bmnoble wrote: »

Would not even start making legendary gear for them before receiving the gold mats/expensive trait mats minimum, I don't tend to be as fussed about the other mats, so long as the tip is good it covers them with no problems.

Maybe if its just weapons but never full sets, the highest quality gear I will make someone before receiving payment/mats is usually purple at most.



Ultimately its up to you who you choose to craft for and what you expect from them, if what they are supplying is lacking tell them why and what you need before you will start in a calm clear manner.

I expect everything researched on their part, all the mats ready to mail to me, with a complete list of what they want made for reference.

Once I get the mats in the mail, I port to either my favorite guild house or the guild house of the guild my guild mate is also in if they want to do a direct trade of the mats and gear rather than using the mail.

Once I get every thing, I spend some time allow about 10 minutes making it, constantly checking the letter telling me what they wanted, sometimes whispering the customer to clarify anything that is missing from their letter. Once its all done I mail all the gear to them or hunt them down if their mail box is full.

Tip is up to the customer once they receive their order.


For example:

I have had one person in the past who wanted gear made, send me 100K to make them to full gold sets, complete list in the letter of what they wanted made and I could keep the change as a tip, because that 100K was expected to cover the cost of all the mats involved.

I returned their mail and sent a mail to them with a complete list of the mats required for their order and kindly asked them to shop for their own mats to mail me before I started making their order.

At first I heard nothing back from him, two months later he mailed his order again, with all the mats I had requested, I made him the gear and mailed it to him.

After chatting with him I learned, that initially he had gotten the 100K in a daily log in reward and thought he was finally rich enough for gold gear, it took him the two months of casual play to buy everything on the list I mailed him and understood why I had returned his original order request.

I declined a tip. The guy still orders stuff from me because he knows I am not going to screw him over.

I may not be online as much as I use to but still make a point to log in at least once a day, any orders get taken care of, after I check my mail.

Lady_Linux wrote: »

THEDKEXPERIENCE wrote: »

Regardless, no one has to stand by me when I do it.

That may be but when i have made armor for people, they often come to me and then go for the mats that i need when asked. rare is the occasion they dont follow me to the guild hall. New players tend to look at all the crafting stations in awe...