I am planning on going herbalism and alchemy when classic launches. When I am leveling I am going to be using all the herbs I pick to level up my alchemy skill which will decrease the amount of gold I am making because I will be getting high…er skill level off my own supply. Do I have to wait until 60 to actually start making gold with alchemy or are there specific potions I should be making while leveling that also make money?
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On a PvP server, swiftness pots and invisibility pots sell fast and for respectable amounts of money.
In general, I did better selling the herbal mats for potions than I did selling the pots themselves. You might think the alchemy was a value-add process, but there will be so many alchemists that it really isn’t. With the mats, other alchemists can make the desired pots and maybe also skill up.
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If u have fishing with it, then fire oil and blackmouth oil are a huge income.
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I certainly agree - but again I got a little bit more selling the raw fish.
Yeah, typically people are willing to spend money to level professions so that they can produce their own pots and such, and only a handful of oils and pot recipes will sell well.
Your daily transmutation is, of course, a steady earner. Everyone wants their arcanite bars. Your server will be different, but it might be worth keeping an eye on the price of thorium and arcane crystals versus the price of arcanite bars.
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So you think its just better to be an herbalist and provide the supply to an alchemist you know if you need the pots and sell what you don’t need? If that is the case what is a good secondary profession?
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Swiftness, invisibility, free action, weapon oils. All decent sellers.
The herbs themselves will fetch a good margin also. Its all goint to boil down to the current market performance. Can’t really give you advice right now, not until the AH is up and running will we know the sale values of materials vs. finished products.
Oh wow i forgot about the transmutation, this is an excellent point.
Once I’ve finished all of the crazy nonsense I need to do for my profession progression, I’ll be swapping one of them to herbalism and giving everything I pick to a relative.
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If just making nut on the AH is your primary goal, the mats are a way to go. I personally enjoy alchemy, so many recipes to play around with. I also was an avid BG pvp’r and I sucked down health/mana potions, swiftness and free action pots, so it saved me a ton of money being able to farm up mats and then produce my potions.
** its not as if the valued pots won’t sell for you, but generally if you compare what you would have gotten from the mats, it is a little better than the sale of the finished potion.
Transmute: Arcanite ganna be really popular when theres lots of level 60 players.
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Yeah i didn’t mention it in my original post, but i am also a big pvper and having potions is a major advantage. Also does anyone know if its better to sell as you go when the server is relatively new or is it better to hold onto the herbs and wait until a later patch to post?
This is true, but what’s the cool down on that? It seemed to me a consistent seller, but spit in the ocean to what I made as an herb farmer.
48 hr CD 
Common sense rules here. The first few days or a week nobody has any money. As soon as raiding starts prices go up. When the BGs open, a lot of the mats/potions will see demand. Generally I fell somewhere in between hoarding and quick selling - and I was able to get my mount at 40 and epic mount at 60: but I worked the AH pretty hard to do it.
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Im looking around the internet and its telling me its a 20hr cooldown.
Arcanite transmute should be 48hr, according to my memory and what’s on pservers
how much do people charge for use of the cooldown?
Depending on server. When it’s new and fresh, 10-12G. After awhile, once everyone has their arcanite… 5-7G
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