You make more money with stones. Lets do the math (and this is hypothetical)
If you rondo your alchemy drops and collect tablets then there's no loss with buying them. So lets say you have an STR LVL 8 tab.
Requires:
Earth 8 - 110 units (worth 110,000 gold)
Water 6 - 43 units (worth 43,000)
Fire 4 - 68 units (worth 68,000)
Wind 2 - 141 units (worth 282,000)
You could simply sell the elements for a total of 503,000 gold or create the stone and sell it for 1.5mil or more (prices vary per server, but this is a general idea of the profit you can make)
Keep in mind that lower level tablets don't sell for as much, so the profit might be in selling the actual elements and tablets. I personally wouldn't start selling stones until lvl 5 or 6.
And also what I've seen a lot of people do is run onto the ice in korakaram, let their pet pick up all the junk drops and sell the elements for a quick buck or maybe keep a bank of elements and tabs to make stones. Just depends how much time you are willing to invest.
