Professions for Cataclysm

[MiRai]

a tip on gathering : herbalism, mining.

DO NOT DO QUESTS. Stay in the lowest phase of an area.
when everyone else does quests, they are NOT in your phase of the area, more mines/herbs for you ))

Are you sure that those nodes are only for your phase and that no other phase(s) can see them? Would be fun to see a
node disappear right in front of you [aka hacking teleporting miners from WotLK].

[Tonuss]

Does it even matter? I decided to level up herbalism/inscription on one of my characters, and it seems as if Blizzard has drastically increased the old-world resource spawns in anticipation of Cataclysm. It was not unusual to spot two or three nodes within the mini-map range, and moving to gather one would often highlight one or two others. Zones like Feralas are a non-stop gathering bonanza. Getting to 300 in a tradeskill that depends on herbalism or mining should be easy. I didn't slow down until I got to Outland, and by then my herbalism skill was something like 360.

Outland resources (herbs, ore, skins) might be a huge money-maker in the next few weeks, as all of those goblins and worgen hit Outland and start fighting for the relatively scarce resources there.

[Bloodcloud]

Are you sure that those nodes are only for your phase and that no other phase(s) can see them? Would be fun to see a
node disappear right in front of you [aka hacking teleporting miners from WotLK].

nope the nodes are uniq to phases.
you might encounter the situation, that you see a node , but when you come closer it disappears. My first thought was HACK, since I saw no one mining, but when I flew back the way I came it showed up again. Happened to 2-3 nodes and I also saw shortly some mobs from another phase, which disappeared the same time as the node.

levelled up mining and herbalism to 525 that way yesterday evening and got tons of mats