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Making Warcraft gold while playing can be a tricky business. Balancing the need to play the game, with the need to make gold is the hard bit.

Trading at the auction house is a good way to work. After all, your primary resource at the auction house is your skill, not your time.

There is a new Gold making system on the market that uses cross faction trading as the primary way of making gold. This is a system where you buy from Horde to sell at Alliance or vice versa. The differences in price at the different faction\’s auction houses can make this profitable if it is done correctly.

Great idea. However there are one or two major drawbacks in using this as you main gold making method.

Firstly you cannot buy from yourself at an Auction house using a single Warcraft account. You cannot, for example, post an item with a Horde character at a neutral auction house, switch to an Alliance character and pick the item up to market it at the Alliance auction house. The system won\’t let you.

You need a second account or a friend to assist you. A second account means actually paying Blizzard for two Warcraft accounts. Having a friend help you means splitting the profits, normally halving them. Not so profitable now is it?

That\’s not the end of the problems though. Just buying massive amounts of cheap stock is not going to work straight away. You risk flooding the market, you need a large (and by large I mean several hundred spaces) areas of storage. Your own storage that no-one can steal from, then drip feed to market. Also, this is a common method used by far eastern gold farmers (who have many accounts). You need to be quick. Remember it costs gold to put items on at auction. Flooding the market will end up losing you gold very quickly.

I\’m not saying there isn\’t a place for cross faction trading, of course there is. But you need to be aware of the potential drawbacks. Imagine buying a gold system, sitting down, and chapter one page one basically tells you to go and buy another Warcraft account and 30 days game time, that\’s a shock you don\’t want.

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