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Would Alchemy/Herbalism be better than Skinning/Leatherworking for my blood elf hunter. Or should I go for mining/blacksmithing for the mail armor later or is AH better for getting armor and weapons?
Until you get the high-end BoP recipes, you can purchase anything that can be made. Alchemy/Herbalism is good because you can provide stuff that people need to buy on a regular basis, but you will often find that the plants sell for more than the potions. I tend to stay away from the crafting skills until I get to 70 and can afford to power-level to 375 within a few hours. For the most part, they aren't worth it at lower levels.
My brother's a BS and didn't really have much in the way of good things to say about 375 skill mail items - you'll be able to make some nice weapons but that's apparently it.
LW does offer some beautiful scale armor at the top end that your hunter will love and there's some nice leather items from 1-40 to boot - the problem is that 41-68 there's pretty much two LW items for your hunter - jack and sh*t.
Well, that's not completely true - there's some nice quivers and ammo pouches and of course you'll love the armor patches too, but realitistically speaking, LW wont give much in the way of gear till you ding 70.
Alchemy is a decent trade though - the various armor and AGI pots you can make kick butt for hunters and there's always a market/use for your skill up pots. As soon as you can transmute primal earth to water then you've just created a free money machine, plus, the two or three levels you spend in Zangamarsh will be pure heaven farming those plant giants for XP, greens, plants and motes of life - that time in your life is going to pay for your flying mount.
Another skill that's good for hunters is engineering - the various toys rather compliment your pet and traps and make you almost impossible to kill, plus, everyone loves a hunter who can FD on a wipe and then maybe rez the healer with jumper cables.
JC I probably wouldn't recommend - the jewelery is nice, no question, but not so much as to compliment a hunter the way the other skills could.
Enchanting and a gathering skill would be a great asset and money maker to boot - you can sell the gather skill materials for straight profit while enchanting not only lets you get nice buffs for your gear but can also become a great money making skill as you sell enchanting mats you don't need anymore or have excesses of.
LW does offer some beautiful scale armor at the top end that your hunter will love and there's some nice leather items from 1-40 to boot - the problem is that 41-68 there's pretty much two LW items for your hunter - jack and sh*t.
Well, that's not completely true - there's some nice quivers and ammo pouches and of course you'll love the armor patches too, but realitistically speaking, LW wont give much in the way of gear till you ding 70.
Alchemy is a decent trade though - the various armor and AGI pots you can make kick butt for hunters and there's always a market/use for your skill up pots. As soon as you can transmute primal earth to water then you've just created a free money machine, plus, the two or three levels you spend in Zangamarsh will be pure heaven farming those plant giants for XP, greens, plants and motes of life - that time in your life is going to pay for your flying mount.
Another skill that's good for hunters is engineering - the various toys rather compliment your pet and traps and make you almost impossible to kill, plus, everyone loves a hunter who can FD on a wipe and then maybe rez the healer with jumper cables.
JC I probably wouldn't recommend - the jewelery is nice, no question, but not so much as to compliment a hunter the way the other skills could.
Enchanting and a gathering skill would be a great asset and money maker to boot - you can sell the gather skill materials for straight profit while enchanting not only lets you get nice buffs for your gear but can also become a great money making skill as you sell enchanting mats you don't need anymore or have excesses of.
I am a hunter. I leveled skinning/LW and I would recommend it for all hunters, LW is damn expensive to level even with skinning. Don't concentrate too much on leveling it until you get to 70, honestly no good stuff until the felstalker chain stuff at 68-70 and if I was going to do it again I would buy stuff off the AH and not make felstalker, primal air is expensive.
YOU GO LW FOR THE DRUMS OF BATTLE. If not for the drums I would probably have dropped LW yesterday when I powerleveled the other raiding hunter profession-Alchemy.
Alchemy gives a great trinket 108 attack power and 40% extra mana from potion-really one of the best in slot in a slot that will be very difficult to fill.
For LW the mats are almost always worth more than the product (quivers and kits included) although this may vary by server.
YOU GO LW FOR THE DRUMS OF BATTLE. If not for the drums I would probably have dropped LW yesterday when I powerleveled the other raiding hunter profession-Alchemy.
Alchemy gives a great trinket 108 attack power and 40% extra mana from potion-really one of the best in slot in a slot that will be very difficult to fill.
For LW the mats are almost always worth more than the product (quivers and kits included) although this may vary by server.
Drums are being nerfed in WotLK, 2 minute debuff that once you get the Drum's buff, you are deafened making you unable to hear any Drum for 2 minutes. Basically, if you still want drums, you only need 1 LW per group cause there won't be chain casting.
Link to Debuff
Edited, Jul 29th 2008 11:48am by FreeTrial
Link to Debuff
Edited, Jul 29th 2008 11:48am by FreeTrial
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