LVL 48 lock without skill...how to progress?Follow

First Aid- Everyone should have this skill. Get it done. Farm the cloth yourself and it costs you nothing.

Gathering skills are easier to level than crafting skills, because each crafting skill requires you to gather stuff to level it anyways, and you don't want to waste your gold powerleveling one.

If you already have mining, just level that up as it is a great money maker. Then take skinning for more cash. If you really want a crafting skill, tailoring can be nice for cloth wearers to make gear and bags.

First Aid isn't a money-making tradeskill per se...some people buy the cloth bandages but not often enough. It's purely a skill for you to have to benefit yourself.

Generally, it will take about 2 stacks of each type of bandage to get to the next level. Eg, 40 linen, 40 heavy linen (meaning 80 linen), 40 silk, 40 heavy silk (meaning 80 silk)..etc That’s what I recall, there may be a 3rd stack needed in there somewhere now and then due to how the skill point is chancey later. You’re at the mageweave and runecloth levels, so at least you won’t have to buy that to catch up. Just do your normal leveling and you’ll get plenty of cloth to get to 330 FA.

When you mentioned you ‘found an ore vein’ as if it is rare, it sounds like you just saw it in your UI viewpoint. That way is harder to spot. Are you using the “Find Minerals” skill which will show the ore vein on your minimap when you get close to it?

Going back to mine now will be a lot easier as you can go through several zones without much trouble. If you are in it for money, mining is a great skill to have.

Cooking can be done fairly fast to 300 also. Again, because of your level, you can easily kill all the mobs you need to get to 300 cooking. Alternatively, you can take up fishing to provide the cooking mat to get to 300. Most people will probably choose the hunting method.

I don’t recommend enchanting or JC just yet for your character. It sounds like the first character, and being at a higher level, you are in a good position to provide for your lower level characters by using it to make money. Once you have several characters who can hold their own and increase your overall finances, then you can consider about ench and JC, two skills which tend to deplete your money or sellable loot.

Then I guess it's a question of what you want to do. Do you want to make money? Because if you do, gathering profs are the way to go. Boring? Maybe, but when you are running across Un'Goro or Silithus and see dreamfoil waiting to be picked at 1.5g A FLOWER you may change your mind.

And with something like herbalism or skinning it's not that much of a chore. It's all just laying there, you're going to kill the mobs anyway, why not skin em and get the money? You have to travel by land to get places? Take 3 seconds and pick up the goldthorn, it's 6g a stack.

In terms of non-gathering profs that could make you money, I'd recommend enchanting, not for the actual Enchanting (which may bankrupt you) but for the Disenchanting, which can be profitable.

Again, it still requires you to stop playing the game and stand somewhere, DE'ing stuff and then posting mats on the AH. The bottom line is, all profs take time away from gameplay. Meaning, you'll "waste" playtime no matter what prof you choose.

What I'm hearing is you dont want to spend money leveling a crafting profession (and you'll spend a ton buying mats on the AH) and you 'hate gathering'. Not to sound harsh but suck it up.

lolengineering.

I've heard they are gonna buff it with this patch that's currently on the PTR, but as it stands right now, there really isn't much IN Engineering, I didn't think.

But anyways... you might wanna change the subject in your OP... it reads:

"LVL 48 lock without skill...how to progress?"

I'd change that to 'tradeskill' IMO. It... sounds a bit wrong the way it is now hehe.

Anyways, I agree mostly with what they said above. Tailoring is a good choice for all cloth wearers. From what I hear, there's some nice BoP robes and such that you can wear should you get it high enough to make them. Also, making your own bags can save you some dough, especially when you get to Imbued Netherweave bags... not to mention, selling those suckers on the AH. I get oodles and oodles of Netherweave Cloth every time I go quest in Outlands.

Being a Warrior, though, I have to dump it all into Bandages because Warriors suck like that, needing constant healing, sometimes one bandage gets used on every mob, or every other mob.

If I were a class that killed stuff easier, and rarely got hit, I can't imagine how much freaking Netherweave I'd have to spare...

--Xylia

As a tailor - none. You never have enough while you're leveling. Now any spare cloth still goes to gear, everything needs imbued netherweave bolts which are like 18 pieces of netherweave and 2 arcane dust. I seriously never have enough netherweave, I've done so many quests at 70. I've yet to make any money off tailoring, I just blow everything on more and more netherweave. If somebody actually FARMED it all......wow....just wow. Its like 2200-2500 pieces from 300-375 tailoring. Madness.

That's easy. As a healing class and a non-tailor, I don't go through that much netherweave at all. I only really used bandages as an emergency item when I get jumped by three adds and mana is going to be an issue. So I just keep myself topped off with 2 stacks of Heavy Neatherweave Bandages and AH the rest. At the end of a good day of questing I usually have about 4 stacks of the stuff to stick on the AH. At about 4g a stack, thats a decent supplementary income, and they ALWAYS sell.

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Edited, Apr 30th 2007 10:13pm by mikelolol

Leatherworking is nice, especialy because u dont have to gather ANYTHING if you dont want to .

Let me explain !

All leathers are realy chep in AH so all u do is buy them there, create something out of them and resell with profit .

Ok some may argue that you will make more cash gathering leathers and hides, and yes you do, but you dont have to farm for it . Just get them when u are already killing mobs and buy the rest from AH . You will still make a handsome profit .