Professions for Protection WarriorFollow

Didn't see much in the stickies about professions...

Do most of you do BS with a random other? I was thinking possibly JC, also. Of course, I would be supplying money from a main.

My question is... what specialization is best for a protection warrior in the BS tree?

Thanks

i was mining/herbing and it worked well. could farm everything i needed for crafted gear and raid pots... plus all the herbs left over usually converted nicely into stacks of mana pots i used to hand out.

plus dire maul east is reasonably profitable for an undergeared miner/herbaler protection warrior on a pvp server.

I started out with blacksmithing but when I reached level 70 and went the way of the tank I realized that it was more of a waste of time for me than it was worth. I ended up dropping it and picking up jewel crafting which has payed off way more than BS would have.

Prospecting and cutting my own gems has saved me a ton of money when I upgrade gear. I can also make some decent cash if I sell some of the more desired cut gems, although making money is not why I leveled it.

The couple of BoP Unique-Equipped cuts that are available are nice too to help up your stamina and defense that much more.

The tanking goggles are T5 equivalent. With them, GBKD and the 45 stam eng trinket, I can gain about 1k health over my current setup. That's pretty much a big deal.

unless you go with a high consumable profession like alchemy and gather all your own mats, i'm not sure that making money from a profession > making money from farming primals/rep items/cloth/etc. then again, i've never leveled alchemy so i wouldn't know. what i DO know is that once i've leveled engineering to 375, i can make 100g or so per GBKD on the nether fee, and the same with any other epic BoE from BS that needs a nether to create... at least, until nethers become non-BoP in 2.4 /cheer /slashwrist

Gathering your own mats doesn't count as making more money than if you had bought the mats. Because you could also sell them on the AH for exactly the amount you paid to buy them. So your net profit isn't any higher if you gather your own mats.

+1

also take into account your playing style. a couple months ago, i was able to raid maybe once a week. now, due to RL scheduling changes, i'm lucky if i can raid once a month, and most of the time now that's a gruul farm that i can't get T4 from anyway because other guildies have been farming him for much longer without any luck. i've managed to get 3 tanking pieces from kara and 4 dps pieces from kara/gruul, but that was all in the first few months of raiding. nothing has dropped for me since, and my overlord's helmet of second sight and felsteel helm/nethershrike are getting really old for dpsing and tanking.

solution: drop mining for engineering, and craft the dps and tanking goggles, GBKD, and goblin rocket launcher. the tanking goggles have more stam than the T5 helm, have a bit less dodge and have 13 +hit. the dps goggles have more strength than the T5 dps helm, a bit less hit and have a bit more crit. despite not having a single T4 or T5 piece, i'm still very raid viable for tanking or dpsing thanks to crafted gear and badge gear.

the trinkets with 51 stam are awesome tanking trinkets if you ask me.

Edited, Mar 13th 2008 2:55pm by gnetter