what do you have for trade skills??Follow

so i started my priest a bit ago and i had herbs and alch. well i didn't care for alch and i wanted money so i droped alch and went with skinning and herb for gathering and selling. but now i am getting bored with that. so i am just wondering what trades everyone has on their priests that accually help them out in the short and long run.

thanks in advance for the replies.

Tailoring isn't very good until you get to 70 when there are some BoP tailor items that are very very good.

Your second skill is kind of up to you. Some suggest enchanting because you can enchant your own gear but I find that there are very few enchants you can't pay someone else to do to for you. (Are the enchants to rings the only ones?) Unless those jewelry enchants are worth a lot to you, enchanting is a giant money sink with very little payoff.

If you're leveling and this is your first toon I'd go with tailoring and a gathering profession. Mining tends to be the most profitable so maybe go tailor/mining until you are well established.

Personally I think that Tailoring/Alchemy are the best because you can get the alchemist stone which makes raiding a whole lot easier.

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Personally I have skinning and mining, skinning + herb/mine gives you two gathering professions, enchanting is a big money sink, although disenchant can be profitable. Smitihing/leather is obviously a waste of time for a clothie. Tailoring provides some great bop gear at 70 and can make decent gold with rare patterns.

My problem with enchanting as a money maker is that you have to level enchanting to be able to DE higher level items so, like it or not you have to do a lot of regular enchanting which is a money sink. I'm sure at higher levels it does pay off though.

cool cool. thanks alot guys. looks like i am going to go with skinning and herm for now until a bit higher then go with like tailoring and maybe enchanting.

great feedback. thanks alot.

I don't really understand why a mage/warlock/priest that has an end goal of raiding wouldn't take Tailoring.

I mean, you can obviously play however you want, but the level 70 gear you can make for yourself is unreal. Nothing like sitting around a boss loot session and watching everyone going crazy rolling for T4 gear while you sit back and laugh to yourself when you realize your gear is already better than T4.

If money is a major concern for you (for me it's not - I'm content with my basic flying mount), then sure pick up a gathering skill to go with it. Just pair it with Tailoring - so worth it.

As for enchanting - it is a huge money soak, I'll certainly concede that. However, I enjoy being able to enchant my own gear, plus the ring enchants are caster only. Not a huge draw, but that's still +24 spell dam I wouldn't have otherwise. I still make money selling arcane dust/greater planars/large prismatics. Not as much as another gathering profession, but I get by.

There are arguments for Herb/Alc, but we have guild pot makers for that, and there's no way I'd pass on Tailoring.

/steps off pedestal

Edited, Aug 3rd 2007 9:58am by Azzwurms

I agree with you, Mookus. Alc is fine as a complement to Tailoring if you want - I'm just saying not Herb and Alc because you can't get Tailoring. Enchanting is just what I chose to go with since it's a stand-alone profession.

How would Alch / Tailor work? I mean, Alchemy needs herbs, do you just buy them all? That would be an even bigger money sink than Enchanting. My priest (level 25) is an enchanter / tailor and it's a money sink, but I make some of it back selling excess enchanting supplies and I have a main to fund him, so it's not bad. But if I tried to level Alchemy without having Herbalism, I'd bankrupt myself.