Quote Originally Posted by 'Stealthy',index.php?page=Thread&postID=176474#pos t176474
Quote Originally Posted by 'Hachoo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=176440#post1 76440
FWIW I'm not sure why everyone always says if you don't have guildies to make you BoE gear you'll be gouged buying it off the AH. That doesn't make sense at all. I can buy the mats (for the same price I'd buy them for if I had to get a guildy to make me an item) and then pay some random horde in org 10g to make me an epic BS item. So woopdie doo, 10g more to have someone random do it instead of a guild mate.
It probably differs from server to server. The Titansteel Guardian for example, still goes for around 1500 gold on Mag (high pop server). The cost of the mats if you buy the Titansteel bars is 1200-1300 gold. You wont get random's doing it for a 10G tip on our server, 50-100G is about the going rate. There's no new recipe's after 440 in BS, so its hard to find someone who will craft it cheaply. JC is even worse - I had to shell out 300G to get 5 Spellshock necklaces made with my mats. I started asking in trade at 100G and went up by 50G per night before on the 4th night I found someone to do it.

Cheers,
S.
I dunno... you have to buy the mats whether you have BS or not or whether you have a guild or not, unless you make them yourself (which is mining not BS) - I'm pretty sure if you hang around the org anvil you'll find someone very quickly that will do it for you for next to nothing. It will take them 10 seconds and even 10g in 10 seconds is good for a single boxer, since they don't even have to go anywhere to do it (they're already sitting next to the Anvil).

Also aren't the TS weapons 440? Meaning they'll get a skillup doing it for you?

Now, finding a JC to make a chain/ring is definitely tough, but even as a JC I wouldn't make these myself. Spending 6 tokens to get the patterns is a huge waste of potential money. I just searched the AH for an already-built copy, then took down the name, added him to my friends list, and waited until he was online and asked him to make me some with my mats. It cost a bit (I think I paid like 50g each for the necklace/ring for my tank), but being able to sell 12 dragon eye's made up for that 25 fold.

It does vary by server but I don't think theres ever a situation where taking a profession to make a BoE item will ever pay off - especially not one like BS that costs 5000+ gold to level (or takes 20-40 hours of mat gathering).