108375-what-is-the-best-tradeskill-combo-for-pure-profit-is-armorer-worth-it

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Hello! Im having a bit of an issue deciding, and i thought maybe some skilled experts on this subject can help me.
 
At the moment im a miner/armorsmith on level 16. I've just unlocked the second Apprentice tier. After my experience with the crafting, spending hours googling over possible articles and looking over AC info, im really thinking if its worth it to stick with armorsmith crafting at all, as it seems to be nothing but just a gigantic money sink for me. Work orders give you nothing in terms of profit, cores dont drop nearly as much as i need to from salvaging, and it seems like the amount of extra non-ore materials that i will have to buy or farm x5 times longer than i would spend farming the needed ore will only increase further down the road.
 
So im simply asking - is it worth sticking with armorer if my goal is profit, or should i just go miner/survivalist instead and just farm/sell mats? With the amount of money it takes, im not sure if selling end-game armors on AC would be as profitable as survivalist farm, especially considering that raid gear is better than armorer things anyway.
 
Thank you!	
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			I am an expert amorer with all the epochos recipes and no you wont make money with this.  It is useless for that, however if you have a warrior or engineer it is worth it to craft your own starter dungeon gear especially as a dps warrior.  I just changed last night to weaponsmithing to make money since I had all the gear I would need for the time being.	
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I am an expert amorer with all the epochos recipes and no you wont make money with this.  It is useless for that, however if you have a warrior or engineer it is worth it to craft your own starter dungeon gear especially as a dps warrior.  I just changed last night to weaponsmithing to make money since I had all the gear I would need for the time being.
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			Well on my server it seems the weaponcrafters make a lot of money especially on pre raid weapons since they are normally best in slot till you get raid gear.  I can see technologist making money off powercores although I don't have a technologist so I don't know how much money those will make.  Archaelogist might be able to make decent money selling housing items.  If you get a good weapon with good slots though they will sell for up to 20 plat if not more.  Right now I don't really know how to make money off crafting, I went weaponsmithing mainly for my own use to make me a cw4 greatsword and because I have mining.  Eventually I plan on doing all the trade skills but right now it is just armorer and I switch to weaponsmithing last night and got to expert.  At low levels however weaponcrafting wont make any money because you get better stuff from quests normally but at max level there is money to be made off weapons.	
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Well on my server it seems the weaponcrafters make a lot of money especially on pre raid weapons since they are normally best in slot till you get raid gear.  I can see technologist making money off powercores although I don't have a technologist so I don't know how much money those will make.  Archaelogist might be able to make decent money selling housing items.  If you get a good weapon with good slots though they will sell for up to 20 plat if not more.  Right now I don't really know how to make money off crafting, I went weaponsmithing mainly for my own use to make me a cw4 greatsword and because I have mining.  Eventually I plan on doing all the trade skills but right now it is just armorer and I switch to weaponsmithing last night and got to expert.  At low levels however weaponcrafting wont make any money because you get better stuff from quests normally but at max level there is money to be made off weapons.
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Imo, go double gatherer if you just want to make money. Then if you want to craft at 50, you can take an hour and power level that trade.
 
It doesnt matter which crafting skill you choose. They can all make money, but only if you put alot of time into researching what is wanted/needed.
 
I'm an armorer and dont make much money off of it. Its really just for me anyway. 
Most of my money comes from selling ore at the right time of day.
 
Btw' the epochos helm is bis pre-raid for hvy armor classes bcuz of the special.	
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			I would say Mining/Survivalist is best. Lots of money just vendoring stuff, or selling on the CX if you can get above vendor price.	
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Unless you plan on making max level weaponsmith in the next week and getting very luck with 4 weeks worth of Elden data fragments in one week (for the Adventus recipes), the 4 slotted weapon with 100+ main stat for AP that sell for 20+ plat will be a thing of history.  
 
Crafting is currently 'broken', in that one stat can be maximized by reducing all others to a bare minimum (they are going to increase these minimums, so less points to put into the 'desired' stat and more balanced stats on weapon overall), and the number of runeslots on currently crafted items can be rolled higher than 'intended'.  I am sure there are people who have already or are currently crafting their little hineys off to get these items that they will hoard until after the change and then try to sell for silly amounts of plat (I will give a mighty belly laugh if all unbound gear if made to conform to the new crafting rules when they go into effect...).  This does not account for potential items crafted from raid drop recipes and materials, but until we know more about that, its would be speculation.
 
In the long run, double harvesting (mining/survivalist) is going to be the most profitable.  Sure, the short term you may be able to level up architect to the where you can use the recipes that vendor for more than the input material is worth, but I suspect eventually all recipes' vendor prices will be modified so that the final product will vendor for what the input materials would vendor for.
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			Thanks for the very valuable feedback, everybody! Im going mining/survivalist then. Already made more money in 1,5 levels than i did over the last 5 since getting tradeskills simply by collecting every node i saw while questing and selling everything instead of crafting/salvaging :D  I think its a good plan to just always go double gathering and then bother with crafting only when you hit lvl 50, as it is a massive money sink for leveling characters.	
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@ Nika,
 
As a survivalist, for pure money making goodness, just farm the Bulls that populate your lvl 15-20 zone. You'll be looking for Rotten Remains (salvage drop). You can salvage them for 5-10 Thick Bones an hour. Depending on amount of creatures killed and RNG. Thick Bones are likely going for 2 - 4 gold a piece on your server because they are needed for dailies at level 50 and no one wants to go back to early zones to farm them. I think an opportunity to for 15 -40 gold per hour is a good amount of money at your level. This is from the bones alone.
 
Salvage all gear drops for the runes.
 
AH any decor items that drop if you don't want them.
 
Farm one night and you'll have all the platinum you'll need until level 50. 
 
Good luck and welcome to the game. 	
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