And with the current 100% experience buff, it’s never been easier to get alts to max level. Thankfully, there are still many ways to make gold with an alt army.

Making gold through war tables required a lot of alts, which means I started Battle for Azeroth with an entire army - and nothing for them to do. BillisOnyxia has also created a profile for Classic for those struggling to make gold there. The genius thing about it is it’s set up in a way where you cannot post for lower than you paid - so it’s nearly impossible to sell your items at a loss.

It’s the profile I used and relied on while I was flipping. If you are interested in trying out this method, I can only recommend getting BillisOnyxia’s TradeSkillsMaster profile. Over time, your pile of gold does get bigger, but not nearly as quickly as it will if you do something more proactive. Lots of money comes in, but lots goes out as well. So there are drought periods where the only people really using the auction house are gold-makers desperately trying to resell all the same stuff to each other. The second problem is this method works best when there are a lot of players - at the beginning of an expansion, for example. This doesn’t mean undercutting doesn’t happen at all, but it does make it harder to find deals. It’s been designed specifically to try to help stabilize prices, with methods discouraging undercutting. The first and most obvious one is that the entire in-game auction house system has changed. I used to make a lot of gold this way - but I haven’t used this method for at least a year.

Once you had an idea of which materials were best to invest in, which times were best to buy, and which were best to sell, you could make a tidy, regular profit. The profit on any individual sale is likely to be low, but because some materials are always in high demand, you’re almost guaranteed tons of sales. I first read about flipping materials on The Lazy Goldmaker. Material flipping benefits and (large) drawbacks That makes finding new methods to get more gold even more important. Blizzard has kept Battle for Azeroth gold mission rewards so low that they’re not even worth doing, and prices have stabilized again. So when Battle for Azeroth launched, I quite cheerfully waited for mission tables to become the goldmine everyone had gotten used to. When I came into Battle for Azeroth, I had just gotten used to making a lot of gold very easily through the Legion mission tables. In fact, I made the first three million very slowly, but steadily, flipping materials. Of all my gold-making methods, the spare part farm has been the fastest, but it’s not the only method I used. Recently, I managed one of the hardest challenges in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth: I made the five million gold required to buy the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur mount.

The lazy goldmaker