subject: What is the gold cap? [print this page] What is the gold cap? What is the gold cap?
Gold cap is now 999,999 gold, 99 silver and 99 copper. So that's one copper shy of the million mark. Guild banks also have the same cap as well in cataclysm. Before cataclysm the gold cap was much smaller, sitting at around 217k gold, but due to inflation and changes to the amount of gold guild are acquiring blizzard updated the cap to the million gold mark. Another reason for this change was a technical one, as gold is tracked based on the total copper you possess. The 217k gold mark was the maximum number which can be stored on a single integer on the server, so that's why there was a cap at all. Thankfully, going over this cap triggered an error message of "At Gold Limit" instead of setting you back to -1 which is what happens in quite a few games whenever you go over the integer cap.
That's quite a large amount of gold huh? Perhaps you would like to learn how players to manage to accumulate so much gold on their own and even make more than the gold cap?
Addons are a huge help when it comes to making gold, so let me get you started by pointing you to several very helpful ones.
Auctioneer
You may have heard of this addon and how powerful it is, but perhaps you never heard about its many features and why so many people use it. For starters, auctioneer features scans which will be the most important thing you do while trying to reach the gold cap in cataclysm. Scans are searches which save the data on the auction house to your computer so you can then search it to find deals. These deals can then be flipped by buying them low and selling them high.
BankStack
This handy tool will automatically sort all your items by item type, item rarity and auction house category (ie. Trade Goods).
Perhaps that was a little too much this early on for you while you are struggling to learn how to earn the gold cap, so take a step back and ask yourself if you are really ready to take the plunge and try to do this.
