lynnettell
Dalayan Elder
I did click my way to my eternal. Still don't have a supreme... so not millions!
Honestly, when I was doing it, I started in my 30's, I mined everything myself, farmed damn near everything myself, and spent probably 20-30 hours a week just tradeskilling. It worked for me at the time, because I had frequent AFK's, could log on for an hour or so here & there, and feel like I was making progress on *something*. We were only raiding 2-3 days a week (just like now), but when he was on the PS2/whatever (yes, I maxxed before the PS3 came out), I could click a ton and still be able to AFK to do housework, fetch him a beer, whatever (shaddup, I was whipped, I know).
Today, I stock randomly, when I want, and depends on how busy I've been lately. If I've had the random few hours to spend mining, I'll do a restock. I don't take orders like others do, because I have no idea when I'll actually have materials again.
Can I go solo stuff *now* with the gear I have and make more money when I have an hour or two? Probably. But that involves buffing, figuring out what is camped, etc. There's a couple zones I do this in, or I just go to miner/fisher/go sit in RSM & farm lava dust.
Or, I actually join a group, and have an hour, and then bail. While my guild will put up with this, random groups won't, especially if it's a dungeon. And if it's a guild group, and I'm only joining for an hour, I pass on the split anyway (unless somewhere that big money drops in an hour).
In a nutshell, if you're 65 or 65+++, tradeskilling is not better than flat out plat farming, simply because the most money to be made is collecting stuff yourself. If you're lower level, and willing to put the time/effort it takes to mine/farm/vendor troll, whatever, then in the long run, tradeskilling *will* pay off, in my opinion. You *can* make money off of it, or I would have stopped stocking completely a long time ago (like I did on my jeweler, but that's more of a sheer laziness thing on my part).
Ha! We were friendly competitors for way too long, and sometimes unfriendly competitors.. but never that close (although I do still owe him a drink or two).
As someone who does not only deepmetal, but also plat diamondine on my jeweler for some folks, I would love this. There used to be a table on exp per point, even if it was just whatever the 225+ point experience is divided by 20 (or the number of skilllups needed to skill from 249 to 250, ie, if it was 10k exp to get a point, 500 exp per successful combine), that would be trivial experience compared to actually exping, and give me a cute yellow message & added incentive to get unlazy & actually stock more. Not to mention lessening the sting of fails (BP anyone?).
