Gold and professions at launch in WoW Forever

• Sell what you gather. At launch every crafter levels at once, and they all need herbs, ore, leather and cloth. Stacks of 10 and 20 are what crate fillers buy, so list in those sizes.
• Skin and loot everything. Light Leather goes into tents and camp chairs, Linen Cloth into bandages, bolts and crates.
• Keep the Waylaid Crates you don't fill. They can be traded and sold, and the camps reward whoever turns them in.
• Vendor grey junk, auction greens. Uncommon items you can't use sell for more to players than to vendors.
• Spend less. Most early gold leaks into flight paths, training and repairs. The Legacy perks below cut some of that.

Two new trade companies pay for crates of materials: the Azeroth Commerce Authority for the Alliance and Durotar Supply and Logistics for the Horde. You need no profession to take part. The Merchant's Favor page lists every crate, recipe and reward.

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   Step 1: Find a Waylaid Crate

   From level 10, Waylaid Crates drop from ordinary mobs, chests and dungeon mobs, and other players sell them. The word in the name gives the tier: Apprentice and Journeyman from 10, Expert from 20, Artisan from 35. Right-click to read its label: that turns it into a crate for one kind of goods.

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   Step 2: Fill it

   The crate lists several bundles, and any one fills it: for an Apprentice herb crate, 20 Peacebloom, 20 Silverleaf, or 10 of Earthroot, Mageroyal or Briarthorn. The whole amount must sit in one stack in your bags. Buy the materials if you don't gather them.

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   Step 3: Hand it in at the camp

   Alliance: Marcy Baker at Three Corners in Redridge Mountains. Horde: Dokimi outside the Crossroads in the Barrens. Your first crate also hands you a Shipping Label: its quest pays 50 more Favor and 2,000 reputation with the camp, once per character.

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   Step 4: Collect your pay

   Crate	Pays
   Apprentice, white	5 Favor and 2 silver 50 copper
   Apprentice, green	10 Favor and 5 silver
   Journeyman, white	10 Favor and 5 silver
   Journeyman, green	20 Favor and 10 silver

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   Step 5: Do the daily writs for reputation

   Crafters get reputation from Craftsman's Writs: once a day per tier, 75 for Journeyman, 125 for Expert and 200 for Artisan. Open a Sealed Craftsman's Writ, craft what it asks and deliver it. A writ you can't make can be rewritten with a Forger's Quill. Past Friendly, a Forged Delivery Receipt turns an empty crate into 50 reputation.

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   Step 6: Spend the Favor

   The camp quartermasters sell profession recipes for Favor, plus the Packmule Treat pet (1,500 Favor), a pack mount at level 60 with Journeyman riding (6,000), a toy from Honored and a tabard at Exalted.

A campfire holds up to three camp objects, one per player, and everyone sitting at it for a minute gets every buff for an hour. Each buff replaces a class buff (you can't have both), so they shine when your group lacks that class. Every profession makes its first object at skill 20. The camping page has all 35, with their materials.

• Enchanted LuteEnchanting 20
  308 Armor, 13 to all stats and 22 to all resistances. Stands in for Mark of the Wild.
• Fish BowlFishing 20
  8% more of every stat. Stands in for Blessing of Kings.

From skill 140 the objects become workstations: an Anvil, a Tanning Rack, a Spinning Wheel, a Repair Bot, a Fermenter and more. Blueprints for most of them are sold by the Happy Camper in Dun Morogh; the rest, and the skill-300 objects, drop from dungeon and raid bosses. Cooks can upgrade the fire itself: the Journeyman Campfire Kit holds five objects, the Expert Campfire Kit ten.

Every character spends up to 16 Legacy points. These are the perks that save or make gold; plan them in the Legacy planner.

The Legacy guide covers every perk, and the fastest 16 points shows how to get there.

• Gold goes straight from buyer to seller. If you buy a carry or a service, pay the person who provides it from your own character. Gold that passes through a middleman looks like bought gold, and accounts that receive it lose the gold or get suspended. Guilds that sell carries carry the same risk.
• Never buy gold. Accounts that bought gold or knowingly took it have been closed, and the penalties run from gold removal to a permanent ban.
• Economy holds. An account that looks like it is trading bought gold can be put on hold: no trading, mail, guild bank or Auction House until it clears. The hold lifts by itself if the trades turn out to be fine, and it leaves no mark on your account.
• Read the warning. The trade window warns you when gold comes from someone you don't know. Take that seriously.