Oh great, now I'm not even sure about professions!

[mmcookies]

I guess I should hold off on professions too now.
I was hoping to take alchy on all four shammies so they can pot like crazy, but apparently potion sickness wasn't removed like I heard it was, and seems here to stay...
So there goes that idea.

Plus, I get the feeling that the professions aren't going to be exactly "done" by the time wotlk releases.
Other benefits will probably trickle in post-patches.

Is there anyone who's been keeping tabs on the beta professions scene?

[Lance]

I think I may have to re-jig my professions a bit. I've currently got engineering and alchemy on my pally for the goggles and stone but am hearing that bs may be useful now in wotlk. I'm going to make sure I have enough stuff banked to level bs if it is worthwhile. Oh and enough stuff to redo alchemy as well on another char. Not going to rush into it though will wait and see and if it isn't worthwhile least I can maybe do bs on my warrior alt or just sell the stuff. I'm pretty sure the 5x lw I've got on my shammies will get cool stuff at 80 and hope there will be a lvl 80 version of the tankatronic goggles.

[puppychow]

we only have had one expansion under our belt, but historically

- the newest profession tends to be pretty decent early on and really good into the expansion. JCing had some good stuff early in, and was a great way to make money (even just prospecting ore). People who get the early rare recipes made 20k+ gold in a few weeks. Everyones gonna want to play with inscription, so the chance for gold is good.

- stuff like BSing, leatherworking, tailoring, etc lets you leg up quickly when you hit 80 and is good for a while. Midway into the expansion the profession items tend to decay compared to new instance items.

- faction rep is important since many patterns are based off that. Assuming you MB with 5 chars, all 5 should be able to cover all profs to ensure everyone hits exalted with the various factions. Secondary alts tend to take much, much longer to rep up and are better suites for gathering profs or just transmute type profs.

- always have mining on someone, preferably someone with an epic mount who is always grouped with your main, mining tends to be a huge money maker since it feeds so many professions. note that inscription feeds heavily off herbalism now.

- currently in 2.4.3 the fastest/best gear you can get for a new char is season 2 welfare gear, followed by kara/badge gear (its much easier running kara and heroics with s2 welfare gear than instance blues). This will probably not hold true when wotlk releases, since the "season 5" gear will be level 80 and only for good arena players, and there will probably not be an epic set of "welfare gear" until season 6 rolls around. With lake wintergrasp it may or may not be multibox friendly, dunno. So how MBers are gonna gear up so we can do heroics and participate in 10 mans is up in the air. I've seen a bunch of Lake gear, and I assume there will be new battleground honor gear, but we don't know how much will be tied to arena ratings like s4 gear is.

[Boylston]

Enchanting on your multibox team is a tried-and-true setup. Being able to disenchant quest rewards is a great money maker plus a good source of mats for the multiple characters worth of enchants you'll need.

[Crayonbox]

Also, for those that missed it, You can now make an "Endless Mana Potion" That you can use in Arenas if you're an alchemist. This is definetly going to be really good for MBs. I don't know how many times I've lost arenas because the game got dragged out just a little too long and I ran out of mana

[Schwarz]

I went *5 alchemy. I do agree that i think potions are getting a nerf in Wotlk. But the very worse thing that you will have is 5 transmutes a day. You should be able to get some gold out of that.

I am considering bringing my last profession up as tailoring. I was wondering if someone could tell me the secret behind it right now. I know you can take netherweave cloth and turn it into enchanting mats. What exactly are people doing? I figure in wotlk I should be getting just as much cloth as I am now which is a ton.