Where Can I Buy Gold For WoW? -- A Guide to Gold Sites

Finding a good place to get your gold can be frustrating for those of us without the time or inclination to grind for hours to get our own. For those of us for whom farming isn't really an option we can or want to indulge in, it is important to answer the question, "Where can I buy gold for WoW?"

This question can be hard to answer, as there are hundreds of sites dedicated to selling gold, but only a handful of them are really great. Figuring out which are the best sites is even harder, especially if you don't know what to look for. This guide will help you find the best sites by showing you the key aspects to look for, and give a few examples of great sites, and hopefully when we are done you'll know the answer to "Where can I buy gold for WoW?"

The first thing we need to look for in our quest is trustworthiness. Any online purchase requires that the site you buy from be trustworthy, and this is especially true when buying electronic goods like WoW gold. So how do you judge this? The safest thing to do is go with a big site. Sites like SwagVault, IGE, and WoWMine have served tens of thousands of customers without any problems, proving their safety. Another option is to go with a site advertised on a trustworthy gaming site; any site worth its name is going to be careful about who it allows to advertise on their site, so this is a safe bet.

Something you can't overlook is whether or not a site is careful about customer privacy. If a site uses the same characters they use to advertise in-game as they do for gold mules, you're going to run into GM problems quick, and lose your newly bought gold. Smart sites will use tricks and subtle methods to conceal transactions; SwagVault in particular is great at this.

The last thing you should consider is, of course, how much the site's gold costs. This actually doesn't vary much among the top tier sites; all the best sites will have near-identical pricing. IGE tends to be cheapest by a hair, though, if you want to save every single penny you can.

Hopefully this guide has given you the information you need to answer the question "Where can I buy gold for WoW?"

If you want to know how the top gold sites--including those mentioned in the article--compare to one another, I've written a comparison review of the most popular gold sellers that you can read by clicking here.