warlock professionsFollow

First Character?
Skinning and Mining or Skinning and Herbalism

Not interested in farming?
Tailoring and Enchanting - 3 piece tailoring craftables, Self-Enchant
Alchemy and Herbalism - Trinket/Elixirs, Money
Engineering and Mining - Goggles and Money
Jewelcrafting and Mining - Own Gems, Money

FreeTrial is on the right track.

What do you intend to do when you get max level?

Raiding? Enchanting + Jewelcrafting/Engineering/Tailoring (it's best complemented by Tailoring, though - and depending on Drums in the xpac, maybe Leatherworking)

PvP? Engineering + Enchanting/Jewelcrafting

Engineering and Tailoring both will get you profession specific flying mounts (engineering now, tailoring with expansion).
Enchanting nets you ring enchants.
Jewelcrafting is a nice moneymaker, and also has several BoP gems and trinkets.
Leatherworking provides some nice trinkets, and can make decent money on some servers.
Engineering gets you goggles, and plenty of toys.
Tailoring gets you some decent craftables, as well as netherweave nets and armor kits for casters.
Alchemy gets you some trinkets, as well as plenty of potions (when combined with herbalism), but is generally not that great a profession for warlocks.


Edited, Oct 7th 2008 11:38am by wingsofscion

Yep, that's pretty much it in a nutshell. :P

PvP is Player vs. Player, so it refers to battlegrounds and arenas and world PvP.

PvE or raiding, it pretty much as you say, kill stuff and loot.

Of course, you don't actually have to have any professions at all. ;) It just helps you along here and there.

FreeTrial, remember that Spellfire, FSW and PMC sets are all straight spellpower in xpac, not +shadow/fire/etc. Suggesting Tailoring based on level 70 gear is a bad way to go about it if OP plans to go to 80 at any time.

There is no real "best" profession for any class, just things that don't work for them (e.g., casters taking blacksmithing is usually a no-no). There are certain perks to each profession, though, and it is all based on playstyle, and certain professions work better for different aspects of play (i.e., engineering is almost requisite for PvP).

Personally, I went tailor/enchanter on my warlock and mining/jewelcrafting on my shaman - and really, I see no benefits that outweigh the other, save cashflow (JC tends to be better in that department than enchanting/tailoring).

Of course, warriors should go with engineering, in any case. Blacksmithing kinda sucks right now. =\

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A "warlock-specific" PROFESSION. PERIOD. Anyone who says there is, lies.

There are two possible reasons for choosing a profession: to make stuff you can use; or to make gold. Too often, the two reasons are incompatible. If you choose two professions that appear to be compatible with each other like mining/jewelcrafting you will find that you will lose gold, even while you are making those rings for yourself. The same holds for mining/engineering, herbalism/Alchemy, etc. Gathering skills make you gold. Crafting skills make you poor. What class you are has nothing to do with it.

Wingsofscion's choices only apply when you get to max level. Don't choose a crafting skill until then, unless you want to bleed gold freely, or if crafting rather than making gold is your goal. Remember that gold will buy you almost any crafted item until you get to high levels, except for engineering stuff.

Rifles/Ammo :)