Starting off: Gold-gathering tips ??

[Sulorie]

As far as my experience goes PQs are a good way to get some gold here and there (aside from high-end talisman/potion/material trading) but they are also a good way to get some decent gear for use if you don't feel like doing PvP at the time.

True and PQ's are quite fun. For starting players I think there is a danger of leveling too fast with the changes to quest exp.

PQS are a good way of slowing it down and making money if you don't have an alt to fund your journey

Using-xp scroll helps .

[Telperien]

Butchering can be lucrative whenyou sell all the trash mats that drop plus the gear. Hold on to blues and purples that drop and sell them on the ah.

Thats my way. Lvlup a bit to rank 5-7 with quests and scs, pick butchering from chapter 2 NPCs and farm those boars or wolfs (doing same time scs) and by rank 16 I usually collect 20-50g. Later you dont really need gold cause u change gear so fast that using blue/purple talis is waste of gold. At anni/merc range any animals spot gives 70-100g per hour assuming you sell all mats to vendor, same with items except purples - they goes to AH. That works with any class properly speced.