Today I would like to provide 50 different elements that you can use to make gold in cataclysm. You’ll notice that many of these items are from previous expansions and you’re right! Most of the items I sell these days in World of Warcraft are for people who are leveling cataclysm professions, even more than gems or glyphs up to level 85.
WoW Golden Guide Articles
1. Folded Obsidium
2. Netherweave Bag
3. Strange dust
4. Illusion Powder
5. Greater Cosmic Essence
6. Chain of Pyrium Weapons
7. Big Wise Fish
8. Tailoring Epics -> Maelstrom Crystals
9. Obsidium Mix
10. Impromptu record
11. Mysterious Fortune Cards
12. Golden Draenite
13. copper bar
14. Truesilver Ingot
15. Silver Mountain Sage
16. crowbar
17. Faded Leaf
18. Metagems
19. Transmute Truegold x2 Alchemists
20. Hellish Ink
21. Resil + Stamina Gems (Rare and Uncommon)
22. Stamina to Bracers (from wotlk)
23. Spider silk
24. Thick spider silk
25. Boar meat
26. Stringy Wolf Meat
27. Saronite Bar
28. Frostweave Cloth
29. Tier 15 Tank Shield
30. Level 15 +Healing Wand
31. +Intellect to Weapon (Vanilla)
32. woolen cloth
33. Mageweave Cloth
34. Silk fabric
35. Runecloth
36. Bolt of Embersilk Cloth
37. Mithril Bar
38. Titanium Rod
39. Mote of air
40. Speck of Fire
41. Crystallized Fire
42. Crystallized Earth
43. Crystallized Water
44. Essence of Fire
45. Small Radiant Shard
46. Great Brilliant Shard
47. Guild Signature
48. Guild Bank
49. Khorium Bar
50. Treasure Hunt Potion
This list could have easily turned into 500 gold making items in my WoW Gold Guide, but I think 50 is fine for now. I wouldn’t want to give you information overload! Perhaps the best thing to do is take the ideas I’ve given you and research how to craft/farm/sell them, as well as research more markets you have access to for your characters.