I'm a 70 shadowpriest with 375 skinning and tailoring. I've been wrestling with the idea of dropping skinning and picking up another trade. Basically I'm just raiding and pvping so skinning really is useless. Is this a good idea?
If yes, then what do I pickup that would provide me with any benefit at 70? I've always thought about jewel-crafting...but I'm not sure about it. Any thoughts for me?
Thanks in advance for the help!
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Should I drop skinning?Follow
Unless you enjoy skinning for cash (cobra scales, thick clefthoof leather, etc) and make a good living off it, then yes, drop it.
Now that you have a free profession available, do some planning. Where is your money going to come from? Decide if it must come from your free profession on your main, or if you will get it another way like dailies. Do you have any alts that could make money for you? You may need a higher level alt to rake in a large amount of cash with mining or herbalism, but a level 35 alt can disenchant level 70 items for cash.
So, if you must make money with this slot, then mining, herbalism, or disenchanting.
You could probably benefit from alchemy for raids. The alchemy trinket increases the benefit you get from potions, and the masteries can proc extra potions, etc.
My choice was tayloring (for the bop epics) and alchemy on my priest. This maximizes the benefit for my main. I have herbalism and mining on my other 70, and disenchanting on my level 58.
You will spend a lot of money leveling jewelcrafting, and highend recipes are expensive on the AH. What benefit over just buying the jewels will you have and is it worth it? Be sure you can answer that to your satisfaction before starting jewelcrafting.
Edited, Dec 27th 2007 5:18pm by dadanox
Now that you have a free profession available, do some planning. Where is your money going to come from? Decide if it must come from your free profession on your main, or if you will get it another way like dailies. Do you have any alts that could make money for you? You may need a higher level alt to rake in a large amount of cash with mining or herbalism, but a level 35 alt can disenchant level 70 items for cash.
So, if you must make money with this slot, then mining, herbalism, or disenchanting.
You could probably benefit from alchemy for raids. The alchemy trinket increases the benefit you get from potions, and the masteries can proc extra potions, etc.
My choice was tayloring (for the bop epics) and alchemy on my priest. This maximizes the benefit for my main. I have herbalism and mining on my other 70, and disenchanting on my level 58.
You will spend a lot of money leveling jewelcrafting, and highend recipes are expensive on the AH. What benefit over just buying the jewels will you have and is it worth it? Be sure you can answer that to your satisfaction before starting jewelcrafting.
Edited, Dec 27th 2007 5:18pm by dadanox
I would pick up herbalism if you plan on raiding, I just dropped 375 mining for it and it has paid off immensely. I can now just go out and get mats that I will need for raids (consumables can be expensive) so I will go out and get the mats for flasks/mana pots/etc and shoot those over to the respetive mastery alchemist in our guild to get those made for me. Saved me a bunch of money in the long run, and I have found it much easier to pick a stack of herbs than it was to fly around looking for mining nodes.
Those are both two good ideas. I can see how they would both payoff. I have a 35 druid right now with Enchanting only. I may add Herbalism for him, and then add Alchemy for my main.
I think the concept of making my own pots will save me big money over the lunch run, and alchemy is intriguing to me for some reason. Thanks for the suggestions and if anyone has other ideas please let me know!
I think the concept of making my own pots will save me big money over the lunch run, and alchemy is intriguing to me for some reason. Thanks for the suggestions and if anyone has other ideas please let me know!
I too have been toying with the idea of dropping skinning. I'm a lv 70 rogue with 375 skinning/leatherworking. I used to use skinning to fuel my leatherworking, but now that I am lvl 375 LW and have my BoPs, I no longer have a constant need for skins. Whenever I want to makesomething for profit, I just head over to the AH and buy the mats. If I can't still profit after buying the mats, then it wasn't a profitable item in the first place. Couple that with the fact I don't kill enough beasts anymore (I'm 70, and since we're not raiding in my guild yet, all I do is PvP and farm primals after my dailies), along with the other fact that the least used material in high end LW recipes is leather (lol), I wonder if it is just taking up a profession slot that could be better used elsewhere? I used to get at least a stack of heavy knothide leather a day (that's 60g right there), now I'm lucky to get a stack of regular every 2 days. To be honest, I don't see myself beast hunting in the future, as I generally don't go out of my way to kill them now. So, aside from what WotLK brings, skinning seems pretty worthless to me right now.
So, I was thinking that another gathering profession might be beneficial because I could fly around looking for herbs/ore. I also though about taking up disenchanting, but my warlock alt is an enchanter and will be 35 soon. Although it would be nice to be able to plow through some younger instances and DE all the BoPs.
Another one I was thinking of, however, was alchemy. If I did that, I would most likely aim for transmute spec. I've heard a lot of stories of people getting some nice procs on transmute primal might. This idea seems interesting to me. That could be some nice profit, especially if it were riding crop season and I was transmuting extra mights. Plus, the potion portion of alchemy seems to be fitting for a rogue anyway, considering I keep vials and "herbs" on hand at all times for making poisons. So, do you guys think alchemy is a good idea or should I take up something else?
So, I was thinking that another gathering profession might be beneficial because I could fly around looking for herbs/ore. I also though about taking up disenchanting, but my warlock alt is an enchanter and will be 35 soon. Although it would be nice to be able to plow through some younger instances and DE all the BoPs.
Another one I was thinking of, however, was alchemy. If I did that, I would most likely aim for transmute spec. I've heard a lot of stories of people getting some nice procs on transmute primal might. This idea seems interesting to me. That could be some nice profit, especially if it were riding crop season and I was transmuting extra mights. Plus, the potion portion of alchemy seems to be fitting for a rogue anyway, considering I keep vials and "herbs" on hand at all times for making poisons. So, do you guys think alchemy is a good idea or should I take up something else?
Aeonkurai wrote:
I too have been toying with the idea of dropping skinning. I'm a lv 70 rogue with 375 skinning/leatherworking. I used to use skinning to fuel my leatherworking, but now that I am lvl 375 LW and have my BoPs, I no longer have a constant need for skins. Whenever I want to makesomething for profit, I just head over to the AH and buy the mats. If I can't still profit after buying the mats, then it wasn't a profitable item in the first place. Couple that with the fact I don't kill enough beasts anymore (I'm 70, and since we're not raiding in my guild yet, all I do is PvP and farm primals after my dailies), along with the other fact that the least used material in high end LW recipes is leather (lol), I wonder if it is just taking up a profession slot that could be better used elsewhere? I used to get at least a stack of heavy knothide leather a day (that's 60g right there), now I'm lucky to get a stack of regular every 2 days. To be honest, I don't see myself beast hunting in the future, as I generally don't go out of my way to kill them now. So, aside from what WotLK brings, skinning seems pretty worthless to me right now.
So, I was thinking that another gathering profession might be beneficial because I could fly around looking for herbs/ore. I also though about taking up disenchanting, but my warlock alt is an enchanter and will be 35 soon. Although it would be nice to be able to plow through some younger instances and DE all the BoPs.
Another one I was thinking of, however, was alchemy. If I did that, I would most likely aim for transmute spec. I've heard a lot of stories of people getting some nice procs on transmute primal might. This idea seems interesting to me. That could be some nice profit, especially if it were riding crop season and I was transmuting extra mights. Plus, the potion portion of alchemy seems to be fitting for a rogue anyway, considering I keep vials and "herbs" on hand at all times for making poisons. So, do you guys think alchemy is a good idea or should I take up something else?
So, I was thinking that another gathering profession might be beneficial because I could fly around looking for herbs/ore. I also though about taking up disenchanting, but my warlock alt is an enchanter and will be 35 soon. Although it would be nice to be able to plow through some younger instances and DE all the BoPs.
Another one I was thinking of, however, was alchemy. If I did that, I would most likely aim for transmute spec. I've heard a lot of stories of people getting some nice procs on transmute primal might. This idea seems interesting to me. That could be some nice profit, especially if it were riding crop season and I was transmuting extra mights. Plus, the potion portion of alchemy seems to be fitting for a rogue anyway, considering I keep vials and "herbs" on hand at all times for making poisons. So, do you guys think alchemy is a good idea or should I take up something else?
I think that alchemy is a good profession, although I don't see why many people go with transmute spec. Having a 15% chance (approximate) to have it proc with a 24hr cooldown seems a bit... meh. I would rather get procs when making stacks of potions/flasks, personally.
Anobix wrote:
I think that alchemy is a good profession, although I don't see why many people go with transmute spec. Having a 15% chance (approximate) to have it proc with a 24hr cooldown seems a bit... meh. I would rather get procs when making stacks of potions/flasks, personally.
I just respecced Elixir Mastery. Procing Flasks is much more profitable than procing Primal Waters once or twice a month. I get a two or three flask procs per week. I understand, also, that the Transmutation proc rate is bugged and that it will be fixed in an upcoming patch, but that is hearsay.
medeardorff wrote:
Anobix wrote:
I think that alchemy is a good profession, although I don't see why many people go with transmute spec. Having a 15% chance (approximate) to have it proc with a 24hr cooldown seems a bit... meh. I would rather get procs when making stacks of potions/flasks, personally.
I just respecced Elixir Mastery. Procing Flasks is much more profitable than procing Primal Waters once or twice a month. I get a two or three flask procs per week. I understand, also, that the Transmutation proc rate is bugged and that it will be fixed in an upcoming patch, but that is hearsay.
It isn't hearsay there was a blue post about it in the oboards, you can find it on mmo-champion or I think it was linked here probably on this first page in this board. All transmute procs are not working properly except for primal might I guess.
Anobix wrote:
medeardorff wrote:
Anobix wrote:
I think that alchemy is a good profession, although I don't see why many people go with transmute spec. Having a 15% chance (approximate) to have it proc with a 24hr cooldown seems a bit... meh. I would rather get procs when making stacks of potions/flasks, personally.
I just respecced Elixir Mastery. Procing Flasks is much more profitable than procing Primal Waters once or twice a month. I get a two or three flask procs per week. I understand, also, that the Transmutation proc rate is bugged and that it will be fixed in an upcoming patch, but that is hearsay.
It isn't hearsay there was a blue post about it in the oboards, you can find it on mmo-champion or I think it was linked here probably on this first page in this board. All transmute procs are not working properly except for primal might I guess.
That explains why the only procs I did get were on Mights. I switched to Earth to Water because that was the only one with a real profit. The only way Might profits is with a lot of farming and procs. I did get a four proc with it once. Nice! But I switched to earth to water and got only one proc in two months. And that was just a twofer. I will probably stick with Elixir until after they patch the flaw and then only after the reports come in.
Thanks.
My main idea was to focus mostly on Primal Mights. Not only could I turn a profit on procs with those, but I actually use them in a lot of my 360+ LW recipes.
Either way, it's an idea I'm considering, but I probably won't make the change until after the next patch where they would hopefully fix the transmutation bug. I also need the time to do some research on how profitable every aspect of Alchemy would really be. I'm sure it would save me a lot of money too because being a rogue I use quite a few pots. Leather is just so soft and all, lol.
Either way, it's an idea I'm considering, but I probably won't make the change until after the next patch where they would hopefully fix the transmutation bug. I also need the time to do some research on how profitable every aspect of Alchemy would really be. I'm sure it would save me a lot of money too because being a rogue I use quite a few pots. Leather is just so soft and all, lol.
I was actually thinking of dropping skinning at 375 after I make my primal strike and such. I am going to take up Mining first and farm everything I need to get Engineering up to 350 for the goggles.
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