How to get money quicklyFollow

Sell Sell Sell

Try to sell EVERYTHING you can at the AH. Spend some extra time just running around gathering herbs to sell. Use only the herbs you need to lvl your alchemy. Selling pots at that lvl won't really get you too much $, but the herbs will get ya a bit more. Run SM a few times and sell the green BOE's, silk, etc. Fishing might get you a bit of income too.

Oh and don't spend much, or anything, at the AH.

Hmm, that's weird.

I have a tauren druid who is at 39, has herbalism/alchemist, and has 110g.

I agree that herbalism and alchemist doesn't make a lot of money at low levels. Most of the herbs i pick, I use for alchemy. The only way i found to make money is fishing. Alchemy fishes makes quite abit of money on the AH, but of course, don't use the fishes for yourself.

In addition, learn to play the AH. Buy low, sell high as usual.

That's the only 2 ways to make money that i can think of.

Good luck.

I think Enchanting is pretty good after you spend some money in it. After 150 in Enchanting i started buying cheap greens of AH for Disenchanting.
I made an average of 50 gold per day as a lvl 37 Rogue.

Hope this helps!!

It sounds like your server's economy is very different than mine. I have SEVERAL herbalists, just because I love the money I earn from them!

Where you seem to be having trouble making money, I would suggest dropping the alchemy (for right now anyway) and take up either skinning or (dis) enchanting. You should do some research at your auction house to see which would be more profitable for you. You can always take up alchemy again later and power level it. You can save some of your herbs for this purpose, and sell the rest to make a profit.

Also, as the others have said, do NOT spend money at the AH. My first toon was always broke because she was always shopping at the AH. There is just no need. Especially now with the improved leveling in 2.3. You should be getting through the levels so fast that spending money to upgrade is a complete waste, imho.

There you go. Buy only one thing off the AH to use - Swiftness Potion. Buy nothing else off the AH unless you are going to re-sell it for profit. You can do well gathering the mats for this in Duskwood.

Fish. Fish for oily blackmouth in the pools in Darkshore and while you do you will easily gather a stack of stranglekelp and pull some treats out of the pools. Easily. Two oily blackmouth make one blackmouth oil, two blackmouth oil and a stranglekelp make a water breathing potion (or elixir, not sure which it is but it doesn't matter). These sell reasonably well, but the mats may go for more so check.

If you neglected fishing, go to a major city and buy two lures, equip your fishing pole, and level your fishing to at least 50 in twenty minutes (the time it takes for both lures to run). Then go to Auberdine and get the fishing quest and follow-up from the gnome on the second floor of the Inn (if you are horde this is a no-go!), and the fishing quest and follow-up from the Dwarf on the beach near the FP. By the time you finish those quests you will have 100 fishing and can start fishing the pools along the beach in Darkshore.

Good Luck!

Edit: I forgot - the Dwarf (Gubber Blump?) gives a nice fishing pole with +3 fishing for a reward. And if there's too much competition for the pools, go late at night!

Edited, Nov 26th 2007 11:34am by cynyck

I am an herbalist/alchemist, and I make a reasonable amount of money on it. I'm currently level 30, though, so I'm not sure how it will go later on in the game. That said, I'm pretty confident that I will be able to pay for my mount at level 40. I made 15g just in one level (29-30). The trick is to learn exactly which potions sell and which don't, as well as how much they sell for: doesn't make sense to lose money because you can only sell it for less than you spent on it (if you spend any money). Also, as others have said, watch the auction house, and don't flood the market with 20 stacks of 5 Swiftness Potion for the lowest possible price. Only sell one stack at a time, and keep the rest in the bank, and only sell it when there aren't already a lot of that item. This takes patience and bank space.

Then, only make the potions you need (I'm a priest and therefore, make lots of mana potions for myself) and the ones that sell well (Swiftness Potion does well, as does Shadow Oil, at least on my server, and I've also had success with some others that I can't remember offhand). If there are any herbs that aren't used in those potions, sell those herbs in stacks of 20. I sell peacebloom, silverleaf, mageroyal, and bruiseweed. While I could use the bruiseweed in the Healing Potion (which does sell), I don't because it requires briarthorn, and briarthorn is better off in the Swiftness Potion (which sells better than the Healing Potion). As others have said, you'll have to check yourself to see what is actually selling well, and it might take a couple of false starts.

Also, as others have said, take up fishing:

1. Oily blackmouth, firefin snapper, and stonescale eels are all needed for certain alchemy recipes, and they might do well. If they don't, you can sell the fish to other alchemists. From what I've heard, they do pretty well.

2. Anytime you are fishing in a pool/school, you have a chance of getting stranglekelp or chests with green items, potions, cloth (usually bolts), or leather. I've made a lot of money from items I've fished out of chests. Stranglekelp is also used in a number of potions, such as the Mana potion, the water breathing potion, and the swim speed potion. It's a little difficult to get, since it only grows underwater. Having a chance to fish it up makes it a little easier.

Also take up cooking. Cooking and fishing go together, and you can get a decent amount of money for Smoked Sagefish. The recipe is bought from most cooking supplies vendors, but since it has a really good mana regeneration effect, it does pretty well. I don't sell anything else I cook, but I've done well with the sagefish. Plus, I've found it easier to find sagefish schools than blackmouth or snapper schools, since the latter are only found in salt water, while sagefish is in fresh water. The only exception I know of is the oil spills at the Venture Company. Then, later, you can fish greater sagefish and make sagefish delight. I haven't sold any of that yet, because I'm hoping to use it myself, but I'm certain that it would do at least as well as the smoked sagefish, and probably better. Again, all schools give a chance for a chest or stranglekelp.

Cloth:
I gave up on first aid, aside from the anti-venom (which I find useful), because I can make a lot of money on cloth, especially wool cloth. On my server, a stack of 20 wool cloth goes easily for 2g, and I'm probably underpricing it a bit for my server. I went up to 2g20, and it sells just as fast. So, I recommend saving any cloth you get and selling it.

Those are the tips I have. I don't really feel like I have a good financial sense, I've just read a lot of similar advice, and customized it for alchemy. I hope this was helpful