Tailoring: Anyone making money from it?

[Kirri]

I just checked your AH (alliance side, Runetotem, quite sure that's you guys since horde side did not have those robes up. ) What you should notice: One person is having them up, he's having five of them, and the other mystic frostwoven pieces are not up except some wrist for 37g.

So... A snapshot of your AH atm
Mystic Frostwoven Wristwraps
2 Northsea pearls=2g (3 up for 1g50)
4 eternium thread: 12
25 frostweave: 7 g (that's 2 stacks at 3.50 each, so you have 15 cloth left afterwards)

Undercut the poor bugger selling the wrists -35 g. Expences: 25. 10 g profit.
Or just make the shoulders that noone has up, basically same material cost (a pearl less, ten more cloth, but that's still covered by the suggested price) and no competition.
Since they vendor for three gold they're cheap to keep up, so you can afford posting them without sales relatively regularly.

The point is: Five very cheap robes like that probably reads "person leveling his tailoring and not really caring about profit as long as it's more than vendorprice". Considering the lack of competition on the other pieces I think it's quite possible you can earn gold there. As you said yourself, the cloak is not up.

Now, pvp pieces. Again using your server.
Frostsavage robe 2 of these, to use full eternals. Yes, I am lazy. Atm the cheapest up cost 69 g, let's say you can sell two for 120.

80 cloth: 16 gold (I just upped the stack price since you can't just take the two cheapest)
4 eternium thread: 12 gold (I'm going to remember the price of eternium thread for the rest of my life... Remember to buy them somewhere you're exalted for the discount)
16 infinite dust: 23 g (that's a stack)
Eternal fire: 23 g (note, this price might drop tomorrow when frozen orbs can be converted into it, also, frozen orbs are less than 20 g on your AH)
Eternal earth: 5g.
Total cost: 79. Profit: 41 minus AH cut.
Now, this is not a particularly good profit, but it is a profit, even with my relatively conservative pricings alternatives based on your AH. The reason it's "hard" to earn gold this way is that you need to diversify -it's hard to earn gold with tailoring crafting only one product, you'd want to for example make a full frostsavage set.

Though tbh, if you want a lower but regular income you might want to whisper me since I see one market there's still an opening for you in, but that I won't comment on here since it at least partly bases itself off lack of competition :P

[levitate]

Maybe Frostweave Bags will yield more profit than they did pre-patch, with their 7-day cooldown.

I'm sure you mean the Glacial bag, but just in case it wasn't a typo, the frostweave bags are not being changed.

As for the most profitable profession, I wouldn't be able to guess.

Jewelcrafting probably.

Maybe gem transmutes with Alchemy and then cuts as a Jewelcrafter would make a bit of gold;

Alchemy transmutes still yield lots of gold. If you can time it in at a good moment and sell a batch of them at the same time you can make thousands of gold. The flasks and elixirs won't make anyone rich though.

[Alexio]

Though tbh, if you want a lower but regular income you might want to whisper me since I see one market there's still an opening for you in, but that I won't comment on here since it at least partly bases itself off lack of competition :P

Thanks again Kirri, more really useful stuff. And of course, I've PM'ed you regarding this opportunity

[Slipper]

Chances are there is an enchanter you know, or in your guild.

Farming Netherweave, making lvl 64-67 items and then asking someone to disenchant used to net me alot of profit.

Same can be done with Frostweave and 74-77 lvl items.

[Arcilux]

The four weave cloths, I ca usually get 400-500 Gold per cooldown selling them, with eternal prices on my server I spend about 50G on the mats so it is still a decent profit. Really other than that every four days I tend to neglect my tailor. Alchemy is a much more solid moneymaker on my server.

Of course with all the 3.3.3 changes who knows. Frost Lotus and Eternals will become dirt cheap, and the cd on *weave will be removed, so the market might get flooded. I doubt if any profession will be a serious money maker once the AH dust has had a chance to settle

[ComputerNerd]

The cloth cooldowns are being removed, which might mean competition being high, but you should still get a bit of demand for whichever one you are specialised in due to twice the cloth for the same mats.
The glacial bag cooldown with the decreased materials cost likely to happen should be appealing.
The ulduar level gear should see a surge in demand for both that reason, and the reduction in the number of orbs required so making them attractive early raiding gear.
You may not have so many long cooldowns, but you should have a more regular income from smaller fees.

[ArthurEdwards]

i rather drop the tailoring and go for JC or alchemy that can really brought me decent amount of gold rather than be contented on small fees.

[Redjack]

Tailoring

* The cooldown and location requirements have been removed from creating Moonshroud, Spellweave and Ebonweave.

so the answer ist no with patch 3.3.3 :

spellthreads offer just a minor income, i dont bother with them anymore.

i will have a look at the ICC tailoring recipes (i have 1/4 currently) but i guess i will drop tailoring and level enchanting instead...

[Berlain]

spellthreads offer just a minor income, i dont bother with them anymore.

Every now and again I get tempted to post a few when I see quantities on the AH low, but invariably if I don't post the auction within an hour or so of someone actually wanting it, it'll be buried by 10 other people undercutting each other (and me) by 50s, starting that race-to-the-bottom condition where the spellthread becomes next to worthless.

The only thing I have been able to reliably sell with any predictable luck is bags, specifically the Glacial, that's a sure-fire 650g or so every week. It isn't much when you spread it out like that, but it more than amply covers my raiding/repair needs.