Woodworking or Save?

[MurviD]

Ok, ive now gotten some money (yay) and im a bit unsure what to do with em.
my blm is at 43 atm, rng is 20 (planning on taking higher when my wood reach 60). Those are my main jobs atm.

crafting arrows is atm NOT profitable on seraph, if you do not hq them. woodworking is atm on 42 and will get higher when they put more horn arrowheads on ah lol.

my goal is to get wood to 60, then ill c if i wanna continue, and how much that will cost me, if you synth demon arrows you loose as much as 24k per stack, will it always be like this? will you hq scorps or demon regurlarly at.. say 90 wood?

when i get wood high enough id reckon elemental staffs is not the best, but a pretty nice source of income. At what lvl do you start to get 1hq out of 20? or 30? Will i earn on this if i put 500-900k into wood to get it to 100, and how long will it take me to earn my money back?

ive read that if you go arrow route with ranger, you spend approx 100k per lvl at 60+, will it be any cheaper if i do have 90-100 wood? or is wood not that good for rng at all? im a bit unsure, everyone sais its great and all but ive lost money so far gettin to 42. so logicly its not cheaper to craft em..

guess my question is; what should you do? I enjoy crafting, its a nice relaxation but i dont want do it if i dont get anything out of it.

cheers all.
MurviD

[Ipwnzuall!!!111]

Good questions, I'd like to know the answers myself -_-

From what I understand, wood is NOT a profitable craft by any means when compared to other crafts. My guess is that there are simply too many wood crafters to make it profitable. On top of the people who are interested in it for no particularly good reason, you have rangers, and you have fishermen. This wouldn't be much of a problem, but as a woodworker, your consumables (things that should be somewhat profitable) aren't bought frequently because the people that would consume them supply for themselves (repairing poles and making arrows). That's all speculation on my part, but if anyone disagrees I'd be glad to here different reasons why woodworking sucks for profit.

Supposedly you get HQ bonuses at 10, 30 and 50 (maybe goes higher) above the items skillcaps. Elemental staves are 75 if I recall correctly, so you might never get better than the first HQ bonus, which just basically means you have a slight chance of HQing. Advanced support, guild equip+furniture, and crafting on the right day when your skill is 100ish will probably be as if you had the second HQ bonus, which seems to give you a decent chance out of HQing 1 out of 20, more or less depending on luck.

Since staves seem to be mostly break even, you could possibly make some profit off of these.

In regards to arrows, I really can't say that I know if you'll ever save money by crafting your own. The reason being is that I'm not sure if the price of Demon Arrows is so much lower than the material cost because 1) the arrows being sold are mostly from people skilling up off of them who are desperate to pass them off, regardless of cost OR rangers, for some reason, won't pay the true price of them 2) high level woodworkers HQ them, essentially making it cheaper for them to craft them-- with many woodworkers, the low price is a better reflection of the true value of the arrows (in which case, I have to doubt that HQing arrows is much profit at all).

Anyway, that's all entirely speculation. I would eagerly await an answer from someone with some real experience in the high level wood market.