Based solely on usefulness, what would be your pick of professions for a raiding holy pally?
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Definately Jewelcrafting! As for the other, really not sure, most of them are mediocre. JC is op tho.
Alchemy has a nice buff for your flasks/elixirs - they last longer and have a stronger effect thanks to the mixologist buff.
Enchanting will get you spellpower enchants on your rings, LW will get you a better wrist augment (again spellpower).
Engineering has...pretty much nothing that's useful to raiders of any kind.
Tailoring is pretty much useless now to a pally for raiding.
Incription will get you the best shoulder enchants in the game, and save you from having to grind rep with the Sons of Hodir.
For pure min/maxing though, BS and JC will get you the most bang for your buck, thanks to the extra sockets from BS and the JC-only Dragon's Eye gems to stick in them.
Be advised though that BS is still (and in my opinion by far) the most annoying profession to level.
Enchanting will get you spellpower enchants on your rings, LW will get you a better wrist augment (again spellpower).
Engineering has...pretty much nothing that's useful to raiders of any kind.
Tailoring is pretty much useless now to a pally for raiding.
Incription will get you the best shoulder enchants in the game, and save you from having to grind rep with the Sons of Hodir.
For pure min/maxing though, BS and JC will get you the most bang for your buck, thanks to the extra sockets from BS and the JC-only Dragon's Eye gems to stick in them.
Be advised though that BS is still (and in my opinion by far) the most annoying profession to level.
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Engineering has...pretty much nothing that's useful to raiders of any kind.
There's always repair bots, and the 18 SP to cloak tinker isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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MetalM wrote:
Alchemy has a nice buff for your flasks/elixirs - they last longer and have a stronger effect thanks to the mixologist buff.
Just one addition, Alchemy gives Crazy alchemist potions. They aren't much of a performance upgrade because they give about the same mana as runic mana, but they greatly reduce the cost of supplying yourself with potions.
JC hands down.
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GavilrainOfGaruda wrote:
There's always repair bots, and the 18 SP to cloak tinker isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I actually forgot that cloak tinker was there D:
Same goes for the repair bot lol. Mammoths seem to have replaced them as the raid repairman of choice, added to which is the fact that all the Northrend raids seem to have repair vendors close by.
I still don't recommend engineering to anyone who isn't interested in what seems to be the real point of the profession - bombs and toys :p
MetalM wrote:
I still don't recommend engineering to anyone who isn't interested in what seems to be the real point of the profession - bombs and toys :p
Hehe, I agree.
I really like engy btw. It's fun stuff.
Use shrink ray on bosses for the lols.
EJ wrote:
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Listed are the benefits you get from being each profession. With WotLK enchants can require you to have the profession to receive the stats, so you can no longer level Enchanting (or any other profession) for ring enchants and then drop it.
Alchemy
Mixology - 37 Spell Power or 13mp5 depending on Flask used. Also reduces how much gold you spend on consumables.
Blacksmithing
Socket Glove/Socket Bracer - Gives you 38 Spell Power, 32 Int, 32 Crit, 32 Haste, or 12mp5.
Enchanting
Enchant Ring - Greater Spellpowerx2 - Gives you 38 Spell Power.
Engineering
Hyperspeed Accelerators - Which is pretty crappy for healing, it averages to 23 haste rating, and the normal spell power enchant is better then that.
Unbreakable Healing Amplifiers - Decent helm to start off with, but can be replaced easily with [Helm of Purified Thoughts] from AC rep.
Herbalism
Lifeblood - Small amount self healed, but it is off the GCD.
Inscription
Master's Inscription of the Storm or Master's Inscription of the Crag - 37 Spell Power increase over The Sons of Hodir version.
Jewelcrafting
Dragon's Eye Gems - Gives you 33 to a stat, 39 spell power, or 15mp5. These gems are prismatic, so they let you achieve some socket bonuses and meta requirements while only using one gem type.
Sapphire Owl - A really good trinket that is better then many epic trinkets.
Leatherworking
Fur Lining - Spell Power - Offers you 37 spell power upgrade over normal enchant.
Mining
Toughness - This is pretty useless.
Skinning
Master of Anatomy - 25 spell crit.
Tailoring
Darkglow Embroidery - 18.75mp5 on average at the cost of Enchant Cloak - Greater Speed.
Listed are the benefits you get from being each profession. With WotLK enchants can require you to have the profession to receive the stats, so you can no longer level Enchanting (or any other profession) for ring enchants and then drop it.
Alchemy
Mixology - 37 Spell Power or 13mp5 depending on Flask used. Also reduces how much gold you spend on consumables.
Blacksmithing
Socket Glove/Socket Bracer - Gives you 38 Spell Power, 32 Int, 32 Crit, 32 Haste, or 12mp5.
Enchanting
Enchant Ring - Greater Spellpowerx2 - Gives you 38 Spell Power.
Engineering
Hyperspeed Accelerators - Which is pretty crappy for healing, it averages to 23 haste rating, and the normal spell power enchant is better then that.
Unbreakable Healing Amplifiers - Decent helm to start off with, but can be replaced easily with [Helm of Purified Thoughts] from AC rep.
Herbalism
Lifeblood - Small amount self healed, but it is off the GCD.
Inscription
Master's Inscription of the Storm or Master's Inscription of the Crag - 37 Spell Power increase over The Sons of Hodir version.
Jewelcrafting
Dragon's Eye Gems - Gives you 33 to a stat, 39 spell power, or 15mp5. These gems are prismatic, so they let you achieve some socket bonuses and meta requirements while only using one gem type.
Sapphire Owl - A really good trinket that is better then many epic trinkets.
Leatherworking
Fur Lining - Spell Power - Offers you 37 spell power upgrade over normal enchant.
Mining
Toughness - This is pretty useless.
Skinning
Master of Anatomy - 25 spell crit.
Tailoring
Darkglow Embroidery - 18.75mp5 on average at the cost of Enchant Cloak - Greater Speed.
Loved your comment about toys and bombs though, I thik everyone should have a gnome (prefferably mage) with eng skills :)
My Pally is BS/JC.
Just want to say a few things: (almost) NEVER put the prismatic JC-only gems into prismatic BS-crafted sockets (ok, you can do it if you have no other options, but thats it).
Save your JC-only gems for socket bonuses you would normally have to use sub-optimal gems to activate (those yucky blue sockets? +27 int gem 'em).
The JC trinket never impressed me very much, but by doing the JC daily you can (eventually) make yourself an epic necklace&ring that is itemized ideally for Holydins, for practically nothing (just the costs of Titanium bars, eternals, and a frozen orb).
Edited, Apr 22nd 2009 2:50am by angryempath
Just want to say a few things: (almost) NEVER put the prismatic JC-only gems into prismatic BS-crafted sockets (ok, you can do it if you have no other options, but thats it).
Save your JC-only gems for socket bonuses you would normally have to use sub-optimal gems to activate (those yucky blue sockets? +27 int gem 'em).
The JC trinket never impressed me very much, but by doing the JC daily you can (eventually) make yourself an epic necklace&ring that is itemized ideally for Holydins, for practically nothing (just the costs of Titanium bars, eternals, and a frozen orb).
Edited, Apr 22nd 2009 2:50am by angryempath
JC for first choice
Just about every other crafting profession is equal past that. Blacksmithing probably best, because you can be more flexible in what you gem. IE: if you want 32 int instead of 38sp you can gem for it. I don't think you can get 32 int to rings/shoulders with enchanting/inscription, or the other crafting professions like LW.
Tailoring cloak enchant got a huge buff. But I think it's way better for DPS since it's a proc. If it procs at the wrong time, it's basically useless to a healer, where a DPS is ALWAYS doing damage. It's probably sort of viable, but if I was min-maxing to the fullest it would be JC/blacksmithing.
Unless you're the type to gem for spellpower. Then it's JC/anything really.
Honest advice to any JC'er, run normal dailies and BUY your dragons eyes from the AH, use your JC tokens for PATTERNS not dragons eyes. Learn to buy ore from the AH and prospect for profit. You want as many patterns as humanly possible. Buying a dragons eye to cut everytime you get a gear upgrade is a waste of a token.
Edited, Apr 22nd 2009 6:23pm by mikelolol
Just about every other crafting profession is equal past that. Blacksmithing probably best, because you can be more flexible in what you gem. IE: if you want 32 int instead of 38sp you can gem for it. I don't think you can get 32 int to rings/shoulders with enchanting/inscription, or the other crafting professions like LW.
Tailoring cloak enchant got a huge buff. But I think it's way better for DPS since it's a proc. If it procs at the wrong time, it's basically useless to a healer, where a DPS is ALWAYS doing damage. It's probably sort of viable, but if I was min-maxing to the fullest it would be JC/blacksmithing.
Unless you're the type to gem for spellpower. Then it's JC/anything really.
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The JC trinket never impressed me very much, but by doing the JC daily you can (eventually) make yourself an epic necklace&ring that is itemized ideally for Holydins, for practically nothing (just the costs of Titanium bars, eternals, and a frozen orb)
Honest advice to any JC'er, run normal dailies and BUY your dragons eyes from the AH, use your JC tokens for PATTERNS not dragons eyes. Learn to buy ore from the AH and prospect for profit. You want as many patterns as humanly possible. Buying a dragons eye to cut everytime you get a gear upgrade is a waste of a token.
Edited, Apr 22nd 2009 6:23pm by mikelolol
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