Rogue ProffessionsFollow

You could pick 2 Gathering Professions Mining/Skinning or Herb/Skinning and sell whatever you gather on the AH. When you get higher you can drop one and start crafting.
Why is Leatherworking not working for you, if it is because you don't use most of what you make, you will probably find the other Crafting Professions are the same.



Edited, Jun 9th 2008 2:21am by Mermic

For leveling, herbalism/skinning.

For PvE at endgame, leatherworking/engineering; for PvP, JC/engineering.

Edit: don't even try to argue, unless it's to say you like mining more than herbalism.

Edited, Jun 9th 2008 1:52am by Theophany

I leveled my Druid to 40 with Mining/Jewelcrafting, sold copper bars on AH once they weren't useful to me, tin I prospected and sold the gems, excess rings went to a mage enchanter for disenchanting.
At 40 had enough gold for mount, respec and new gear for the respec and about 20g over.

I don't PVE really, so I'm not the most qualified to comment on that. Still, I guess that T6 is better than the leatherworking BOP crafts.

Probably the same for engineering, although the new googles are really nice. Not sure if they're better or worse than T6. One thing for sure: the schematics are damn hard to get, not a single guild on my server is that far (Sunwell plateau).

In any case, I'm pretty sure that high end PVE drops are superior to the crafts. So it would in my eyes be better to be an enchanter, which gives you a unique boost (enchant rings which only enchanters can have).



Allow me to disagree here: I'd say enchanting/JC because, as I said above, enchanting gives you the unique ring enchants and jewelcrafting gives you the shadowsang panther trinket which is very nice.

Engineering (which I have) gives you nothing unique (except if the new googles are better than T6? and still, you got to be damn lucky/filthy rich to get them). No useful engineering item can be used in arenas (the only one I'm using now are the epic googles and I'll replace them with S4). Engineering gives you a few toys which can be useful when you gear up or other than that some funy / powerful items to play with in BGs / PVE. But certainly nothing useful for arenas (where most cool items are disabled).

nostra

Let me elaborate.

Engineering is for the goggles, both T1 and T2. T1 is the best item in-slot until you get T6 helm/Vision. I don't see too many of you killing Archimonde/Illidan. The only helm that's an upgrade to the T1 goggles is T5, and that's only with a set bonus added in.

This also applies to PvP, where the goggles and the Shadowsong trinket give you a substantial advantage over other rogues and druids.

JC is the best for PvP for the Shadowsong Panther.

LW is the best for PvE for Drums.

Enchanting isn't a big enough bonus to either to make it worthwhile. Just make friends with the best enchanter on your realm.