Level 30 right now, really low on money and in 10lvs till mounts....

[Jaws5]

only use what you find. only have collection professions . do not lvl profeeions until 60 or 70. Never buy auction house items. make sure you have lots of bag space to collect grays and cloth for sellling

[Yamio]

I agree Eteo! This is a new server for me and I wish I had a high level alt here to slide some dough to my crew, but knowing how easy it is to make cash I'd like to think that if I had a 5 man, my goal upon reaching level 40 would be to have no less than 450g in my pocket. If I worked AH hard I could probably turn 40g into 400g in 4 or 5 days.

To the OP who made this thread, just to be clear, the rules we all more or less follow is:

1) DON'T SPEND NUTTIN
2) DON'T ASK FOR NUTTIN
3) DON'T WANT NUTTIN
4) SELL EVERYTHING YOU RUN ACROSS
5) WAIT FOR QUEST REWARDS FOR UPGRADES

I took my shaman group on a 5 man to RFK and someone lawl'd that my guys at level 28 were still wearing cloaks with 5 defense. You know, the same grey POS cloaks that drop in the starting areas. I had to look myself and found he was right! I lawl'd with him.

And I kept wearing them until a quest reward in Tarren Mill.

[OzPhoenix]

A level 70 main is definitely the way to go. My Hunters dailies generally net between 300-400g depending on items and pretty much all of that finds its way to my Shaman team. They're level 16 and carrying about 1200g on them right now. They should easily have enough for their epic land mounts at 60 and their normal flyers at 70. It's the 5x5200g for the epics that will out-do my Hunters ability to farm for them.

[Molt]

For my five-box group I decided I was going to send them bags when they start, and then nothing else from any of my higher level characters. After all, I was doing this as an interesting challenge and also I keep boring guildmates in my support for the profitability of gathering professions.

I chose one profession per characters.. Mining, Skinning, Herbalism, Enchanting, and Alchemy. Cloth was used to level first aid, spares sold. All the ore and stone I mined was sold, as was all the skins. Herbs were used by the Alchemist to level, with potions and spare herbs sold. All Greens were DE'ed (I know some sell for more than the DE value but I'm lazy), as were all BoP blue, the mats used to level Enchanting and spares sold. Any BoE blues were sold for crazy amounts.

At 40 I bought my mounts, and my first guild tab to make storing cloth for any character a lot easier. At level 51 I now have about 900g between all the characters. I've bought a few Alchemy/Enchanting recipes from the AH when they've offered cheaper overall levelling, or were things I actually wanted to use on my party. I did end up rerunning a few lower-level instances for more wool for First Aid but that's all the farming I've done.

Now I've bored you with how I made money I'm going to tell you one of the best ways I've found of making money: Get yourself an Enchanter and try the Enchantrix mod out. It's part of the Auctioneer suite and what you do is scan the AH and buy out/bid for things which'll likely DE into mats worth more than the item costs, then you sell the mats. You may be limited at the moment by what you can disenchant at your level of skill but there's still good money to be made there- in face it seemed the lower-level things were a more regular source of profit than the high-ticket items.. even though if I sold a few large radiants in a day it did go a long way towards making it a good day.

There is randomness involved, some items will DE into relatively worthless mats, but in general you'll be making money. The face that mats don't cost anything to list on the AH also means you don't end up with massive charges if something doesn't sell for a while.

It's also very, very tedious though which is why I gave it up on my main character despite it being nicely profitable. I do recommend using your nifty multibox-friendly multi-monitor setup to let you watch bad TV/web cartoons whilst doing it too, sanity needs preserving somehow.

[Maz]

Stop buying shit in the AH, period

Absolutely.

Do. Not. Buy. Anything. Ever.

Best advice I can give is to mine or skin and sell those; Herbalism works too but it takes a bit more patience and annoyance gathering than mining does(though endgame it can pay off a little better due to constant potion/elixir/flask use by raiders); loot EVERYTHING you kill.

My (latest) main leveled on mining and tailoring. I leveled cooking and first aid too so the only thing I had to sell were my ores. The items I created from tailoring and the green drops I got were DEed by a bank alt at first but once they got too high level for him (he had 50 skill), they just got vended because I couldn't be arsed with the auction house.

By 40 I had 450g.

Note that this was a new server for me. I had no high level alts to help me.

It's amazing how easy it is to make money just by not spending it.