There are several things you can do to pad your wallet, so to speak, throughout the game. In doing these things, youll have enough money once you are a high level to buy those high-priced items youll need.
Firstly, play on your own (in other words, dont join a party). Although there are benefits to joining a party, if you want to hoard all the loot for yourself, youll need to go it alone. If you are in a party of five people, for example, youll have to do five times the killing to reap the same amount of benefits The faster you kill, the faster youll get drops faster, too: green items drop every forty kills, blue items drop once per every thousand kill, and the likelihood of a purple drop is, well, unlikely. In order to make sure you get all the drops to yourself, going solo is the only way to go.
Effective use of the Auction House is another way to gain lots of money. If you have lots of items to auction, it follows logically that your earning potential from those auctions goes up. To check the value of an item before you decide to send it to a vendor, press ALT-TAB and check the internet. There are lots of sites that offer a list of the AH median prices for a...