Profitable?

[Anthalia]

This question goes to all those folks who are long time tradeskillers AND who have a skill level of 250 in 4 or 5 trades.

1. At a skill of 250 which tradeskill is the most profitable?

and

2. Which tradeskill is the biggest pain in the butt in regards to material acquisition (cost, farming, foraging and so on)?

[Sinuuyanea Nocturne]

1) All are in each of their own ways. Smithing, Tailoring, and Fletching can earn small fortunes in bursts, while the others can accumulate them at a slower, but arguably cheaper and easier, rate.

2) Do <b>NOT</b> open this can of worms here, please. <img src=http://www.boomspeed.com/sinuuyanea/dcrazz.gif alt="Smithing is the biggest pain in the butt you will ever experience, next to a high colonic or a tax audit! Really! I am NOT kidding!">

*glances at the Chao, and puts her thoughts into its mind*

[Zeralenn]

Answer to 2 is usually either tailoring or smithing. Part of what answer you get from whom depends on which skill the person in question is trying to raise at the moment.

For smithing it depends partially on what race you are. The problem with smithing erupts once you have trivialled fine plate at 188. Some races, humans in particular but also dark elves, ogres, and dwarves, have good cultural skilling options past 188, giving them more options. Humans have it the easiest in this regard. Other races, such as barbarians and gnomes, have cultural options past 188 but they trivial past 250, making them not so good for skilling options because of high failure rates. For most races, there are only three options past 188 -- acrylia (windstones **** near impossible to find), mistletoe cutting sickles (extremely expensive -- got half a million plat you can invest?) and shadowscream (interminable farming).

Tailoring is a constant butt-pain, no question about it. There are bad trivial bridges and the problem with some of the best acrylia stuff to skill on is that the market is flooded so badly you're going to sell at a significant loss unless you farm. I'm only just starting into my low 120s in tailoring so for me the fun is just beginning (WHAT SADIST INVENTED THE WU'S RECIPE??)

...Zera

[Sinuuyanea Nocturne]

(WHAT SADIST INVENTED THE WU'S RECIPE??)

It was a joint effort between Satan (for the torment factor), Innoruuk (to make you hate), and Bristlebane (because he thought it'd be funny).

With LoY, however, tailoring became less painful, provided you can forage.

[Cravin]

With LoY, however, tailoring became less painful, provided you can forage.

I agree and disagree I have a druid on asecond a count and with 200 forage he has spent 15 hours in stonebrunt forageing for Bamboo shoots and I have a total of 1 stack of dye he has also forages and killed everything in Erudes crossing for close to 20 hours and I habve 30 seahorse ro to show for it. now I have a high elf friend that has gotten 40+ berries in 5 or 6 hours of forageing. what I really want to know is why SOE is oppressing the ERUDITES

[Lilosh]

Correction:

Tailoring became easy to 187. Kind of expensive, though.


Past that, its only easy if you are
1) A race with finger-wigglers
2) Able to get your hands one one of the 4-5 research components needed.
3) Are a researching class , or have one in your pocket.
4) Are a forager, or don't mind AoEing for the dye components.


As a Halfling Druid, nothing has changed for my tailoring progression, except that 180-187 just started to look a whole lot easier.

And I may make my gnome chanter my tailor, instead. :-)


-Lilosh

[Taushar]

With PoP recipies other skills are catching up to smithing and tailoring at high end tradeskills. For JC, I have made and sold Valor rings for anywhere from 12kpp to 15kpp. There are other recipies for JC that brings in a lot of money. Same goes for pottery. I have made the ceramic rod of storm, ceramic shield of valor and ceramic sword of war. Most of the items sell for 10-25kpp or more. Fletching gives Nightmare bow which is still being sold at high price. The one caveat is that the items needed to make these are rare to obtain or buy. If buying, they are expensive. However, the items for smithing and tailoring at high level are hard to get also. Finally, You do get better margin of profit since they are high priced item.

Brewing and baking is not so profitable, brewing being less so other than tempers. So, don't just take smithing or tailoring to high end for profits, profits can be had for many tradeskills at high end.

Taushar

[Moonlilly]

what I really want to know is why SOE is oppressing the ERUDITES

Take a look at that Erud robe with ID3 on it and try to tell me your being oppressed.

These things are gonna kill the (already flooded) robe market. Some of these recipes should have been legs or arms with only the top recipie being robes. Then we could have made some profit on tailoring.

[Lilosh]

Yeah, the erudites got a nice one. The DE did as well.

But you gotta chuckle at high end, highly valued research components going into a robe with Reagent Conservation 3.

I *STILL* want to know what the last gnome robe will have.

I have a feeling it's going to be good.


-Lilosh

[Raiyaeq]

Smithing is the most profitable tradeskill once you reach 250.

Smithing is also the hardest to raise imo. Some might argue that you can buy your way to 250 by making sickles, but if you have that much plat to throw away, no tradeskill is hard cuz you can buy tailoring parts from bazaar PC vendors to 250 as well.

For tailoring, if you can farm flawless rockhopper hides yourself, it's really not that bad. Acrylia drop rate is decent if you have sufficient level and time. I've also found flawless/acrylia provide higher skill increase rate - maybe it's just me, but that's my experience when compare with making velious armors. Just a note though, never skin the flawless down to superb if you aren't high enough for flawless yet, cuz one day you'll regret that you've done that.

[Anthalia]

Thank you so much!

Thank you all for your input. I appreciate it very much. You've given alot of good information!