Quote Originally Posted by Xyl41 View Post
Level 35 is required to learn the final rank (226-300) in main production professions. Arcanite Transmute and Mooncloth have a cool down, so you can level characters to 35, level tailoring and alchemy to 300, then just log into those characters on CD to make the item. From what I recall on my server, making 2k per 4 days would have required something like 20+ characters, although his server may have been different and Classic prices will be different than they were in vanilla (but most likely closer to what private server prices are).
I was considering something similar - though with fewer characters. Getting them to 35 shouldn't be a big issue, once you have a max level char like a mage or pala, but getting alchemy and tailoring to 300 on 20 characters (40 x 1-300) is not exactly cheap. So there's a good bunch of upfront capital required.

That being said, but herbs and cloth are likely cheaper during the first months since there isn't much gold on the market yet. So it might be a good strategy to get your primary teams to 60, farm gold and invest that gold in the passive CD tradeskills. But it does strike me as a long-term investment rather than something that will make money up front.