Originally Posted by
Thelxi
No one can really tell you how to make gold with professions and become rich, which I assume means millions not thousands. It depends on your server. On my server for example you could make a lot of gold from glyphs if you wanted to, but on others there is 2-3+ people already dominating that market.
If you just want to generate gold from missions and followers you need a level 3 inn to spawn some extra gold missions, and 8-10+ geared and epic treasure hunter followers. The inn is easy, but the followers will take a few weeks to really set up starting from nothing. Even so though don't expect to be swimming in gold with just 1 garrison's missions. They have also nerfed the salvage yard many times now to the point where it is barely worth it unless you go through all the low level greens and try to sell them on the AH.