Now, let me first say that I do like this expansion and I am not here to blindly hate. Take that as a constructive criticism. That being said, some professions need to be worked on. Right now, flasks (phials) and potions require wayyyy to many expensive materials to make. 2 flasks, that go for 25 gold each, require materials for about 2k! 5 potions, that go for 2-3 gold each require mats for 800-1000 gold. (On Outland-EU)
The difference is insane, and even if prices change drastically, it will still be much better to just farm materials and sell them, instead of investing a lot of time and gold to level a profession, that makes you lose gold.
I don’t know why you decided that a simple potion should require 8 rare herbs and an awakened material, it should only cost some hochenblume, for example. Really, i don’t see the logic behind this decision. Until this changes, I don’t see Alchemy ever being profitable. And why bother leveling a profession, when you can just buy what you need for almost no gold?
P.S. well, yeah, i guess if everyone drops this profession and there are about 5 people with Alchemy on the whole server, then it might be profittable, but I doubt that this is ever going to happen.
I used to make a lot of money buying materials off the AH crafting items (generally consumables, enchants) and selling my crafts on the AH, I think your suffering the same problem I got stuck on, people will sell items cheaper than it is to make them, too many dont know how to use the AH right, you dont need to undercut anymore and even when you did by 1 copper would put yours at the top. The constant under cutting just lowers everyones profit. At the moment things are made worse by people crafting stuff to level and get the top ranks so they just want to sell the crafts and they clearly dont consider profit margins. It became unviable for me to buy materials and sell crafts because people dont sell crafts for more than the raw materials anymore.
A solid way to make gold all expansion long is to just farm herbs and ore, personally i find that too boring and enjoyed crafting and selling consumables much more.
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