Multi-boxers Professions

[shinigam1]

i was woundering what the best professions is to pick for my quad boxers.....im going to be quad boxing shammys

[Majestic_Clown]

my 4 shammies are tailors at the moment,

I just sold 2 Primal Mooncloth cooldowns which was 16 cloth for 1200g took

I have my old main char a tailor who i need to respec from shadowweave to mooncloth so that would make it 10 cloth per cooldown.

I have have another multiboxing team which is 1 priest and 4 warlocks doing tailoring too, im aiming for 20 cloth every cooldown :D

[KvdM]

If you're going to pvp with them, make sure that you have at least one leatherworker that has the drums of panic. The day before yesterday I was doing WSG with a multiboxer friend and he got shred to bits by a single aoe mage. Having a fear ability will help with dealing with those nasty blink - frost nova - arcane explosion mages.

[Darcla]

For my first 5 box team I just went with:

main - skinning/mining

alt1 - tailoing

alt2- enchanting

alt3- jewelcrafting

alt4 - leatherworking

so far it is working on nicely. My enchanting and gathering are always kept at the max since I level mostly with instances. The things I make with jewelcrafting are DEable so that makes enchanting that much easier and also helps suplement the cost (JC is a pain to level). Like majestic said, tailoring is always a good choice. I'm going to take his advice and put tailoring on all my alts because 1)the are all cloth casters and 2)cooldowns are a great source of income.

[sparvath]

Only must imho is enchanting. Rest is whatever you fancy.

Personally I went for the 3 gathering professions and Alchemist for my own pots.

[Drizzit]

Having Alchemy on all your alts might be a good idea too. Turning 3g primal earth to 30g primal water x 4 a day is nice money. Cloth only sells for about 50g per. So you get 2 every 4 days (3 days and 20 hours) that is 110g (100g for the spec - 30 for primals, 100 for the other non spec - 60 for primals) every 4 days per toon. Alchemy you get 108g per 4 days (27g x 4) Plus if your a transmute master it could proc giving you up to another 4 per proc. If transmute master procs once it beats tailoring. The thing that i noticed on my server i almost never put primals up twice, cloth sometimes doesn't sell.

On my clothie team i have enchanting and tailoring on them; main tank has herb and alchemy, and my 4 sham i am going to have enchanting and alchemy. Enchanting is nice cause at 350 you can get +24 spell damage to the rings. I know that lvling enchanting is not cheap and the +24 is not worth it, but enchanting did have a daily de turning a 20g void into 2 crystals that sell for 30g. They took that daily cd off so now the crystals are cheaper, but hopefully in the new expansion they have the daily cd back. My master plan hopefully before the expansion comes out is that i can power lvl my clothies to 70 and get good money doing dailies and stuff and then power lvl their alchemy to 375 and them to 70.

[Neogeo]

I have to say that profession-leveling is a big pain when it comes to multiboxing ... At the moment I have:

Main: Herbalism / Skinning
Alt 1: Tailoring / Letherworking
Alt 2: Mining
Alt 3: Jewelcrafting / Letherworking
Alt 4: Enchanting / Alchemy / First Aid


1) I wanted to do blacksmithing on alt 2, but since I miss a bunch of veins since Im mining with an alt, the mats are only enough to supply the jewelcrafter.
2) Everytime I have gathered enough mats it takes me a good hour to visit all profession-trainers and then trade the right mats to the right alt as well as buying the extra "ingredieents" needed.

I dont want to go back and do the proffesion-leveling once I hit 70, so I try to keep the spirit up during that last (boring) hour of the night when I level my professions.

[Drizzit]

Everytime I have gathered enough mats it takes me a good hour to visit all profession-trainers and then trade the right mats to the right alt as well as buying the extra "ingredieents" needed.

I dont want to go back and do the proffesion-leveling once I hit 70, so I try to keep the spirit up during that last (boring) hour of the night when I level my professions
Tell me about it. I am doing high lvl instances so i am lvling my professions faster then my toon can learn them, but the 1 hour for each toon is crazy. Enchanting is the worse because you cannot set it to do multiple creates. The other profession that kills me is first aid. I know that first aid is easy to lvl but not that many horde instances has wool as a easy drop. Linen is so easy in RFC and silk like 4 silk every other drop in sm cath, but only walk away with 6 wool in a sm library run. I can't remember how much gold i spent too buying wool. Also doesn't help that my toons are also tailors. Well off to zf now hopefully the mageweave is the same drop rate as silk in sm cath.

[Gadzooks]

Everytime I have gathered enough mats it takes me a good hour to visit all profession-trainers and then trade the right mats to the right alt as well as buying the extra "ingredieents" needed.

I dont want to go back and do the proffesion-leveling once I hit 70, so I try to keep the spirit up during that last (boring) hour of the night when I level my professions
Tell me about it. I am doing high lvl instances so i am lvling my professions faster then my toon can learn them, but the 1 hour for each toon is crazy. Enchanting is the worse because you cannot set it to do multiple creates. The other profession that kills me is first aid. I know that first aid is easy to lvl but not that many horde instances has wool as a easy drop. Linen is so easy in RFC and silk like 4 silk every other drop in sm cath, but only walk away with 6 wool in a sm library run. I can't remember how much gold i spent too buying wool. Also doesn't help that my toons are also tailors. Well off to zf now hopefully the mageweave is the same drop rate as silk in sm cath.Do tell, I have literally over 100 stacks of wool in my guild bank/bank toon, never thought to put them up on the cross-faction AH. :)

I've settled on gathering/enchanting for a lot of my alts - I'm going 3-box soon, and I figure i'll just load up my guild bank with mats until my guys hit 60, then they can get jobs. I have 3 guild bank tabs full now, and working on each character's bank slots - I have stacks of ore, gems, shards, dust, meat, leather, cloth, herbs, you name it! I rarely buy anything off the AH, I usually have plenty.

I just realized the other day I have the mats to get several toons to revered at least with the Darkmoon Faire. :)

I gave up professions for now, because I constantly found that I was either learning recipes/skills I could'nt use yet, or needed mats in zones I was'nt running yet - the advanced curve from multi-boxing throws the professions grind out of whack. i'm just going to worry about it later.

[spannah]

Deadmines has a really good mix of linen and wool. Just go there with a higher level toon and you should have plenty in a couple hours.

[OzPhoenix]

I'm going all out on professions once I hit 60, get my epic land mounts and go run around Azeroth levelling the gathering up. Except for the mains Enchanting, none of these are levelled yet:

Shaman1: Tailoring / Enchanting
Shaman2: Skinning / Leatherworking
Shaman3: Herbalism / Alchemy
Shaman4: Mining / Jewelcrafting
Shaman5: Engineering / Blacksmithing

If I live long enough to see a single coppers worth of profit out of this arrangement, I'll be much surprised.

[Basilikos]

I had real luck with my BElf priest and 4xwarlocks. The priest is an enchanter and a tailor. One Lock is herb/alch. Another is mining/JCing. The third is skinning/LWing. Most of the time, the LWer just sends greens over to the enchanter, but it works out for leveling EVERYTHING that I feel like putting any effort into. For example, the enchanter is level 24 and already has almost 200 enchanting skill. I've bought / sold NOTHING on the AH.

Although, I'm thinking about selling all the shards this group gets from instance DEs just because it will be NUTS for cash early on.

[ÆONFLUX]

I went for a streamlined money making one without any out-of-the-way gathering professions.


S1 - Skinning / Tailoring
S2 - Enchanting / Tailoring
S3 - Leatherworking / Tailoring
S4 - Tailoring / Empty


If you are boosting its np to keep all the tailoring pretty high up there if you stall at certain instances for mageweave and any other cloth you ran short of. With this setup I will have 4x mooncloth specs which will supplement income. Past that Enchanting is 100% must have. Skinning and leatherworking I figure was nice / easy since my main just skins anything I kill. All in all pretty convenient choices and pretty good cash flow selling all the enchanting mats that were generated.


I would LOVE to have S4 to have jewelcrafting but it would be a moneysink. I think I might just blow the 2-3k or less (hopefully?) to get 300+.

[tigger2577]

I have started my professions but keeping them up is another sotoyr

druid1 - Leather working/Enchanting
druid2 - Leather working/Mining
druid3 - Leather working/Herb
druid4 - Leather working/Alch
druid5 - Leather working/Skinning

[Bravo]

Alchemy has a really nice trinket + transmuting meta's is good cash, and enchanting is handy for the ring enchants and DE'ing

[ÆONFLUX]

I'd much rather have alchemy x4 but it would be thousands of gold worth of mats to get that high.

[kllrwlf]

I like selling transmuting and tailor's cloth CDs.

And Enchanting to DE everything.

[pinotnoir]

If you have 4 alch transmute masters and a jc.... GOOOLLLLLDDD. You can buy mats off the AH daily, transmute diamonds and cut meta gems that sell for 200g each. If all 4 guys proc transmute thats 8x200g

Alch is so easy to level. Its a no brainer.

[Finges]

Hmm... I went the don't worry about professions till later method.

I do recommend that you have 2 professions somewhere on your team while leveling. :D

Enchanting - So you can DE all the drops from the instances you'll run
Herbalism - So you can spot all the herbs for herb collection quests :D

Aside from that.. it's up to you.

I run a pally x 4shaman team.

Currently I have
Pally - Mining/Enchanting
Shaman 1- Herbalism
Shaman 2-4... none :D

I'm thinking I'll eventually go with
Shaman 1 - Herb/LW
Shaman 2 - Alchy/LW
Shaman 3 - Jewel/LW
Shaman 4 - Skinning/LW
Pally - Mining/Enchanting

I just like leatherworking for gear (Netherstrike/Drums of panic)

[Codam]

My toons just hit 66 yesterday, and I finally sat down and got my final profession (jewelcrafting) up to TBC level.

I now have:

Pally - Enchanter / Herbalist
Priest - Mooncloth Tailor / Skinner
Mage1 - Alchemy / Spellfire Tailor
Mage2 - Mining / Spellfire Tailor
Mage3 - Jewelcrafting / Spellfire tailor

Basically I had planned on leveling all the tailors plus enchanting while I went along, but early on that came to a halt due to the horde-side wool problem. I ended up with all mages stuck on wool, priest high level tailor when I hit outlands (and of course enchanting leveled) but at least I had stacks of silk, mageweave and runecloth in the banks.

As soon as I got epic land mounts (about level 63 I think) it was back to azeroth and a few long hours picking flowers, skinning everything in sight, and mining. If you pick the zones right this can actually go faster than you'd expect. Jewelcrafting is a bitch though, I expect it would take the mats from leveling 2 or 3 miners to level a JC :S

[Neurotic]

I have started my professions but keeping them up is another sotoyr

druid1 - Leather working/Enchanting
druid2 - Leather working/Mining
druid3 - Leather working/Herb
druid4 - Leather working/Alch
druid5 - Leather working/SkinningOUCH! man that is alot of leather enjoy that grind or let me know what server your on so i can post alot of leather for u on the AH...lol selling to u will be worth the transfer fee..lol j/k GL

[Tonuss]

I just went with whatever I didn't already have on my main characters. My 70 rogue is a miner/herbalist because I don't use him for much else, and thus it was a waste to give him a profession (he wouldn't run instances often enough to get the BoP drops, for example). My 70 shaman is enchanting/smithing.

So I decided I'd cover the professions I didn't already have, with one exception. My mage has alchemy (man, that was easy to max). My priest has tailoring. My paladin has skinning/leatherworking. My warlock has jewelcrafting. I did not get engineering yet, because all of the money and time I put into mining was to provide for the warlock's JC. The leatherworking was almost incidental-- I did not sell any of the stuff I had skinned, so when I decided to level it up, I think I spent 30 gold total... and that was without AHing a single item, I just vendored it all as I leveled it up to save time.

At some point I think it'll be good to get engineering on one of them, if only for the sake of having a repair bot available. But for now I've got almost all of the other stuff covered, and as I run instances I should be able to get a lot of the BoP recipes for them.

[Lazzadorabcd]

I have x 4 shaman

Primary: Mining/ Skinning
2nd: Enchanting/ Jewel crafting
3rd: Leather working/ Engineering
4th: Tailoring/ Blacksmithing

You really have to do tailoring and enchanting if you multi box - there is so much Sh*t that drops to disenchant and so much cloth that drops to make into stuff that can be disenchanted its crazy not to have those two.

My main is the only person i want to pick up stuff so its a waste imo to not give him two profs that involve picking things up.

I just did the other professions for fun - i didnt really need them.


BTW - if you have that many professions be prepared to send hrs just messing with all that stuff. It sometimes is very annoying but most of the time its fun.

[Tonuss]

WoW makes leveling professions pretty painless, especially from 1-300. Certainly compared to games like EQ... *shudder*

I did get a bit lucky, in that I had leveled up herbalism on an alt character before I did it with my rogue, and I had a bank full of herbs that made it very easy to level alchemy up quickly. It's similar to what happened with LW on the paladin... I figured that with so much leather in the bank, it wouldn't be so bad to grind it out, and that was the case. Tailoring and skinning were easy in that I could level them as I went along. Only jewelcrafting held me up, since I had few ores saved up and almost no gems. I did spend about... 300 gold getting that one done, but even that is a pretty small amount to spend IMO. I plan to level LW and JC further as I go along, they are both at 300 right now. Alchemy was easy enough to get from 300-375, because I could just take the mats from the guild bank and return the stuff I had created.

I try to grind as little as I can in games like this most of the time. I may have to grind out the mats for engineering at some point, or spend the gold to do it, but all in good time. So far, leveling their tradeskills hasn't been bad at all.

[wrs]

For leveling:

Shammy 1: Skinning/Herb
Shammy 2: Mining
Shammy 3: Enchanting
Shammy 4: LW
Shammy 5: LW

Mentioned higher in this thread, Herbalism is almost a must have. Even if you don't skill it up. It is a godsend for some collection quests (just remember to loot LAST on your herbalist!) Inside Underbog, it's invaluable for collecting Sanguine Hibiscus.

Collection professions are a mixed blessing while leveling. It really slows things down (I hear the skinning sound in my sleep). But at the same time, I'd hate to go back to low level zones just to skill them up. Furthermore, I'm obsessive. When that yellow dot appears on my minimap, if it's a skill point, I must grab it. In general, I believe having the big three pays off huge in the Outlands instances. So many have ore and herbs. It's easy money with no competetion.

Enchanting is a must have and EASY to skill up if you start when you are a wee toon. All those greens and blues you are never going to use, DE them, and grind out some lowbee enchants. Vendoring blue BOP's and then having to pay for enchanting mats is a lose lose. And you get ALOT of the better enchants from Outland instances.

Eventually, all or most will pick up alchemy as a prof. It's easy to level (I have 3 master xmuters atm), and the low level mats are dirt cheap on my server. Xmuting is great money. It's good to plan for on the way up because you will want to get your sporregar rep while questing in Zangermarsh.

I don't know how feasable it will be to level LW on all of them, of if the BOP gear is worth it. For now, it works on two just to burn thru the main toons skinning mats. With the potential to really grind out alot of badges and gear in heroics, I hesitate to go for professions soley based on the acquisition of craftable BOP gear.

I have two other alts that are JC, so no need for a third and 5 alts that are tailors (3x spellcloth, 1x mooncloth, and 1x shadoweave). Tailoring is good as a money maker (spellcloth is going for upwards of 65g on my server), but serves little utility to shamans. I have one alt that is a BS/Eng. Engineering *could* be fun on the shammies, but I'm not enough of a massochist to level it a second time.

[Gurblash]

Shammy 1: Enchant/Tailor - 270/250
Shammy 2: Skinner/LW - 300/200
Shammy 3: Herb/Alch - 0/0
Shammy 4: Tailor/Alch - 0/0
Paladin: Mining/JC - 0/0

Went back and raised up skinning last night... took 4 hours from 0-300. Deffinately something I wish I had the entire ride though.
Gonna go back and start Herb tonight. Followed by Power Leveling Alch as high as the AH will allow, hopefully 200.

The Paladin got left behind at lvl 38 *which still makes me a sad Panda.* I'll be going back to pick her up when the Shammies hit 70 at the end of the month.

[Drizzit]

Gonna go back and start Herb tonight.
Let me know how this goes. I have to do on my pally (stupid power lvling lol). And what paths you took. Thx

[Xar]

What about maxing out dps and such, on a server where I already have 3 70's and can farm dailies for gold? I want my 5x Shammies to be the best they can be so right now I have 5x Enchanting (for later ring enchants) and 5x LW.

I've got each of their enchanting skills up to 225+ now but haven't started on the LW yet but trained initial skill so they can get Outlands BoP patterns as someone else suggested doing.

I was going to go Engineering/Enchanting on all 5 but the only attraction in Engineering would have been for the headpiece and to me it didn't look that great for Shaman compared to the Engineering headpiece for a prot pally.

So went with LW. I'm thinking 5x drums will be great in BG's and the Drums of War and Drums of Battle would be great in instances not to mention the epic LW trainer patterns looked decent as well as at least 1 LW pattern that was being sold in trade channel on our server for boots.

Any thoughts on this where choosing professions is not based on making money with them but for maxing out your toons? My 5x locks will definitely be tailors and I'll trade cloths for mooncloths after they have their epic sets.

[wrs]

What about maxing out dps and such, on a server where I already have 3 70's and can farm dailies for gold? I want my 5x Shammies to be the best they can be so right now I have 5x Enchanting (for later ring enchants) and 5x LW.

By this same logic, you could consider JC. There are several BOP gems that can be crafted, although I am not sure how they stack up against the new Sunwell gems.