill Master
I save my gold by sending to a piggy bank character (and once that piggy bank character is full up, by making a new piggy bank character) and using TSM to transfer the gold automatically.
1. Open your Mail Box.
2. Open TSM Mailing tab (bottom of mailbox window)
3. Choose Other from top tabs
4. Find Send Excess Gold to Banker
5. Type in your piggy bank character name BE CAREFUL
6. Set a limit in gold – the amount that you want to keep on this current character
7. Click Send Excess Gold To
990,000g
I keep 990,000g on my characters because this allows me to receive gold from my garrision missions, or to receive one iteration of the mailbox (50 sales) without going over the gold cap. if I get over approx 994k then I mail my extra on to the piggy bank.
I keep 990,000g on my character because I am expected to display a large amount of wealth on twitch/twitter/screencaps. You don’t need to do this! You can set the amount that you want to keep.
It’s worth noting that if you have 998,000g and you earn 4,000g from Blingtron’s Vault, then you will get 999,999g in your bags and the rest of the mail will disppear into the Nether ! omg. Be careful guys.
About the Author
The Gold Queen is written by Alyzande. With many level 100s, 9 years expertise in making gold, 11 garrisons, 17k+ achievements, 1593 days played, and over 32 million gold earned. The Gold Queen blog teaches you how to make gold playing World of Warcraft using ethical trading, auction house flipping, crafting, reselling snatch lists, and farming gold making.
