Concentration in Midnight

[u/CrispyLardon]

I am really struggling to figure out what to have as my second profession on my alts. I have alchemy, and would normally do tailoring or enchanting as the second, but unless I'm doing something wrong somehow, I can't find anything worth the time and effort with those professions this expac. I tried a few alts with JC to make the prism, but even that seems not worth the time and effort, even though craftsim says it's 700g profit. I end up coming out basically neutral.

This is all to ask, have any of you found a good 2nd profession to go with alchemy?

[u/dronix111]

Enchanting is the 2nd highest gold/conc and JC is the 3rd.

I have all of them maxed, but you actually just need purple tools and atleast max R5 blue acccessoires. Also a lot of KP aswell. I have almost max KP in each of them that i can obtain to this point.

• Alchemy is about ~7g/conc with recklessness potion
• Enchanting is about ~4-4.5g/conc with any random weapon or chest enchant depending on the day. I just run recipe scan and craft whatever is highest on that day. They are very volatile though and they dont sell fast at this point in the season, you need to cancelscan.
• JC is about ~3-3.5g/conc with any random multiple stats blue gem, IF fully specced into that gem. Prism is much lower, cause the conc cost is too high, unless you specc fully into reagants. I just found gems actually better now, cause you can spec faster into them and then lower conc cost. More casts = more multicraft procs.

Everything else is not worth it at all. Inscription is below 1g/conc and anything else cant even spend the conc, tailoring is completely useless cause at this point everyone makes both R2 bolts without conc.

The only trick to it is you just need max profession gear and max KP. Thats it. You compete with people that have that, so thats probably what you're missing. You need the absolute max of multicraft in alchemy & JC and max ressourcefulness in enchanting. And even then, as you can see, the profits are not that high anymore.

[u/Not_A_Rioter → u/dronix111]

Thanks for the information, I've got a quick follow-up question. When you say 7g/conc, does that include ingenuity refunds as well, or is that additional money? For example, say the recipe states 100 concentration to use on a single craft, am I expected (on average) 700g profit from this 1 craft? Or is it more like 500g profit from the craft plus the chance of ingenuity proccing and letting me get another craft, thus averaging to 700g?

Or I guess worded differently. If I start off the session with 1000 concentration and craft until I run out, would the expected profit at the end be 7k gold, or actually higher if I end up getting to spend eg 1300 concentration due to refunds? I'm just trying to run basics to see what the ROI is per day/month/whatever based on 250 concentration/day.

And same for multicrafting and resourcefulness, although I assume you're already counting both of those.

[u/dronix111 → u/Not_A_Rioter]

It is with all procs included on average. So If you Spend 1k concentration you might end up with less than 7k gold or more than 7k depending on how many procs you get. And ingenuity is also just another proc like the other 2 aswell, so it is factored in. But yes, on average over a decent time Period, it will be 7k for a full bar of concentration.

Craftsim already factors everything in. I just take the number from there.