Even smaller guilds can outrank the biggest guilds on the server, just make sure that you have at least 20 hardcore guild members who will consistently play a lot and contribute to your guild experience and help you with your guild power leveling. The time before an expansion is always the best time to recruit some new friends into the game. As we all know, friends are among the biggest assets you can have in WoW, both for maximizing your effectiveness in game and in maximizing the fun. Professions in Cataclysm are being made more useful than before. With right preparation, reforging will be an incredibly popular and money making ability that can get you rich.

Third up is using a profession. 'Creating' professions have very high profit potential; in particular, Jewelcrafting and Alchemy are very nice as both have very profitable daily cooldowns AND valuable regular recipes that everyone needs. Profession based earning is quick and easy, requiring much less actual play time for your gold than farming, but it can vary wildly from server to server and even from week to week. Still, this is most people's best way to get gold in WoW. The final method is the most complicated but is definitely the objective best way to get gold in WoW; nothing is capable of the sheer amount of gold it can achieve: Playing the Auction House. This can range from simple things like grabbing cheap items and reselling them at a profit, to complicated manipulation of the market to create monopolies.