Making Gold -Or Lack Thereof

Am i missing some secret?

I've always wondered this when i stare at my meagre amount of gold, stashed away in my continuously emptying purse (i have a female charracter) lol.

I'll admit it, i'm a bit of an AH whore, always buying things instead of grinding them.

I decided at the beginning that i'd try out something (fun) like engineering, and opted to take the complimentary (more compolsary) mining proffesion. And while i tohught this would be a great money maker (for a time mining was one of the best) -the prices of ore started to diminish.

Soooo i went for herbalism. The constant ofrking out of fel lotus at 60g and the lack of terocone i needed for my Flask of Relentless Assault (yes, i know, i need to work on my Shat'tar rep) was kind of taking the pee, and with hopes of reaching out for the fel lotus prices was too much temptation to miss out!

I have spent hours doing dailies, weeks in fact, and ive spent mind numbing hours flying in terrokkar in search of the over-priced terocones and fel lotus. Only to groan as the AH prices grant me a buyout price of about 20g a stack.

Yeah... The second i start doing herbalism, the prices drop. Seems like the gods of blizzard like to 'lmao' at me.

Now here's the thing. I've heard from quite a few people that playing the AH is the way forward. I've had people suggest i download Auctioneer (which i have/had) and i gave it a whirl. Well, it's a bit more complicated than i first thought, and i think you need a bit of cash to start off to make any real improvement. Sure, sitting in OG, reading trade spam and looking at the price of [Kibler's Bits] is much more pleasant than fighting some damned gnome warlock over a felweed, but i just cant seem to get the hang of it!

Well, i guess its back to the dailies for me! (i've neglected them for the last week and a half, and my charracters purse is starting to feel it.)


Any advice, finantually or otherwise, would be much appretiated!

Awryn