Use your tailoring to fund your enchanting by creating blues and greens, and disenchanting them. You get the skill ups in tailoring and the supplies for your enchanting.
MOST GUIDES have you make commons that require the least components. Problem for you is that these items (until they start making mageweave) cannot be disenchanted These were NOT written for ench/tailors, don't follow them, only use them as a "general" idea of what to do.
Check disenchant histories to make what you are short on (some have a higher percentage to make essences)
DONT make things that need odd items (pearls etc.) save those ingredients for your ench requests.
If you get to a tradeskill lvl that you can't obtain the items to continue any further crafting (mageweave for example), perhaps its best to hold off on your tradeskills till you lvl up some or you have excess money to invest in the AH. When you do invest, keep the above in mind to maximize every copper piece you spend. Also try to limit the money spent in AH. Use the Bidding system (not buyout) if you do, and keep an eye out for people using the /trade channel to sell wool / silk etc.. typically they beat the AH bid/buyout prices.
Adventure to your tradeskill needs. Why do another boring run through DM getting linen when linen recipes are gray and the mobs are green? Start hitting places (like stockade) to get wool and better XP. Quit trying to farm that defias armor for money. If you go to stockade, you get sellable / Disenchantable items there AND tailoring supplies, therefore you aren't buying it (wool) in AH.
Saving one extra wool or silk on a recipe that makes a common and not a rare / unique will save you the few silver on the tailoring, but is costing you money on enchant supplies (not making things to disenchant).
Additionally, some items (pants for example) tend to yield more dust, than simpler recipes. but which is better?
Making:
Wool gloves with 2 wool - yield 1-2 dusts on average
or Wool pants with 4 wool - Yields 4-5 dusts average
The pants are better of course!
** these are purely for example, and not actual from ingame recipes **
Spend the wool, make the dusts...... UNLESS......
unless your tailoring is falling way behind your enchanting and you need the tailoring skill points MORE than you need the enchanting supplies / skillups.... (keep in mind this will affect your pool of ingredients for enchanting requests).
Do your best to keep your Enchanting and Tailoring Skill levels relatively balanced. It will save you time, frustration, and more inportantly MONEY.
Finally... After a night of instances and XP grinding, and you have items you won't use but you don't know what to do with.
[*]If you are doing alright on enchanting supplies:
Sell the commons to vendor / AH
Sell blue/green armor in AH (you will have enough dusts from your tailoring already)
Disenchant the blue/green weapons, you typically will need their DE results for your enchanting more since you cant tailor weapons ;) )
[*]If your enchanting is falling way behind:
Disenchant all your unwanted green / blue loots, sell the rest to vendor / AH
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Other notes. (more for making money)
Check Auction House.
If there aren't any of an item and you know it's decent (say decent int at low lvl) .. Craft one as a test run and see if it sells, then 2 if it does. If it does, and doesn't require a lot of rare drop supplies to make, perhaps you can make a little extra money there.
You can try going out over /trade "Making VERY cheap lowbie caster twink armor at request, for example <link>". And see if you get a bite. You might get several.. just don't keep spamming. Once every 5 to 10 minutes is enough.
If there are a lot of an item at the AH, then see who is selling it. If its from a lot of various people, then the market is saturated, move on.
If they are all typically from one person, there are 2 reaons for it:
A) Someone knows a money maker that you aren't aware of (is it a quest item?)
B) Someone is selling all their skill-up items since they can't DE and don't want to take the hit on vendor buy-back prices.
Typically speaking though, don't bother making more to flood the market even worse.
Davinitis - 34 Mage
Anvilmar - Alliance
225 Tailor / Enchanter / Cook / First Aid / Fisherman
DISCLAIMER:
If something in this post doesn't make sense, or you just flat out disagree with me, too bad.. it's not my fault. I've been been snorting a little too much vision dust lately.