Gasp! Profit from a Tradeskill?Follow

WHAT IS IT?

Any TS yields a profit if you forage or loot key components. You can even make a mentionable profit as early as tailoring leather padding at triv 31. Doing banded mail with sheet metal made from looted rusty weapons (failures not included of course) can also give you a slight profit as do basic TS components like tempers (brewing, studs/boning (smithing), silk swatches/threads/cords (tailoring).

Of course that only works if you sell the stuff in the bazaar. Apart from one tiny loophole which allowed me (but only in two cities in the whole of Norrath)to make a small profit of about 100p per hour in smithing i never encounterd a TS recipe that yielded a profit in selling to vendors while using vendor bought stuff only.

Not sure which TS your talking of. Mine is research and I make a killer profit on it. Key is to have a trader in the bazaar selling to NPC isn't profitable to the extent you could ever keep up with your needs.

The devs have made a point of trying to remove any recipie that produces profit with vendor bought components in order to stop macroers from making a profit without risk or involvement. It is considered an exploit to make mony from merchant only combines. If any still exist it is an oversight by the devs.

There are a few recipies that can be sold back at a profit that use hunted, foraged or fished components. That is allowed since it takes time to collect the ingredients. There is a built in limit to the amount of profit that can be made.

One of the easiest and most profitable of those recipies is Clockwork Needles It requires a lot of precombines and needs a fished component from Ak'Anon.

Only profit I have seen recently is the very small one chanter can get by buying metal, enchanting and then selling it back.

Sure not worth the time, since you could make a lot more just killing and looting.

Hey Baron.
What tradeskill are you doing? What are you making?

Fishing technically still makes you a profit once you hit 200 since fish and daggers sell for more than the bait, and if you have something that summons a rod then you don't even need to worry about the cost of a new pole either...

So, for something to usually be an issue with the devs

1.) you must make a LARGE enough profit for it to make a dent in the economy (i.e. like multiple PP an hour)

2.) easy enough to do that you can macro it

3.) have a low chance or low cost of failing.

So this is where the fishing in Abyssmal sea was a problem... you made huge profit (I made 10K pp in a 6 hour time period), you could macro it (I read a book while mashing my fishing hot key), and it had a low chance of failing (I had the fisherman's companion and a 200 skill)...

AS such, there are some tradeskill items you can make that are all vendor items that sell for more than the sum of their pieces, however, your chance to fail is so significantly high that its just not worth doing.

Its unlikely this tradeskill purchase is worth the bother.

Shoot - you can take some rusty weapons, sharpen it, and then combine with water to make ore that sells for more than the original weapon, stone, and water cost to buy...

Hehehe there are a few profitable 'tradeskillz' you might consider... DIE AL U STUPID BANDITS! I AM A LEVEL 65 AND GONA KIL YALL!!! :o That is nuber one... number two is buying things and using in quests... Go to Innothule and if somebody has been farming recent silks then buy all the eyes they sold to Rukta and then give the eyes to protector in Gukta. Number 3 is fishing (no duh). Number 4 is your special class-and-race specific stuff.