Since Wrath Of The Lich King expansion came out, cooking recipes have become a popular pipeline for gold making on World of Warcraft.

Although cooking recipes have always been a good gold maker with cross-faction trading, they are even more profitable now because a lot of players want to get the recipes for achievements. And since some of the recipes are hard to find, players tend to buy the recipes from the auction house instead of going looking for them.

To make the most gold out of your cooking recipes, you need to set up what Jonathan Kenins calls a “pipeline” for gold-making, which he talks about a lot in his top-rated video gold guide - The Massive Gold Blueprint.

Setting up a profitable pipeline is quite easy. The best way to go about it, is to buy the recipes you want from the NPCs. If you’re playing on the alliance side, buy your recipes from there, and turn right around and sell it in the horde auction house to make a huge amount of gold profit. Vice versa if you’re playing on the horde side.

Start with recipes that are faction exclusive. Faction exclusive recipes meaning you can only buy them from either the horde or the alliance, not from both sides.

Some good choices of recipes you can start with are Gooey Spider Cake, Blood Sausage, Beer Basted Boar Ribs, Westfall Stew, Redridge Goulash, Goretusk Liver Pie, Murloc Fin Soup, Seasoned Wolf Kabob, and Crocolisk Gumbo. These are all from the Alliance side.

As for the Horde side, look for horde exclusive recipes like Bat Bites, Crispy Bat Wing, Heavy Crocolisk Stew, Lynx Steak, Roasted Kodo Meat, Scorpid Surprise, Hot Lion Chops, Strider Stew, and Crispy Lizard Tail from the Horde side.

These recipes can be bought from the vendor at a really cheap price. The Crispy Bat Wing recipe for example can be bought at 25c and you can then trade it cross-faction and sell it on the alliance side for up to 50g each.

Just a couple more examples are Blood Sausage, Heavy Crocolisk Steak and Succulent Pork Ribs which you can buy from vendors at a couple of silvers each, and then turn right around and sell them for 20g or more.

The way to earn a lot of gold with these recipes is by doing cross-faction trading.

This method of cross-faction trading is something you will normally see in the Massive Gold Blueprint system. All you have to do is buy from one side, the horde side for example, and sell it on the alliance side. In order to do this, you will need to get two accounts, or a trading partner, because the auction house won’t let players trade between characters on the same account.

Start cross-faction trading by checking both the horde side and alliance side auction houses. Check if the items you want to sell are in the AH already, if they’re not, then all the better for you. You can set up your own pipeline and make a lot of gold because you know you won’t have any competition!

If they are up for sale in the auction house, check the prices and see if buying and selling is going to be worth your while. If you can make a large profit, of 20 gold or more per recipe, then go on a shopping trip with a bunch of empty bags to buy as much of each item as you can.

Create your auctions, and you’re set! You’re on your way to make huge amounts of gold!

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