WoW professions babble
Oct. 19th, 2009 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelI have two characters at L80. One is my rogue, who does herbalism/alchemy; I am happy with this combination, especially since herbalism gives me a combat heal and alchemy means I can make my own flasks/etc. The other is my hordelet hunter, who does mining/engineering; the engineering is nice if for no other reason than, hey, free bullets. (Well, I have to mine the materials, but still.)
Those, I'm happy with.
I also have:
* a L32 mage, mining/enchanting
* a L40 shaman, skinning/tailoring
* a L34 druid, skinning/leatherworking
* a L62 dk, herbalism/inscription
* a L64 dk, on a separate realm, mining/blacksmithing.
Now, I'm fairly happy with the druid. But I'm kind of dissatisfied.
For the other-realm (Greymane) DK, blacksmithing is kind of lame. I assume it will get less lame when I can do things like eternal belt buckles and self-sockets, but it's still kind of ... I don't know if any of the craftable armor/weapons are better than what I could get otherishly, and the weapon buffs (eg sharpening stone) are useless for DKs because it doesn't stack with runeforging. Plus, while her mining skill is up to questing level (fel iron etc), the blacksmithing is still stuck on a bunch of thorium stuff, which is a pain to get. OTOH, if I don't grind up blacksmithing to where I'm using the stuff I'm mining while questing, I'll have to go back and re-grind the additional stuff later.
For the mage, I like enchanting (even if it is annoying to level), but the mining is ... good for selling on AH, basically.
For the shaman, I have NFI what I was thinking. Having a second skinner is useful for the druid, but there's no reason why it has to be the shaman.
For the dk, inscription is ... I don't know. It feels kind of useless.
Plus, I sort of want a jewelcrafter.
Except for the part of me going "omg switching professions is a waste of time / money / learned recipes", I might be tempted to switch things around so the mage stays enchanting but then is either tailoring or skinning, the shaman is mining/JC, and... I don't know what to do with the dks. Grinding up mining and JC on the shaman probably wouldn't be that bad, but I feel guilty "losing" the learned recipes. And the mage would benefit from tailoring, except that cloth is a pain to get, and skinning would help the druid, but then I wouldn't have a tailor to be able to make bags, and...
... *flail* I don't know.
Suggestions? Comments?
And yes, I know there's no "right" way to do things. (There are some people who advocate two gathering professions until you're max level, for the money, and then work on a crafting profession. There are some people that like properly paired gathering+crafting professions. And there are some people that like whatever's the most fun.)
Those, I'm happy with.
I also have:
* a L32 mage, mining/enchanting
* a L40 shaman, skinning/tailoring
* a L34 druid, skinning/leatherworking
* a L62 dk, herbalism/inscription
* a L64 dk, on a separate realm, mining/blacksmithing.
Now, I'm fairly happy with the druid. But I'm kind of dissatisfied.
For the other-realm (Greymane) DK, blacksmithing is kind of lame. I assume it will get less lame when I can do things like eternal belt buckles and self-sockets, but it's still kind of ... I don't know if any of the craftable armor/weapons are better than what I could get otherishly, and the weapon buffs (eg sharpening stone) are useless for DKs because it doesn't stack with runeforging. Plus, while her mining skill is up to questing level (fel iron etc), the blacksmithing is still stuck on a bunch of thorium stuff, which is a pain to get. OTOH, if I don't grind up blacksmithing to where I'm using the stuff I'm mining while questing, I'll have to go back and re-grind the additional stuff later.
For the mage, I like enchanting (even if it is annoying to level), but the mining is ... good for selling on AH, basically.
For the shaman, I have NFI what I was thinking. Having a second skinner is useful for the druid, but there's no reason why it has to be the shaman.
For the dk, inscription is ... I don't know. It feels kind of useless.
Plus, I sort of want a jewelcrafter.
Except for the part of me going "omg switching professions is a waste of time / money / learned recipes", I might be tempted to switch things around so the mage stays enchanting but then is either tailoring or skinning, the shaman is mining/JC, and... I don't know what to do with the dks. Grinding up mining and JC on the shaman probably wouldn't be that bad, but I feel guilty "losing" the learned recipes. And the mage would benefit from tailoring, except that cloth is a pain to get, and skinning would help the druid, but then I wouldn't have a tailor to be able to make bags, and...
... *flail* I don't know.
Suggestions? Comments?
And yes, I know there's no "right" way to do things. (There are some people who advocate two gathering professions until you're max level, for the money, and then work on a crafting profession. There are some people that like properly paired gathering+crafting professions. And there are some people that like whatever's the most fun.)