Chapter 1 will tell you what to do while leveling, what you need to hold in your bags and what not. These tips and tricks are very simple, and gains only a moderate amount of cash, but they are needed inorder for you to succeed in your future endeavors.

Before lvl2:

Before you start leveling the character you want to level, make a Bank alt. Do it now! it will seriously lower the time needed to get everything to the auction house. (and will save a lot and lot of bagspace)
Once you have your bank alt, you may continue reading.

PART1
Into the Wild: General

So you are running around killing things and questing a bit… these are the things you need to do:
Greys: Especially grey weapons and mail/plate. Keep them in your bags as long as possible: Greys are free money, and good money too.
White’s: White items come in 3 categories.
- Food and drink (use: restore ….): if you don’t need those for yourself: TROW THEM AWAY!
- weapons and armor: sell to the vendor asap.
- Tradeskill items: leather, cloth, meat, fish, etc etc: Do not dare to vendor those! if you have white items and they aren’t weapons, armor or food/drink they are worth putting up on the Auction house and they can easily give you that starting gold you need.

Tip: Low level meat is a very very good seller, boar meat, string wolf meat etc, sell for as much as a gold a piece! and those are lvl5 drops!

Greens: Greens also come in 3 categories:
- General greens: (tradeskill items) put them on the AH.
- Gear/weapons lvl1-19 and 38-45(mail and plate only): Sell them on the AH
- Other gear/weapons: dissenchant them and put the mats on the AH.
Note: the lvl1-19 and 38-45 items are great sellers on the AH. 1-19 everyone wants to be decked in greens and wants that +1 stamina. 38-45: hunter/shamans go to mail and pala’s/warriors go to plate, and they want it asap so they go for 40-50G… seriously
Blues/Epics: Sell at AH, don’t wear them… seriously don’t… sell them, I still regret wearing the “bow of searing arrows” on my first ever hunter when it dropped from a hyena in Tanaris.

Tradeskills Everyone says: take two gathering skills while leveling: I say BS!
Getting 2 gathering skills takes waaay to much time. The best ones for leveling and getting a good buck are the following:
- Mining Jewelcrafting: want to sell some easy to make rings for 1G when you are lvl10? for 5G at lvl15 and about 50G when you are lvl20+? get Jewelcrafting, the prices are nuts on 75% of the servers
- Tailoring/enchanting: but don’t dissenchant everything you make. the first head fe. is the lowest lvl head piece in the game that has stats and sells really really well. make sure that you know what to disenchant and what to put up the AH for max profit.
-Skinning/Leatherworking: Takes virtually no time and the gear sells well. (I’m selling embossed leather gloves for 1Gold a piece… and sell it about 5 times a day. easy profit for no time)
-mining/blacksmithing: Takes a bit more time and can be a bitch to level, but it sell really really well… most of the time.

More info on particular items in a following post

PART 2
Leveling 1-10
Ofcourse everything that is stated above is true, with some additions:
1: Get more bags asap: everytime you destroy a grey item, or you can’t pick something up you lose some gold.
2: get your Tradeskill at lvl5… NOW!
3: Important do NOT wear any greens that aren’t Quest rewards before lvl10!!! do not do it! I know it looks nice, But +1stamina or +1strength isn’t going to make any difference.. so whow… you hit for 0.2 damage more.. or you have 10hp extra… gimme a break. Sell the damn thing for 1-5gold at the AH… yes there are people that want greens asap.. they are usually the ones that are poor. Getting that first Gold with one item is a huge step towards the mountains of gold later on in the game!

That’s it for today, almost 700 words so this is getting a wall of text.