Alchemy as a new profession?Follow

Personally I'd think you're fine where you're at. Skinning and mining are both very profitable professions for first character... I would say stick with that... Or, if you were interested in alchemy I'd just pick up herbalism and have someone convert your findings into elixirs/pots.

At least on my server, herbs are in constant short supply on the AH. I have herbalism (my husband has alchemy), and quite often when I put some of the more popular herbs up on AH, I notice that I'm the only person listing them. And I usually put only a stack of 5 each time. This shortage ranges from low level herbs like briarthorn, to mid level ones like wild steelbloom, to the high level ones like sungrass, blindweed, etc. These are the ones I pick a lot since they make swiftness, defense, health and mana potions. Unless your server has a lot of herb farmers, you might not be able to buy the herbs to make potions when you need them.

I don't have mining, so I'm not sure about the ore supply. But this shortage might have something to do with every gatherer now doing mining instead of herbing :)

Edited, Feb 28th 2007 6:31am by LittleHamster

As far as I have noticed (over 2 servers) with the economy yo-yoing from the expansion and such... I wouldn't suggest relying on the AH to lvl up a profession. Not only will it be expensive, I bet you'd find yourself waiting for days for something.