Professions
Mar. 3rd, 2010 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelMy old main, a nelf rogue, was herb/alch. Which is a nice combination, and useful. (For a class that has no self-heal, lifeblood and mixology and health potions are complete win.)
Several of my alts have decent profession pairings, too. Things like mining/blacksmithing on a dk, or skinning/leatherworking on a druid.
And then there is my shaman, who, for no explicable reason (except maybe "bags"), is tailoring. And skinning.
I don't particularly want to give up tailoring, because even though 95% of it is utterly useless, there is still a bit of useful, plus which I've put enough time and money into leveling tailoring that I don't want to waste that.
But I do kind of want to change /something/.
Current options:
1) Switch skinning to herbalism, mainly for the gathering of frost lotuseseses. Which is kind of a silly reason to change.
2) Switch skinning to enchanting. PITA to level, but useful once it's up there. And goes well with tailoring, though it would have gone better back when I was churning shit out. (At 441, there is not much shit-churning.) otoh, my mage (32) is working on enchanting (161 wooo) and I don't know that I want to go through that twice.
3) Switch skinning to JC, and switch a different character to mining.
3a) different character being my hunter, 53 and currently skinning/lw (315/239, which I could change to mining/engineering, with the end result of also being able to eventually make awesome ammunition, and also a Jeeves.
3b) different character being my dk, 66 and herbalism/inscrip, who has the advantage of being higher level but I don't play her very much.
4) STFU and leave things as they are *wry grin*
I am, perhaps oddly, leaning towards 3a. Even though it means lw would wait a while (my druid is also sk/lw, and almost the same level of lw, but she's only 37).
Mrrrph.
Several of my alts have decent profession pairings, too. Things like mining/blacksmithing on a dk, or skinning/leatherworking on a druid.
And then there is my shaman, who, for no explicable reason (except maybe "bags"), is tailoring. And skinning.
I don't particularly want to give up tailoring, because even though 95% of it is utterly useless, there is still a bit of useful, plus which I've put enough time and money into leveling tailoring that I don't want to waste that.
But I do kind of want to change /something/.
Current options:
1) Switch skinning to herbalism, mainly for the gathering of frost lotuseseses. Which is kind of a silly reason to change.
2) Switch skinning to enchanting. PITA to level, but useful once it's up there. And goes well with tailoring, though it would have gone better back when I was churning shit out. (At 441, there is not much shit-churning.) otoh, my mage (32) is working on enchanting (161 wooo) and I don't know that I want to go through that twice.
3) Switch skinning to JC, and switch a different character to mining.
3a) different character being my hunter, 53 and currently skinning/lw (315/239, which I could change to mining/engineering, with the end result of also being able to eventually make awesome ammunition, and also a Jeeves.
3b) different character being my dk, 66 and herbalism/inscrip, who has the advantage of being higher level but I don't play her very much.
4) STFU and leave things as they are *wry grin*
I am, perhaps oddly, leaning towards 3a. Even though it means lw would wait a while (my druid is also sk/lw, and almost the same level of lw, but she's only 37).
Mrrrph.
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Date: 2010-03-04 04:10 am (UTC)Right now on my main moneymaker I'm pairing herbalism and alchemy, and selling herbs for mats and making epic uncut gems for selling. But then, I can make my roommate cut the gems for me if I am not feeling particularly lazy. :)
Enchanting is a good moneymaker too, but yeah, a bitch to level. I'm at 405 right now on my not-yet-main, with 389 tailoring. They do go well together, because you kind of make your own mats as you go.
I'm not really sure about some of the others like blacksmithing, or engineering, and how they do in terms of giving you good buffs or making money, etc. I want to tries those out sometime though! I do sort of love professions in general in wow, I'm not sure why; leveling them makes me happy. :)