Minimum skill builds and alt armies, TWWs best strat? (Patreon)

I watched Kaychaks great video on minimum skill builds, and honestly the thought is very intriguing.

Go against the grain

Obviously with max quality being attainable if you have every skill bonus maxing your skill seems very valuable. But Concentration is essentially a “free” resource, and long term you can still craft with lower quality cheaper materials and use concentration to get max. This means that lower skill builds will likely be profitable in many markets even after players are guaranteeing max quality.

Many alts, many many alts

Alts are the cornerstone of Kaychaks strategy. You want as many of them as possible, and for each of them you will want to do every one time source of knowledge, so do all the treasure collections. Then you park the alts by a crafting station and go to work. Depending on the build and item you will be able to craft anywhere from 2-10 items per full concentration bar, so alts are KEY to utilizing low skill builds if you want to get volume.

Where is this good?

In my opinion low skill builds make a lot more sense for items you can sell on the AH. For crafting orders they will be a lot more cumbersome, relogging around to the right crafter after finding a buyer on your main seems very inefficient. You want to log on, craft and mail the results and go next. For gear crafting the number of relevant recipes is fairly small, and top crafters will likely be able to guarantee max quality by the time the season begins. Obviously if q2 materials are a lot cheaper this will be more relevant, but we don’t know.

Consumables are king

Consumables are king for concentration low level crafts. They sell fast, and they often require more knowledge than gear to max out, in particular alchemy is extremely knowledge-hungry to max out. This also fits the bill of being very quick to do, and you can do patron orders to gradually up your skill to spend less concentration and potentially guarantee q3 crafts.