Your opinion of single character professions for highest profit?

[EaTCarbS]

Might want to elaborate.

How much you make in 10 minutes with an alchemy transmute vs mining for 10 minutes.

[Fat Tire]

How much you make in 10 minutes with an alchemy transmute vs mining for 10 minutes.

Or just 10 mins of playing the AH-

Professions are overrated. Even hand rockets.

I guess I am bitter. I wish blizz would allow every character the ability to learn all the professions individually.

[Mickthathick]

My first choice would be BS and JC. BS can make mucho bank off of crafted epics, and also item enhancements such as belt buckles, shield spikes etc. JC made me many many thousands off the Saronite shuffle, and I am keeping my eye open for the Cata equivalent. There is also the ability with JC to buy raw gems off the AH and easily value add to them. Everyone needs gems, almost everyone has bought gems off the ah at one time or another.

If you like camping the ah, managing inventory and spending large amounts of time at the mailbox, then pick inscription and bs/jc. I really can't see any potential to make consistant gold off glyphs in the future on my medium pop server, however I will be making darkmoon cards (a huge earner for me in WOTLK) and off-hands.

[Owltoid]

Is it Mick tha Thick or Mick that Hick?

[Ualaa]

Two professions...

For a one-boxer, probably Enchanting and Jewelcrafting.

Even without the supply of transmuted gems, there is a steady profit from buying and cutting gems and then listing them; I can often make a profit just from prospecting.

If I charge for an enchant, I make an ok amount. If I enchant for free (their mats) and accept tips... 25-30% don't tip at all, 5-10% tip a lot more than I'd charge and the rest tip 5-10g. I've made 500g an hour, at times... leveling my enchanting with other people's mats.

[Mickthathick]

Is it Mick tha Thick or Mick that Hick?

Mick tha Thick

[zenga]

What surprises me a little bit is that so many people in this thread don't mention inscription. Is this because they have never really 'tried' it/focused on it? Because tmho it's basically printing gold. I mean for me it's totally out of the question that any other profession can make more gold than the glyphmarket.

Maybe I'm blessed and lucky to be on a good server, but I'm on a low horde populated realm (medium pop server and horde is about 1/4th of alliance pop), there is good competition and herb prices are higher than on busy realms i've checked. So I can only imagine it's at least comparable to other servers. To give you an idea: this screenshot is from this afternoon. I've posted one in another topic as well a while ago, not to brag, but just to show how incredible easy and lucrative the glyph business is. 1 glyph costs me approx 8-10 gold to craft, and I don't sell them under 15g. The only new ones I craft are the highest priced (typically only those above 40g that I don't have up or in stock).

If you don't have inscription active, I can only recommend it to start asap.

[Ualaa]

I've got a toon with every glyph. Initially took the profession for the shoulder enchant, actually; but eventually got all the glyphs.
I've also got about 7-8 people who actively watch the glyph market on my server, and constantly undercut you on glyphs. Most glyphs are under 5g to buy.

Conversely, there are three of us who list a lot of cut gems daily.
One of them has agreed to match my prices, so we basically add each other to APM.
The other guy insists on undercutting us, but is not on that often and happens to be a friend for all of my toons; if he's been on, and was in a city, I relist gems.

I guess it depends on your market. I've heard glyphs can be lucrative.
The herbs sell better than the glyphs, at least on my server.

[zenga]

That makes sense ualaa. Have to add that inscription is very time intensive with the new posting / canceling restrictions. Seems like a few are less re-listing for that reason. Not to mention that milling a few 100 stacks of herbs, make inks and craft the glyphs can be boring. But there is often enough downtime during bg queues to do that for me. And luckily I have the tendency to smoke weed, so it affects me less.

[Mickthathick]

Regarding inscription, it really does take a certain type of personality to succeed in it because you really need to be dedicated and have the ability to focus on the profit potential of many, many different items.

btw zenga do you see the glyph market growing or dropping in Cata?