Here is an exciting topic which will drive a lot of you WoW players crazy. Since I started playing WoW and during my continuous play, I found out that having gold (which is the currency used in the game) will pretty much do a lot of stuff for you in short amounts of time. Things like: Getting that epic flying training, special epic mounts, rare receipts, epic items being sold, your daily consumables,…etc will be much easier to attain by having enough gold flow. Below I will list the professions and techniques I used to get steady streams of gold and the amount of time needed to spend to achieve that.
Alchemy: Ah my golden profession that allowed me to make thousands of gold when I leveled it to maximum level, which isn’t both hard or gold consuming. For me I went ahead and chose Elixir Mastery because it gives you a chance to produce up to 5xflasks/elixirs with materials of a single flask/elixir and that flasks/elixir sell really well due to all the raiding. One general method you want to use is simply check the mats for most of the important elixirs and flask and compare to how much they sell. Generally I expect that you will break even or sometimes the flasks/elixirs sell less than the mats. In any case, what I did was simply buy the mats for the flasks, mainly Flask of Supreme Power and Flask of Pure Death. I sometimes make Flask of Blinding Light and Flask of Mighty Restoration but these don’t sell as much as the first two. The kicker is that these flasks sell between 30g (for the Flask of Supreme Power) and 50g (mainly for the rest of the flasks). Now imagine you got 2xflask using single flask materials, that’s free 30-50g. Now imagine getting 5x if you were lucky enough, then that’s 120-200g without breaking a sweat. On the negative side you might not get a single proc (proc is a term used that means that the roll for an effect to happen has happened, in this case getting multiple flasks/elixirs), which case by then it depends on the materials versus the product costs. Though even in the worst case scenario, you will only lose a small fraction of gold if you never proc’ed. For me, this was my main way of making gold and it only takes me 15 minutes to do. After I discovered this method, I never bothered making gold any other way. For your information, this method allowed me to get my alts epic flying training within 2 weeks!
Herbalism: Herbalism is a powerful way to make money if you have the time to spend in gathering herbs. Though you can be most efficient if you use an add on called “Cartographer” with the routes plug-in. If you manage through the configuration, it will calculate the best route to herb certain herbs that you select in each zone which as you can see, can save a lot of time. Personally, I didn’t rely on this much and just went herbing when I was bored or waiting for a group to be full for an instance. If you want to follow this path you might want to considering farming the following: Nightmare Vines at Shadowmoon Valley and Mountain Silversage and Dreamfoil in Hellfire. Reasons is that they are close to Shattrath, go into important potions mainly “Flask of Supreme Power” and “Flask of Pure Death” and you can get Nightmare Seeds and Fel Lotus on the Nightmare Vines.
Enchanting: Unless you have the will to spend a lot to level this to maximum level and then go farm the best Formulas, chances are you won’t make a lot of gold but it helps to do a few enchants while you are at a city. It is also a good idea to have a macro ready that when you click will show what you can do on the trade channel as long as you don’t spam. Though enchanting is mainly prefered to be used as a personal mean of a profession rather than a income one.
Tailoring: Only one sure way to make money with tailoring and it is making Netherweave bag. These babies sell like hot cakes, I literally mean “sell like hot cakes”. Generally the mats cost about 4-5g and you can sell the bag for about 6-8g. Now think about making 50 or so each day or whenever you are sold out and you can make about 100g minimum per 50 bags. It takes about 30 minutes or so to make almost that amount of bags and you don’t need to go farm or anything so it it so easy to do. I managed to raise gold from 10g to 2200g in about 1-2 weeks purely on selling these bags. Why you ask they sell that fast? Beats me to be honest, I guess lots of people make alts and they want to equip them with 16-slot bags.
Cooking: If you manage to level your cooking, then one of the most wanted food items sought by casters is Blackened Basilisk which only requires 1xChunk-O-Basilisk and some cooking fire to make. The materials are really easy to get or even buy in the AH then make a stack of them and sell them to AH or other players. Most raiders will have to have this for their caster players so it will definitely sell out. Again not the best way I made gold but a nice addition. Plus if you are a caster yourself then you can save yourself buying the food.
Dailies: Probably the worst way to make gold simply because it takes a lot of time and effort to do the dailies. Since the number of daily quests you can do has been increased to 25, then if you manage to do that much quests (which I approximate, can take about 2-4 hours, assuming you have access to atleast that much number of quests), the amount of gold you can make can reach to about 400g per day. Counting all the stuff you loot (grey, white, greens and possible blues). If you have the time to invest in such a method then by all means do it. It is still a worthy amount of gold you are getting.
I recommend getting the addon “auctioneer” since it can automate putting up your auctions faster rather than doing them one by one. You can get it at wow.curse.com. You can get “Cartographer” at the same website in addition to many up to date addons.
Oh and a small final hint, maybe you want to look at the mats and selling price for the Gyro-balanced Khorium Destroyer 
