Paladin professionsFollow

Enchanting is great for Ring chants and DEing junk from Heroics for crazy gold.

Mining is ~500hp since the +50stam buff

I personally went Blacksmithing and Jewelcrafting. This way I could socket my wrist/hands and put 41stam in them and my belt. Plus the trinket is insane.

As for Blacksmithing alone, I love it.

I personally went Mining/Engineering, and haven't doubted either one of them until recently.

My Engineering is slacking, due to my Mining being incredibly under-par. @ Outland at the moment, and am running with 210 Mining. -.-


But no. Engineering has some nice benefits, and the Rocket Boots are nice for closing the gaps, but you'd be better off with Enchanting, Blacksmithing, or Jewelcrafting.

I found myself in a similar boat and came very near to dropping Mining entirely. The only thing that made me stick with it was the sheer insane amount of money to be made in gathering thorium, even if you're only doing it to get up to 300.

If you're going for tanking (and really anything) JC is the best profession once you hit 80 (although it is meh while leveling up).

After that there's a toss up. Mining provides a higher effect than BS for tanks, but BS gives versatility across multiple specs and gear sets.

Those are the "best" professions, and anyone saying otherwise is defending a personal choice with some kind of nuanced "well you could use it here" situational excuse. Engineering's rocket boots are a great example, although they're going to fall flat soon because the place where they're most useful (arena) they will soon be useless.