Hey,
My character is a lv 54 NE hunter and my professions are mining 250 (can't find enough veins anymore) and blacksmithing lv 220. I started BS at lv 10 or so to make money and to make my own mail stuff once I would reach lv 40.
But at this moment, I find Blacksmithing really uselles, I can almost only make plate and not mail and it's not bringing me money at all. I don't really want to drop mining, because lv 250 isn't bad at all, I think, but I just need another profession to make some money and to get some profits for me.
Please give me some suggestions.
Thx in advance,
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I have a hunter who is 300 tailoring / 300 enchanting... Tailoring like blacksmithing does not do anything for my character. I only did it to make bags in the beginning. But when I took up enchanting it paid off for DE'ing mats.
If you aren't crafting items for yourself, and you can't sell the items you are making, you might as well look for a better profession. Mining is great as it can be a big money maker. I would look into something like enchanting just to be able to DE items. You are at a lvl to start running UD/SC/Scholo/LBRS/BRD etc.. and enchanting is very helpful to DE items and sell the MATS. Also you can DE all your old gear.
Skinning my be a good combination for a hunter as well as you can always get skins. and it is easy to lvl.
Like I said before. It is more about what you like to do. If you choose something you like you have a better chance at making money. Tailoring makes me NO money being it is on a hunter. But I enjoy it and it feeds my enchanting.
I also have a priest that is 200 miner / 300 alch..also an odd combination, but I like the availability of mining opposed to herb. I can buy herbs if I need, but I never make pots anyways.
just MHO
If you aren't crafting items for yourself, and you can't sell the items you are making, you might as well look for a better profession. Mining is great as it can be a big money maker. I would look into something like enchanting just to be able to DE items. You are at a lvl to start running UD/SC/Scholo/LBRS/BRD etc.. and enchanting is very helpful to DE items and sell the MATS. Also you can DE all your old gear.
Skinning my be a good combination for a hunter as well as you can always get skins. and it is easy to lvl.
Like I said before. It is more about what you like to do. If you choose something you like you have a better chance at making money. Tailoring makes me NO money being it is on a hunter. But I enjoy it and it feeds my enchanting.
I also have a priest that is 200 miner / 300 alch..also an odd combination, but I like the availability of mining opposed to herb. I can buy herbs if I need, but I never make pots anyways.
just MHO
At level 54 you shouldn't have any trouble leveling mining - poke around in the rocks around Un'Goro crater and you should find plenty of thorium. That will carry you easily to 300. As for blacksmithing, if it isn't fun for you, drop it - you probably won't make money on it. But I'd check the "Trade Skills - By Trade" for the available recipes first. You can click "Type" at the top of the list to sort the list by type, then scroll down to all the Mail items - it looked like an awful lot of available recipes to me, especially at level 300. I'm a plate wearer so I don't know how they might compare to what you can already get by drops or on auction, but if you haven't already done so it's worth a look.
High level leatherworking makes mail as well.
You'd need skinning for that unless you want to buy materials on the AH.
Since you already have mining....Keep it. I'd recommend either skinning to go with it (it won't take long just go back to the lands that you levelled up in and kill stuff to skin with trips back to town to sell/get new levels of skinning).
or
You could take up engineering. You won't make tons of money but engineering is a great skill for hunters in my opinion. Nets, shrink rays, bombs, bullets, etc..
On horde you can make money selling deadly blunderbusses for quests. They sell for 50s to 1 gold depending upon supply and demand. I generally sell them right around 80s. It's 8 copper bars and 2 medium leathers and then some storebought stuff to make. I've made enough money for 2 mounts just on deadly blunderbusses. Most of that was with buying copper in the AH as I didn't want to take time to go to lowbie areas to farm copper :-) I can sell thorium bulllets in AH for a bit over 1 gold a stack. I can make a profit selling those bullets even if I buy materials for them in the AH. You need to put them up for sale before the raids on your server start as hunters will buy them for raids but rarely buy them for normal hunting. There are several items you can make that are for quests on both sides of the race issue, you just need to find them. I rarely do those because materials are harder to come by :-)
Speaking of quest items, blacksmithing has one or two recipes that produce quest items as well. There's some kind of bracer for a quest in badlands. There's items to be made that are then used in engineering recipes. There are rod's to be made that enchanters need in order to progress their enchanting. You just need to research what items blacksmithing can make that others will want. It might not be your high end recipes that you can use to make money, in fact it probably isn't :-) In engineering, I could probably make a lot of money at the high end, selling flawless arcanite rifles....but I need enough money to be able to make one first and that's 10 arcanite bars and I want one for myself too :-) I've yet to get an arcane crystal from a rich thorium vein but I keep hoping :-)
You'd need skinning for that unless you want to buy materials on the AH.
Since you already have mining....Keep it. I'd recommend either skinning to go with it (it won't take long just go back to the lands that you levelled up in and kill stuff to skin with trips back to town to sell/get new levels of skinning).
or
You could take up engineering. You won't make tons of money but engineering is a great skill for hunters in my opinion. Nets, shrink rays, bombs, bullets, etc..
On horde you can make money selling deadly blunderbusses for quests. They sell for 50s to 1 gold depending upon supply and demand. I generally sell them right around 80s. It's 8 copper bars and 2 medium leathers and then some storebought stuff to make. I've made enough money for 2 mounts just on deadly blunderbusses. Most of that was with buying copper in the AH as I didn't want to take time to go to lowbie areas to farm copper :-) I can sell thorium bulllets in AH for a bit over 1 gold a stack. I can make a profit selling those bullets even if I buy materials for them in the AH. You need to put them up for sale before the raids on your server start as hunters will buy them for raids but rarely buy them for normal hunting. There are several items you can make that are for quests on both sides of the race issue, you just need to find them. I rarely do those because materials are harder to come by :-)
Speaking of quest items, blacksmithing has one or two recipes that produce quest items as well. There's some kind of bracer for a quest in badlands. There's items to be made that are then used in engineering recipes. There are rod's to be made that enchanters need in order to progress their enchanting. You just need to research what items blacksmithing can make that others will want. It might not be your high end recipes that you can use to make money, in fact it probably isn't :-) In engineering, I could probably make a lot of money at the high end, selling flawless arcanite rifles....but I need enough money to be able to make one first and that's 10 arcanite bars and I want one for myself too :-) I've yet to get an arcane crystal from a rich thorium vein but I keep hoping :-)
ironically the trade skill to make more mail recipes is LW.
however, even those recipes aren't great, they are'nt focusing on what you might want as a hunter ...if you never pickup LW on your hunter, you still can easily get mail from AH or instances.
one advantage is the mail +elemental resistance gear which you can make with high LW.
other than that, i think if you're going for money, you as a hunter do not need LW/mail making.
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After looking over the BS recipies myself on this site and talking with 2 lvl 250+ Blacksmiths in my guild i concur that except the blue recipies the only Mail items that can be used by hunters are the dark iron mail.
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I knew that I would be stuck with leather until lvl 40 so I took Leatherworking and skinning from the start so I could make my own. Every time you kill a beast you get the chance to skin so it's easier than Mining to get the pieces you need.
It's paid for itself as many quests need things to be made and you can sell the capes/shoulders etc.
Once you get to a decent skill level in LW you make mail. get to over 250 and you can choose between dragon/tribal and elemental. Dragon is best for a Hunter and makes excellent "Blue" class mail items.
It's paid for itself as many quests need things to be made and you can sell the capes/shoulders etc.
Once you get to a decent skill level in LW you make mail. get to over 250 and you can choose between dragon/tribal and elemental. Dragon is best for a Hunter and makes excellent "Blue" class mail items.
either leatherworking or engineering. One gets you armor the other can get you lots of nifty trinkets or bombs/dynamite.
both are useful for hunters. My hunters (2) both have engineering, one is goblin the other will go gnome.
both are useful for hunters. My hunters (2) both have engineering, one is goblin the other will go gnome.
only smithing plans a hunter would want are from timbermaw
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um...leather working makes some mail stuff especially after lvl 40...
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