Gathering and crafting is bulk of income.

However gathering faded pages are probably profitable on your server, which drop from trials / dungeons. That would be your best bet.

Sadly on the few servers I've been on, all the stuff you get from killing monsters are near worthless... The exception used to being diremite web but not anymore on my server. Reason their worthless is cause everyone else has them too from killing and leveling. There's excess in every server I've seen.

Truthfully, say you found the golden goose of monster farming items, it'd probably take longer making money farming that then just leveling say miner. I sucked it up and leveled it and I make insane money. I make even more money with just my 50 armorer. Housing items are usually cheap to make and make insane money.

I'd go miner. It's almost fun and some ores make decent money depending on server.