Wrong place for this 'Poisons' post, but whatev'.
Poisons are CLASS specific (Rogue). Near as I know, they really have nothing to do with Alchemy (mind you, I'm only a 310 alchemist and I could be wrong). I believe you have to either go to your trainer and get a quest to learn poisons, or you get them upon a specific level, I'm not a rogue, I don't know.
As to the point of the original post: unless you are are really diligent about it, and spend about 75% of your time (some days more) with your alchemy, then it's really hard to make gold with it.
I'm an alchemist because I want to keep myself in healing and mana potions and Intellect and Spirit based elixirs that, if I were not an alchemist, would be very hard to find because they are rarely listed in the AH (at least on my server). Eventually, I'm going to switch to tailoring to make my own gear.
When I do make money it's either from selling healing or mana (by massive quantities, which means I've had to either spend a day or so farming herbs, or have had them stocked up in my bank and had to go days barely making any) or from a transmute, which, as was mentioned, has a cool-down that makes you want to bleed out your eyeballs.
In short, I agree with the OP - don't get into alchemy for the money.
Also, it is possible to service 40 customers a week, if you take into account, at least half of them may only want a few healing or mana potions of various levels, or a rage potion. Still though, it would take a lot of time devoted to alchemy to fill that many orders.
Poisons are CLASS specific (Rogue). Near as I know, they really have nothing to do with Alchemy (mind you, I'm only a 310 alchemist and I could be wrong). I believe you have to either go to your trainer and get a quest to learn poisons, or you get them upon a specific level, I'm not a rogue, I don't know.
As to the point of the original post: unless you are are really diligent about it, and spend about 75% of your time (some days more) with your alchemy, then it's really hard to make gold with it.
I'm an alchemist because I want to keep myself in healing and mana potions and Intellect and Spirit based elixirs that, if I were not an alchemist, would be very hard to find because they are rarely listed in the AH (at least on my server). Eventually, I'm going to switch to tailoring to make my own gear.
When I do make money it's either from selling healing or mana (by massive quantities, which means I've had to either spend a day or so farming herbs, or have had them stocked up in my bank and had to go days barely making any) or from a transmute, which, as was mentioned, has a cool-down that makes you want to bleed out your eyeballs.
In short, I agree with the OP - don't get into alchemy for the money.
Also, it is possible to service 40 customers a week, if you take into account, at least half of them may only want a few healing or mana potions of various levels, or a rage potion. Still though, it would take a lot of time devoted to alchemy to fill that many orders.