5 man dungeon leveling: Are professions viable?

[dalo199]

I'm planning on running multiple characters with Tailoring and Alchemy to take advantage of the cooldowns on Mooncloth and Transmute Arcanite, respectively. I will either farm the mats and convert them to the rarer mats to sell or craft with, or simply sell the cooldown to others. I am also planning on having a team of warlocks to sit around the world as summoning minions, so they seem like a perfect fit for this. Just stop leveling them at 35, and park them near key dungeons, in groups of 3, like Scarlet Monastery, Blackrock Mountain, Stratholme, Maraudon, Dire Maul, wherever. I can also leave a bunch of level 1s there too, so I can hearth the locks one at a time to go to mailboxes, craft, then get summoned back.

Then on my regular teams, I can focus on the things that have BoP items like Tailoring.

Wont it take a very very long time to get that many warlocks up to level 35?

[daviddoran]

Wont it take a very very long time to get that many warlocks up to level 35?

Yes, and this is obviously not going to be something I have early on, but once I get a solid boosting toon, I can run the lowbies through dungeons to set this all up.

[dalo199]

Yes, and this is obviously not going to be something I have early on, but once I get a solid boosting toon, I can run the lowbies through dungeons to set this all up.

Yeah I didn't think of boosting it will still take a while but you can make some ok gold as well... what are you thinking for a boosting toon? Maybe a frost mage to AOE farm lower level stuff?

[daviddoran]

Yeah I didn't think of boosting it will still take a while but you can make some ok gold as well... what are you thinking for a boosting toon? Maybe a frost mage to AOE farm lower level stuff?

Probably a feral druid. For places like Scarlet Monastery Cathedral, can stealth to the end boss and pull the boss, who pulls the entire instance, and drag it back to the entrance to be in range of the lowbies. But my "main" team will have multiple classes so I should be able to test out multiple classes and find what works best for me.

[Mercbeast]

Yeah I didn't think of boosting it will still take a while but you can make some ok gold as well... what are you thinking for a boosting toon? Maybe a frost mage to AOE farm lower level stuff?

Warrior or frost mage are typically the two best boosting classes pre-wrath in my experience.