Now, however, it seems that it would be more efficient to buy what little leather I need from the auction house, plus I'm beginning to see the value of enchanting.
My question is: would it be feasible to drop skinning for enchanting at this point? Should I have done so much sooner/wait till later on? Also, I'm not in a guild, so any reagents I need I've been either farming myself or getting from the AH.
I soloed some early instances like Ragefire and Wailing Caverns for fun and got a bunch of low green items that way. It is pretty long and boring though. Zair fucked around with this message on 02-05-2005 at 04:55 PM.
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Zair obviously shouldn't have said:
I dropped skinning for enchanting when I was about 45 or so. I thought skinning would be a good compliment to tailoring, but hardly any recipies use it. I picked up enchanting but I haven't really worked at it much yet (at only 135 atm). The problem is that the green items I get now yeild components that I won't use for a long time.I soloed some early instances like Ragefire and Wailing Caverns for fun and got a bunch of low green items that way. It is pretty long and boring though.
As a tailor, you have a massive advantage. Tailoring can craft literally ALL the greens you'll ever need, and in fact, if you're lucky, the blues. Although on my server, linen cloth is very expensive. 
I would really recommend shopping around to see what lower level tailored items you can make.. It removes the need to farm boring low level instances.. Or at least lets you make lots more greens from a single run.
EDIT: Enchanting is worthless for making money, just by the way. At least, mostly so. If you want to be useful, it's one of the few tradeskills that is (useful in the high end game, that is), but you won't make a profit at it. Zaeron fucked around with this message on 02-05-2005 at 05:38 PM.
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Zaeron said:
As a tailor, you have a massive advantage. Tailoring can craft literally ALL the greens you'll ever need, and in fact, if you're lucky, the blues. Although on my server, linen cloth is very expensive.
I would really recommend shopping around to see what lower level tailored items you can make.. It removes the need to farm boring low level instances.. Or at least lets you make lots more greens from a single run.
EDIT: Enchanting is worthless for making money, just by the way. At least, mostly so. If you want to be useful, it's one of the few tradeskills that is (useful in the high end game, that is), but you won't make a profit at it.
As a rogue farming mid-range blues with stealth to disenchant and sell as shards you will make tons of money.
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Zaeron had this to say about Punky Brewster:
As a tailor, you have a massive advantage. Tailoring can craft literally ALL the greens you'll ever need, and in fact, if you're lucky, the blues.
I'm aware of that 
It's the only reason I even considered Enchanting.
Once people catch on and the market begins to flood more and more with miners, herbalists, skinners and (dis)enchanters looking to make easy GP, components will become cheaper and cheaper making the actual production trades more profitible.
Bloodcookie fucked around with this message on 02-05-2005 at 06:20 PM.
Well, that's what I hear from tailors talking in General and Trade in IF, that is. I could be wrong.
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From the book of Bloodcookie, chapter 3, verse 16:
In other words, would my enchanting be able to catch up with me.
Stop leveling and just enchant/disenchant for a while. It's how I got to be an artisan alchemist at level 35.
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Bloodcookie had this to say about Pirotess:
I guess I should make it clear that I'm really more interested in the utility/something-interesting-to-do aspects of tradeskills, moreso than the money-making aspect. My question was basically whether, starting a new tradeskill at this point, I would be able to get it to a level where it would be useful to me. In other words, would my enchanting be able to catch up with me.
It's generally very, very easy to work a trade up to the point where it's on par with your level.
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KestarTheBlue had this to say about dark elf butts:
Actually, on Earthen Ring tailoring is quite profitable. There is apparently currently a "tailors war" in which all tailors agree not to sell below a certain point and keep pushing the prices of their goods higher and higher.
That's one of the huge flaws with AH selling. As one of the very few alchemists on Doomhammer that sells greater and superior healing potions, my best customer is a guy named "Pharmecuticals", the only other alchemist that sells them regularly. I undercut him, so he buys all my potions and resells them at a higher price.
Price fixing is bad.
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Maradon! had this to say about Knight Rider:
Price fixing is bad.
I'm just waiting for the market to bottom out on these mooches. That or raw materials selling at massively inflated prices.
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KestarTheBlue Model 2000 was programmed to say:
Stop leveling and just enchant/disenchant for a while. It's how I got to be an artisan alchemist at level 35.
Yeah, fat lot of good it does you when the components you need are all in zones with roaming bands of aggro 50's
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Maradon! probably says this to all the girls:
Yeah, fat lot of good it does you when the components you need are all in zones with roaming bands of aggro 50's
Nonsense! I love fighting ??'s for that little blade of sungrass!
Edit: Did I say fighting? I meant weeping-while-getting-rammed-in-the-ass. ing. KestarTheBlue fucked around with this message on 02-05-2005 at 06:37 PM.
fucked around with this message on 02-05-2005 at 06:43 PM.
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Dr Flea had this to say about John Romero:
I have sungrass
GIVE ME SUNGRASS
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KestarTheBlue Model 2000 was programmed to say:
GIVE ME SUNGRASS
Best place to pick sungrass as a lowbie is in Azshara.
The circled area has lots of sungrass (I got a stack of 20 in about 45 min) and only non-aggro deer. There are some aggro griffins roaming about, but they're easily avoided and generally stick to the indicated area.
The hard part is when you see that juicy sungrass sitting in the griffin area, and start to convince yourself that you could pick it and make it out alive...
Oh, and I almost forgot, there's some kinda aggro satyr infested construction in there somewhere. Hard to miss.
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From the book of JooJooFlop, chapter 3, verse 16:
I like Feralas for Sungrass as well, even if it is virtually impossible to see it there.
Der Hinterlands has provided me with masses of Sungrass and this nifty Mug O' Hurt at 45. Kuroi Madoushi fucked around with this message on 02-05-2005 at 11:30 PM.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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Kuroi Madoushi had this to say about Pirotess:
Der Hinterlands has provided me with masses of Sungrass and this nifty Mug O' Hurt at 45.
That is a great item. Must get two and Dual Wield Mugs!
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Verily, Alaan doth proclaim:
That is a great item. Must get two and Dual Wield Mugs!
I ended up selling the thing, my main mace ( The Shatterer ) is superior to it and I never used it. Got me a good 2g and some silver.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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Maradon! was listening to Cher while typing:
A big map
Oh man, awesome! Hadn't even thought about going to Azshara. Thanks!
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JooJooFlop obviously shouldn't have said:
I like Feralas for Sungrass as well, even if it is virtually impossible to see it there.
In some high level areas, I've noticed that you can be standing right on top of a spot that a herb is supposed to be, and you won't be able to see it, mouse over it, nothing. IMO, it's worse than the bug that causes you to stay crouched when you go to loot a herb or a vein.
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This insanity brought to you by Dr Flea:
the bug that causes you to stay crouched.
Yeah, but at least then you look damn silly.
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Kuroi Madoushi's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
Der Hinterlands has provided me with masses of Sungrass and this nifty Mug O' Hurt at 45.
Mug is nifty, it's a world drop
We got really lucky, and Addy got one in Zul'Farrak, and then I got one in Tanaris while soloing
Sold it for a ridiculous amount of money at the AH
