Soloing Mage - Engineering or Alchemy?Follow

you couldn't really use engineering except for maybe a head slot (by the time you lvl it so the head slot is actually good you'll most likely have a better one), and just the basic things you can make in it are sometime helpful. Alchemy is extremely helpful in all outlooks, so I suggest you take it

Enchanting + a crafting prof like engineering or alchemy? I hope you have a rich main funding you. Do you know what the auction house prices are on herbs/minerals? Its gonna cost you a fortune.

Howdy! So, my suggestion, Alchy all the way. I have a 70 rogue who's an engineer and basically, I stopped pursuing the profession at around 330 due to the lack of a promising future. Really, it's a pvp profession. If you don't spend TONS of time pvp'g, then you're gonna loose about the only viable benefit of the profession - other than the fact that it pairs with Mining which is a HUGE money maker.

I'm a huge believer in the fact that one of your main chars needs to be an Alchy due to the availability of pots for your alts, xmutes to make money, items, etc. Additionally, if you're Alchy and have Herbs then you can make some serious money with the herbs themselves as well. If not, it's expensive to level up do to the high cost of herbs on most servers. Note - enchanting is never going to change for you if you only use for DE - you will cap out and not be able to DE high end stuff due to the realtively new implementation of skill level playing a role in what you can and cannot DE.

Good Luck!

so you are going to buy herbs? Frankly this method doesn't really work, with Alchemy you are better being an herbalist so you can feed it the mats that you gathered to make your potions/elixers. Just like with engineering it is good to be a miner to get the minerals/ore. With enchanting, tailoring is pretty good so you can de the things you make and then enchant things.