Best Professions in Ashes of Creation

Taking on a profession in Ashes of Creation is a serious endeavor, as it takes a lot of time to master. So, you want to make sure you’re not wasting your time, and it will eventually bring you profit or be useful otherwise. With the current state of the game being in development, things can change pretty drastically. In this guide, we’re going to list the best professions in Ashes of Creation and talk about how each of them could be your choice based on what they can provide.

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How to Know if a Profession is Good or Bad in AoC?

When rating all artisan skills, aka professions, you have to have a plan and good reasoning. What kind of qualities must a good profession have? I’ve come up with these criteria:

• Market demand - this especially applies to the crafting professions. Basically, does your profession let you make something that other players will always buy? Something that everyone needs all the time?
• Complexity - how long does it take you to make an item? Some crafting professions have a long chain of steps you go through to make something. The shorter the chain, the better. I mean, you’d be making more money in less time.
• Time to profit - how long does it take to level up a profession until it starts being profitable?
• Competition - if everyone does it, you won’t make much money off it.
• Drop replacement - can you get the same value in items just by farming mobs?

There are a couple of more things to consider, of course. Things like whether a profession is actually fully and well implemented or not. How much effort does it take compared to alternatives? Is it risky? Do you have to do something in PvP zones for your profession? 

There are a lot of factors to consider, and it takes a lot of hours to learn all this stuff. But the best professions can already be identified by just a handful of key qualities.

The Best Professions in Ashes of Creation

First, let’s name the best artisan skills in Ashes of Creation you should consider if you want to make a profit in the game. These professions are worth your time. If you haven’t touched anything related to crafting, take a look at these and start getting rich! By the way, we have a huge guide dedicated to how crafting works in this game. Check out our AoC Crafting guide if you want to learn more.

Tailoring

Tailoring is one of the top professions in Ashes of Creation. It revolves around shirts that enhance other artisan skills, and shirts sit at the center of the entire economy. Everyone needs more than one shirt for different skills, and those shirts also give you combat power. Even those who never touch artisan systems still need them. The demand never drops, and the action required to use them is minimal, which keeps adoption high.

The rest of the tailoring matters far less. Light armor production is all over the place, leather input resources are annoying to get, and rusted tailoring is weak. None of that changes the outcome because shirts alone can outperform almost every other crafted item in terms of consistent income.

Jeweler

Jewelry is needed by most builds, so you can expect high demand for the stuff you’ll make with this skill. “Dustbound” jewelry in particular moves extremely fast. So, many players consider this to be the best profession in Ashes of Creation. The processing chain is short, the materials are simple, and the barrier to entry is lower than most crafting paths. Demand stays high across all levels. BLOG20

Leveling is unusually easy due to underpriced cut gems flooding the market from players training stonemasonry. That creates a situation where jewelers scale faster than expected and remain profitable with minimal friction.

Alchemy

Alchemy is a top-tier processing skill because it lets you make scrolls. Scrolls provide buffs and long-term power scaling. Even early outputs provide strong value because spoils multiply results rather than relying purely on quality. This interacts extremely well with processing bonuses and duplication effects.

At higher levels, alchemy unlocks some of the strongest buffs in the game using surprisingly basic inputs. Even when margins narrow, volume and constant demand keep it relevant. The system feels unfinished, but the payoff is still there.

Hunting

Hunting is on the list of Ashes of Creation best professions because it generates absurd profit when rare or epic carcasses drop. Static spawns and repeatable routes allow continuous farming, and successful runs can outperform most crafting professions instantly.

The problem is the competition. Players kill each other in PvP for the spawn points, camping hunting routes, making the leveling from scratch pretty rough. At the same time, the profits can be high provided that you sell at the right time and the right place. A typical case of high risk, high reward.

Mining

Mining deserves a mention, but only if you use high-quality tools that increase the yield of rare raw resources that you get from nodes. As soon as you can actually afford anything of a heroic tier or better, each node you come across becomes way more valuable. Besides, everyone always needs raw materials. Nobody wants to waste time mining.

If you only focus on mining, you essentially relieve yourself of using any other production line, like refining (optional), which saves you money. The money you save this way and the money you make from selling raw resources, you should invest in higher-tier tools. And that’s how you keep the wheels of profit turning.

Good Professions in Ashes of Creation That Are Profitable

Now we’re stepping into the territory of arisan skills that have some real drawbacks. Not that they’re completely useless, but you have to look out for potential pitfalls and know them.

Arcane Engineering

Arcane Engineering produces books as the most profitable type of item. That’s why it is among the best professions to make gold in AoC. Books are easy to make, require minimal processing, and serve a massive caster population - mages, summoners, healers, etc. Entry costs are low, and even basic versions sell reliably.

Higher-rarity books outperform mob drops and can’t be easily replaced through mob farming. That exclusivity keeps the profession profitable longer than most crafting paths. But when everyone realizes how simple it is, the value of books will go down, making this profession obsolete. So, it all depends on when you do it and what server you’re on. Higher-rarity books are just better than those that you can get by killing rare and named mobs, so you can’t really replace that with mob farming.

Scribe

Scribe is the crafting profession that actually produces the final product. Like I said earlier, scrolls are always needed during early and mid progression, especially by players pushing levels or funneling resources. Demand spikes quickly, and the production loop is straightforward.

The problem is that it relies on mining, the price of gemstones, and things only get weirder from there. Plus, you also need alchemy to make the powders to get to the higher-level scrolls. Eventually, the scroll price could fall off because once everyone hits level 25, scrolls for experience aren’t really needed.

Herbalism

Herbalism deals with almost every production skill. Especially when you get into apprentice scrolls. You can make it work for cooking, making magic powder, and pretty much everything in between. The skill is fun.

There are a lot of not very high-demand items out there, too. You might have problems selling something like the Snowdrop powder for the arcane engineering. Other than that, you can’t go wrong with herbalism.

Weapon Smithing

Tools drive the real value here. Pickaxes, axes, and sickles sell consistently and give tangible advantages to gatherers. Those advantages justify ongoing purchases.

A lot of people are picking up weapon smithing, though. And they’re all trying to price each other out of the market. This makes it worthless for making weapons themselves.

Animal Husbandry

Animal Husbandry is a poor choice for mostly the same reasons as hunting. It gets pretty expensive to level up, and the demand can screw you, too.

It’s one of those underdeveloped and unique artisan skills that still needs to find its place in the economy, it feels like.

AoC Artisan Skills That Probably Are Not Worth It

There’s a long list of professions in AoC that were left out of the two previous sections. Are they all really that bad? That depends on who you ask. Artisan skills may be better on some servers and worse on others. Even though we’re led to believe that there aren’t that many people playing the game, there are enough players to populate multiple servers and create different economies.

Leatherworking

Leatherworking mostly sucks. At least it lets you make bags that give you different extra slots for crafting resources, which is always nice for people who do gathering. The good part is - no one else wants to do it, so if you do end up picking up this artisan skill, at least you’ll be on the winning side once you get to the expensive side.

Because you can’t make anything super useful besides bags, Leatherworking isn’t all that alluring. Note that we’re not even talking about making leather armor for sale, because usually you can get better options just by farming mobs.

Weaving

Weaving can be pretty good if you look at it as a funnel into tailoring. From that perspective, the skill is good. But otherwise, you have to make bolts like in carpentry, which sucks. Someone still has to make the skivvies, which are artisan skill pants, so there’s that.

Stonemasonry

Stonemasonry benefits from low participation. Armor molds and niche outputs sell better than most processing goods due to reduced competition.

There’s nothing much to do with this profession besides cutting ruby for 10 copper. 

Carpentry

With carpentry, you can make more tools and also bows. Those are pretty good for turning a profit. They’re also not crazy to make.

The problem is leveling. A lot of players are complaining about how slow the leveling is. Just like weapon smithing. You have to make a lot of throwaway bows for experience and then get your money back. Some players might be looking to buy fishing rods, but most are doing herbalism and mining.

Metalworking

Lots of players are making ingots, so the prices get undercut so hard that by the time you get to even something valuable, you’ll lose more on processing. Besides, not many players are buying ingots. Unless you’re doing weapon smithing yourself, it could be worthwhile.

By the way, check out our Ashes of Creation gold farming guide to learn how to make more gold using other methods available in the game.

Lumber Milling

Lumber milling faces the same problem as metalworking. Everyone makes boards, and pricing collapses quickly.

Profit only appears when materials are sourced cheaply and used internally. Selling boards alone rarely feels rewarding.

Tanning

You have to go with Leatherworking and tanning at the same time; there’s no way around it. It may need fewer things to level up, but it doesn’t do much on its own.

Lumberjacking

Wood is always needed, but the return per action is lower compared to mining or hunting. Processing costs and market saturation limit upside. It works best as a supplement, not a focus.

Fishing

Lots of players enjoy sport fishing. But the money-making aspect of fishing is mid because it’s essentially an AFK skill that you level it up by not even playing the game. You have to get the lure, make a chum, and all you get for all that work is measly 40 silver.

Armorsmithing

Armor crafting competes directly with drops. High-level POI farming floods the market with usable gear, reducing demand for crafted armor.

Endgame pieces require extreme investment for limited profit. Buyers are rare, and the time-to-sale is long.

Cooking

This profession is not worth it due to the freeholds. Depending on how the freehold system works, you may or may not be able to make a legendary food with the best buffs. This artisan skill is a bit underdeveloped, and as it stands no,w it depends a lot on where on the map you’re doing it.

Farming

Farming is economically broken. Input costs exceed output value, and vendor pricing makes profit impossible. The profession depends entirely on future freehold mechanics. Until then, it actively loses money.

Now you know which artisan skills will likely be more profitable to you. The best part is - you don’t even have to pick a crafting profession. In some cases, you can stick with a processing profession that will still let you earn enough gold to make you rich. So, be smart and choose wisely. Good luck!

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