You can spend tons of hours arduously mining a mineral deposit in the wetlands, watching your skill bar creep up at a tedious pace as you wonder if you ever make gold, or you can find another way to get your hands on the World of Warcraft gold you need.It is this obsession of striking maximum gold that makes the game time consuming, boring and monotonous. That is not the idea behind the game. It is meant to be a fun activity. World of Warcraft has a system in place that makes earning gold an annoying task that takes an enormous amount of time.

When you play the game, you want to spend time pursuing other tasks that are more important and fun to the game as a whole, such as raiding with your guild, or doing a five or ten man instance. If you have lots of gold, however, you can be a top player more easily because you can spend time doing the important stuff, instead of farming for gold constantly and worrying how you're going to pay for that +81 healing enchant!