O.K. before you freak out because this has been asked so many times hear me out. I want the best two professions for gear. Assuming gold is no object is leather working and engineering going to give me the best gear. I've searched through a lot of "which profession" posts but they all seem concerned with making gold.
I'm only interested in gear. You see I don't get a lot of time to do instances, and I'm not in a guild so I would like to be able to grind and craft most of my gear so that I'm not a scrub until I do get the opportunity to get some gear out of heroic's or kara or whatever.
Problem is that I'm not sure if these are the two best choices. I'm looking at the Ebon set from leather working. I realize some of those pieces take nethers but I'm not too worried about that for now. However I'm not sure about engineering. Do the really nice hunter patterns drop in instances? Are they BOP? Is there really anything that good in engineering to level it up? I said to assume gold was no object but I don't want to just throw it away for nothing. I would like to put it into a good investment. Thank you!