My 31 mage has built up to a lvl 200ish in alchemy and herbalism. However, its hard work to make any real money of it (i have to constantly gather herbs and AH herbs and pots).
Is tailoring any more moneymaking?

Reckon i could skill up pretty fast, and still get money from occasional herbs.

Besides, I was tailor in beta, and it was a lot more fun. Problem is I will eventually need things alchemists can fix me, and I don't know any other alchemists:D

I doubt tailoring can make you any more money. I've never known any skills but the gathering (herbalism, skinning, mining) and then selling raw resources to people wanting to skill up to make any actual money, especially not once the game gets going and no given high end tradeskill is rare.

I have a alt that makes a small profit on herb/alchemy, even buying ingredients on the AH, but it's alot of work and the money comes in slowly. My main does Mining and Enchanting, selling everything I get, and he makes money much faster.

So I gotta agree with Revith, gather and sell, then support your local tradeskiller and buy from them with your newfound wealth.

Please give up the tailoring...Cuz it's not useful for you at all..

you see, the cloth ,cap,shoes and so on are all dropped in the mission or Raid.

[Edited by Polymorph at 6:12 AM on 7/21/2005]

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Polymorph wrote:

Please give up the tailoring...Cuz it's not useful for you at all..

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First of all, are you serious?  If anything, he could get the MOST use out of tailoring, he is a mage afterall.  And tailoring will save you money in the longrun because you can make your own items instead of buying them.  Relying on raids and instances to get items is not always 100%. 

Also, when you get to a high enough level in tailoring, bags sell nicely in the AH. 

Keep the gathering.  Like the others have said, seling raw mats will always bring in cash.

Tailoring/Enchant is the route.   Since those two jobs can support themselves not needing mining,herbal, etc etc.

But be warned im one of the Tailor/enchanters and I honestly will say: Profit SUX!!

Smithing is Good...weapon or armor

leather is good.... Elemental or Bust.    The StormShroud set sells well. Farming for it's ingredients isnt bad either.  Legs,chst ,shoulders sell for 150 each...with the high amount of rogues  that is some sweet armor.

Tailoring bads profits some  but so isn't worth it...it is the easyest craft to master.
Enchanting market is fudged up.......ingredients sell better than the enchant itself.....and the ingredients are worth more than the recipe you are using.   pathetic.  But having your own tailor/enchant has hug benefits for yourself and guild.....I enchanted everything on myself....make tons of bags for all my guild and alts.

But if it is profit you are after....Smithing rare recipes is a money maker.

yes if ya want to make money get your skill up to Transmute Arcanite and make your self a philo Stone and charge people money to transmute, also with the herbs / potions, some postions are worth more. like say a PvP server the free actions are worth more as well as health and mana pot. but what i did was i sold 90% of my herbs and only used 10% to make pots, just to get my skill up

Yes... one of my character is a mage and I'm a Tailor/enchanter. and the profits for me have been great. I made 10 gold in 1 hours worth of work... well not totally true. I had been hording all the silk that I picked up doing runs and things then I made about 20 silks packs and other clothes and sold them on the AH for a nice profit.

You scare me stotan. 10 gold an hour if people buy.   My AH is so stuffed with bags it takes a while to sell.

Fiery weapon enchant is 30g but fiery essence is 13 gold....and 4 small radiant shards are 15-20. Almost no profit and sometimes no profit depending on the AH that week.

I prefer to mow down mobs in Eastern Plaguelands....1 hour 10 gold ...dunno...depends on my luck. but pulling in 5-10 gold an hour consistently on mobs is good. Runecloth sells for 5 gold on average . I bet in one hour I could walk away with 3-4 stacks. If they do sell that would average out to be 20g an hour.

But there is no real measure....I got my epic mount by farming mobs for hours vs crafting.

I have engineering,enchanting,tailoring at 300.  They dont profit over my grind sessions im afraid...well not consistently enough to be reliable.

Guess it depends on the server and the state of the economy too. But smithing so far is the money maker...

Alchemy is next up if you can get all the nice rare recipes.

Leather is great if you can get the elemental specialty .....

Yea thats the problem with enchanting. Its only profitable if theres someone willing to buy in the area. not like smithing and leatherworking and such where you can post em in teh auction house and leave. You want to sell an enchant, you better hope that theres someone around who wants it, or have a lot of patience.

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Valewalker wrote:

You scare me stotan. 10 gold an hour if people buy.   My AH is so stuffed with bags it takes a while to sell.

Fiery weapon enchant is 30g but fiery essence is 13 gold....and 4 small radiant shards are 15-20. Almost no profit and sometimes no profit depending on the AH that week.

I prefer to mow down mobs in Eastern Plaguelands....1 hour 10 gold ...dunno...depends on my luck. but pulling in 5-10 gold an hour consistently on mobs is good. Runecloth sells for 5 gold on average . I bet in one hour I could walk away with 3-4 stacks. If they do sell that would average out to be 20g an hour.

But there is no real measure....I got my epic mount by farming mobs for hours vs crafting.

I have engineering,enchanting,tailoring at 300.  They dont profit over my grind sessions im afraid...well not consistently enough to be reliable.

Guess it depends on the server and the state of the economy too. But smithing so far is the money maker...

Alchemy is next up if you can get all the nice rare recipes.

Leather is great if you can get the elemental specialty .....

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[10 gold an hour if people buy] that was for 1 hours work to make the clothes and put them up on the AH I waited for 24 hours to get the money. and that was good for me I wasn't looking for epic mount worth of money here so yea. I was happy with what I got out of it.

[Fiery weapon enchant is 30g ] Umm.. WOW. Daggerspine server hmm. wow gold sellers must be getting a lot of business on that server. oh well I guess you will have to deal with the high prices until they approve some server changes or somthing.

[but pulling in 5-10 gold an hour consistently on mobs is good. Runecloth sells for 5 gold on average . I bet in one hour I could walk away with 3-4 stacks. If they do sell that would average out to be 20g an hour.] I do to when i go hunting mostly thou I hang out with my guild a lot a chat there all level 60's and I can't do the raids there doing. So I talk alot so when I got about 10 gold with a hours worth of making and selling some bags I was happy. I need to grind more.

[I have engineering,enchanting,tailoring at 300.  They dont profit over my grind sessions im afraid...well not consistently enough to be reliable.] Well thats great... agreed about the grind sessions. but when you bored and have a bunch of silk and what not. 10 gold for 1 hours work was nice.