Seriously, just get a job IRL. It is such a better use of your time. You develop real life skills, you'll build your resume and gain maturity, and you'll make over 300k gold per hour (at least).If you ENJOY all the crafting stuff in WoW (like me), then knock yourself out, but do it for fun, not for gold. If you're doing it to make substantial amounts of gold (and you're asking this question here, and you're late to the expansion...), there's like a 99% chance you're (mostly) wasting your time. WoW is kinda dying, the economy at this point in the expansion is definitely stagnant... blech. The month after an expansion releases, and a week or two after a sizable patch - these are best times to make good money, and even then only for the prepared.
I have been playing WoW since the beginning of the game. And in all the iterations since, Dragonflight has in my experience been the most unfriendly by far with maxing out one's profession. Yes, even with TBC and WotLK in consideration. (Honorary mention to Legion-era alchemy though, which was very awful until Blizzard patched in a potion recipe so we weren't utterly reliant on the Darkmoon Faire monthly quest for maxing out.)I still have at least two professions to go before I'll obtain Draconic Master of All and there is still no actual catch-up system in the game for Knowledge Points. If you started behind, you are stuck there barring some unforeseen miracle. So forget about making a good amount of gold -- just pray you'll even cross the finish line.
I wanted to engage in professions but the time gated knowledge points kills it for me. No catchup at all doesn't make sense to me
I've been playing since the start of Dragonflight. I've given up on one, unprofitable, realm (where the same two players post 20 of everything between them with a 4g margin... if you buy him out, he simply reposts at the lower price). Even with multi-craft & resourcefulness maxxed, with the high deposit fees and slower sell-rate, the only reason they make a "profit" is through not counting the cost of their self-farmed mats. At this point in the expac they would probably make more profit by selling the raw materials on the Region-Wide auction house for stackable commodities. The other realm I play on is slightly better, but suffers from people not setting up TSM at "specific item" level, and posting max Rank items at the lower rank price, reducing, say, the price instantly from 300g to 80g until someone notices and takes the risk to buy the accumulated items out to reset before they get undercut.It is, even on the first realm, still worth crafting the items required for the weekly "craft x orders" quest" for knowledge points. Often people will buy them from the Auction House rather than bother crafting them themselves and the price often doubles at the start of the week. If it's not something valuable (like this week it's 15 Bronze Fireflight fireworks for Engineering) then I order one for a quest that is, such as the Magnificent Magnifier. I reckon just by doing (mainly) the Valdrakken weekly quests I'm between 75-90% of the Knowledge points on each craft on two realms. Most of my alts, however, are also broke as I've only just got enough rep to make all the Blue profession tools - something I should of done much earlier - and buying materials to make them isn't cheap. However, in terms of time investment required to level up a profession and return of gold per hour... at this point you would make more from doing the World Quests for gold, such as the Dragon riding races. If you don't have Dragonflight, then farming old materials can be valuable. A few achievements were recently added to have a character maxxed in the the professions of every expansion, so some players are buying rather than farming the materials to do this.tldr: Unless you are willing to invest a significant amount of time, and cancel-scan, do professions for love, not money.
Even without Dragonflight the easiest way to make gold is just the same as with: Shuffle items on the AH.If you're not interested in that kind of thing and just want to "play", you still can easily make 10k gold per char in Shadowlands just by completing the weekly quests as well as the gold world quests. Even without gold from the mission table or the nerfed emissary rewards there is still gold laying around there.Do that with 30 chars and you have your gold. Is it fun? Surely not. Is it efficient? Also no. But it's absolutely possible nonetheless.
I dont want to level professions for money, however i just want to level them to level... and since i didnt bother with them until 2 months ago you are screwed with knowledge... and you screw other people as well, since people post public orders with mats for few 100g and you create item from them for 1st craft bonus and things like that and they get crap item.
I hate the limiting factor on Knowledge Points. I hope that when the expansion is over they just open the flood gates and let players farm points like crazy.Honestly I think it was a cool idea but I prefer the old way of learning professions and leveling them up. The crafting orders is definitely a great idea, I just wish they added that but kept the old method of crafting because now every expansion they have to create new things to use Knowledge Points on or just keep what is already there till it's maxed out at some point.
Best time to make gold was before Vault opened.The Sabellian / Wrathion rep tokens were selling stupid high for awhile.My realm the work orders are dead, but im a jc without lariat so :(It's getting absolutely AWFUL to play on just tokens alone though.Thankfully this timeways event is helping me finally push some characters to 70 for races/gold wqNot exactly a fun way to play but hey, saving money on gametimes nice.
Is It Too Late to Get Started With Professions?Considering how time gated they were and have an additonal layer of RNG i would say, yes, it is too late. At least as far as makign gold is concerned.