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Is engineering a good profession for a druid? If not, what is another good choice? I am currently mining/skinning until about 40 when I plan to drop one.
They're all good, differently.
What's your focus? Raiding, PvP, making gold, hardcore/casual?
Answers will vary.
What's your focus? Raiding, PvP, making gold, hardcore/casual?
Answers will vary.
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Nuit the Insane! - Retired Druid on Sentinels.
Ombre - Retired Dragoon/bard on Phoenix.
Just keep those 2 and make money.
More health and more crit are nice side benefits to your wealth gained from farming.
More health and more crit are nice side benefits to your wealth gained from farming.
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Well, what I was thinking was mining and skinning until 40 and then mining and tailoring, selling the bags and cosplay items.
Tailoring just for bags is not really a good idea.
If you plan on mainly being resto or balance than maybe as the leg patches and what not may be a strong selling point. If your really hurt for bags just hoard cloth and find a tailor in a city to make you some.
If you want a functional profession at 40 go leather working, enchanting or JC.
JC gets some top of the line trinkets and fancy gems.
Enchanting gets ring enchants and you can DE stuff for money and save money by doing your own enchants.
Leather working gets nice bracer enchants. All the leather crafted gear is currently BoE unlike JC and enchanting.
edit: What are cosplay items?
Edited, Jan 28th 2009 6:18pm by Horsemouth
If you plan on mainly being resto or balance than maybe as the leg patches and what not may be a strong selling point. If your really hurt for bags just hoard cloth and find a tailor in a city to make you some.
If you want a functional profession at 40 go leather working, enchanting or JC.
JC gets some top of the line trinkets and fancy gems.
Enchanting gets ring enchants and you can DE stuff for money and save money by doing your own enchants.
Leather working gets nice bracer enchants. All the leather crafted gear is currently BoE unlike JC and enchanting.
edit: What are cosplay items?
Edited, Jan 28th 2009 6:18pm by Horsemouth
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If your going feral, and want benefits from your professions, Mining for health is good, or skinning for crit, herbalism for lifeblood (great for tanking). I also like alchemy and skinning for the ability to buff and make my own armor.
Leatherworking and Inscription if you want to go boomkin. The two enchants you get for bracers and shoulders net you 127 sp and 15 more crit, which is roughly .4% crit chance.
But if you want to be feral both of those are still good! Good stam enchants and ap enchants.
But if you want to be feral both of those are still good! Good stam enchants and ap enchants.
i lvled 70-80 as skinn/lw but droped it the other day for mineing/jc. i think it's the highest hp combo atm not to mention i jump to boomkin from time to time so think it may help there.
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If your going feral, and want benefits from your professions, Mining for health is good
Other than the exercise from swinging a pick, how does one gain health from mining?
Z
(ps, honest question, not facetious or sarcastic.)
Gathering professions now give a passive buff based on your profession level.
Mining gives 90 Stamina when maxed out (from memory, could be slightly different).
Skinning gives some crit rating (which sucks and amounts to less than 1% at 80, QQ).
Herbalism gives you a free HoT, can't remember the details of it.
Mining gives 90 Stamina when maxed out (from memory, could be slightly different).
Skinning gives some crit rating (which sucks and amounts to less than 1% at 80, QQ).
Herbalism gives you a free HoT, can't remember the details of it.
50 stam, used to be 500 health, so same tradeoff but with better returns on multipliers.
Herbalism self-HoT is decent for grinding, as it can be used in feral forms, costs no mana, is instant/not dispellable, and doesn't break stealth. Its potency scales by Herbalism skill and player level I believe, maxing out at I think 2k at 80.
Herbalism self-HoT is decent for grinding, as it can be used in feral forms, costs no mana, is instant/not dispellable, and doesn't break stealth. Its potency scales by Herbalism skill and player level I believe, maxing out at I think 2k at 80.
Since we can now use most of the toys in kitty/bear form, it might not be a bad idea - the thing is that I'm not entirely sure that we'd get much benefit out of engineering?
The dps capabilities of a cat are good enough that using engineering DPS items would probably actually hurt, instead of help dps.
We've got feral fairy fire so we don't need engineering items to pull with.
Bears are very solid and wonderful at holding threat, so unlike warriors we don't need engineering to help increase threat.
I think the only real benefits that you'd get would be the aoe stun from certain grenaids and the target dummies to distract mobs if you get overrun.
All said, I think it'd be better to stick with mining/skinning - you'll make good gold selling the stuff you mine/skin and mining gives you a health bonus while skinning gives you a crit bonus, both of which are great in both cat and bear form.
The dps capabilities of a cat are good enough that using engineering DPS items would probably actually hurt, instead of help dps.
We've got feral fairy fire so we don't need engineering items to pull with.
Bears are very solid and wonderful at holding threat, so unlike warriors we don't need engineering to help increase threat.
I think the only real benefits that you'd get would be the aoe stun from certain grenaids and the target dummies to distract mobs if you get overrun.
All said, I think it'd be better to stick with mining/skinning - you'll make good gold selling the stuff you mine/skin and mining gives you a health bonus while skinning gives you a crit bonus, both of which are great in both cat and bear form.
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