Tailoring has always been a profitable profession for me, not just at the beginning but throughout expansions. Even at the end of WOTLK I was able to craft and sell BOE Epic Items consistently. With the introduction of CATA I have new BOE patterns to craft and of course a new cloth cooldown to deal with. There are 6 possible ways to craft Dreamcloth, 5 of which have a 6 day cooldown. The Destruction Cloth does not have cooldown, however requires 5 Chaos Orbs. With Heroic’s being challenging again (which I love) it takes anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours to complete a heroic and most crafters are grabbing up these orbs like candy.
Because of the rarity of the cooldown, it makes determining what to craft rather challenging. The first two things I have been looking at with Dreamcloth are the new Leg Enchants:
Each of these items requires 1 Dreamcloth and sells for between 1700-2200 g currently on my server.
Dreamcloth has an average price of 800g to create (if I don’t count the chaos orb cooldown) which results in a profit of 900 to 1400g per.
The second thing I was reviewing was the BOE Crafted items. They cost 1 dreamcloth just to purchase and between 4 to 6 Dreamcloth to create.
I have already purchased the Breeches of Mended Nightmares and Dreamless belt, as these were items that I could use to get my main character raid ready. The risk I see with these items is I haven’t actually seen any of them SELL on the AH.
Sure I’ve seen these items up for between 25-30k, but each day I look and they are still on the AH or have been relisted. The investment in the purple BOE is between 3200-4000g per item and also the fact that the cooldown has been burned for a week.
Therefore there are two possible roads I could take.
Rout A) Medium Risk
Craft the Spellthreads using all of my Dreamcloth Cooldown – sell no lower than 1500g per.
Investment Cost: 4,000g
Possible Sell Price: 13,200g
Profit: 9,200g
If sold at lowest price, total sell price is reduced to 9,000g and profit to 5,000g
Analysis
I think of this as medium risk only because the majority of guilds on my server have not really begin hard core raiding and raiders are going to be the majority of my customer base for these items. Most people would not want to waste an expensive epic enchant on a rare item, and instead would rather purchase the rare spellthread for a fraction of the cost (135-250g currently, not even worth the mats as people use these recipes to level tailoring).
However, once people start raiding, these items will sell – it’s just a matter of when.
Rout B) High Risk
Craft Either Pants or Belt – sell no lower than 10,000g per
Investment Cost: 4000g
Possible Sell Price: 20,000g
Profit: 16,000g
If sold at lowest price, total sell price is reduced to 10,000g and profit to 6,000g
Alternate secondary fallback price of 15,000g returns 11,000g profits.
Analysis
BOE Epics are tricky, sometimes they sell like candy and other times you’d be better off DEing the item. This item is high risk for my just because the customer base is significantly smaller than Rout A, as the Spellthreads are used by non-cloth wearers.
In addition, most people are hesitant to purchase large price tag’d items (Look at a Car commercials, most advertise the possible Rate/Month and the total price is in the smaller text) so I would be looking for big spenders who want then instant gratification of EPICS NOW!
Lastly, I haven’t actually seen any of these items sell. This could be because of the reasons I listed above, or it could be that the prices were just too high (30,000 g does seem like a lot), perhaps if I sold my items at half the normal price (12-15k) then I would see some sales. The time to sell these items is now, before people start raiding and getting better BOP epics.
If the item didn’t sell, then I would either sit on it for when raiding has quieted and another wave of alts gets to 85 (4-5 months) or DE the item for 3k, taking a 1k loss.
If the item didn’t sell, then I would either sit on it for when raiding has quieted and another wave of alts gets to 85 (4-5 months) or DE the item for 3k, taking a 1k loss.
What’s a Girl to do? When I finally decided ill post some results. In the meantime, back to work for me. Tonight I’ll be able to get the PVP gem and I can start that experiment. Have fun!
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