FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT PHASE ONE:
Q: Gen, you are a god among gnomes, and handsome to boot. But if you tell everyone to take up gathering, who will buy the materials were gathering?! If there's no money in crafting, nobody will buy our materials!
A: It actually makes a perfect circle lowbies gather the mats, while highbies buy the mats and make crafted items (well discuss highbie strategy in a bit). These highbies in turn sell their items (for a profit) to other highbies and lowbies who NOW have money to spend (because they're not wasting all their money trying to level up crafting professions!) It works really well like this.
Q: Gen, you are kind, intelligent, and have abs you could wash clothes on. My character is lvl XX, and I'm a lvl YY Crafting Profession and a lvl ZZ Gathering Profession. And I'm BROKE! Should I drop my crafting profession and take up a second gathering profession?
A: It depends on several things. If you are already close to lvl 40, you might as well keep the crafting profession UNLESS its really low level (like <125 or something) then ya drop it like a bad habit. If you are relatively low level but have a mid-level crafting professions, I would still drop it and take up a second gathering profession. You'll end up making much more money by the time you're 40, which is the real goal of this guide.
Q: My materials aren't selling! The market is flooded with them and I keep getting them returned in the mailbox!
A: Ya that's going to happen from time to time. Some days you can sell a stack of something for 1g, the next day the entire AH is flooded with stacks selling for 20s. Its what I call the Retard Factor. The best thing you is get a general idea of how much stuff is selling for at that time, price your materials a little bit less that that, and hope for the best. Don't throw your hands up in despair when someone undercuts you its gonna happen. Just take your unsold mats and put them back on the AH someone will buy them, trust me!
Phase Two Levels 40-59 Its fine learn 2 craft
You've hit lvl 40, you have your mount (sure beats walking huh?), you've learned all your new skills, and you've decked yourself out in some fancy new duds. Now what?
Well, you *could* stick with your two gathering professions. They will still make you a lot of money, actually more money than in the first phase because you'll know have access to higher level materials. If you don't feel like busting ass trying to make money with crafting professions, stick with gathering by all means. You could stop reading this guide right now and have enough money to make you happy.
Still reading? Okay good lets talk about your first crafting profession :D
Pick a crafting profession that sounds fun to you. Don't worry, its going to make you money (except maybe Alchemy, I'm sorry I *still* haven't seen proof that you can make lots of money off of Alchemy). What your going to do is drop the gathering profession that doesn't complement your new crafting profession. For example, if you want to take engineering, drop skinning and keep your mining. The one profession I do not recommend you take at level 40 (besides Alchemy) is Enchanting. Enchanting is a great profession but its not for the faint of heart, and its a #@%$! to level up. If you are dying to be an enchanter now, welcome to the poor house otherwise try to hold off until you're level 60 (well be discussing that in the next phase).
Now that you're level 40, it should be very easy to power level your new profession to a certain point. Do everything possible to farm your own mats while leveling, it will save you a ton of money. This is important because you need your money for
SCHEMATICS, PLANS, FORMULAS, RECIPES, ETC!!! These are what separate you from all of the other people taking up crafting professions. I see twenty new threads every day asking how do you make money in leatherworking or whatever, and people usually reply you don't take herbalism its a goldmine. I'm going to let you in on a little secret.
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