Get Up. Check the broker. Buy up any one who is gouging me on my price - Providing it's not to much, Check my other resources. Collect my money - Head out to the Enchanted lands for a tour to see how much more fey iron I can manage to snag. I'm really after fey steel - However I'm to cheap to buy it. (Fey steel is worth about 100 fey iron) So I'll be harvesting for a while. Currently I'm at 1 fey steel for every 600 pieces of fey iron. So no big deal, no matter what happens. I also have some controlling interest in rosewood - A T7 Wood, fairly common, that is selling for a mere 20 some odd silver, I'm actually trying to unload the wood as the price fluctuates on it far, far to much - That and it's fairly easy to get, the broker tends to get flooded with it every weekend.
Since I'm crafting in Tier 8 - I'm saving what lichen root, Redwood and minerals I come across - It's super easy to get and there is a large amount of area for me to harvest in. (That and I'm helping a guild mate betray to an assassin and need 29 more loams for his spells)
Just an ideal - From watching the market - T1 (level 1 to 9) Roots, tin, loam, lead, all go for about 5+ silver, depending on quantity. I've seen it as high as 50 silver when it's scarce.
T2 (10-19) usually runs 1-5 silver - It's easy to get, and most lower levels start their harvesting here - That and there is the largest jump in harvesting skills between 2 and 3 (20 to harvest t2, and 90 to harvest t3 means that there is a glutton of t2 on the market)
T3 (20-29) Tends to be pretty pricy. Carbonite suffers to the same rarity as fey iron, and sells fairly well on the broker, Belladonna roots are also fairly pricy at this tier (20 silverish)
T4 (30-39) This tier runs up and down. Some times it's pricey, other times it's dirt cheap. It's not that easy to harvest with a mere 3 zones that you can find the resources in.Fey iron is in this tier, and is one of the rarest common materials in the game.
T5 (40-49) This tier usually isn't that expensive there's a large amount of places to actually get the items and tends to be a stepping stone into the higher tiers - Granted the usual - Roots required by every trade skill is usually pricy (25 silver)
T6 (50-59) Most hated Tier. Roots are hideously expensive and hard to locate. They're down right scarce. Roots are very expensive (Ranging upwards of 75 silver each) the minerals fluctuate in prices depending on demand
T7 (60-69) Not bad - Expect to pay average prices for most materials unless someone with a lot of money buys up the resources (Like me) and charges higher then market value for them. Average value for these tends to be around 20 sp per item, but will vary per server.
T8 (70-80) Cheap to a level 80 player, Down right expensive to a level 1 player. Everything except minerals are pricy, with price ranges from 10 silver right up to 1 gold per item. It all depends on demand (Kind of like oil) Rarest tend to be very expensive at this stage, particularly for scouts and fighters (Due to an imbalance)
I'll keep in touch
-B-