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If you're like me, you have a lot of excess emblems sitting around. Maybe you never got around to spending them before the next tier came out, or maybe the badge gear just never quite compared to your raid drops. Whatever the case, there is no sense letting them go to waste when you could put them to work and earn some gold!

First, here is a quick breakdown of the current badge system, from most recent and difficult to acquire on down:

Emblem of Frost: These can be acquired primarily by raiding Icecrown, completing the Raid Boss Per Week "weekly," or by completing one WotLK heroic dungeon per day using the Random tool.

Emblem of Triumph: Most raids now drop these badges, as well as heroics. You will also be awarded these for doing any number of WotLK heroic dungeons past your first one per day using the Random tool. You will also get some by completing your first normal WotLK dungeon per day using the Random tool, as well as completing the Raid Boss Per Week "weekly." Also of note: If you get Heroic Oculus using the random tool, don't drop group! Not only has it been nerfed like crazy, but when you defeat the end boss, every player will receive a loot bag that will contain these badges and more, plus a chance at getting the super rare Reigns of the Blue Drake, which used to be available only by killing Malygos, who now drops his 25-man version (Azure) in both 10 and 25-man.

Emblem of Conquest: Originally, these were acquired by running 10-man Coliseum, or 25-man Ulduar.

Emblem of Valor: Originally these dropped from Ulduar 10-man and Naxxramas 25-man.

Emblem of Heroism: These were among the first WotLK badges, and dropped from Naxxramas 10-man and heroic dungeons.

You can downgrade your emblems on a 1:1 ratio. So, if you had one Frost, you could downgrade it to a Triumph. If you chose, you could then downgrade that to Conquest, and so on. This is handy if you happen to get a couple of emblems from a higher tier, and you know that because you don't normally get the chance to acquire them, it would take you too long to save up enough to buy anything. Unfortunately, you can't upgrade your emblems.

Tip: Check out our guide to making gold with the new Random Dungeon Tool, since you should be using it to collect emblems!

Now that you've had a quick crash-course in emblems, let's look at some ways that you can use them to make some gold.

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