Tailoring and GoldFollow

the only way tailor and gold go together in the same process is when u spend vast amounts of gold to level your tailoring.

albiet some things since TBC can make ya money getting them rare patterns is just as hard.

Edited, May 25th 2007 6:48pm by DirteJoe

My main's professions are Tailoring and Enchanting. These two professions were kind of hard (for me) to make money with in the lower skill levels. But, I think if any profession complements Tailoring it would be Enchanting since you can always disenchant stuff you make and use/sell the extra mats if you do not anticipate being able to sell your crafted items. I seem to notice more demand for enchanting mats than tailored goods at similar skill levels.

Tailoring, by itself, I never sold much beyond making bags for people, and anymore the mats by themselves seem to sell for more than the finished product. Although I must admit that I have sold quite a few sets of Black Mageweave Leggings because people like how they look.

Personally I feel it is a profession that doesn't have many economic benefits for the player unless the player invests the needed time/effort to skill up, much like enchanting. I feel that gathering professions are generally a better way to make money at the lower levels than any of the crafting professions simply because many people are intent on pursuing world and dungeon drops as opposed to committing resources to buy crafted items as they level up. Conversely many players will buy more raw materials as they are leveling up (in my experience) to skill up their own professions.

Today I bought quite a few Black Mageweave Leggings, because they disenchant into good mats that sell for twice as much as the price I paid for the leggings.

=/ Bad! This is one item I charge for because people are impulsive. These were easily the best selling crafted item I had for probably 15 levels. They eat em up on my server.

I also watch AH like a hawk with my mule, and only sell at certain times. I wait until everyone is done lowball fighting on the weekend and clean house during the week.

There are so many people using the enchanting/tailoring combo so there must be a reason for it right? I played around with those for a while and discovered that taking leather working/enchanting yielded more essences than disenchanting cloth and the stacks of leather sell for less than a stack of cloth (might be due to the popularity of tailoring/enchanting)on my server. But it's also up to your own playing style.

Like a lot of people have already said the gathering skill combo is always profitable. I would only suggest herb/skinning if you have a lot of bag space. For even journeyman herbalism there are I think 5 different herbs to pick to skillup on, while mining has 1.

It's fun crafting items for yourself, but as a paladin who leveled blacksmithing up to 370 I realized it's more of a pain that anything. You get better gear from questing/instancing. I was able to craft myself an epic sword! but if I had two gathering skills I would have saved enough money to buy myself a better one :)

Tailoring is only good for gold at lower levels, if you make it high most of the good stuff is BoP so its very usefull for casters but as quoted before Bags are a nice selling point or they used to be as after TBC they have become easier, so what i would say to you mate is unless your a Caster dont get Tailoring especially if your only in it for the money, Gathering is usually good for money and Herbs has always been a favourite of mine because in my opinion i have got more money from Herbalism than i ever got with Skinning and Mining is only good at higher levels and ores are so annoying to find so get herbs for money!