Guild Wars 2

As the title says, is there a solid way to turn crafting into an income?

Yes!

Several. The key, really, comes down to how you source your materials, and crafting the things that people want to buy.

I use GW2Spidy to determine what I can craft that is profitable. Especially if I should craft everything or buy subassemblies from the TP so I can maximize my profit.

I imagine someone really into it would take it a step farther and get bids in for raw materials as an even lower price.

thanks for the replies!

Assume im sourcing all mats direct from the tp, im guessing buying up sell orders is bad bussiness?

Buy orders is a great way to source mats…. especially when there is a wide spread between lowest seller and highest buyer. Also, while working in bulk. I find that if I place a buy order, then do a dungeon or fractal run, my buy order has usually filled while I was off enjoying the game.

Also, sub lvl 80, you can use the Mystic Forge to source awkward tiers of mats. T1 is way easy to farm… t2 mats suck to farm, but you can promote T1 → T2 at a reasonable rate via the mystic forge.

In other areas, buying cores and upgrading them to lodestones can save you money that rolls into your profits (essentially, you’re selling skill points.)

Finally, there are a few mats that can be very quickly gathered when you hit the right locations (I’m looking at you Strawberries….. and the lovely unidentified masterwork red dye you make!)

Being a crafter for profit means knowing how to find what you need, and doing some leg work that the lazier crowd doesn’t feel is worth while. Let them buy stuff off the TP and say it’s better that way…. I’ll keep selling stuff to ’em!

GW2 spidy doesnt help at all, as it’s not realistic. No one actually buys those items. But you can still try

Rezz.8019:

GW2 spidy doesnt help at all, as it’s not realistic. No one actually buys those items. But you can still try

I disagree… Valk items you can’t get from dung’s/PvE drops… you would HAVE to buy them if you wanted those stats.

Rezz.8019:

GW2 spidy doesnt help at all, as it’s not realistic. No one actually buys those items. But you can still try

Well you do still need to make sure demand outstrips supply. Also you can’t simply build 10 of one thing and put them all up at the same time. Make one of a few different profitable items and sell them.

Also don’t expect it to be a literal gold mine. You aren’t going to make piles of gold every night. But a couple of gold per week is possible.

Rezz.8019:

GW2 spidy doesnt help at all, as it’s not realistic. No one actually buys those items. But you can still try

Depends on the velocity of items, gw spidy doesn’t track volume of trades, so just because the supply doesn’t seem to be changing, doesn’t mean that items aren’t being traded. Speaking as someone who recently sold Volcanus, I watched new buy orders and new sell orders frequently enough to see movement…. also changes in the number available on the TP.

Items with the largest profit margin tend to move with the lowest velocity…. you may have a 100g profit, but it takes 2 days to sell. On the flip side, I can craft 100 items with a 5s profit and liquidate them within a few hours, and a far lower initial investment.

GW2Spidy isn’t realistic? Care to elaborate? It’s a pretty accurate indicator when I have used it.

Yes, I would love to see Volume. No, I don’t need it to convince myself GW2Spidy is accurate and realistic.

runeblade.7514:

Yes!

Now I see why curry profitability dropped so dramatically.
As they say “teach the fool to pray and he will smash his forehead”))))