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Can I have 5 gold please? I need it to train my new level of skills. Woah, did you just put two hundred and twelve thousand gold into an open trade window?! Wait, where are you going? Wait!! Get back here! I"m not letting you get out of trade range! Oh my god, all this scrub has to do is click "trade" and I"ll be able to buy every single mount in the game!! I am not letting him out of range. I wonder why he"s wearing a monocle? Hey, he"s jumping down to the docks! I"d better keep up with him. Hmm, he"s taking an Elixir of Water Breathing? Strange. This guy must be a gold farmer or something. "/g ZOMG I"m gonna be rich guys!" Oh, you want to go for a swim? I don"t care where you go, I"m not closing this window or letting you get out of range. You can"t get away from me by swimming under a boat. Or into a cave. Or into that ... what the H-E-double hockey-sticks? "You are dead"? How? This guy is in the same faction as me! Oh.

Professions are expensive! Getting a crafting skill to 450 involves geting all kinds of finnicky odd-ball mats from content that nobody ever runs these days, which typically means paying a whole lot for them. On top of it, all the stuff you make is pretty much valueless, and often fetches more at the vendor than it will in the auction house. What can you do to help turn these lemons into lemonade?

First off, it helps if you"re popular, smart, and patient. Popular people have friends who have tradeskills that might be able to help stem the losses, smart people have addons that can provide them with valuable information, and patient people are not at the mercy of low supply.

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Insider Trader: Powerleveling professions on the cheap originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 10 May 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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