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1. Will on October 3, 2009 4:15 pm

   You seem to have asked your question twice by accident. Just to make sure you see my answer, which I spent a couple of minutes typing out, I’m going to post it here too:
   1) Run around Azshara, the Hinterlands, Un’goro crater, the Plagelands, Winterspring, Swamp of Sorrows, etc, and gather all the herbs you come across. It’d probably work best if you do it during a non-peak playing time. You can most likely make more money by selling raw herbs on the auction house than by selling the potions you’d make from them.
   2) Go into the Scarlet Monastery with empty bags and start killing things.
   3) Look up where various essences drop on http://www.thottbot.com, and go farm for some of them. They’ve got a fairly low drop rate, but they’re worth a lot when they do drop. Just off the top of my head: the water elementials in Felwood drop “Essence of Water,” the fire elementals in Un’goro drop “Essence of Fire,” and “Essence of Air” is dropped by the folks in northwest Silithus. Again, there may be competition for these, so you’d do well to go there at a non-peak time.
   4) Know your prices on the auction house, and look for deals. For example, there was one time when a bind-on-equip part of the Mage set dropped for me. Being a mage, I could have equipped it, but I decided to put it on the auction house for 200g, just to see if I could get it to sell. Guess what? It did!
   Well, a couple of days later, I saw the same piece on the AH with a 120g buyout, and again with a 80g buyout the day after that. Knowing I had already sold one for 200g, I bought them both. The price had gone down from 200g by then, but I was able to sell one of those for ~170g. The last one took a while longer to sell, and in the end it only went for around what I’d bought it for, ~120g. I didn’t buy any more of them after that, because I realized the demand for them was dropping.
   5) Follow “professional” farmers around – the ones who [unethically] sell it on ebay. They already know all of the best places. Some of them include: the vultures in Deadwind Pass, the elves in Azshara, the elite Scarlet Crusaders in the Plaguelands, and the ghosts in Winterspring. (Going after the folks that drop certain desirable recipes, for example, “Enchant Weapon: Crusader,” can also be helpful, though the competition for them may be fierce. I have a rogue friend who got three or more of them and sold them for 300g each).
   I’m curious (answer by adding details to your question, if you’re so inclined), what class are you? What server type?

2. Mitchell G on October 3, 2009 5:02 pm

   well, you’re best bet would be to run instances and sell everthing you find. i’m guessing you’re probably around lvl 55 so you can probably solo the instances up to Scarlet Monastary and probably do the first couple wings there. selling all the cloth you find is a good money maker and then the green and blue items would fetch some nice silver too. and as a alchemist. selling potions of agility would probably get you some money too. since rogues and hunters use a lot of them.