It seems that a lot of people have been transferring or looking to transfer servers lately. When I asked why on twitter and Facebook the majority of the responses tended to fall into a few main categories including looking for a fresh start or wanting to "change things up" to add life back into the game.

Another common reason seemed to be a desire to leave a server where the player was having difficulty with making gold (often attributed to either a very high or very low server/faction population).

While I've been happy on the same server for the last 8 years (and have no desire to transfer) the reasons above are very valid. When Selltacular suggested writing a guide for gold-makers looking to transfer and I thought it was a great idea.

The following advice is for players looking at a server transfer as a way to improve their gold-making situation. Read on past the jump for more.

In my continuing effort to understand and assess the feasibility of working in the cross-realm battle pet sales market I've been doing some data collection and analysis. I thought I'd share some of that research with all of you today.

As many of you may know there currently isn't any way to look up caged battle pet pricing on auction house data sites like The Undermine Journal and WoWuction. This leaves it up to each player to collect and analyze the data themselves. Head past the jump for some of the average prices I've seen for certain battle pets.

In this episode we not only go over our normal routine (83-84, etc.) but also start to set up a spy army of level 1 Starter Edition characters on our various servers. We did this in order to easily be able to track pricing and supply of battle pets in order to look for battle pet sales/arbitrage opportunities.

This livestream clocks in at just over 2 hours (split into three 40 min. segments) which feels like a really good length overall. Part 1 is above. Parts 2 and 3 are after the jump.

We've been working on the process of analyzing the possibility of buying pets on one server and selling them on another. In the process we've done a few things to prepare including creating a Starter Edition account and building level 1's on all the servers we are planning to try this on.

One of the things we realized was that we needed a quick way to be able to asses the battle pet markets on these servers as well as track the prices across servers to look for opportunities to buy and sell battle pets across server profitably.

While we won't go into all of the work we did to try to solve this problem we are going to share the Auctionator Shopping List that we built off of Kaexo's list that he provided in the post "Buy Battle Pets On One Server, Sell On Another". Head past the jump for the Auctionator-importable list.

Episode 026 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts Jim Younkin and Faid bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies.

In this week's episode your hosts Jim Younkin and Faid along with guest Keelhaul discuss transmogrification pricing, getting banned for giving away gold, how to make gold on a new realm and much more. And now on with the show!

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Episode 024 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts flux and Keelhaul bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies.

In this week's episode we discuss transmogrification, transmogrification and more transmogrification. And now on with the show!

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Episode 020 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts flux and Faid bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies from the last week.

In this week's episode we discuss how epic gems might come into the game, Blizzard's philosophy on exclusivity, PTR raw gem changes, setting a price ceiling on the glyph market and much more. And now, on with the show!

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Episode 014 of The Power Word Gold Podcast. Your hosts flux and Jokine along with guest Faid bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies from the last week.

In this week's episode we discuss how we've been making gold this week, what our experiences are so far making gold in Patch 4.2, Firelands raid BOE trash drops, how 4.2 has effected Jewelcrafting and Enchanting and much more. And now, on with the show!

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This is post is my entry into Cold's Gold Blogging Carnival for July, 2011: "Create Your Own Ideal Alt".

Blizzard recently changed the way their trial accounts work. Instead of being limited time accounts they are now eternally-free with not time limit. You never have to pay a cent. What Blizzard has now dubbed "World of Warcraft Starter Edition" includes the Vanilla and The Burning Crusade expansions.

While these free "Starter Editions" are eternally-free there are many restrictions on the account to prevent abuse. You can't use mail or chat in general chat. Can't be invited to a guild or trade with other players. You can reach a maximum level of 20 and you can't purchase or sell items on the auction house.

One thing these accounts can do is search the auction house. Follow me after the jump when I'll teach you how to use these completely free accounts to build your own auction house spies.

Episode 013 of The Power Word Gold Podcast. Your hosts flux and Jokine along with guest Nev bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies from the last week.

In this week's episode we discuss how we've been making gold this week, what we might expect from Patch 4.2, how to get started selling cross-faction, how to best use a new Jewelcrafter and much more. And now, on with the show!

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Episode 011 of The Power Word Gold Podcast. Your hosts flux and Faid bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies from the last week.

In this week's episode we discuss how we've been making gold this week, advice for jump starting your gold-making, how we're preparing for Patch 4.2, selling Cataclysm greens and much more. And now, on with the show!

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In this weeks Fireside Chat I go over recent podcasts I've done including the latest Addicted to Azeroth (See "A2A:E05 - I Just Grabbed A Chunk Of Velveeta And Ate It Like An Apple.") as well as the Power Word: Gold Podcast which goes live this Tuesday.

I also discuss few ways I've been making gold this week as well as the new World Of Warcraft Gold Making Glossary.

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Episode 008 of The Power Word Gold Podcast. Your hosts flux and Jokine bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies from the last week.

In this week's episode we discuss how we've been making gold this week, flipping epic Cataclysm items for profit, how best to transfer large sums of gold across factions, farming rare Cataclysm spawns as well as have an interview with the gold blogger Faid and much more. And now, on with the show!

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Episode 007 of The Power Word Gold Podcast. Your hosts flux and Jokine bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies from the last week.

In this week's episode we discuss how they've been making gold this week, the launch of World of Warcraft Patch 4.1's effect on the economy, how to deal with auction house competition and much more. And now, on with the show!

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In the wake of Patch 4.1: "Rise of the Zandalari" there have been some major shake-ups in the World of Warcraft economy.

Some were predicted and some have been unexpected. Today we are going to be discussing the absolute free-fall that has happened to the prices of Maelstrom Crystals and how we may be able to take advantage of it as gold-makers.

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We're proud to bring you The Power Word Gold Podcast - Episode 004. Your hosts flux and Jokine bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies from this last week.

In this week's episode we discuss the recent changes data-mined from the upcoming 4.1 patch (vendor prices for Cataclysm uncommon gems will be dropped dropping from 9 gold to 75 silver).

We go over what we have been doing in gold-making this week, how to make gold with limited time and much more. And now, on with the show!

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Welcome to Episode 003 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. This week we welcome our first-ever guest "Jokine" a gold-maker and PW:G reader from Finland.

We discuss cross-faction trading, farming Vanilla raids, epic Cataclysm gems and more. And now, on with the show!

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Who do that Voodoo like you do!

This is my entry into Cold's Gold Blogging Carnival on the topic "What are your favorite items to transfer to the other faction for sales?".

This is also my entry into Just My Two Copper's Blogging Carnival on the topic "How would you make gold if you had low capital?".

Yes you read that right. Two blogging carnivals with one stone and all that. Let's get down to business.