Armorsmith Archive
Thread: are Armoursmiths the best money making profession in the game?
f33d84ck
Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:49 am
#14
Srednii wrote:
After working hard at armorsmithing for a good 6 months, collecting the best resources you can find, reinvesting every penny you actually make in better resources and skill tapes, you may begin making decent money as an armorsmith.
What he said.
Ail
Thu Sep 16, 2004 8:45 am
#15
Yes, but you will not have the time to spend it 
I have one of the highest revenue of any crafter on the server, but keeping the business going takes 80% of my playing time.....
Not mentionning the fact that for someone starting now it would be very very hard to be successfull as you would have to find a way to steal customers from the current main armorsmiths and it would not be because you are making better products.........
Message Edited by Ail on 09-16-2004 08:46 AM
Homer_J_S
Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:37 am
#16
It's been said before, but you get out of it what you put into it. I can make 100 mil a month but it's way toomuch work.
An understanding of how experimentation works helps with making quality product is my advice to you.
Yny
Thu Sep 16, 2004 10:38 am
#17
I could clear 1.5 million in a buff session when I had Rifleman/CH... don't even need armor or buffs, so investment and costs are really low.
InsaneDms
Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:46 pm
#18
GrueLokk wrote:
Armorsmith is by far the most time consuming, and complicated profession in the game, save for maybe Jedi. The best money making profession, is totally up to you. If you have drive, a good location, and a good business sense, you can be filthy rich doing anything. My friend made his cash ( lots of it) Just being a reseller. He thought ahead, and got a wonderful location for a shop, Then mastered merchant, and resold all types of things on his vendor that people sold for cheap in crappy locations. His General Store made a fortune for him. Not to mention, he just was a professional Shopper, which leaves lots of free skill points that he can use for fighting, or exploring etc.
Trust me, Armorsmith takes far more time and dedication to be "great" at than Jedi does!
Smuggler or Swordsman is my vote for the best money-maker in-game. Smuggler since they can slice and re-sell armor and weapons with huge markup. Swordsman since they can do missions and get loot easily.
oiyan
Thu Sep 16, 2004 3:47 pm
#19
I am an armoursmith/doctor/archi so here is what i have found. Armoursmith makes the MOST money, but its harder to do, is very time consuming, and requires alot of external factors to be in your favor (location, word of mouth, how many other AS's are on the server)
Doctor is very very good money, IF you can manage to keep enough meats in stock, particularily avian. It requires very little playing time to make buffs, and you get alot of return customers coming in every few days
Archi is easy money as well, as lots of ppl need harvs. The only downside, AND ITS A BIG ONE, is that it requires so much ore that you must have lot trades to make it as profitable as the other profs. Oh sure you can buy the ore, but you will NOT make much profit, because harvesters are sold at around 4cpu, whereas it costs 2cpu for resources (compare this to armoursmith which sells for about 100cpu++).
If you had to choose between the 3, i would pick doctor. If you could choose 2 of the 3, and you DONT have much start up cash (needed to be successful in AS), i would suggest doctor,archi
Lastly, if you are new to crafting and want a prof that will make you money the fastest, choose archi because it doesnt require ANY extinct resources. Everything can be basically medium to low quality resources except about 1500 metal/steel per harv, and there is usually a spawn of these every week or two.
Jedi1006
Thu Sep 16, 2004 3:49 pm
#20
they make the mos money cuz armor thats good quality sells for a good price. hard to do tho. takes time and patience
GodlyX
Thu Sep 16, 2004 8:37 pm
#22
NiBorg wrote:
unless you have some serious time and money dont bother
True that
Ail
Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:44 pm
#23
GodlyX wrote:
NiBorg wrote:
unless you have some serious time and money dont bother
True that
I'm not sure that even with time and money you could even compete...
On most servers a handfull ( or less) of armorsmiths have a solid control of the market and very loyal customers and it would be terribly hard for a newcomer to grasp a decent market share....
GrueLokk
Fri Sep 17, 2004 12:04 am
#24
Armorsmith is by far the most time consuming, and complicated profession in the game, save for maybe Jedi. The best money making profession, is totally up to you. If you have drive, a good location, and a good business sense, you can be filthy rich doing anything. My friend made his cash ( lots of it) Just being a reseller. He thought ahead, and got a wonderful location for a shop, Then mastered merchant, and resold all types of things on his vendor that people sold for cheap in crappy locations. His General Store made a fortune for him. Not to mention, he just was a professional Shopper, which leaves lots of free skill points that he can use for fighting, or exploring etc.
Katrine001
Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:46 am
#26
I make about $6 mm a day on average (weekends huge, some days $1-2 mm)......even when Im not logged on. My partner does maybe $1-1.5 mm a day. So our vendors turn some armor over in a week.
I maintain 20 factories, and my partner has about 15 more. We keep 2-4 factories running components 24/7. I always have segments and layers running and I always do 45 suit runs with named bags so I can just load suits on vendor. 5 Types of Composite. My partner does Ubese and padded.
Once yu have stock piled the resources, and mine your own resourcewhen a new "better" thing hits, its just good process and discipline. I guess I make maybe 90-100 new suits a week. Once I got a bunch of factories it got a whole lot easier.....Idon't have to "piece" suits together.
Is it the "richest" profession? I dunno. Its darn close though if you are at top of your game.