Cashing In On Crafting

For a long time, investing in crafting hasn't paid off.  Its a pretty big money/skill sink because the best way to level up is deconstructing everything.

So where the money is in crafting?  Refining raw materials.

The latest trend is purchasing stacks of raw materials in order to refine and get rare, epic, and legendary upgrade materials.  Apparently with a high enough crafting level, and the full three points placed into extraction is all you need.  This will allow a crafter to refine a stack of any material and end up with at least one legendary and one epic upgrade material on average.  Luck will have something to do with it, so if you want favors stacked on your side, roll an Imperial toon along with max in extraction.

Prices for these upgrade materials are typically over 1000 gold a piece to 5000 or 6000.

This is why raw materials prices have been going up lately, but cost of upgrade materials will be falling.

One side benefit of this is that you can expect these higher end of grade materials to drop in price as this trend continues.  And actually being able to craft something that you want to wear and be affordable enough that you will do it every few levels is a good thing.

(This obviously doesn't apply to any craft where you don't refine anything.)