So, my mage is level 61 with Mining and Engineering. She's got her epic land mount, and about 150g left over, and 280 Engineering.
I'm having a really hard time leveling Engineering any further, because I don't use anything from that profession. I always forget about the bombs, the headpieces I have are better than what I can make, guns and bullets do me no good, and I like the trinkets I have better than what I can make.
I mentioned the problem to guildies, but they kept mentioning the "ub3r l33t goggles"...I know the goggles are great, but is it worth leveling a profession to 375 for ONE piece of gear?
I'd keep mining for the money...I can farm for low level cloth easily, and can send myself what my lower level chars get. I've got an enchanting alt, so I can send that char the greens I make for extra money selling the disenchanted mats.
I guess what I'm asking is, in both the long and short run, which helps a fire mage more? One piece of really good gear, or the ability to make a variety of helpful things, along with some nice endgame gear?
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It really isn't that bad to get to 350 eng Needed for the goggles, NOT 375 which is indeed very expensive, but so is tailoring and leatherworking and smithing. So if you mine regularly and find a efficient eng lvling guide you'd have no problems lvling it. Also In 2.3 they are adding eng flying mounts you can make as well. May want to get 70 and see how it goes.
Edited, Oct 12th 2007 1:32am by Elustriel
Edited, Oct 12th 2007 1:32am by Elustriel
My mistake, didn't look it up before posting :P
And yeah, making a fling mount would be cool, but will it really DO anything special? I'm not so worried about leveling my engineering to that point...mage is a gnome too, so got the extra points in there to help...I know I'll be able to level whatever profession to wherever I want to get it to.
BUT.
For someone that won't have time for hardcore raiding, is Tailoring more beneficial for a mage than Engineering?
And yeah, making a fling mount would be cool, but will it really DO anything special? I'm not so worried about leveling my engineering to that point...mage is a gnome too, so got the extra points in there to help...I know I'll be able to level whatever profession to wherever I want to get it to.
BUT.
For someone that won't have time for hardcore raiding, is Tailoring more beneficial for a mage than Engineering?
You did say that you're not using engineering for much, so there's really no reason for you to keep it. In my opinion, you'd benefit more from tailoring, seeing as how the tailoring sets are so powerful.
There isn't really a whole lot engineering has to offer mages, to be honest. Unless you want the toys, your spells can generally provide more bang for your buck than your crafted items. I know one mage who went engineering just for the mana potion injectors, but all he ever does on that char is raid, so he's something of a special case.
So yeah, I'd say tailoring would definitely be more beneficial to you than engineering.
There isn't really a whole lot engineering has to offer mages, to be honest. Unless you want the toys, your spells can generally provide more bang for your buck than your crafted items. I know one mage who went engineering just for the mana potion injectors, but all he ever does on that char is raid, so he's something of a special case.
So yeah, I'd say tailoring would definitely be more beneficial to you than engineering.
Thanks for the response...rate-ups for everyone :P
I think that's what I was planning on anyway, I just don't like dropping a relatively high profession...but hey, levelling a new one can be fun.
I think that's what I was planning on anyway, I just don't like dropping a relatively high profession...but hey, levelling a new one can be fun.
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levelling a new one can be fun.
...especially with a good guide, there are lots of guides out there (best are the tentonhammer guides imo) both normal and powerlvl guides.
I would agree that tailoring will offer you phenomenal upgrades. My advice...start saving up. You only have 150g now and you still need to buy your flying skill and mount. Tailoring to 375 will cost you over 1k. Tailoring the 3 set pieces will cost you anothet 1-2k. It is sooooooo expensive. But, it is soooooo worth it.
What I would do is this....
Level engineering to 375.
Drop Mining from the Mage once previous step is attained.
Pickup Tailoring in its place.
Use an Alt for Gathering
This way your Mage will end being able to utilize the gear and benefits from both professions.
Level engineering to 375.
Drop Mining from the Mage once previous step is attained.
Pickup Tailoring in its place.
Use an Alt for Gathering
This way your Mage will end being able to utilize the gear and benefits from both professions.
I was thinking of doing that as well, but...I have multiple mining alts, but they aren't quite up to the level of my mage. Think my plan for now is gonna be to go tailoring and mining, and once I've got tailoring where it needs to be, and once a few of my alts are higher, drop mining. I really don't enjoy engineering...so I don't see the point in keeping it. *shrugs*
And I'm not too worried about the money...have a DE alt with a fair amount of gold, plus I'm probably not going to buy all the cloth to level it..I run friends through lowbie instances all the time, so I can get cloth from that and from my lower level chars.
And I'm not too worried about the money...have a DE alt with a fair amount of gold, plus I'm probably not going to buy all the cloth to level it..I run friends through lowbie instances all the time, so I can get cloth from that and from my lower level chars.
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