money making in tailoringFollow

ok ive been trying to figure out a method of tailoring where i can buy mats, create the item, then sell it back for more profit then i bought them for. obviously make the economy work for me. im lvl 170 tailoring, and i still cant seem to ever come up on top making silk items. anyone out there have some advice?

Yep, the warlock quest robes are Robes of Arcana. The recipe is a rare drop from Defias ?enchanters in Duskwood (in two of the farms south of the road) or from the Darkshore ?somethings in the Tower of Allthatjazz in Darkshore (inside the tower, they all have voidwalkers).

The Defias are easier to farm since there are not as many of them concentrated together in one spot. The Darkshore farming spot is more efficient for exactly the same reason.

Generally in tailoring I am able to make a profit when my tailor is fed cloth by my other alts. By funneling all the silk and mageweave I collected from three alts to my tailor, he could produce a lot more stuff that sells steadily on the AH - the only real cost of production being the different threads that have to be purchased. By making greens with essentially free materials, and by not trying to gouge anyone on the AH, you can make a steady income stream. The greens will sell to folk looking for affordable items to disenchant.

Thranathiril

I buy 3-5 stacks of adamantite ore each day and I get 30% profit out of it with prospecting and selling cut gems on my hunter.
I gemmed her all in blues too and I keep green gems mostly to make diamonds on my alchemy main. It was bit pita to raise JC to 380 but now, even she doesnt have rep for some expensive cuts yet, she makes me nice gold.

Unfortunately, there is no really good money maker in tailoring until you get to the Outlands. I'm currently selling Netherweave robes by the bundle for about 6g a piece. That's much more than the cloth would go for on my server.

Your best bet right now is to stop buying your mats from the AH. Go out and farm your own cloth if you want to make any money at all. Also, since cloth drops mainly off humanoids, they also drop some coin, which will help your income a little.

Just keep leveling your toon and your tailoring, and at some point you will make some cash from it.... but it probably won't ever be enough to get an epic flyer without another source of income.

Good luck!

The only recipes that will make money in a crafting profession are those that can't be spammed, otherwise the price levels out. Taking a specialty in one of the end-game tailoring schools and buying your 2 primals every 4 days to make a double of that particular cloth can be decent steady income once you have your spellfire/shadowweave/primal gear made. Also, consumables have a much better market value than completed armor pieces. I know it's still a ways away for your tailoring level, but the spellthreads sell fairly well too.

My understanding is that short of the very highest levels of any trade, you don't make money. Tailoring is very easy to earn cheap skill ups - so long as you are reasonable. I am a total Noob, but I have taken tailoring to the mid 150s with little or no cost. Kill mobs for cloth. Buy patterns and thread. Pretty much - that's it. I am a mage, so maybe we don't have much cost (rumor is that WAR is an Equip dependant Job) but I have all my spells and have spent VERY little.

I think the real question is whether you are power leveling or leveling legit (aka - slowly).

Hey - if you are paying to level, more power to you.... But otherwise, it's not costly.