I heard once you hit level 40 you should drop one gathering skill. I really want enchanting because it seems cool and I'd like to be able to DE all the BoP things i don't need. I'm currently around 240 skinning and 100 mining. I'm a tauren hunter. Which profession will be less useful or get me less money? I'm thinking drop skinning, but i'm not sure.
Just the details for lazy people now
-want enchanting
-36 tauren hunter
-100ish mining
-240ish skinning
-want to keep more useful profession
-want to have profession that gives more money in the higher levels
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I usually hear that said about level 70 these days, although I really don't understand why people think they have to have a crafting profession. IMO, unless you're going for the BoP goodies in a given profession, it's easier just to have someone else make your item for you. And it's harder to make money with a crafting profession than it is with a gathering one, at least in my experience.
And if you check the trade forum, you'll notice that ohmikeghod is the reigning king of the "disenchanting=$$$" crew, although frankly enchanting's always seemed too much like work for me to take it up. Yeah, I'm lazy. I also like poking/hitting/blowing things up a lot more than using the AH for pretty much any timespan longer than about 2 minutes. I did try following his instructions for a while and they worked, but like I said, it just wasn't for me.
I find mining to be faster than skinning, because you don't really need to kill anything to get to nodes, unless there's a creep standing on it or something. If you're planning on becoming a beast-slaying monstrosity though, you might as well skin their sad little corpses once you're done sating your bloodlust, you monster.
I can't tell you whether skinning makes more money later on, but I do know that adamantium ore, for example, goes for over 20g a stack on my server, while the most I've ever seen any kind of leather stack go for is about 10g. Thorium is a nice moneyspinner too, because most people can't be bothered to hang out in the high-level Azeroth areas where it spawns because Outlands has such nice loot. That said, it goes for about 15-20g a stack here too, and its hilariously easy to farm, especially when you're over 60.
Honestly though, you can make money with just about any profession. Some are just harder than others.
And if you check the trade forum, you'll notice that ohmikeghod is the reigning king of the "disenchanting=$$$" crew, although frankly enchanting's always seemed too much like work for me to take it up. Yeah, I'm lazy. I also like poking/hitting/blowing things up a lot more than using the AH for pretty much any timespan longer than about 2 minutes. I did try following his instructions for a while and they worked, but like I said, it just wasn't for me.
I find mining to be faster than skinning, because you don't really need to kill anything to get to nodes, unless there's a creep standing on it or something. If you're planning on becoming a beast-slaying monstrosity though, you might as well skin their sad little corpses once you're done sating your bloodlust, you monster.
I can't tell you whether skinning makes more money later on, but I do know that adamantium ore, for example, goes for over 20g a stack on my server, while the most I've ever seen any kind of leather stack go for is about 10g. Thorium is a nice moneyspinner too, because most people can't be bothered to hang out in the high-level Azeroth areas where it spawns because Outlands has such nice loot. That said, it goes for about 15-20g a stack here too, and its hilariously easy to farm, especially when you're over 60.
Honestly though, you can make money with just about any profession. Some are just harder than others.
I like mining. It makes good money at all levels and once you get your flier, it becomes even funner flying around spotting nodes. My miner is a hunter also. I accept the losing my other tracking when tracking minerals.
If you want to do enchanting, just treat it as another gathering profession and learn to find greens on the AH that disenchant into mats worth more. You can make a lot of money with disenchanting, and it gives a break from your other activities.
Basically it's up to you. Those that you mentioned, skinning, mining, and disenchanting are all good.
If you want to do enchanting, just treat it as another gathering profession and learn to find greens on the AH that disenchant into mats worth more. You can make a lot of money with disenchanting, and it gives a break from your other activities.
Basically it's up to you. Those that you mentioned, skinning, mining, and disenchanting are all good.
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ok i'll drop skinning, I could always drop enchanting again if i want, if I had artisian by level 35, i think it'll be easy to get up as a 40+ later, but should I just drop it now instead of waiting until 40? I have my mount money so thats covered
Edited, Sep 27th 2007 3:43pm by kalbany
Edited, Sep 27th 2007 3:43pm by kalbany
There is no rule about dropping gathering skills at 40. You can change skills any time you want. They are your skills. Basically, all the gathering skills you mention can make money. Do what you think you would like.
Good luck with your disenchanting. This particular profession has earned thousands for my lvl 43 mage. While leveling enchanting, I got him his home in shattrath so that I could go to the enchanter trainers on the scryer tier, rather than having to do Uldamin runs.
Read some of the other Disenchanting threads for more advice on using this skill as a gathering profession.
Edited, Sep 28th 2007 5:39am by dadanox
Good luck with your disenchanting. This particular profession has earned thousands for my lvl 43 mage. While leveling enchanting, I got him his home in shattrath so that I could go to the enchanter trainers on the scryer tier, rather than having to do Uldamin runs.
Read some of the other Disenchanting threads for more advice on using this skill as a gathering profession.
Edited, Sep 28th 2007 5:39am by dadanox
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