In World of Warcraft, one of the biggest problems for low-level player is the ability to finance the acquisition of new skills and also to build up a profession to a point where it can adequately help you advance rather than just being a secondary source of income in the game.

At the very beginning of your characters development, there's not much you can do in order to gain a steady amount of income, however once that character has reached level 20 or so, earning wow gold will be much easier. This is because of the often used practice of gold farming. Generally, gold farming is left for the higher level players who have nothing else to accomplish within the game itself besides acquiring equipment and doing raids or PvP. This doesn't necessarily have to be the case, as there are many places to gold farm for the low-level character that has the skinning ability.

For most alliance characters, once you reach the early to mid 20's you are able to go into places where there is an abundance of wildlife. Additionally, at that level, the wolves and other mobs will begin dropping medium leather. Well it doesn't do too much for leatherworking at this point; a stack of 20 medium leather will sell for at least five wow gold on any server. The best part about that is for the most part you will be able to get this leather while you're leveling in a place like Darkshire. If you go to Darkshire you will be able to complete most of the quests there and make between 20 and 200 leather during that time. If you spend a lot of time in Darkshire as I have done, you can make upwards of 500 leather and under a few days of mild playing.