When you first start your warrior character in World of Warcraft, its key strength is grinding. In your first 20 levels, your main source of income will be the warrior’s ability to take hits. First aid is essential to the warrior’s solo progress at early levels. Work through your First aid skill as much as you can. Find a good place for Linen cloth to be dropped and grind until you are sick of it. Not only is the Linen cloth useful for your First Aid skill, but any that you don’t use will sell well, and give you a good starting income for your low level character. Try to team up with a healing class as much as you can. When questing at lower levels a warrior and any healer can work through quests very quickly earning you plenty of items and gold.
Once you pass level 20, your warrior will really come into its own. Tanking is the best way a warrior can earn money in World of Warcraft. A person who can tank in an instance well is the focal point of the group. A warrior that can tank well will always find a group that is going through any instance. Find instances that you enjoy going through and that you know you come out with decent money, become an expert at those instances. Tanking through instances with a group is the main way a warrior makes money in World of Warcraft.
At level 60 you are ready to travel to the Outland. Though there are plenty of instances that you can join and tank in the Outland, primals are where a warrior can make good money in the Outland. Primals are made by gathering motes of the different elements. You collect 10 motes and they form a primal of that element. When you are in the low 60’s in Hellfire Peninsula, Mote of Shadow is the best that you can gather and not worth much compared to the others. Work through the instances there, Ramparts and Blood Furnace are good sources of income for a warrior when they first arrive in the Outland. Once you are around level 62+ you can move onto grinding for motes. Earth, Air, Fire and Water are what you are looking for. They are worth relatively the same money in the Auction House the key is to find the one that you can get easily. Grind as much as you can for motes, as these will bring you some good gold on the AH. Research which creatures drop motes the most regularly and get as many as you can as often as you can. (There are several websites that will tell you the best percentage of motes dropped, http://www.wowhead.com is a good example.)
