- Crafting can "make" good money if you're very diligent about it. And by that I mean you max level ASAP when an expansion hit, and put in some investment to BiS out you gears BEFORE each raid tier drop. Then on patch day, you'll use the first 24-48h to grind out material to craft the latest set to sale. If you're willing to do that then yes you'll be making bank. The reason I say this is depending on the server, the competition can be very ruthless and the price will often drop very fast. My server (Gilgamesh) will often see a large price drop after 3 days, and the price would fall off a cliff a week after patch day. That's not saying you can't still make money afterward (people still play alt and such) but the amount may be no longer worthy of the time investment. I often find it's better to just sell the tome mat I have rather than turning them into gears.

- But, another angle to this is they money you make is just not the money you earn, but also the money you save. I'm an altholic, not only I play multiple jobs on a char, I also play multiple chars. Like I said I no longer really craft stuff to sale, but I know I'm saving tone of money by doing all the gearing myself instead of having to buy them.