Best Professions to Make Gold in The War Within

All professions can make gold in The War Within, but some are stronger for it than others, as displayed in the Tier list below:

1. Enchanting;
2. Alchemy;
3. Inscription;
4. Jewelcrafting.

Enchanting particularly, but also Alchemy, Inscription, and Jewelcrafting are the current top professions, as all of them have great Concentration build potential, where you use cheap Rank 2 materials to create valuable Rank 3 crafts periodically, ensuring a steady (but time-gated) profit.

With the currently depressed sell value of base materials and crafts, it is difficult to make a sizable profit from mass crafting Rank 3s with maxed materials. While cheap Rank 1 crafting relies on massive quantity crafting and AH price manipulation in order to be profitable, which makes it unreliable.

1. Mining;
2. Herbalism;
3. Skinning;
4. Fishing;
5. Blacksmithing.

While material prices have mostly crashed, the gathering professions are still good for casual gold making as they guarantee a profit in exchange for time investment, and are also the easiest professions to set up for beginners. Superb Beast Fang is the new daily rare skin drop for Skinning characters, and is decently profitable as it is used for epic weapon crafting.

Finally, Blacksmithing is the best gear-crafting profession, and can turn out good profits if you are willing to check / advertise in chat for work order crafts. It is not nearly as strong in a Concentration build setup unfortunately, due to the low value of Rank 3 material crafts, as is also the case with the other lowly rated crafting professions.

1. Tailoring;
2. Engineering;
3. Leatherworking;
4. Cooking.

Tailoring time-gated cloth cooldowns produce small but steady profit, but its Rank 3 crafts are extremely cheap making Concentration value weak. It can also craft a lot of cloth gear and cloaks which is a good upside, but being able to do any of these three types of crafts requires a massive knowledge point investment, which prevents you from being able to do multiple of them quickly on a new character.

Engineering and Leatherworking work similarly to Tailoring but Engineering produces niche gear only and Leatherworking Rank 3 crafts are the least valuable on the Auction House out of all Quality profession crafts. This makes them the lowest ranked professions, alongside with Cooking which simply has too much competition as there is no Quality at all involved with its crafts, making margins razor slim on most days.

Making gold with Crafting Orders is very dependent on your server, how many (and how generous) clients you can get for your wares, and on timing the public Crafting Order market. Theoretically, the best gold from orders should be found in the middle-to-late part of the week as many crafters will have exhausted their weekly public crafting order quota already, but the panic to use what is left of the quota before the weekly reset has not set in yet, either.

Doing orders just before popular raid hours could also be a great gold-making opportunity. Due to slackers who want to get their shiny new gear crafted quickly at any cost and thus increase their commission to ensure speed in completion and the same can be said about crafting after popular raid hours, as min-max-oriented players will want to get their crests used ASAP before doing Mythic+ and other activities.

With Concentration now being a thing, it is also likely an excellent idea for gear crafter characters to save it for high volume periods where your competition will run out of Concentration quickly and thus leave you able to extract higher margins from whoever is still trying to get their gear crafted!

When mass-producing and selling commodities, most of your profits will come from timing the market in two steps:

1. Figure out your server's raid days. Wednesday, Sunday, and Tuesday are the typical candidates. On these days, it will be easier to sell consumables for higher prices. To make sure, track the worth of your crafts over time in your server with The Undermine Exchange website, and sell during high price periods.
2. Before leaving the website, search for the materials used in the crafts. Take note of when they are cheapest and aim to buy during these periods.

Although it sounds simple, most players do not have the patience or knowledge to take advantage of timing the market, and doing so correctly is where your profit will come from in the long term. Buying materials to craft and selling the crafts randomly could actually lead to losing money if you buy high and sell low, so take a little bit of time to understand the market before you dive in!

While the default Auction House is much easier to use nowadays and benefits from not having the throttling imposed upon addons, these can still be essential tools to automate crafting operations, understand price trends, and just know what something is worth with just a glance at its tooltip.

While technically not an addon, Myu's Knowledge Points Tracker just requires the popular Weak Auras addon and will give you an easy to use interface tracking all of your missing one-time and weekly knowledge points, complete with directions if you click on one of the knowledge lines listed.

If you are a crafter, an important addon to install is CraftSim, which provides profit calculations for all auctionable items based on material price info from one of the previous add-ons. It can also simulate the effect of having more or different crafting stats, additional professional knowledge points, simulating your top profession gear for a given craft, and many more useful functionalities!

If you want to take a more relaxed approach and mostly want simple, automated posting, buying, and gold-making tooltips on your items, Auctionator is a great lightweight solution!

Our recommended addon for people looking for hardcore goldmaking is TradeSkillMaster, which allows you to fine-customize every single aspect of your professions, crafting and selling in the Auction House, but has the downside of requiring extensive configuration and customization by the user before its power is truly unlocked.

Altoholic allows you to easily track all of your characters, no matter what realm they are on. While addons such as TradeSkillMaster already provide the ability to track items and gold within a realm, Altoholic allows you to see at a glance what items, gold, and even crafts all of your characters have through a simple search window.

WeeklyKnowledge is an addon that allows you to track the status of various knowledge sources for all of your characters simultaneously, allowing alt-o-holics the ability to easily track which characters still need their weeklys done.

We would also like to recommend the No Mats; No Make addon. While its original purpose was to filter out Public Orders that did not provide all materials, it now helps you track your NPC (Patron) Work Orders at a glance, and even while not at the profession table, allowing you to more easily get the ones that matter completed.

CraftScan allows you to set keyword filters for the various game chats and automated replies. When properly setup, it can enable you to be the first respondent to crafting requests, allowing you to make a lot of gold from work orders!

If you are regularly scouring the trade chat for good deals and players searching for items, it might be helpful to set up Global Ignore List to ignore competitor crafter spam, whether directly or through their most commonly used advertisement keywords.

BuyEmAll is a simple addon that improves the UI for buying things off vendors, allowing you to easily buy more or less quantities than those offered by the Blizzard UI default.

The Profession Shopping List is an addon that will allow you to easily track the materials you need for a work order or just regular crafting, making trips to the Auction House easier on your memory. It will also show you how many knowledge points you have unlocked for each of your professions relative to the maximum amount.