Choosing Professions ! :)

[kllrwlf]

Here's my setup.

Across my other alts, I already have enchanting, jc, tailoring, alchemy, engineering, leatherworking, skinning, mining, herb.
(Basically everything except Blacksmithing).

Here's my new 5-box team:
1x Paladin
3x Mages
1x Shaman

And this is what I'm thinking about choosing:

Paladin - Engineering (to help with pulling?), Mining
Mage A - Tailoring (nice Epics), Herb
Mage B - Tailoring (nice Epics), Skin
Mage C - Tailoring (nice Epics), Alchemy (for proc Mastery and Transmutes)
Shaman - LW (for the drums?), Enchanting (to DE BOP)

I have the 3 gathering because I hate seeing gold just laying there.
Alchemy because another proc mastery and transmutes a day is nice.
Tailoring for the mages seems to be a no-brainer
Enchanting, mostly just to DE the BOPs.

The 2 that I'm still iffy about is the Paladin (Engineering) and Shaman (LW).

For a Paladin, I've read that Engineering is the best way to pull with until we get Avenger's Shield (Lvl 50).

For the Shaman Resto, don't know which profession would be best. The best I came up with is LW. Although I don't see it helping until I get closer to 70 for the Drums. I honestly don't expect to get Primal Nethers, so I'm not really banking on the LW BOP Set.

If anyone has a better suggestion.

[Stealthy]

Personally I'd go with Blacksmithing for the Paly - even if you don't go for the nethers, there's some nice BOE paly items at level 70. You can pretty much body pull for any pre-BC instance, or even just use a low level icebolt or fireball from one of your mages and snag the mob as it runs past...

LW is kinda sucky...even the BOP epics aren't that great. JC might be a viable alternative? Some good rings & trinkets at higher levels, and the gems of course....

Cheers,
Stealthy

[Bollwerk]

I took all 10 professions between my 5 toons. I like being self-sufficient in that regard. Although, I had no idea how hard it would be to level up BS, Eng and JC all from 1 miner. It is rough.

[beyond-tec]

I'd prefer:

Pala: Herb, Mining (so you got both collector professions on your main)
mage: tailor, enchant (pass the boss drops you don't need to the mage)
mage: tailor, alchemy (gets the herbs from the pala)
mage: tailor, jewel (gets the ore from the pala)
shaman: skinning + leatherworking (there is a macro for skinning so you don't need to switch on the char)

[Otlecs]

>Pala: Herb, Mining (so you got both collector professions on your main)

The disadvantage of this is that you can only "track" one resource type at a time. For that reason alone, I decided to put my gathering professions in each of my teams on different characters.

I have enough trouble spotting some herbs WITH tracking, let alone without it :roll:

[beyond-tec]

I've bound it on keys:

"tracking for herbs" -> mouse wheel up
"tracking for iron" -> mouse wheel down

so I can change the tracking while I'm moving.

takes some time to get used to it but then it works very good.

[Stealthy]

I've bound it on keys:

"tracking for herbs" -> mouse wheel up
"tracking for iron" -> mouse wheel down

so I can change the tracking while I'm moving.

takes some time to get used to it but then it works very good.

I just have the mini map for the miner at the top left of one screen and the mini map on my main at the top right - that way the two mini-maps are right next to each other and it's easy to see both at the same time. Of course this only works on a multi-monitor setup...

Cheers,
Stealthy

[Lost Ninja]

Or just use an addon like Cartographer with the mining nodes marked, and use the herb tracking skill (or visa versa). Thats what I do anyway, and I have herbs on main mining on alt.

[kllrwlf]

I just have the mini map for the miner at the top left of one screen and the mini map on my main at the top right - that way the two mini-maps are right next to each other and it's easy to see both at the same time. Of course this only works on a multi-monitor setup...

Cheers,
Stealthy

That's how I have my setup as, which is why I split up the Miner and Herb between 2 toons.

Skinning can be done with a macro so I'm good with that also.

I already have a 340ish JC, and I don't want to sink more gold into it by having another toon with JC. The 350s are going to be painful to level up with recipes costing so much.

I thought about Blacksmithing for the Pali, but I'm looking for more a profession that would be using while leveling up. The BOE items in BS can just be bought if I really wanted them.

LWing is sucky for the Shaman... I'll have to think about this slot more.

Thanks for all the feedback!

[kadaan]

LWing is sucky for the Shaman... I'll have to think about this slot more.

I picked up LW on my Shaman. At 70 you can make an epic 3-piece Enhancement set or 3-piece Elemental set. There's also the T5-level boot patterns you can probably buy off the AH as well.