Thinking about dropping mining/herbalism

This is my profession setup on my 5 shaman.
1 - mining / JC.......this is my main
2 - Alchy / JC
3 - Alchy / JC
4 - Alchy / JC
5- Herbalism / Skinning

I have been making good, quick gold with transmute spec on 3 of them compared to farming herbs/nodes on the other 2. Reason being is that I mainly pvp, and I hardly ever actually go "farming"......besides the 5-10 min before WG starts. The nodes I run into just so happen to be on the route I took to head to my destination.
I am thinking about dropping the farmable professions and just going Alchy/JC on each one. ATM...Dragon's Eye sells for 100g and Runed Cardinal Ruby sells for 170g. Minus mat costs plus gold from JC quest turn in......I am getting around 210g per toon for basicly 10min of work.

Questions is, will this setup still be a constant and easy gold maker in Cat?

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Originally Posted by cmeche

This is my profession setup on my 5 shaman.
1 - mining / JC.......this is my main
2 - Alchy / JC
3 - Alchy / JC
4 - Alchy / JC
5- Herbalism / Skinning

I have been making good, quick gold with transmute spec on 3 of them compared to farming herbs/nodes on the other 2. Reason being is that I mainly pvp, and I hardly ever actually go "farming"......besides the 5-10 min before WG starts. The nodes I run into just so happen to be on the route I took to head to my destination.
I am thinking about dropping the farmable professions and just going Alchy/JC on each one. ATM...Dragon's Eye sells for 100g and Runed Cardinal Ruby sells for 170g. Minus mat costs plus gold from JC quest turn in......I am getting around 210g per toon for basicly 10min of work.

Questions is, will this setup still be a constant and easy gold maker in Cat?

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Professions have only gained more abilities to make things over the years. You can assume that jc and alchemy will retain most if not all of their types of properties they bring. Dailies and such.

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Originally Posted by Shodokan

Professions have only gained more abilities to make things over the years. You can assume that jc and alchemy will retain most if not all of their types of properties they bring. Dailies and such.

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Ty for the reply.
This is what I was thinking. Plus, I was thinking that switching out Toughness(from mining)for the additional spellpower that Flask of the North brings....would be more usefull also.

Any reason not to switch if I am not a big node/herb farmer?

The Toughness/Crit chances are minor benefits of the professions.
If you were to min/max your toon, either for PvE or PvP progression.
You wouldn't likely include Mining, Skinning or Herbalism on any of them.

The gathering skills are excellent sources of gold, when you don't have much gold.
And they remain decent sources of gold always.

However, you'll generally make a lot more gold from either transmutes or higher end recipes.
Once you have the gold to purchase the mats instead of farming them.
Production from mats (which you just buy) is a greater profit (particularly early in a raid/arena cycle).

You don't say whether you run instances with that bunch. If so, I'd take one enchanter/alch, the rest alch/jc.

Though, at the start of cataclysm, the new ores and herbs will prolly sell for a lot (possibly leather too), so if you don't have your own gatherer (which would make lots of money if you didn't use it yourself), you will most likely either spend a lot of money to level your professions, or have to wait for prices to go down.

It kind of goes both ways. There will be a ton of people in the low 80's who only do gathering. Also, nobody will have endgame recipes yet, so they won't be in too big a rush to level up.

Of course, if you have 100k+ banked, you're probably good to go.

I have stacks of alchemists....always wonder about the JC thing....(wasn't quite at max yet myself, so I just got Icy Prism)

But JC is very, very expensive (at least on my server). I'd keep 1 Herbalist and Miner / team. Come the next expac you'll be able to level with your own mats rather than spending multiple small fortunes to level.

My pally tank is an Enchanter/Miner....and he will stay that way. So i have that covered.
It just seems so easy atm selling dragon's eyes and Cardinal Rubys. And considering I have a good 20,000 gold on hand with nothing really to spend it on....might as well spend it on lvling as much jc/alchmy as i can.

I stopped with icy prisms. They just don't seem to be worth it. I easily costs more than 40g, probably more like 50g just to keep one JC doing them daily. If I were to have 8 jc's, there is no way I could do an icy prism for less than 60g. I haven't seen a dragon's eye in a long time. So icy prisms are a lost unless I get a scarlet ruby or a dragon's eye. I can spend the time more profitably and reliably on the AH, or questing or anything else.

That said, I'm going to level up JC just for the added gem benefits and the offchance they do something like dalaran tokens again. If that happens and I'm able to do 8 quests a day, I could quickly have every cut available. That's the theory anyway.

I'd at least get the benefits from gemming out my characters, which is easily the most versatile of the crafting benefits.

Im really down on more then one JC (as you say to cut gems for your own use). Icy prism is a joke (I prospect titanium ore to get the stuff to make the prism and its another losing proposition) and cut gems seem to sell way slower and for about the same (sometimes LESS) then uncut gems. Necklace of the deep (99g) is the only decent seller that I can see.

If you pvp then I think that AlK/Eng is overall the best, after you make one JC. Or ALK/Tailor if you really want to max $$$ but tailor is going to be nerfed soon.

Na, Im going ALK/ENg on like 20 of my guys.

I mainly do pvp, but atm I just want to make as much gold as possible for the least amount of effort. I think it ends up as:....I would need to gather more than 100g of ore a day to keep mining vs going Alk. And that rarely happens if ever.

Even if Alk/JC gets somehow nerfed in Cat.....I could still make a killing up untill it hits. by just selling uncut epics and dragons eyes.

You really only need a single JC, the Dragons eyes on my server are not even a 100% sure sell.
For me I do the Alk transmute and just sell the jem uncut or sometimes cut to a stamina gem which makes an extra 30g to the uncut gem. A lot of gems are selling for more uncut.