Prof. Questions

[Soulreaver]

I gather from reading all these posts that if I want to make alot of gold, I must go with Herbalism and Alchemy?

 

[Pitbull]

I gather from reading all these posts that if I want to make alot of gold, I must go with Herbalism and Alchemy?

Yes, and no.

For massive amounts of gold, I used mining + Herbalism. Alch is a good money maker and best to go with Herbalism. It does sustain your income when your at higer level and your cost for raiding is very cheap

 

[Voicysaurous]

I gather from reading all these posts that if I want to make alot of gold, I must go with Herbalism and Alchemy?

Yes, and no.

For massive amounts of gold, I used mining + Herbalism. Alch is a good money maker and best to go with Herbalism. It does sustain your income when your at higer level and your cost for raiding is very cheap

What Staalbal said.

Very good advice was given to me when I started the game in May. While leveling, get 2 gathering skills i.e. skinning/mining/herbs.

This will bankroll your journeys and adventures. Sure it's nice to be able to craft your own stuff - but it's EXPENSIVE and most of it can be bought on the AH or will be replaced soon.

If you really want to experience the thrill of crafting, level to 80 and then drop skinning or whichever one that won't compliment your crafting skill:

Here's the combo's that work well:

Mining + blacksmithing / engineering / Jewelcrafting / enchanting
Skinning + leatherworking / tailoring (to an extent)
Herbalism + alchemy / inscription / enchanting

Now by that list you can see why miners are making a killing. You supply materials to everyone using one of those 4 crafting professions. Since inscription is the new profession, everyone is power leveling it and don't want to waste time farming low end materials - that's why you can make tons of gold from selling stacks of low-end mats. At one stage copper ore (the lowest cost one) was in high demand for jewelcrafters and people power leveling blacksmithing. Sure I could make more money off a stack of mithril, but it wasn't in demand. So I went farming in darkshore on my mount and managed to get about 70g / hour from all the ore I found. That excluded finding silver mines which I'd sell for 1g per ore.

Blacksmithing is obviously better for warriors/paladins because they wear plate. Leatherworking works well for druids, hunters and even shammies. It is said to be good for rogues too, but I would push for alchemy instead. Although imho, rogues are the ultimate gatherers. I've stealthed through countless mobs to steal the mines in their caves etc. Engineering can work nicely for just about anyone, same goes for enchanting / Jewelcrafting / Inscription. Tailoring works nice for the cloth wearing lot.

The nice thing - as I said, with a gathering skill is your character gets an added skill from it. If you're a miner, you get a stamina boost. If you're a skinner, you get a crit strike boost.

The ideal gathering combo would be mining + herbalism, but with addons you can only really track 1 at a time (you normally see the nodes on your mini map since they're quite hidden from plain sight). But as a mate told me - there's FAAAR too many animals walking around that you have to kill and it would be a sin NOT to skin them. Heck, i've scavanged soooo many leather items from corpses left behind by other players. Easy money.

So to sum up this pointless rant:

If you WANT to make a crafting profession, choose one that suits your class - and remember that your RACE has inherent crafting skill bonuses as well (i.e. gnomes = better engineers, draenai = better jewelcrafters). Having said that, there's no cooler feeling in the game than opening your mailbox with buckets of gold for you from all your gathering material sales

have fun!

 

[semaphore]

My warlock has tailoring / engineering
my druid has herb / alchemy
my priest(holy) has tailoring / enchanting
my priest(shadow) has tailoring / inscription
my hunter has skinning / leatherworking
my mage has tailoring / jewelcrafting

pretty much all of them are high, almost maxed out jewl crafting and enchanting, hunter is only lvl 46 so she still has alot of leveling todo but i will specialize in dragon. before wotlk i used to be able to make about 2500g a day on gems, as now im leveling and not worrying bout market related items i make about 300/400 g a day on ah.

 

[zippy]

i know people who have made loads off production profs, but i couldnt be bothered, tbh. I play this game to raid and dont have the time to hang around the AH. Everynow and then I take all my gathering mats, make what I can to skill up or sell stuff. Mail to my bank alt who will put stuff on the AH. Sometimes I could make a few hundred gold in a night, but its not something i focused on. Sure i dont get my epic riding skill as quick as others, but i get it at some point, and the most importatnt thing is I can raid

I got a bit of shock in Howling Fjord when I trained up 3 lvl70's prof's and first aid. about 300gold gone in minutes. Not going to bother with them till im raiding again.

 

[Trixanno]

I currently have Skinning (450) and Enchanting (322), if you wanna power level your enchanting....make sure you have tons of cash. But my main income pre-WOTLK was the AH, I had ~6000g after I power leveled enchanting to the current level when I dinged 70.

The AH has been kinda wonkey lately, so I'm sending all my loot to a bank toon (with his own guild [only member], 2 bank tabs with a full bank kitted with 18 slot bags) to gather up like a little squirrel. Once the AH has stabilised again, I will start working my magic again.

@semaphore, are you currently working with the new auctioneer and still getting good results from it? Like I said, due to the pricing instability I'm staying clear of it for now, so haven't worked with it too much yet. But if you get a good results from the scans, I might just have to get back into it.

Back to Profs, I am however thinking of dropping Enchanting (I know, at a ~4500g loss for leveling it ) and picking up mining, there is a good spread of crafty guild members around for me. I don't like the whole idea of looking for work the whole time on trade channel, I just wanna pick up the loot, and sell.

 

[zanyboy]

I feel that way about Tailoring on my priest. Maxed it during TBC to get my hands on the Primal Mooncloth set. Man was I shocked when I later calculated the cost involved to level it to max and then craft those 3 items :/

Will be painfull, but also thinking of letting it go for a gathering prof.

 

[Jase]

My LW is going to slooowly as I do not want to buy mats so I just farm them as I level. When in a zone, I like to think of myself as a 'street cleaner', I just have to stop and skin everything that is skinnable. I even ask guys killing multiple mobs if they do not mind looting so I can skin ... 'KEEP NORTHREND TIDY!' is my motto.

 

[Petruz]

I feel that way about Tailoring on my priest. Maxed it during TBC to get my hands on the Primal Mooncloth set. Man was I shocked when I later calculated the cost involved to level it to max and then craft those 3 items :/

Will be painfull, but also thinking of letting it go for a gathering prof.

Well i took inscriptions and damn its painfull to lvl even with herbing i dropped minig and enchanting my my druid and lvled herbing with inscriptions too
But inscriptions seems usefull only down side is my herbing lvl faster than i could get my inscritions so i have to go back to low lvl herbs to keep inscriptions up to date.