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March 09, 2009, 05:40 PM
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Re: Making money as Alchemy?
Engineering makes me the most gold Zapthrottle Mote Extractor and a few laps of Sholazar Basin with a trip over to geyser fields every few laps can net me about 300+G an hour |
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March 09, 2009, 06:11 PM
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Barkle 80 Undead Warlock Rexxar US PvE Guild: Corpus Vile Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0/41/30 |
Re: Making money as Alchemy?
Gathering are the best money makers. Costs you nothing but time to level. Mining. Ore always sells. Even leveling mining will net you some serious cash. Thorium bars are selling for 50-100g a stack on my server. Skinning. Effortless to level while leveling, and a pain to level later. Makes decent cash. Nice that in LK you can convert scraps to leather yourself. Herbing. I simply collect whatever herbs I find while doing dailies. Makes decent money. Crafting ... yes, you can make money with these, but it will cost you several thousand gold to level them to 450. Or two years. Take your pick. Tailoring. Depends on the server. Some of the epics sell real well. They don't always sell the first time though. The epic spellthreads sell. The Glacia Bags still get me around 700g each. Not a whole lot considering you can only make one every two weeks or so. I switch my tailoring specialty between Ebonweave and Moonshroud every month or so to maximize the number of cloth I can make. Tailoring's special enchants for cloaks are so-so at best. Have to wait and see if the change to Lightweave in 3.1 is a DPS boost or not. Would be nice if we had better spellthread for our pants. Everyone else does ... Alchemy The bonus on flasks nice if you are raiding. I am still xmute spec, and while it doesn't proc like it used to, I get at least 2-3 extra eternal somethings each week out of the cycle (I start with an Eternal Life and do an xmute every day until it is an Eternal Life again ... takes 6 days). Is there going to be an Eternal Might in Ulduar recipies? If so, that might be a money maker. Some of the elixirs and flasks sell, but not usually enough to cover the cost of the herbs. Usually better off just selling the herbs. Potion making lost its license to print gold when they introduced the 1 potion per fight rule in LK. Jewelcrafting I don't have a JC, but in my opinion, its an OP profession. Just don't feel like taking the time/money to level it. How many times have you gotten one upgrade and had to replace 2-3 gems? Me too. Not sure if they are making the same money they were in BC, but it looks like it from the sidelines. Don't have the first hand experience with these ... Engineering Gas clouds. Blacksmithing Belt buckles. Some epic weapons may sell. Inscription Not sure. Can you actually make any money with this? Enchanting DE everything you replace. DE all those greens you collect doing dailies. Might even make some money doing an enchant, but I doubt it. |
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March 09, 2009, 06:52 PM
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Re: Making money as Alchemy?
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"Chef Syphix" - only titel i ever wanted  Second : I dropped Engineering/Mining for Alchemy (elixirmaster)/Herbalism and i make money by selling flasks (Frost wyrm) But my main profit is.... Tada... Fishing is what i make gold of these days. I think everyone is gathering stuff to be prepared for Ulduar - and some fish are, lets just say, easy to gather but no one wants to do it. So i make a lot of G´s just by fishing. Look at AH - What fish are expensive ? Get your trusty ol´fishingpole out and start fishing... And if you got Alchemy too - Those Pygmy Suckerfish is gonna make you money 
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March 09, 2009, 07:02 PM
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Re: Making money as Alchemy?
My first piece of advice is forget about making money from tips or selling regular type stuff off trade channel. The only people I've ever seen make serious money off trade channel advertising are selling some seriously rare epic Darkmoon cards or BoE gear. "Tailoring LFW" is not worth the time and hassle. Pick up tailoring. I think tailoring would be great for you to make a respectable steady income from selling the Ebon/Spellweave and Moonshroud. My guess is you will still almost double your investment if you buy all the mats off the AH and just sell the threads every 4 days. Sure, it won't make you rich quick, but you will spend almost no time farming/grinding/questing. Not sure if you've seen them, but some very good new BoE tailoring patterns that use Ebon/Spell/Moon cloth are coming out with Ulduar, so start stockpiling the cloth now and charge a boatload for them once demand skyrockets. Also, the new lightweave chant is reputed to be VERY good, as in better than any other profession including JC and BS type of good. So if it goes live like that you would have the "best" profession. If anything, I would drop herbing rather than alchemy if you don't like to spend lots of time farming. The easiest way to make money overall really has little to do with professions in my opinion. It's mostly about knowing your AH and server and knowing the actual "worth" of a number of items. You say frost lotus is 30g on your server. I happen to know Frost Lotus was 20g 3 weeks ago on mine and was 15g 2 weeks ago and 10g last week and 6g right now. I'm not a herber, but I keep track of various items in the AH and buy low and sell high. Just pick a few items or consumables to watch and learn how they are related and you can make lots of gold without ever leaving the AH. |
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March 10, 2009, 04:25 AM
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Sita 80 Human Warlock Ravenholdt Euro RP PvP Guild: The Valiant Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 53/13/5 |
Re: Making money as Alchemy?
For me the easiest way to make cash is to farm Ore and Herbs on Epic flyer, install Gather_mate and routes, create a route on your map you follow with your bird and whenever theres a yellow dot you mine or herb. Herbs sell at a higher price, however you get more Ore + Crystalized X from mining. I tried it out and on my server it equals out. The herbs sell on avg 40g a stack and Cobalt sells for 22g a stack (I keep the Crystalized X for now). I farm about 10-15 stacks of Ore in 1 hour OR about 8 stacks of Herbs in 1 hour. So that's 320g worth on Herbs or 220g-330g worth on Ore, but then I usually have 5 or 6 Ethernals also. On my server, but you better check AH for this, Adamantite Ore sells for 59g a stack, and I noticed you can farm this pretty easy in Outland these days, also Fel Iron ore is all over the place and the Mote of Fire still sells. As for herbs almost every herb sells good due to inscription, so if your a herbalist and you see a herb even if its in lowbie zone, pick it up... If you have a tailor alt, don't ever sell Netherweave Cloth, make Netherweave Bag, they sell for 10g-12g a piece and I sold about 20 a day for 2 weeks, until my stash of Netherweave ran out... If you like something different the Righteous Orb that drops in Stratholme (the Old one) still sells good (20g-25g) and you can have 2-4 of them a run, which will take you (depending on your class) about 20min at 80.
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March 10, 2009, 04:32 AM
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Re: Making money as Alchemy?
Just find a few dailies that you can do quickly and easily and knock them out in 20 - 30 min each day. |
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March 10, 2009, 04:43 AM
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Sita 80 Human Warlock Ravenholdt Euro RP PvP Guild: The Valiant Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 53/13/5 |
Re: Making money as Alchemy?
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March 10, 2009, 06:26 AM
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Idazanora 80 Human Warlock Burning Legion US PvP Guild: Nocturnal Profile: Blizzard Armory |
Re: Making money as Alchemy?
I make a ridiculous amount of money with Tailoring/Enchanting. Buy netherweave when <20s a piece and sell tons of bags at 12g a piece. they still sell surprisingly well. My main money maker is Spellthreads though. Selling at 250-300g each i make and easy 500 gold a day from just that. Its quick and simple, and doesn't waste much time to get everything up on AH. I also buy up tons of Void crystals and shatter and sell LPS for twice the profit. This goes on and on, you can prolly do similar things with any profession. I laugh when i here people complain about tailoring, i make most my money from it
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March 10, 2009, 10:20 AM
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Re: Making money as Alchemy?
I have made more money in the last week from the profs of my 79 priest (alch/herb) than the last 3 months with my 80 lock (ench/tailor). And no, I haven't leveled either of my lock's professions to 450 yet because there's not much reason to at this point. Obviously server economy dictates which professions are the most profitable, but generally it seems that mining or herbing are your best bets. Then generally just combine that with its respective crafting profession (JC/alch). Incidentally, selling mats is usually more profitable for me than selling the flasks and elixirs. I get around 40g per stack for low to mid level Northrend herbs like goldthorn and adder's tongue and up to 70g for icethorn and lichbloom. Alchemy Master is a nice site that can help you figure out which your most profitable flasks/elixirs are based on your server's economy. Many JCs I know do not have mining, or at least don't use it unless they're bored. They just buy ore from the AH, and also make "contracts" with other players, saying "I'll buy all of the <blank> ore you can farm for X gold per stack." And they do it all CoD. Then they take that ore and prospect it, cut it and sell those gems. It takes several weeks to build up the contacts, but once they get 10-20 regular miners sending them ore they claim to bring in over 1000g a day just sitting there at the mail box and running to the AH. JC and alchemy both have decent bonuses for you. Once epic gems come out I'm not sure how much of an advantage JC will continue to have. Alchemy will always benefit though. Inscription seems to be drawing the short straw if you're considering that route. My wife has a scribe and all I ever hear from here is how expensive it is to level (not that they have any reason to get to 450) and how little profit there is to be made. They can make epic off-hands, but they are for level 77! What's up with that??? I will say, however, that the shoulder enchants they get are incredible, and they won't have to farm Sons of Hodir rep, which is a big plus on a PvP server. |
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March 10, 2009, 05:45 PM
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Re: Making money as Alchemy?
Thank you for all the tips guys (and girls)! I've decided to keep my current professions but instead I'm just going to sell all the herbs except for the ones necessary for my Endless Rage Flasks. Also, I've taken up fishing for Glacial Salmon in Grizzly Hills, they go for ~55 G a stack on my server (that's ~2.75 g a fish). Also, cooking seems to be netting me a good amount too, as the Imperial Manta Rays go only for a couple g a stack, but the Imperial manta steaks sell for a hell of a lot. Today's life lesson: Do not underestimate secondary professions. |
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