Gold

At this stage in Warlords of Draenor, it’s no secret that garrisons generate enormous amounts of gold for their players.

There’s no two ways about it: getting ahead in WoW costs serious coin, which can be tricky to gather, especially if you’re just getting started. We'll help you out, whether you're level 1 or level 100.

Since I’m taking Thursday to watch all the Marvel movies, I’ve switched Queues with Rossi this week — but if you have questions requiring Mr. Rossi’s expertise, you’ll find him here on Thursday and Friday. Now, let’s get on to the show.

My main is a jewelcrafter and an engineer, and neither of these professions were learned for anything other than giving myself a boost. I've had engineering since I created the character back in Burning Crusade, but I've flipped my secondary profession around a few different times to something I felt would be useful -- in Wrath I had leatherworking for a short period of time. I seem to have settled on jewelcrafting as a semi-permanent one for now though, mostly because I always need gems for something.

I admit, I'm not much good at making gold in World of Warcraft.

Blizzard hasn't released an exact date that the gold-for-gametime WoW Token will be arriving in game — it will be some time after tomorrow's roll-out of patch 6.1.2 — they have announced it will cost $20 USD.

I'm one of those WoW players who seems to be inevitably broke. No matter how much gold I come into — which is rarely much, even in this seemingly easy money in-game economy — I seem to be better at spending it than making it.

Patch 6.1 introduced a new trait for garrison followers -- the Treasure Hunter.

When I hit level 100 I had over 50k gold. I know, that's nothing, some of you are gold capped, but for me it was the best nest egg I've ever had going into an expansion. It's all gone now.

Much like systems we've seen in other MMOs — EVE Online has PLEX, WildStar has C.R.E.D.D. — the WoW Token is an in-game item that will allow players to exchange gametime for gold.