Best Professions to Make Gold in The War Within

All professions can make gold in The War Within, but some are stronger for it than others, as displayed in the Tier list below:

1. Alchemy;
2. Tailoring.

Alchemy and Tailoring are predicted to have tremendous value throughout the expansion, as both have valuable time-gated cooldowns and cloth can only be obtained by Tailors now, making it much more valuable!

1. Mining;
2. Herbalism;
3. Skinning;
4. Fishing.

The start of a new expansion also makes all gathered materials extremely valuable as there is no pre-existing supply on the market, making all gathering professions be great in the first half of Season 1.

Superb Beast Fang is the new daily rare skin drop for Skinning characters, and is likely to be extremely profitable as it is used for epic weapon crafting. Finally, Darkmoon Cards are used to craft powerful embellishments such as Darkmoon Sigil: Symbiosis and are mostly sourced through Fishing, making it quite good early on.

1. Blacksmithing;
2. Jewelcrafting;
3. Leatherworking;
4. Enchanting;
5. Cooking;
6. Inscription;
7. Engineering.

The crafting professions without time-gated cooldowns are still very good, as everything has massive gold-making potential early in an expansion , but will likely need to buy extremely expensive materials in order to get going, which might end up being a trap, especially for more casual gold makers that will not get chase their return on investment very hard before prices crash.

Making gold with Crafting Orders is very dependent on your server, how many (and how generous) clients you can get for your wares, and on timing the public Crafting Order market. Theoretically, the best gold from orders should be found in the middle-to-late part of the week as many crafters will have exhausted their weekly public crafting order quota already, but the panic to use what is left of the quota before the weekly reset has not set in yet, either.

Doing orders just before popular raid hours could also be a great gold-making opportunity, as slackers will want to get their shiny new gear crafted quickly at any cost and thus increase their commission to ensure speed in completion and the same can be said about crafting after popular raid hours, as min-max-oriented players will want to get their crests used ASAP before doing Mythic+ and other activities.

With Concentration now being a thing, it is also likely an excellent idea to save it for these high volume periods where your competition will run out of Concentration quickly and thus leave you able to extract higher margins from whoever is still trying to get their gear crafted!

When mass-producing and selling commodities, most of your profits will come from timing the market in two steps:

1. Figure out your server's raid days. Wednesday, Sunday, and Tuesday are the typical candidates. On these days, it will be easier to sell consumables for higher prices. To make sure, track the worth of your crafts over time in your server with The Undermine Exchange website, and sell during high price periods.
2. Before leaving the website, search for the materials used in the crafts. Take note of when they are cheapest and aim to buy during these periods.

Although it sounds simple, most players do not have the patience or knowledge to take advantage of timing the market, and doing so correctly is where your profit will come from in the long term. Buying materials to craft and selling the crafts randomly could actually lead to losing money if you buy high and sell low, so take a little bit of time to understand the market before you dive in!

While the default Auction House is much easier to use nowadays and benefits from not having the throttling imposed upon addons, these can still be essential tools to automate crafting operations, understand price trends, and just know what something is worth with just a glance at its tooltip.

Our recommended addon for people looking for hardcore goldmaking is TradeSkillMaster, which allows you to fine-customize every single aspect of your professions, crafting and selling in the Auction House, but has the downside of requiring extensive configuration and customization by the user before its power is truly unlocked.

If you want to take a more relaxed approach and mostly want simple, automated posting, buying, and gold-making tooltips on your items, Auctionator is a great lightweight solution!

If you are a crafter, an important addon to install is CraftSim, which provides profit calculations for all auctionable items based on material price info from one of the previous add-ons. It can also simulate the effect of having more or different crafting stats, additional professional knowledge points, simulating your top profession gear for a given craft, and many more useful functionalities!

We would also like to recommend the No Mats; No Make addon for easy filtering of work orders that might be worth filling in order to avoid the constant spam of gold loss orders with minimal or no materials for a small gold commission.