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#1 Nov 29 2007 at 5:58 AM Rating: Decent
Hello!
I have been going most of the hard way as a blacksmith, being on 366 atm. I chose bs since im a platewearer(pala). But at endgame I respeced to holy. And now I have no use for anything a bs makes?

So my question is, is there some way of making lots of money with bs at 375? Or should I cry some tears over all the effort and money I put into this, get over it and start lvling something that is more useful for me, like alchemy - want the [Alchemist's Stone] or enchanting for the self only enchants on rings?

Would be very happy for some advices on this matter!
#2 Nov 29 2007 at 7:01 AM Rating: Good
the way to make money with BS is by not actually crafting anything, just sell the ore/bars on the AH and /profit

The only exception is if you have the pattern for things that require nethers (and you have nethers) because you can charge a good price for the nethers and make the customer bring the other mats.
#3 Nov 29 2007 at 7:49 AM Rating: Decent
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There are only a few items in BS that you can profit from and it isn't always weapons/armor. Enchanter rods for one thing sell high. I usually mail items I've crafted to my DE'er and sell the mats from that. Unless you're a warrior, high-end armorsmith for holy paladins suck majorly!
#4 Nov 29 2007 at 8:20 AM Rating: Good
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At the higher end of blacksmithing, the market is very limited.

You will be catering for either warriors or paladins, who are more than likely to have taken blacksmithing for themselves.

On my server, there is some market for both the Felsteel set and the Ragesteel set of armour. But I am sure that as more players get geared up, this will disappear.

The reason that I am still holding on to it is for the craftable weapons, but seeing as you are holy OP, then these will be of absolutely no use to you.

If you can gain more benefit from a different tradeskill, then this may be a better avenue to persue.
#5 Nov 29 2007 at 8:52 AM Rating: Good
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I'm in a similar boat to the OP, and was wondering if I should dump BS. I'm only at 225 BS, and right now the only thing I use it for is to send things to my alt (a warrior with Enchanting). I'm just having a hard time justifying the profession, as I don't see any real benefit as I level up. I'm a lvl 61 Holy Pally, and the Outland drops/quest rewards just seem better.

I was actually thinking of switching to JC so that I can make the gems needed for sockets. Is that worth it?

Oh, my other prof is mining.
#6 Nov 29 2007 at 1:02 PM Rating: Decent
YJMark wrote:
I'm in a similar boat to the OP, and was wondering if I should dump BS. I'm only at 225 BS, and right now the only thing I use it for is to send things to my alt (a warrior with Enchanting). I'm just having a hard time justifying the profession, as I don't see any real benefit as I level up. I'm a lvl 61 Holy Pally, and the Outland drops/quest rewards just seem better.

I was actually thinking of switching to JC so that I can make the gems needed for sockets. Is that worth it?

Oh, my other prof is mining.


JC is good money except it still requires an investment of several thousand gold to lvl and purchase the "good" recipes so you can have something to sell. They did however add some cool JC only items/gems to the game which are rather nifty but just keep in mind it is expensive to level and requires considerable investment to profit with it.

Currently I have the following

engineer/miner (used to be blacksmith, but is nearly useless for a hunter except for the T3 master axesmith or w/e)
alchemist/herbs (rogue, easy to pick stuff, made mad profits with herbalism and alchemy, xmute mastery)
enchanter/skinner (used to be enchanter/tailor to lvl enchanting)
tailor/skinner (will be tailor/enchanter eventually for ring enchants)
engineer/tailor (twink mage, so reasons should be obvious)

Now obviously engineering is not really a thing for profit. What I use for profit are herbs, skinning, alchemy and sometimes mining(keep most of what I get to make stuff). Leveling tailoring I send items to enchanter to DE (enchanter is 285, tailor is 353) then keep the mats (I will be dropping skinning on my druid for enchanting later on)
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