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title: 'How to Make your FIRST GOLD CAP in WoW'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=bMyeM3amKtU'
video_id: 'bMyeM3amKtU'
date: 2026-07-28
duration_sec: 1060
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# How to Make your FIRST GOLD CAP in WoW

> Source: [How to Make your FIRST GOLD CAP in WoW](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bMyeM3amKtU)

## Summary

This video provides a step-by-step guide for making gold in World of Warcraft: The War Within, starting from a low gold balance. The creator outlines a progression from farming to professions and advanced methods like cross-server trading and flipping to reach a gold cap of 10 million.

### Key Points

- **Struggling with gold** [0:00] — Many players struggle to make gold; the video aims to help players make their first gold cap.
- **Start with liquid gold** [0:30] — If below 500k gold, prioritize getting liquid gold through farming before professions.
- **Farming character** [0:44] — Create a farming character with dual gathering (mining/herbalism) or inscription/tailoring or skinning.
- **Farming rates** [1:52] — Farming can yield 20-30k gold per hour, which has increased recently due to patch speculation.
- **500k gold goal** [2:17] — Aim for 500k gold to have liquid capital for professions; leveling two professions costs about 100k.
- **Recommended professions** [3:53] — Inscription is future-proof with new crafts; enchanting is easy to set up with a fast catch-up system.
- **Enchanting for artisan's acuity** [5:23] — Enchanting provides artisan's acuity needed for profession tools, especially for inscription.
- **Inscription milling** [6:07] — Inscription can make gold through milling, making inks, and reagents.
- **Concentration crafts** [6:23] — Concentration allows higher skill crafts for better profits; both inscription and enchanting benefit.
- **Advanced method: cross-server selling** [7:50] — Sell non-region-wide items (gear, toys, mounts) across multiple servers for huge margins (300%+).
- **Scaling cross-server sales** [10:03] — Post items on 65+ servers; 1-5% of items sell daily; with 4000+ items, millions per week are possible.
- **Do not undercut** [12:01] — Avoid undercutting to preserve margins; set fixed prices and skip posting when prices are low.
- **Flipping items** [13:18] — Buy cheap items on one server and sell on another; recipes can have huge margins (e.g., bought for 2k, sold for 150k).
- **Undermine Exchange tool** [15:53] — Use undermine.exchange to check prices across servers for free.

### Conclusion

Reaching 10 million gold requires time and effort, but by combining farming, professions, and advanced methods like cross-server trading or flipping, players can significantly accelerate their gold-making. The key is to start with a solid liquid gold base and scale up gradually.

## Transcript

hello guys are you also struggling with
making gold in the war Within You are
not alone I get a lot of questions on
how to make gold right now what is the
best profession how should I make my
first gold I want to make a gold cap I
want to get rich in World of Warcraft I
want to have enough gold to be able to
buy my consumes Etc in the next patch so
in today's video I was thinking we will
talk a little bit on how I would go
about to make my first gold cap in the
war within starting right now so if I
were low on gold right now and started
fresh and maybe had below 500k gold I
would actually start by trying to get
some liquid gold before getting into any
other kind of gold making so the first
thing I would prioritize would
definitely be to get a farming character
so there are a couple of different ways
you can Farm in the war within right now
one of them is definitely dual gathering
with the mining and herbalism right now
I am actually building myself a dual
Gathering character and we will see how
it goes with that I have also a farming
character set up with inscription and
tailoring which can be really really
good if you want to farm cloth and Dark
Moon cards you can also Farm open World
stuff with inscription and tailoring
which is also very good and you can also
make a character with skinning which is
also pretty good in terms of how much
gold you can make right now with
Gathering professions and farming
professions has actually been increasing
a little bit we have seen prices go up
quite quite a lot lately with people
speculating on the new patch and
investing so prices has gone up right
now I can definitely say that most Farms
like dual Gathering or doing tailoring
an inscription farming in the open world
doing the dark flame Clift or even the
skinning Farm if you do that one in
group you are actually able to pull like
20 to 30k gold an hour which might not
seem a lot to you depending on how you
feel about it but it has definitely
increased the last like week or so when
prices has gone up and we might even see
prices go up a little bit more for a
while because people is really really
speculating about the next patch and
investing so prices has gone up already
so this is basically something that I
would do until I hit 500k gold if your
goal is to H 10 million gold AKA a gold
cap then I would definitely try to for
myself 500k gold so I have something to
use in my professions and in the next
stuff that we are going to talk about
now so unless you are big into farming
and want to farm yourself all the way up
to 10 million gold I would actually
suggest you to get started with two
different profession when you have hit
like around the 500k Mark why I say 500k
is good it is because that will put you
in a very good position in terms of
having Liquid Gold because leveling up
professions will cost you some gold I'm
not really sure what leveling up two
professions right now to Max skill and
getting your max equipment Etc would
cost but I would say I think you should
be able to get two profession up to 100
skill with a good setup with 100K gold
and that would leave you with 400k
liquid gold left and having 400k gold
and two maximized profession actually is
a quite good spot then you can actually
invest your gold into the profession and
get a solid return cuz if you have too
little gold it will be so much of a
hassle to actually increase that amount
cuz let's say you had 50k gold and you
craft for 50k then you need to sell all
of the stuff for 50k and right now in
the war within crafting professions if
you do it on your own server like we are
going to talk about right now maybe you
will end up with 10% margins maybe 15%
margins so investing 50k might give you
a 5k return or a little bit more so
that's why it's really important to have
a lot of gold because the more you can
invest the more you can make right so
actually in this point of the expansion
when I'm making this video I would
actually suggest you to get to
professions one of them being
inscription because I think that
inscription will be quite future proof I
think that we will see inscription being
quite good in the upcoming patch because
there are some new crafts coming it is
coming a new contract we will see a new
vtis Rune Etc so I think it's maybe the
most future proof profession right now
so if you're getting started with
professions and don't have professions
already I probably would go with
inscription and the second profession I
would go on That Tune would be
enchanting as well enchanting is really
really easy to set up you can catch up
on enchanting in like 2 hours fully set
up get best specialization because
enchanting is right now offering the
best catchup system where you can get
all of the catchup knowledge really
really fast if you don't know how to do
it you can check my Artisan security
video out on the channel but this
profession you can get set up so fast
and so easy it's also fairly cheap to
get on going with enchanting you will be
able to do stuff such as gleaming
shattering for some passive gold to get
some cheaper mats as well if you want to
go into crafting for example if you want
to craft en chants and stuff you can
turn gleaming shards into storm dust and
get better margins that way and why I
suggested to go enchanting is just
because it is so easy to set up and you
will have to do it on your character
either way because the enchant Shuffle
as we call it or the catchup will grant
you a lot of artisa security which you
will need to buy all of your tools for
both professions and actually in
inscription to make inscription
profitable you will need two different
tools you will need one resourcefulness
tool which you will use when you are
milling and you will use one multicraft
tool which you will use when you are
crafting so it is actually really
important to get the two tools in
inscription hence why enchanting can set
you up with a lot of AR of security to
get inscription ready so probably I
wouldn't actually get this full setup
for enchanting at the start I wouldn't
buy the tools and accessories I would
prioritize getting it for inscription
and then slowly working on enchanting if
you don't have enough archin and
security for that and with inscription
actually right now you can make quite
some nice gold as well with just Milling
making inks making reagents going
further and further so I think that is a
good decent setup and I think this is
definitely the two professions that I
would start making gold with and also
those professions is quite good if you
were into concentration crafts like you
get the concentration now in this
expansion which you can use to actually
increase your skill when crafting
certain crafts which will up your
crafting profits a lot on certain good
high-end crafts as you can see it goes
from red to Green just by using
concentration these regenerate over time
but you will be able to do some extra
crafts each week to make some extra
profits same in inscription both of them
is actually really decent in
concentration so I think this is a great
base setup for you to be able to use the
400k you have left after you have set up
your two professions so the road to 10
million gold is not going to be quick
getting 10 million gold right now in
this time of an expansion it is not that
easy as it is in the start of an
expansion if you have some gold to start
with but I am going to take you into two
of my favorite gold making methods now
which you can scale and you can make so
much more gold with those two methods
than your crafting professions but for
you as only having the 400k gold I think
you should dab into all three of this or
at least two of this so I think you
should keep going with your profession
then picking one of the other two
different methods that I'm going to talk
about right here they are going to be a
little bit more advanced they are going
to require a little bit more work to set
up but when they are going they are
actual money printers and this is how
I'm right now pretty much making 2
million gold a week for me it is really
really easy since I have it set up
already for this gold making method I
hope you will not be scared away now I
hope you will be open-minded and be
ready to try this out even though it
might look like something that is way
Advanced I would say it is not more
advanced than using regular profession
gold making right now this is easy you
just need to learn it and you just need
to try it out to see how good it is the
one thing that I am talking about right
here is actually selling non region wide
items on a lot of different servers so
as you guys probably know by now the
auction house is region wide on items
such as reagents materials everything
that is stackable in your bag pretty
much is region wide however gears toys
Mount all of this stuff is actually not
region wide and it is going to be server
specific so as you might understand
there are going to be different prices
on all the different servers so what I
do to make millions of gold every week
is I craft my items on dra or when I can
craft them at the cheapest possible
values and I I spread them out to so
many Realms over the whole region and
sell them for way more gold on every
region this is such a gold printer right
now the game has not adjusted to the war
bank yet I don't not know if it ever
will we will have to see I think there
is always going to be price differences
on all servers until every item gets
region wide and I don't even think it
that will happen this is one of the
things right now that you should take
advantage of and that you should be
doing to make a lot of gold so if you
were to take for example the 100 200k of
the 400k that we talked about earlier
and invested into crafting stuff on your
other characters if you have more
professions than the one we just talked
about if you only have those two
professions you can craft profession
gear in those two professions and spread
out on a lot of servers you will see
sales com in but you won't have that
many items I have all of the
professional setup so I can craft every
every item and I am able to to sell a
lot of stuff every day so I'm posting
once every day for 12 hours I log in the
next day collect all of my mails collect
the gold collect the expires and I just
repost I'm currently doing this on 65
servers you can do it on less you can do
it on up to 90 servers pretty much per
region the more you scale it the more
gold you're going to make you can make
it in your own way how hard you want to
go so I would say I'm not completely
sure on this yet because I haven't done
any stats but I would say that you are
selling between 1 to 5% of your items
every day I would say probably not 1%
that sounds very low but you are
probably selling somewhere of up to like
5% of your items every day so if you
guys can imagine if you have 10 items
you're not even statistically going to
sell one item every day right however I
have up to like I think 4 or 5,000 items
in total on all across the servers so I
will actually get a load of sale as you
can sales as you can imagine and will
make millions every week so this is how
you can like scale it up I know this can
sound a little bit hard I have very good
simple beginner videos on this on my
channel that you can watch I cannot like
include exactly how you can do it now
because that would be a video for itself
and I have made it already and that
would be too long but basically what I
do is I craft profession equipment on
dror my main realm I put them into the
war bank I withdraw them on other
servers and post them there for way more
I have margins of minimum 300% each set
in my groups so I will not go with small
margins I will only post items that has
a crazy margin so I will make a lot of
gold doing this way and it is so good
guys and I hope you guys want to try it
out I will be here to help you so if you
have any questions join my Discord ask
me in the comments do whatever I will
respond I will try to help you we are
already a few in the community who has
set this up now but I can tell you the
cake is not fully eaten there is a lot
of profit for you guys to take take
advantage of and we are all ready to
share of course just be sure guys do not
undercut when you start this if you do
that you are going to ruin the market
for yourself and you're going to burn
out because you are going to make so
much less gold and we will also of
course make less gold if undercuts
starts to come in too hard so I would
never undercut I would just go with a
set prices and not even post when they
are too low but I go more into detail in
that in the other video so I hope you're
not too scared trying out this method of
selling stuff across the server now I
talked very heavily on the professional
equipment of course because that is one
Niche that I am heavy into right now
however you can go into anything you can
craft mounts you can craft toys I craft
a lot of toys as well the engineering
toys from the current patch is selling
that crazy there are probably old
expansion toys that you can craft there
probably so much stuff that I don't even
know about that you can craft put on
multiple Realms and make so much gold
there is no limit to this like this is
so fun as well because you can find new
items and you see that they work and you
make so much gold on them you can buy
them for 100 gold sell them for 10,000
gold you can do whatever you want with
this method and this is crazy good so I
highly recommend you to try this out and
let me know if you want to try it and
you don't really understand how and I
can try to help you so the last thing I
want to talk to you guys about is a
little bit similar to the other one and
that is flipping so basically buying
stuff and selling it for more I wouldn't
be afraid of this one either because I
went in on this as a fresh as well on a
fresh account and I managed to make 2
million golds in just so quick I have a
challenge and I have videos on this as
well of course I really recommend you
guys to try this out and what I have
done then is now went hard into flipping
different stuff on na because I just
made a fresh account to try this out so
I buy stuff cheap and sell them for more
on other servers so it's basically the
same as crafting and selling on other
servers however here I am only like
buying because I don't have any Crafters
this can look a little bit scary as well
because you think of flipping as
something that maybe only Rich guys do
that you need to have a lot of gold to
do but I would say you absolutely do not
have to have a lot of gold to do this if
you start with 100K gold investing 100K
gold into purchasing stuff and moving
them to other servers and selling you
will have already there for 100k you
will have a bunch of items to sell on
different servers and if you have a
bunch of items you will start seeing
sales it's pretty much the same as
earlier 1 to 5% maybe of your items is
selling every day I would say that if
profession equipment is selling like 5%
probably this stuff that I am doing I'm
mostly doing recipes by the way guys the
war within recipes but I would say that
those maybe sell at like 3% but the
margin on recipes can be so huge I
bought stuff for 2K sold for 150k like
the recipes is so so insane guys and I
really really want you guys to
understand how good they are you you can
make so much gold with it so as you guys
can see here for example I have sold a
cloak for 71k a competitor's cloak this
one I bought for I bought them for an
average of 3.8k and you see I sold one
for 142k and one for 71k that is just
absolutely crazy as you guys can see and
this is not something that I am lucky
with like those High sales are lucky you
will see them very very rarely but
getting regular sales with flipping and
the recipes is actually not rare it's so
insane and it is so so good so I highly
recommend you guys to try this out as
well I have videos on this as well and I
can help you out if you want to get
started I can even give you some example
of items if you want to but I will not
talk about that here either because that
will also take too much time this video
is already long so buying stuff cheap
and selling and of course it is using
the like the war Bank moving stuff again
as usual I just want to quickly let you
guys know here that I use a Auction
House website to check for prices this
is completely free and you can just go
to the website and shck you have all the
na servers here you have all the EU
servers you have all the servers and if
you search for an item you are actually
able to see how much it's worth on all
of your servers on all of your region
this is the tool I use to find cheap
stuff let's for example I would like to
buy the gar Nall here I can press that
item I can scroll down to the bottom I
see a list here I sort by price and I
can see where the cheapest ones are
found so they are found on stag Helm
right now Raven Crest and you can see
the list of all the items here it is on
drari for as expensive as 3.4k so this
is the website you probably know about
it already but if you don't it's called
undermine exchange everything is
obviously Linked In the description of
this video so getting to 10 million gold
guys is not an easy path and it is not
something that you would do in 2 days
this is something that you will have to
invest some time into and you will have
to see it as a marathon not a Sprint I
highly suggest you guys to tap into all
of the stuff I talked about today maybe
not both flipping and like crafting for
multiple Realms maybe go with one of
them like crafting or flipping whatever
you feel like but that that is something
that I really really recommend if you
guys want any more information on that
just let me know as I said but those are
definitely ways that you would crush
your way to 10 million gold if you are
going hard on them I can tell you that
if you go hard on those methods you will
make 10 million gold faster than all of
your friends so I hope that this video
has given you some insight on how I
would go about to make my first 10
million gold please let me know what you
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I'll see you guys in the next video
goodbye