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Every week, Gold Capped (from Basil "Euripides" Berntsen) aims to educate players about how to make money on the auction house. For the inside line on crafting for disenchanting, transmutation, cross-faction arbitrage and more, check in every Wednesday. Also, feel free to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with any comments, questions or hate mail!

I"ve taken a bit of comment flak for ragging on farmers before. Yes, I read the comments! In a mature economy where there"s lots of competition for farming and crafting, I still believe that crafting and using the auction house is the most profitable use of your time. Farming does not benefit from an economy of scale that you can use to make more money with crafting; no matter what, you can only farm a certain amount of product in a given time. However, you can AFK process many parts of the crafting process. Especially when I started writing this column, farming was something that would never make you as much money as investing in leveling a profession and learning how to use it (two-handed, dual-wielded) on the AH.

This, however, will not be the case when Cataclysm drops. The people making real money will be the ones out there happily gathering the new ores and herbs so that the poor crafter saps like me can pay a huge premium for a very small supply.

Continue reading Gold Capped: Cataclysm launch is the best time to farm

Gold Capped: Cataclysm launch is the best time to farm originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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