Tailored items price drop, is this game-wide Pre 3.3.3?

[Ryft]

Hello all,

Ive recently returned from a wow-break, and been getting into my professions a bit more to try and make some gold so I can afford a Dalaran Ring and maybe a Battered Hilt if I do well enough.

Anyways, I used to make money from my Tailoring Prof selling moonshrouds, spellweaves, and ebonweave. I also sell the epic spellthreads.

However, the demand for these seems to be dropping by the day, prices have dropped by about 20% (even on spellweave) I estimate, and I still struggle to offload these items even at reduced prices.

Do you think this a gamewide trend due to the anticipation of profession changes in 3.3.3?

It has forced me to look at other ways of making money, I also have recently levelled enchanting (major pain, but made significantly easier by having Tailoring!) - however I am only at skill level 405 in enchanting at the mo.

Ive been considering making tailored goods simply to DE, but the market is pretty flooded with enchaning mats so I dont think that will be such a great idea.

It has been interesting trying to figure out which enchants sell the best (even though I dont have access to the best ones yet), but still the margins seem pretty tight on scrolls overall.

Anyone got any other good ideas for me? Im at Tailoring 448, and Ench 405.

[pinocten]

Do you think this a gamewide trend due to the anticipation of profession changes in 3.3.3?

Yes!

Anyone got any other good ideas for me? Im at Tailoring 448, and Ench 405.

Level up enchanting and sell scrolled enchants.

[kassy]

anyone with some economic instinct can make money in wow with any profession combo. there's always ways of doing it. the most popular one being installing auctioneer and spending ~30mins/day combing the ah ;D

[ComputerNerd]

It most certainly is in anticipation of 3.3.3.
Having the 1 day cooldown on Titansteel, and the 4 day cooldowns and location requirements on the specialist cloths are bound to have a substantial effect on their price.
They will be selling for very little over the materials cost, whatever that proves to be come the buying of eternals for frozen orbs.
Your money there will come from either the crafting of your specced cloth, for extra piece produced or from increased demand I am expecting for the ulduar and totc level armor due to just like the eternals, they will be purchasable for frozen orbs, and the ulduar patterns in particular with decreased material requirements.
The cooldown on the bag crafting may be an alternative to, allbeit likely a smaller amount than the income from the cloth cooldowns, but should still work out decent if you can charge for the cloth crafting, and the bag at the same time.