| Professions From fishing to cooking the fish, from the miners to the smithers and those crafty little gnome engineering freaks... The complete A to Z of Professions. |
 |
June 09, 2009, 10:41 AM
|
#1 (permalink) |
|
|
Inscription vs Tailoring thoughts of changing
When I first started my Warlock i wanted to do a profession that will get me tons of gold. so Inscription was new and i decided i would go for it, seemed like a reasonable choice. but for some reason i seem to be overwhelmed with inscription. everyone on my sever is a scribe. and i try to sell a glyph thinking it will go for 50G and it sells for 4 silver. so then i decide i would get some glyph mastery books. the artards on my server sell them for 500G so where is the profit in that!!! so i realized that lately i have been farming tons of crap for tailored items and having tailors make the items for me; such as an Abyssal Bag and i suddenly realized that it is quite easy to farm the mats, and at the same times one of these bad boys sells for 700G on my server. other items like Frostweave Bag and just about any profession specific bag is worth a ton of gold and easy to farm the mats. but as far as training goes i haven't really looked into how much work that would be, but that is to come. So the question arises, do i switch? i have put so much gold and time into inscription, but in all honesty i have made more money off of cooking (Chef Title woohoo!) than i have scribing. the only big plus with scribing is items like Scroll of Strength VIII (for my felguard) and Scroll of Intellect VIII (for me) that i can make for myself, this saves me tons of gold and i can sell these for an ok price. of course if i do switch over, i will load up on these items, i would farm the crap out of herbs and make a bunch of scrolls and glyphs and stuff and store them on a Bank Alt just in case i need them at a later time. so if i change over to tailoring, i also understand that I should also go for enchanting as well so i can disenchant items to get the dust to make my tailored items... or is this even neccessary? i have done a handful of research and i am about 70% sure that i am going to switch to tailoring, but is this really a good idea. i just need some opinions now. talk me into it, or talk me out of it.  I know everyone says to play what makes me happy, but i have to say that i am interest in what will make me the most gold, i would be happy either way, and i just don't want to switch and realized i should have looked into this more, or i shouldn't have done this at all! Has anyone else made this move? or a similar move? and did it work out? any tailors have any thoughts? and just as an afterthought, i really like the Flying Carpet 
__________________
iK Last edited by Ikabod; June 09, 2009 at 10:48 AM.. |
|
|
| Sponsored Links |
|
|
|
June 09, 2009, 10:49 AM
|
#2 (permalink) |
|
|
Re: Inscription vs Tailoring thoughts of changing
It has been my experience that all professions can make money, inscription included. It is a matter of knowing your server. Most professions don't have that killer item that everyone wants. Tailoring and inscription are both low margin, high volume professions. You are going to be selling a lot of bags or a lot of pet naming scrolls for pretty cheap not glyphs of awesomeness for 100g. |
|
|
|
|
June 09, 2009, 11:07 AM
|
#3 (permalink) |
|
|
Re: Inscription vs Tailoring thoughts of changing
Honestly, enchanting is a complete sink hole. Tailoring I love only for the lightweave embroidery. The bags are nice but the cool down on cloth and mats for cloth are rather expensive when you get to about 400+ I'm not saying that you can't make some gold on frost weave bags but on my server mats for one bag are about 70-75g and they only sell for about 100g, and there is not a huge demand on Rexxar for bags. I've made more of neterweave bags then I have off frostweave and cooldown cloth is very expensive too, usually around 80-100g per piece and with recipes calling for 6-8 of them (430+ recipies) can add up quickly for one lousy bag. They are though from what I've read the best +dps proffs or at least one of the top combos (I think tailoring+JC might be #1 atm) Back to enchanting... I've spent about 1500g just to get from level 350-400, and it's not getting any cheaper... Just something to think about. |
|
|
|
|
June 09, 2009, 11:16 AM
|
#4 (permalink) |
 
Status: <Demon Trainer>
Character Info
Pernicious 80 Blood Elf Warlock Dark Iron US PvP Guild: Allmacht Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0/13/58 |
Re: Inscription vs Tailoring thoughts of changing
Now, I've gone and messed my professions up. See, I put Tailoring and Inscription on my warlock because I made plans to level my warlock to 80 before working on a Death Knight. My Death Knight ended up needing to have Herbology and Enchanting just to support my Warlock. Now it feels as if I can't really continue leveling my warlocks professions until I level my Death Knight up high enough to start sending supplies over. It can be a little frustrating at times having to switch back and forth. I had high hopes for inscription to become as cool and useful as Jewel Crafting, however I feel disappointed in that as there seem to be a very limited number of recipes for inscription with few coming out in the future, while jewelcrafting still has TONS of recipes to purchase or to do dailies to acquire more. Sure you can do your research to get more recipes, but you dont really get to pick which ones you learn. Plus with inscription, you need to carry all sorts of things as older inscription recipes are just as valuable as the newer stuff and if you or someone wants the older recipes you need to have those supplies to make it. All the other professions seem to out grow the materials required for older recipes as you gain new ones. Tailoring seems to be limited as well. I've found that by the time I hit 80 there was no Frozen Shadowweave set for me to make that would outlast the first Tier or two of armor. I ended up with Ebonweave which ultimately didn't seem as impressive when I jumped into Naxx. I do make a fair amount of gold off of the bags I sell though and the thread for the pants and embroidery for the cloak is nice. I also love the shoulder enchants I can make with Inscription. Ultimately, It isn't a horrible situation. Though If I could, i would probably have set it all up differently.
__________________
When in doubt, read the Forum Rules
Like what you see? Support the Den Exploring The Depths of the Den |
|
|
|
|
June 10, 2009, 01:42 PM
|
#5 (permalink) |
|
Character Info
Obakemono 80 Undead Warlock Detheroc US PvP Guild: Arch Overseers Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 53/1/17 |
Re: Inscription vs Tailoring thoughts of changing
Inscription has great potential for money-making. The glyphs, as mentioned, are high-volume, low-profit items. But you do also have big-ticket items in the form of Darkmoon Cards. Tailoring is nice for the embroidery and spellthreads, but it's pretty disappointing as a moneymaker. On my server, most of the craftable items sell for less than the cost of mats. Now and then I can sell a Deathchill Cloak or Wispcloak, but things like Ebonweave items or bags(Frostweave or profession) aren't even worth crafting. |
|
|
|
|
June 10, 2009, 02:36 PM
|
#6 (permalink) |
|
Character Info
Jpheenix 80 Gnome Warlock Uldum US PvE Guild: Knights Who Say Ni Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0/56/15 |
Re: Inscription vs Tailoring thoughts of changing
In my experience few crafted items of any profession are profitable. I've had the best luck selling enchanting matts, and tailoring is a huge help in this regard. Farm up a little cloth, create some belts, d-e them, sell the matts. Rinse. Repeat. |
|
|
|
|
June 12, 2009, 03:37 PM
|
#7 (permalink) |
|
|
Re: Inscription vs Tailoring thoughts of changing
I think your looking at professions from the wrong angle. Instead of using them to make money, you should consider what bonuses they will give your character. As far as helping your locks dps, inscription sucks and herbing does nothing. You can make your own shoulder enchants but the Sons of Hodir ones are better. So do your Hodir dailies to make your money and get rid of Inscription. Tailoring allows you to do better legs enchants then anyone else gets and enchanting lets you enchant rings. Both will boost your dps significantly. That said my lock was my first toon and I went Engineering and Mining. I imediately found Engineering to be fun and mining to be a money maker. I have many times thought of switching but I go back to how much fun engineering is and decide not to. Just in case you consider this route, Engineers can tinker around to improve most items they wear as well as always having the goggles. Hope this helps. Oh and P.S. Grats on 80 Pernicious! |
|
|
|
|
June 12, 2009, 03:49 PM
|
#8 (permalink) | |
|
Character Info
Obakemono 80 Undead Warlock Detheroc US PvP Guild: Arch Overseers Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 53/1/17 |
Re: Inscription vs Tailoring thoughts of changing
Quote:
Hodir: Greater Inscription of the Storm Inscription's shoulder chant gives 37 more spellpower and the same crit rating, it is not worse. Also, Tailoring does not get better leg enchants, the stats are identical. The difference is that they are significantly cheaper for tailors, only requiring 1 Eternium Thread. However, Tailoring does get the Lightweave Embroidery, which is quite nice. |
|
|
|
|
|
June 12, 2009, 04:23 PM
|
#9 (permalink) | |
Status: Subscriber
Character Info
Froshaka 80 Blood Elf Warlock Alexstrasza US PvE Guild: Is A Living Legend Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 3/13/55 |
Re: Inscription vs Tailoring thoughts of changing
Quote:
Seconding this on the tailoring for profit idea. Ive probably made about 7 glacial bags. I put them on the auction house first and then if they don't sell I use. them. I always undercut everyone on my server and I think the lowest Ive everlisted one for is 700gold. Ive sold one total. At this point Im probably just going to keep them until Ive got one in every slot. After that Im going to kill the market and probably sell them for something measly like 500g. Also, because of the existence of Frostweave and Ebonweave Bags, why is the Haris Pilton bag 1000g? I dunno exactly which combo of professions could generate the most dps, but I know that when Lightweave & Dying Curse & SPirit of the Damned proc, Im well over 3000 spell power...and thats awesome. |
|
|
|
|
|
June 16, 2009, 12:24 PM
|
#10 (permalink) |
|
|
Re: Inscription vs Tailoring thoughts of changing
The way I did it is all my chars especially my warlock all had professions to benefit me so I wouldn't have to rely on buying mats and wasting gold myself. However since I mainly play my warlock I mainly buy mats defeating the purpose. I did tailoring for the shadoweave and enchanting for the enchants. If your looking to make profit with your professions really you should be a farmer. Mining/herbing or something along those lines where you don't pay for anything and people are usually in need of the mats. That's my opinion. |
|
|
|
|
| Bookmarks |
| Tags |
| changing, inscription, Tailoring, thoughts |
| Thread Tools | |
|
|
