Okay, maybe I'm just slow. Rather than do the smart thing, and start off with two gathering professions, I leveled my lock main as a tailor/enchanter. I was new to the game and all I could think of was having big bags. Granted the shadoweave set was great, so no big problems yet.
When the lock needed iron buckles for her tailoring I created a priest and made her a miner/blacksmith. Yes, I knew she'd never be able to wear her own stuff, but I at least hoped at some point she could make a nifty mace. Thus far she hasn't been able to create a single item that's better than what she gets as quest rewards.
Then WotLK came out and I made a DK. Since I was dying to try inscription, I made her a miner/scribe. (I figured the mining would both support my bs, engineer and jewelcrafter, plus have higher level ores to sell and my two herbalists could send her herbs.)
Now that my Priest/bs has finally turned oodles of mithril and other expensive mats into various weapons for the weaponsmith quest, and now that my DK has gotten her scribing up to where she can make the Shadowy Tarot (can't give the exact levels, since the servers are down) it has FINALLY occurred to me that the DK would benefit more from the ability to make armor and the priest could just as well do the inscription.
Two things make me hesitant to change - first, the idea that since the DK is lvl 60, while the priest is only 40, the DK would be in position to make higher level armor/weapon vellum for the enchanter sooner (so she can level her enchanting without wasting enchants on herself - I can't stand hanging out in town trying to hawk my enchants). The other is the sheer cost in herbs and ores (or the time/energy to wander around lowbie areas) it's taken to get this far.
So, should I powerlevel the DK's scribing to the point where she can make a huge stack of vellum for the enchanter, and then dump it, or just buck up and buy my vellum from the AH? (Being an alt-o-holic, my characters aren't rich, and I'm still trying to save up 10k for my 80 lock and 70 druid to get artisan flying.)
Wah! Can somebody hold my hand?
Edited, Jan 27th 2009 9:25am by lionlemur