Warrior Herb/Skin = Crazy???Follow

If your goal is simply to make money off your tradeskill what you're doing is perfectly fine. All you need to do is sell the herbs and leather you get to the Ah or post it up on the trade channel.

However, if you want to get some use out of your tradeskills at higher levels I'd go with Blacksmithing/Mining or Engineering/Mining.

Blacksmithing: Make yourself good armor and weapons. (crazy good weapons to be made here)

Engineering: Make yourself useful trinkets early on as well as really cool goggles that'll last you till tier 5 raid gear (or was it tier 4?)

Mining: Get mats for either blacksmithing and Engineering, hehe.

Edited, Aug 30th 2007 10:32pm by Jonofthedead

Thank you for your advice.

I think I will try mining/skinning. I'll post any mining questions here, if that's okay, as I know nothing about the trade, other than seeing quite a few copper mines and anvils in Westfall.

Seeing as how there are too few flowerpickers on my server and a over abundance of skinners, I'd say you're doing fine to make money based on my server population. If yours is different then you may need to change. It all comes down to two things, 1) what you enjoy doing and 2) if you want to help friends/guildies or make money quick.

Later as a weaponsmith you can make some phat cash quick with the epix weapons.

You could.

Or, you could keep gathering and have the money you need for your L60 mount, and buy whatever weps you need along the way off the AH from blacksmiths who sell them for less than the mats (that you are providing on the AH probably) cost them.

By gathering and selling those mats, and then buying the weps made by those blacksmiths, you are actually getting them to make the weps for you and give you some gold in the bargain.

Don't craft to make money - you won't. Craft after you've made your money to squeeze more enjoyment out of the game.



Edited, Sep 13th 2007 12:51pm by cynyck

Choose whatever works best for you. On my horde server I dropped my hunter’s engineering in favor of tailoring. His mining makes him money and he can now make netherweave bags for all my characters. Unlike my alliance server, which almost always has five to ten pages of bags, my horde server usually has less than half a page of bags and those are usually set at outrageous prices. So I decided to make my own. It’s worked very well for me.

For cash, I agree that mining and skinning are a good choice at low levels. At high levels I’ve made more money from flower picking. Herbs seem to be more abundant and many of them sell for a gold each on my server.

I usually only recommend production professions to people who actually enjoy making things or to those who have plenty of money. Professions like blacksmithing and engineering require you to spend money on them, either cash or the loss you take by not selling your gathered resources on the auction house, in order to level them up. You can make useful things as you level, but you can also buy upgrades on the auction house. I wouldn’t want to dissuade anyone from taking a production profession if they want to give it a shot, but they should be aware that such professions tend to be money sinks.