Thread: When do people start buying cooked food?

I have no problems with not making gold on cooking lower level foods, but at some point I would like to be able to farm up a bit of gold. From talking with some people, once you hit lembas-levels of food people start paying attention.

I've got 15g, and have mastered everything up through artisan farming cooking. I'm happy to spend all 15g to get to a level where I can start leaving a stack or two of food on the AH and replenishing my listing when it gets bought, but I suppose I need to know what's worth listing.

Is there a general rule for when food is worth listing? I made about 700 blueberry muffins and none of them sold...I shouldn't be surprised that not everyone needs cooked food buffs for levels 10-20...

I have only ever reliably sold lothlorien waybread and stat boost food at Tier 6 and apple and cheese pies and stat boost food at Tier 7. I might have sold Lembas (there's a deed for eating them i think) but I went through there long ago and can't quite remember. I'm by no means an expert though.

Tiers 6 and 7:

Cooked food
Trail food
Fortifying food

Critted (Superior) stuff sells for more. Try selling small batches with a bit more mark-up.
Some folks just want to grab a few to get through a group event.

Originally Posted by Kerogen

Is there a general rule for when food is worth listing? I made about 700 blueberry muffins and none of them sold...I shouldn't be surprised that not everyone needs cooked food buffs for levels 10-20...

People will buy tier 6 and 7. Never make 700 of anything with the idea you are going to make a decent profit. There are not enough buyers.

Make sure to check your auction hall for competition. There are thousands of cooks that are maxed in the Cooks Guild. Plus have all the anvilds filled in. The situation exists all 10 professions because crafting is low cost. Low time investment. The players with all these crafters - They have no need to buy anything - Every one of them is a potential competitor as another seller.

Food is a good thing to make simply people use a lot of it. You sell it at affordable prices people will buy food even if they can make themselves. It is time consuming. Some people will buy instead spending the game play hours to make it.

As others have said, T6 and especially T7 sell extremely well. I can make 3000 (yes, 3 zeros) Apple and Cheese Pies and they're gone in 2-4 days. Some of the stat food (especially vitality and will) will go as fast, and with a higher profit margin since fewer people make them for sale, at least on my server.

It's more difficult to sell decent amounts of lower level foods since people on low level toons usually have significantly less money to spend, or are alts and they have access to low level foods for cheap or free.

One thing you can make now and hope for profit from is Lute Strings. You may need to advertise in GLFF once or twice a day until people get used to the idea of you selling them and start to look on the AH. It's one of a group of items we all love, but no one really sells them so we forget to keep looking.

Originally Posted by NaughtyMistress

As others have said, T6 and especially T7 sell extremely well. I can make 3000 (yes, 3 zeros) Apple and Cheese Pies and they're gone in 2-4 days.

I doubt you would be able to sell that many in a month on Meneldor unless your proft margin is real small.

Originally Posted by Yula_the_Mighty

I doubt you would be able to sell that many in a month on Meneldor unless your proft margin is real small.

I sell the non-crits for a fairly low price. I'm not losing money on them, but neither do I have a pool of gold from them. Because of the price, people will buy more than one stack, in many cases. But it's the crits that make the cash. I tend to sell the crit pies for 6g a stack, roughly. And even then, I sell out in a day or two. (and that's with all the herbs from farming my own mats, so a fair amount of crits)


But each server is different. Firefoot is a smaller server, but with a lot of the raiders having been around for a long time. We don't hurt for money and want every game advantage for raiding. I know I've gone through whole stacks of crit pies/scones while doing T2 ToO in a couple nights, lol

Not until the high levels, generally.

Reason is simply that if you buy, let's say, a stack of level 20ish food, you won't get through all of it before you outlevel it....


it's the same for anything crafted, to an extent.

It's also good to find your own little niche, for the longest time i was the main lothlorien waybread supplier, to the point where i'd get into a raid and they'd be all, "it's that waybread guy!"