Advice: 1st Class/Prof Char to twink a warFollow

I think I understand your question...


You want to level a pure farming class to 70, so you can later level a warrior to 70? Thats not really a 'twink' but anyways...

Yeah rogues can farm tons of gold/hour solo'ing chests in mech
Hunters can also solo certain chests, but it takes more creativity - hunter solos chests in heroic slave pens

Of course it doesn't work for a hunter if they're locked...


I'd say for a pure farming class that will later fund your tank, go with a hunter. They level fastest, solo easiest, and farm faster then rogues. Sure rogues can use stealth tricks to solo chests in mech, but hunters can do more imo. Half the chests will be locked in heroic slave pens, but you can average almost 1 per run in heroic SP, and you grind alot faster outside of chest farming.

Warlocks are good too, maybe mages. But mages rely on mana too much, I wouldn't really recommend them. Feral druids can solo pretty quick in cat form at level 20+, but I think hunter, warlock or rogue would be your best farming class.

You will want blacksmithing on your warrior, so I'd take mining on both toons. It will make lots of gold for your hunter, and you'll be able to mine more stuff for your warrior to keep his blacksmithing up to date. You could also do the disenchanting thing if you wanna sit at the AH for an hour a day (many threads here). I'd go jewelcrafting/mining, or mining/skinning to make lots of gold on your hunter. Then get an epic flyer, and you'll be able to fund your warrior. Lots of people have pure farming classes to fund their tanks...because tanks suck at grinding lol.

Edited, Sep 3rd 2007 3:39pm by mikelolol

If you take mining + skinning (recommended for a pure farming toon), your good should easily sell everynight. Cost of food and ammo won't be much at all once you start selling your goods from mining. Quests alone should cover that minor stuff, and all the gold will come from mining and skinning.

If you're thinking really long term, mining + jewelcrafting will make more gold. But you'll be far more broke while you level, you won't see a ton of gold until 70 I bet. But once jewelcrafting is maxed and you have some good patterns (which all cost hundreds on the AH), you can make ridiculous amounts of gold. Thousands. Far more then you could dream about from skinning.

But like I said, you'll be losing money while you level. You'll make a bunch of trash rings that nobody wants except disenchanters, and they'll only buy them in bulk at the right price (ie: dirt cheap). The bars and ore you invest into jewelcrafting would sell for far more gold, and you'd have skinning on top of it.

So be rich until 70 - mining + skinning
Or get incredibly rich AT 70 - mining and jewelcrafting

Either way, you'll have plenty of gold along the way for food, repairs and other necessities. It will just take a big longer to upgrade your bags, you wont be able to afford the best enchants while you level. You'll end up spending more time mining to keep leveling your jewelcrafting.

A hunter is an excellent choice for a solo farming character. But if you prefer, a warlock is also an excellent solo farmer. In fact, a warlock is better at farming certain mobs, demons and elementals for example, and can solo a lot of group quests with the judicious use of enslave and fear. Then again, hunters have an easier time against other mobs, notably fear-immune ones. I suspect it's a matter of taste: I prefer a warlock. And hey, you won't have to worry about ammo. You'll hardly even have to worry about soul shards, if you're demonology.

As for professions: mining/skinning. Make yourself a disenchanting alt as well. Your twink will be Engineering/Jewelcrafting, naturally. Mike's right that Jewelcrafting is the most profitable profession at endgame right now, but I personally suspect that pie is going to get sliced up thinner and thinner with time.