Alchemy Profit

Contrary to popular belief this profession is very lucrative generating a lot of AD at the cost of a few gold pieces to buy the, , and necessary to level it up. The top sellers are dyes available at Profession Level 7 and transmutation of blue professional assets at Level 13. Basically, you transform into 3  and 4 of those into. The profit varies with the market but usually you might get 300% of your investment. Let's compare to Leadership - a good leadership task provides you with 100 raw Astral Diamonds per hour worked. This transmutation takes 46.(6) minutes but i will be generous and consider it an hour. So the work time is 100 AD. The cost of varies between 1k and 1.5k AD (going with 1.5k for calculations). You need 4/3 shards to transmute a crystal and lose 12.5% at sale thanks to the auction house cut. So the cost of producing an is (1500*4/3+100)*1/(1-0.125)= 2400. Everything you sell over 2400 is pure profit. And selling for 2400 gets you as many astral diamonds as the much acclaimed Leadership profession.