i know this is probably been asked 100x times sorry, i looked but couldn't find anything.
i was thinking of getting alchemy as my primary profession, and then getting herb. to compliment it and for money reasons, or should i get engineering or something like that as secondary?
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Depends on what you want to do at 70. If you want to raid, I recommend taking tailoring as the epic pieces that you can make are fantastic and last a while.
Anobix is right. If you plan on doing raiding at all at 70 then tailoring is somthing to think about. You can either get it from the start and lvl it or do what I did. I made a few alts, gave them full bags and some bank bags, then sent them all my cloth while I lvled. That way I played though with herbs and enchanting for money. Then at 70 I dropped herbs (oops) and lvled up tailoring. If I had to redo it I would start with herbs and mining then drop the one that made less money on my server and replace it with tailoring.
If you want to focus more on PvP with some heroics/kara tossed in there then pick up either mining or herbs for $$. The other is your choice. Now that I focus fully on pvp I have maxed enchanting and maxed mining. Gold is easy to come by.
Just don't fall for the people that say they can make money with crafting profs. Besides maybe alch the rest won't compare to mining/skinning/herbs for making gold. Always have one of those 3 as one of your profs.
If you want to focus more on PvP with some heroics/kara tossed in there then pick up either mining or herbs for $$. The other is your choice. Now that I focus fully on pvp I have maxed enchanting and maxed mining. Gold is easy to come by.
Just don't fall for the people that say they can make money with crafting profs. Besides maybe alch the rest won't compare to mining/skinning/herbs for making gold. Always have one of those 3 as one of your profs.
Tailoring is pretty much a must for any mage that is serious, be it while leveling or when you hit 70, Spellfire/Frozen Shadoweave is hands down the best mage gear you can get without putting forth much effort.
I would go the Alch/Herb route, just because A) Mana Potions are your friend and B) People buy potions that mages don't need. By the time you hit 70, it's really up to you if you want to abandon Herbalism for Tailoring.
Another option you could consider is Mining/Jewelcrafting. Granted, you won't make a lot of money at it at first, but once you get into the 300's and start cutting gems for sockets, you will be living large. A coworker of mine makes 800g a day selling gems. If you don't mind not having the Spellfire/Frozen Shadoweave set along with a pretty useless profession for most of the game at the trade-off of being insanely wealthy when you hit 70 and put your goods in the AH, JC is the way to go.
Then there's what I call the cookie-cutter make money professions. Enchanting for the DE's, Mining/Skinning, Herb/Skin, Herb/Mining...All are good. Naturally you want to stay away from Blacksmithing and Leatherworking, and Engineering does have some decent gear when you top out, in my opinion, it's just not worth the commitment to have a different flying mount and a pair of epic goggles.
I would go the Alch/Herb route, just because A) Mana Potions are your friend and B) People buy potions that mages don't need. By the time you hit 70, it's really up to you if you want to abandon Herbalism for Tailoring.
Another option you could consider is Mining/Jewelcrafting. Granted, you won't make a lot of money at it at first, but once you get into the 300's and start cutting gems for sockets, you will be living large. A coworker of mine makes 800g a day selling gems. If you don't mind not having the Spellfire/Frozen Shadoweave set along with a pretty useless profession for most of the game at the trade-off of being insanely wealthy when you hit 70 and put your goods in the AH, JC is the way to go.
Then there's what I call the cookie-cutter make money professions. Enchanting for the DE's, Mining/Skinning, Herb/Skin, Herb/Mining...All are good. Naturally you want to stay away from Blacksmithing and Leatherworking, and Engineering does have some decent gear when you top out, in my opinion, it's just not worth the commitment to have a different flying mount and a pair of epic goggles.
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Tailoring is pretty much a must for any mage that is serious, be it while leveling or when you hit 70, Spellfire/Frozen Shadoweave is hands down the best mage gear you can get without putting forth much effort.
Tailoring is not a must by any means. I could say anyone who is serious about T6 content has leatherworking (drums) + enchanting (ring enchants) but thats simply not true. There are plenty of serious raiders who are deep in sunwell without silly things like leatherworking.
Take whatever professions you want that suit your class. Obviously blacksmithing for a mage is a dumb choice, but herbalism, alchemy, enchanting, tailoring, mining, engineering are all fine choices.
Sorry but I'm not a tailor and I won't be going back to tailoring. That doesn't make me any less 'serious', especially now that I can get better loot from the badge vendor.
Tailoring right now is pretty obsolete unless you're just starting kara with no badges in the bank.
Edited, May 4th 2008 8:40pm by mikelolol
mikelolol wrote:
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Tailoring is pretty much a must for any mage that is serious, be it while leveling or when you hit 70, Spellfire/Frozen Shadoweave is hands down the best mage gear you can get without putting forth much effort.
Tailoring is not a must by any means. I could say anyone who is serious about T6 content has leatherworking (drums) + enchanting (ring enchants) but thats simply not true. There are plenty of serious raiders who are deep in sunwell without silly things like leatherworking.
Take whatever professions you want that suit your class. Obviously blacksmithing for a mage is a dumb choice, but herbalism, alchemy, enchanting, tailoring, mining, engineering are all fine choices.
Sorry but I'm not a tailor and I won't be going back to tailoring. That doesn't make me any less 'serious', especially now that I can get better loot from the badge vendor.
Tailoring right now is pretty obsolete unless you're just starting kara with no badges in the bank.
Edited, May 4th 2008 8:40pm by mikelolol
Or working on getting the Sunwell patterns.
Sunwell has patterns?!
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Alch/herb.
making your own consumes = cheap
selling consumes = Money
alch/herb = pretty easy
making your own consumes = cheap
selling consumes = Money
alch/herb = pretty easy
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Sunwell has patterns?!
1 awesome robe AFAIK
Damn, I need to look it up! Is it better than the Frozen Shadoweave robe?!
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BillyRayValentine wrote:
Damn, I need to look it up! Is it better than the Frozen Shadoweave robe?!
just a smidgen
look up the sunfire robe.
mikelolol wrote:
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Sunwell has patterns?!
1 awesome robe AFAIK
the gloves are slick as well.
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Damn, I need to look it up! Is it better than the Frozen Shadoweave robe?!
Get the bracers off Kalecgos to keep bonus and put this crafted robe over t6.
Best robe in game(unless Kil'jaeden has something in his loot table not found yet). And when we get to Sunwell boss kills im hoping for boots as well as bracers to keep t6 4pc to put on sunfire tailored gloves. But the good thing is the majority of trash (at least in so far opened gates) is before first boss and
can be farmed for patterns. The bad part is the pattern drop rate is extremely low. So far we got only the blacksmithing holy pally chest and leatherworking
mail chest. But we have gotten quite a few epic drops (multiple wands, multiple
shaman gloves, hunter polearm).
Also a lot of the drops can be traded with a sunmote to change the piece.
I.E. elemental shaman gloves with sunmote gets Resto shaman gloves. 2 of our pairs went to resto shamans for this reason.
Edited, May 10th 2008 3:38pm by Toxicityoh
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Edited, May 10th 2008 3:47pm by Toxicityoh
Edited, May 10th 2008 3:47pm by Toxicityoh
I'd disagree about tailoring NOT being almost necessity.
The crafted pieces are better than anything in tier 4 content really (aside from lack of stam). For many mages, you will have a hard time getting a spot in a guild without a certain amount of +damage/crit/hit. These items will definitely put you at those stats. If you want to be the best mage you can without being a tier 5/6 guild (because everyone goes from 70 blues to tier 5 instantly lol), tailoring is the way to go. It's hard for up and coming mages to get a foothold because the expectations placed on them is so high.
Aside from that, whatever you want is great. Enchanting + tailoring tend to go hand in hand because there is no gather profession to help tailoring. But I'd suggest tailoring + enchanting OR any gathering profession.
The crafted pieces are better than anything in tier 4 content really (aside from lack of stam). For many mages, you will have a hard time getting a spot in a guild without a certain amount of +damage/crit/hit. These items will definitely put you at those stats. If you want to be the best mage you can without being a tier 5/6 guild (because everyone goes from 70 blues to tier 5 instantly lol), tailoring is the way to go. It's hard for up and coming mages to get a foothold because the expectations placed on them is so high.
Aside from that, whatever you want is great. Enchanting + tailoring tend to go hand in hand because there is no gather profession to help tailoring. But I'd suggest tailoring + enchanting OR any gathering profession.
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