Question - Professioins

[Guest]

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Group,

I have a Hunter and Warlock and would like advice on which professions
to choose for them.

I thought I'd develop Herbalism/Alchemy for my Hunter. My Warlock
presently does Skinning, which I choose at level 6 to get some early
money, and Tailoring, which I choose because I could make armor I
could wear. I thought of switching my Warlock to leatherworking so my
Hunter could wear my gear, but I see that higher level Hunters can
choose to wear mail. I am open to ideas...

Thanks,
Julie

 

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imgame wrote:
> ...
> With that said buying potions are much cheaper then buying armor in
the
> short run.. but over time I have saved tons of cash just making my
own..
> trying to quest for the armor or weapons.

It depends on how long you wear the armor before you upgrade.
Especially for casters, who would just as easily run around naked if it
wasn't for the stats boost to Int, Stam, or Spirit. It takes about 10
levels before it's even worth upgrading your +8/+8 to a +10/+10... And
even then only if you haven't gotten a quest item or drop in that time
period anyway.

The bigger question is this: Is it cheaper making potions or buying
them with the money you get from the 2nd gathering skill that you would
have taken?

 

[Barry]

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"Julie Warden" <julie_warden@spamonlyhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Group,
>
> I have a Hunter and Warlock and would like advice on which professions
> to choose for them.
>
> I thought I'd develop Herbalism/Alchemy for my Hunter. My Warlock
> presently does Skinning, which I choose at level 6 to get some early
> money, and Tailoring, which I choose because I could make armor I
> could wear. I thought of switching my Warlock to leatherworking so my
> Hunter could wear my gear, but I see that higher level Hunters can
> choose to wear mail. I am open to ideas...
>
> Thanks,
> Julie

well, I'm a hunter and ahve taken skinning / leatherworkin so I can wear
waht I make. I did ahve a warlock, and took alchemy / herb. For no real
reason. You can actaully make mail armour with leathworking (i dont get that
either)

 

[imgame]

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Well I went the Herb/Alch route.. I am a paladin and the extra buffs from my
own potions are an excellent means of helping self buff. I never get enough
drops of scrolls or healing potions, so mostly this is a self serving
profession. Both are well over 200 skill and they are both a money sink or
huge time sink to go get the exact herbs I need.

With that said buying potions are much cheaper then buying armor in the
short run.. but over time I have saved tons of cash just making my own..
trying to quest for the armor or weapons.

 

[MindsEye]

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> well, I'm a hunter and ahve taken skinning / leatherworkin so I can wear
> waht I make. I did ahve a warlock, and took alchemy / herb. For no real
> reason. You can actaully make mail armour with leathworking (i dont get
> that either)
>

I'm a hunter, and have taken skinning/leatherworking, and very, very rarely
actually wear a drop. I save a ton on not buying stuff at the AH, though I
end up having to do a fair bit of grinding now and again to keep my
leatherworking skill up to par with my level......but I digress.

While the leatherworking stuff you make isn't as good as the BEST stuff, the
stuff you frequently see at the AH, you can more than get by on what you can
make yourself, and save a ton of cash while you're at it. Of course, you
could just *sell* your leather, and arguably make a profit - but, at least
on my server, the AH is flooded with underpriced leather, and selling your
own craft goods for anything reasonable is next to impossible.

As for the mail armor, most of that is made out of things like scorpid
scale, dragonscale, and turtle scales. They're still HIDES, and they've
still been skinned off creatures, so it's leatherworking - but because
they're scales, they're mail-class armor (and pretty good mail-class armor,
at that).

-[Blayde]-

 

[steve]

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"Julie Warden" <julie_warden@spamonlyhotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> I thought I'd develop Herbalism/Alchemy for my Hunter. My Warlock
> presently does Skinning,

Ideally hunter would be skinning and warlock doing herbalism. Reason is you
don't need tracking for skinning, and the hunter doing herbalism means at
any given time you have to either sacrifice your herbalism tracking or
whatever creature tracking would be most appropriate - as you can't track
two things at once.

 

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> I have a Hunter and Warlock and would like advice on which professions
> to choose for them.
>
> I thought I'd develop Herbalism/Alchemy for my Hunter. My Warlock
> presently does Skinning, which I choose at level 6 to get some early
> money, and Tailoring, which I choose because I could make armor I
> could wear. I thought of switching my Warlock to leatherworking so my
> Hunter could wear my gear, but I see that higher level Hunters can
> choose to wear mail. I am open to ideas...
>
> Thanks,
> Julie

Enchanting, why? So you can disenchant all your soul bound stuff and sell
the results. They will sell for more than the item being vendored. Plus you
can use the items to buy enchantments on your own gear. Just auction for an
enchantment saying you will provide the items........
Not to mention you can disenchant the clothes you make for skill ups in
tailoring. You may never become someone who enchants things, but you might
as well be able to salvage your old stuff.

 

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"gaf1234567890" <gaf1234567890@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> Most people agree that it's not even worth taking a Production skill
> until you are level 40 when you can be an Artisan. Before that you
> should consider taking 2 gathering skills and just stockpiling the raw
> materials, or selling them on the AH for cash. Mining and Herbalism are
> probably the two most profitable, but Skinning isn't horrible either.

Only problem is mining and herbalism don't "stack". So if you do choose
both, you'll be changing tracking skills VERY often.


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~ Cyde Weys ~

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Aeria gloris, aeria gloris

 

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Julie Warden <julie_warden@spamonlyhotmail.com> wrote in
news:teoo81997i3rt33f5mnp94uteengv3aig3@4ax.com:

> Group,
>
> I have a Hunter and Warlock and would like advice on which professions
> to choose for them.
>
> I thought I'd develop Herbalism/Alchemy for my Hunter. My Warlock
> presently does Skinning, which I choose at level 6 to get some early
> money, and Tailoring, which I choose because I could make armor I
> could wear. I thought of switching my Warlock to leatherworking so my
> Hunter could wear my gear, but I see that higher level Hunters can
> choose to wear mail. I am open to ideas...

Leatherworking makes leather armor before level 40 and adds mail armor
after level 40. It's kind of weird. Meanwhile blacksmithing starts with
mail and switches to plate at 40. In other words, leatherworking =
hunters/shamans, blacksmithing = warriors/paladins.


--
~ Cyde Weys ~

Mana du vortes, mana du vortes
Aeria gloris, aeria gloris