Soon after I started playing I hit the gold sink issue that most new players run into at the start of their careers. However, I watched a few 'How to get rich quick video's', and adopted the Hireling and Crafting Writ strategy.

So, each of my characters now has three hirelings that deliver appropriate materials to them free of charge at regular intervals. (Several times a day, if I'm online) I also complete the six crafting contracts available to every certified crafter on a daily basis, which also reward you with materials as well as gold, and inspiration.

In addition these writs frequently reward you with a crafting survey, which I distribute amongst my characters according to need and relevance. E.g. If my Master Tailor gets given a Blacksmith Survey he will pass it to my Blacksmith to process and that ensures that the materials recovered are matched to my main crafters needs in each profession.

It may seem like a lot of effort, but I'm using Dolgubon's Lazy Writ Crafter which speeds the whole process along, and i suspect that in truth it's probably faster than creeping about trying to nick stuff and avoid the guards.

Personally, I've never bought (or stolen) weapons to deconstruct as I find I get plenty in the writ rewards. I do occasionally have to buy raw materials for writ crafting, but the cost of these is usually offset by the sale of all raw materials that I no longer need. The main thing I keep running out of are style materials, and so I occasionally have to do a bulk purchase of racial style items either from the vendors or from guild stores.

is that so, gamsir? higher level items deconstructed giving more crafting points? did not know that... thanks for that again, gamsir~!

As gamsir says everything levels on use to the level of the character activating it.

So, looting and stealing with a higher level character will produce higher level loot. Opening a chest, or looting a cabinet with a higher level character will produce higher level loot, and completing a crafting survey or a treasure map on a higher level character produces materials that match their level (either crafting level or character level). Hence the distribution of surveys to the highest level crafter.

But from all this, if you get the level ores from stealing and deconstructing and then create items and then deconstruct, you would be getting pretty good points in blacksmithing I think...

Go to cold harbour, grab all you can ... level it up to green, decon it. its worthless when its white, but when you bump it up, you'll get ingots/wood/cloth back... or just sell it to a vendor. Good way to make some quick gold.