Moonkin professionFollow

Given the paucity of moonkin gear with LW, what profession do you recommend?

I'm currently doing Inscription and Herbalism

I prefer Herbalism instead of Mining, less annoying, one-click gather, another Healing spell, I find it more fun.
And For inscription, most of my friends had more advanced levels of the other professions and my brother is an enchanter, so I can help him making scrolls for him to enchant and also do glyphs for me and others. I also get an extra glyph slot with it~

I think its Major... Let me confirm this just to be sure im not giving you false information.
Hm.. I cant find anything to back up what I said, in here http://wotlkwiki.info/index.php/Inscription

But I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere.. Let's wait if someone else can confirm it, I cant trust my memory.

^ thanks for clearing that out beasty!
Strange though, how inscription is giving enchants <.<

I went with Enchanting and Inscription. Mining was leveling too slow, and I was not impressed with most of the Leatherworking patterns, when I tried those.
I like being able to go into lower level instances and farm, so Enchanting is a natural choice. Inscription just came out, so I got that just to see what it would be like.
For those who like to make money from their professions, I have to say that I been able to fund both professions of each other, and still not be poor. Minor Inscriptions and reagents all sell really well.

I'm Herb LW, and I suddenly wished I hadn't dropped skinning as I quest grind in Howling Tundra.

But, I still think Enchanting paired with a gathering class, and Insc/Herb are two very good ones to have.

I have maybe played for 8 hours tops in Northrend, mostly in HF. I have hit 450 skinning all ready. Did you? LW is going a bit slower but still the surplus of skins will make it easy as pie.

He is in "Elite Killers".
Reading SIG + Armory-Usage FTW ;-D

Yeah, I hit 450 without even trying, I wasn't even tracking it I just looked and was already 450, lol. Leveling LW to 400 or so is actually pretty cheap-n-easy thanks to a bunch of patterns that just require Borean Leather. (no thread or anything, good trick!) I got to around 390 or so just with the leather I skinned, then hit the AH to stock up on enough to get me to 400 because that gets you fur linings and the AP leg armor, both with crazycheap mats.

I'd never even think of the need for multiple skillups per node, because skilling up LW is ridiculously fast. Like horse, I hit 450 within hours of reaching Northrend, and remember hitting 375 before I even MADE it to Outland.

When you're in an area where a quest requires the murder of skinnable mobs, you are usually SURROUNDED by skillup opportunities. So remember, all you non-skinners, every time you kill a skinnable mob and don't clear out its loot, an angel has its delicate wings plucked from its cherubic body by an angry skinner.

As far as the leg armors are concerned, there are also epic patches available which have the same stats as the LW only patches. :-

[wowitem=38373]Frosthide Leg Armor[/wowitem] & [wowitem=38374]Icescale Leg Armor[/wowitem]

The only benefit we get is the MUCH cheaper mats for our version of the armor - both are 2 Acrtic Fur cheaper than the non-LW ones.


Bracer enchants for LW gives (compared to regular enchants) a bonus of :- +64AP, +90 stamina (no stam enchant), +37 spellpower
Ring enchants give enchanters a bonus of :- +64AP(2x32), +48(2x24) stamina, +38(2x19) spellpower
Blacksmiths get 2 extra gems (assuming blue quality here) :- +64AP(2x32), +48(2x24) stamina, +38(2x19) spellpower
Inscribers Shoulder Inscriptions (compared to epic alternatives) Give :- +64AP, +32 DODGE, +37 spellpower


So a lot of the bonuses work out to be very close. BS's get a bit of a benefit in that they have a lot more variety in the gems they can use to fill the sockets and will also be able to use epic gems down the track when they become available. Of course, by then, they may add better fur-linings and ring enchants to match as well. Engineers get all sorts of cool stuff, so they are a bit different. Tailors get their "embroiderys" which give cloak enchants that proc, which are difficult to compare directly with these other bonuses. JC's get BoP gems, but I couldn't find them here on on WowHead so I couldn't compare them. Blizzard seem to have done a pretty good job of balancing the bonuses from crafting professions, so which one you take really comes down to personal preference.

You are probably right here, but as a LW who doesn't have a skinning toon, at the moment everything is expensive :)

I went through this pain back in BC as well. I was originally LW/Skinning but dropped skinning for Enchanting in Vanilla WoW to make the [wowitem=11811]Smoking Heart of the Mountain[/wowitem] and then had too many rare patterns to give it up. After all, there isn't that much to buy mats wise when you are already max level - expansions really hurt though!