Can you make money crafting?

One_ofMany · June 2020

What is the best way to make Money by crafting? I've been away a while and even before that I struggled to profit.

Taleof2Cities · June 2020

Farming raw mats (e.g. Ancestor Silk) are always in demand.

More recently, tempers (such as Rosin) have had a spike with all the combat changes in Greymoor ... for players that needed to change their builds for vampire, PvP, the new mythic items, or the new gear sets.

Crafted spell power potions are still high in demand for Trials raid players or high end PvE content.

Still some mild demand for new players who just started Greymoor and need training gear ... and veteran players trying out the crafted gear sets that were recently buffed (e.g. Ashen Grip).

Feric51 · June 2020

Gold upgrade mats will also continue to hold decent value for completing master writs.

Ancestor silk and alchemy reagents will probably yield the most gold per time spent harvesting, and I’ve noticed there’s a lot more nodes being unharvested right now while people are focusing on antiquities and not farming quite as much. (Of course this was on console and might not be true on PC since the update isn’t as recent.)

tmbrinks · June 2020

Depends on how broad you define crafting.

If that includes doing daily crafting writs, then yes, you can make gold... lots and lots of gold

tsaescishoeshiner · June 2020

Crafting saves a lot of gold because you can just craft your own stuff, which is more efficient. Also saves time, which happens to be money.

etchedpixels · June 2020

The writs make money and reliably every day for every character. It all adds up.

Having crafting skills also makes some quests and tasks a lot easier, so when, for example, your tank with the subtlety of a angry mammoth gets told to sneak into somewhere and steal something you can brew a stock of invisibility/speed potions.

PC as well there seems to be a lot less harvesting going on. Even when there is just taking a walk slightly away from the path while on quests instead of charging down it on horseback usually produces a pretty good take.

Feric51 · June 2020

etchedpixels wrote: »

The writs make money and reliably every day for every character. It all adds up.

Having crafting skills also makes some quests and tasks a lot easier, so when, for example, your tank with the subtlety of a angry mammoth gets told to sneak into somewhere and steal something you can brew a stock of invisibility/speed potions.

PC as well there seems to be a lot less harvesting going on. Even when there is just taking a walk slightly away from the path while on quests instead of charging down it on horseback usually produces a pretty good take.

Back when the Homestead update first dropped and furnishing plans were selling for obscene prices I made a couple stacks of invisibility pots and hotkeyed them. That way when I'd be running through banks, houses, public areas, etc checking dressers, urns, etc for plans I didn't have to worry about getting caught stealing them. Just pop a pot, grab and go! I think I made my first million gold selling laundered furnishing plans!

idk · June 2020

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Farming raw mats (e.g. Ancestor Silk) are always in demand.

More recently, tempers (such as Rosin) have had a spike with all the combat changes in Greymoor ... for players that needed to change their builds for vampire, PvP, the new mythic items, or the new gear sets.

Crafted spell power potions are still high in demand for Trials raid players or high end PvE content.

Still some mild demand for new players who just started Greymoor and need training gear ... and veteran players trying out the crafted gear sets that were recently buffed (e.g. Ashen Grip).

And doing writs each day. The 600+ gold per writ as well as gold upgrade mats that can be sold really add up. Do the writs on as many characters as you can stand.

Kalik_Gold · June 2020

I have an abundance of mats from years of playing.... going to try and make some gear and sell to guildmates. This is a rare DLC where not many people upgraded so lots of potential to sell new gear sets. *Hopefully*

Writs are far and away best way to make gold daily, routinely.

Taleof2Cities · June 2020

Kalik_Gold wrote: »

I have an abundance of mats from years of playing.... going to try and make some gear and sell to guildmates. This is a rare DLC where not many people upgraded so lots of potential to sell new gear sets. *Hopefully*

Writs are far and away best way to make gold daily, routinely.

The new gear sets are surprisingly underwhelming this patch, @Kalik_Gold ... except for maybe the Venomous Smite medium armor set.

On the plus side for you, however, there were a lot of changes to existing gear sets. Some of those received a significant buff.

Head to the Greymoor patch notes for more details on which ones to upgrade and/or sell.

Nestor · June 2020

Money from crafting...

Making gear for others? No

Doing writs and selling gold tempers or items you buy from the Voucher Vendor? Yes.

bazanar · June 2020

Why would you not sell crafted gear?

I make at least 1-2 mill each weak only from crafted gear.
New Moon Acolyte Divine Epic grade
Hunding Divine Epic Grade
Law of Julianos Divine epic grade.
For weapons I sell sharpened but precise works well too.
for staffs infused sells better.

usually check alcast or other websites for begginers gear. and use MM to check the prices with the graph option to see how it sells, you can also compare with TTC if that niche is overcrowded.

and there are enough different type of sets that can be crafted. that 30 slots per guild is not enough.

use lazy set crafter to check cost and then apply a price accordingly. apply like a 50% profit margin and dont mind other people under selling it. they all eventually fade and dissapear.

FlopsyPrince · June 2020

tmbrinks wrote: »

Depends on how broad you define crafting.

If that includes doing daily crafting writs, then yes, you can make gold... lots and lots of gold

I definitely agree here. You can make a sizeable amount of money doing crafting dailies on multiple characters, if you can live with the logging delays and somewhat boring nature of it.

I was up to almost 1 million on one server with about 11 characters after several weeks, before I got bored with it. I am now balancing that with running for skillpoints to level crafting up on all those characters.

Icaruzs · June 2020

bazanar wrote: »

Why would you not sell crafted gear?

I make at least 1-2 mill each weak only from crafted gear.
New Moon Acolyte Divine Epic grade
Hunding Divine Epic Grade
Law of Julianos Divine epic grade.
For weapons I sell sharpened but precise works well too.
for staffs infused sells better.

usually check alcast or other websites for begginers gear. and use MM to check the prices with the graph option to see how it sells, you can also compare with TTC if that niche is overcrowded.

and there are enough different type of sets that can be crafted. that 30 slots per guild is not enough.

use lazy set crafter to check cost and then apply a price accordingly. apply like a 50% profit margin and dont mind other people under selling it. they all eventually fade and dissapear.

Wow that's impressive, in which spots do you sell best the crafted gear, and do you have a preference of which type of gear sells best? (Armor, 2h weapons, daggers, staffs and and so on)

I tried selling crafted gear but it takes so much time to sell, compared to glyphs.

bazanar · June 2020

Well the brake down for selling crafted gear is:

you have 4 different type of materials
the cheapest is blacksmithing and you can sometimes get up to 150% profit
then it comes leather I would suggest a 50% profit margin
then light that cost the most. and dont sell really that often as medium or heavy armor.

best bet is crafting new moon acolyte, hunding, clever alchemist, law of julianos. in medium.
from the 5 pieces set the legs sell the least.
and i also craft chest in heavy.

Divines sell the most but Imp sells ocassionally.

Jewlery in the other hand I tried hunding and New moon acolyte. hunding sells ofter and i only craft neck. and bloodthirsty for hunding and arcane for NMA. this dont sell that often, but it helps to fill the slots.

always in epic with an epic enchantment. withouth the enchantment it sells not so often. once a day you can refill the spots and weekend 2 to 3 times.

for weapons check what Alcast and Co. are suggesting for entry level players in PvP/PvE that can be crafted. mainly for StamDD and MagDD and include some bows. those sell good aswell. either precise or sharpened.

Best spots for sell are

Vivec.
Mournhold.
Stormhaven.
Grathwood.
Claglorn.

in regards to food crafting its kinda tricky it depends mostly on the price of the ingredients. so it could be a nice profit or no profit at all.

Potions it also depends a lot on the price of the ingredients. so I would suggest not. unless you can spare the time reviewing the market price on a daily basis.
this is my 2cents.

bazanar · June 2020

this week was not good. since during an event i usually sell over 4 mill.

xshatox · July 2020

NMA pretty lucrative now especially jewelery but you have to have enough capital to do it, ot got 50-100k return on around 300-400k capital. Hunding is always on demand but too many rival on the market.

One_ofMany · July 2020

xshatox wrote: »

NMA pretty lucrative now especially jewelery but you have to have enough capital to do it, ot got 50-100k return on around 300-400k capital. Hunding is always on demand but too many rival on the market.

What is NMA?

tmbrinks · July 2020

One_ofMany wrote: »

xshatox wrote: »

NMA pretty lucrative now especially jewelery but you have to have enough capital to do it, ot got 50-100k return on around 300-400k capital. Hunding is always on demand but too many rival on the market.

What is NMA?

New Moon's Acolyte

crafted set.