Why Do Tradeskills if not for Profit?

[Tejaye]

I was curious if any of you do Tradeskills, such as baking or smithing, and you dont' do it for profits. Is there anyother reason to maximize a tradeskill if it isn't for making profits?

[Draggar]

Nothing better than *not* having to spend 10-40PP per Misty picnic on my server, I can keep enough on hand to supply all my alts, plus many stacks to donate to the guild.

Make poison vials for poisons, make arrows (and bows) for hunting..

Help out friends with basic items (outfit your noob with patchwork or raw silk armor).

The possibilities are endless, but making a few PP in the course is nice, too.

[Clerigo Dwarfroar]

quests, satisfaction, money to blow

[tnexus]

To finish maxxing all my skills =P

[Danae]

Because I like doing them. It's really just that simple. I like to make stuff.

[Utope Eljugador]

Being self sufficient.

[Quinner Sparrowhawk]

Must make useful stuff from useless junk
Must make useful stuff from useless junk
Must make useful stuff from useless junk
Must make useful stuff from useless junk
Must make useful stuff from useless junk

Come

join us

resistance is futile

[Elyssanda]

Absolutely agree with Danae.
I make it because its fun and I can. in RL I'm a quilter and I make Soaps/lotions/bath stuffs.. Can I buy blankets and soaps.. Sure... I know mine are better and (quilts) will be a part of someone's life.

[ZealSZ]

other reasons

you can make armor and weapons yourself without having to wait for someone to sell in bazaar and mark up the price. you can also gear up guildmembers and twinks easily, as well as make supplies like arrows. there's also quests like the shawl, aid grimel, making stuff like bane weapons, etc.
all that said, yes, I do sell things for profit quite a lot.

[Draggar]

Originally posted by Quinner Sparrowhawk
Must make useful stuff from useless junk
Must make useful stuff from useless junk
Must make useful stuff from useless junk
Must make useful stuff from useless junk
Must make useful stuff from useless junk

Come

join us

resistance is futile

We are the TSorg. Resistance is futile. Lower your defences and prepare yourself for assimilation into our TS-collective.


"The Borg? Sounds Sweedish."

[vovinit]

I got my Gm in JC on a whim. I needed to Get my tradeskills up for the 8th shawl. After I had gotten my JC ing skill to 190 I figured what the hey, and took it to 240. Then I decided I wanted to do the tropy. Made it on the first try. So from a 7k investment I got a free 100% 10 slot WR bag. A JC ing tropy with the ability to summon more wr bags ( no rent one's tho ) and I have since made a lil money here and there to pay for the 7k I invested. Not bad for a day's work.

[Koru]

For me a lot of it is self sufficience. I don't like to have to depend on someone else for food, drink, combines.
Secondly, I like to max things, I just like to see skills go up.
Thirdly, I love making things. There's something much more satisfying about handing out picnics you made to the group than something you picked up from the bazaar. At least it is to me.
And lastly - who says there's no profit in tradeskills? Made a bundle off of tradeskills, quite profitable. Unless you're on Xev in which case there's absolutely no profit in tradeskills at all. Zero, nada, none. Honest.

[Dory]

And the answer very few will admit:

Obsessive/Compulsive

All.. numbers.. must.. be.. max.

[Dyllwin]

Originally posted by Dory
And the answer very few will admit:

Obsessive/Compulsive

All.. numbers.. must.. be.. max.

I'm getting there, a few tradeskills, H2H and Begging! (blasted begging )

[Zyrtryx Conjureblade]

The main reasons I do tradeskills? 1. So I have something to do, other than chewing the fat on the ooc and guild channels, when I'm not hunting. 2. So I can get a GM trophy - I want the stats and the bag!!!!

I do Baking because I not only sell it, but I also use some of the food I make to feed my alts.

I do Fishing because I enjoy it. (And I definitely enjoy it even more now that GoD is out. I'm having fun catching fish and tuna and baking some of it with sauces I've brewed)

I took up Brewing in case anyone in my guild needs someone to make tempers for them *, and Blacksmithing and Pottery so I could make Baking utensils. I've gone about as far as I plan on going with Pottery, but plan on raising my skills in Baking, Blacksmithing and Brewing.

I'm also doing tailoring with two different alts, but I only plan on raising their skill high enough to make handmade backpacks until I get more platinum so I can afford to raise the skill on one of them higher. (I'm mainly doing Greyhopper armor when I can get the hides, but make Leather Padding to sell in the Bazaar)

*I also took up Brewing because I set a strange goal when I created my Monk: the goal is for him to drink as many of the different alcoholic drinks in the game as possible, and its easier to do if I can make a lot of them, as there are several player-made drinks that don't seem to ever be for sale in the Bazaar. (Unfortunately, I seem to have lost the list of drinks he has imbibed, but it was a fairly short list, and I remember 3/4 of the stuff on it, anyway) The Monk's name is Dherrunkynn (as in Drunken Master - one of my favorite Jackie Chan films), by the way.