Which tradeskill to leave out?

[Gadzooks]

I'm taking a different approach, I'm not worried about gold anymore, I'm just working on one of each profession. I'm not running 5 man teams, so it makes more sense for certain characters to have certain professions - my pally is mining and blacksmithing, for example, and will probably master in armor, while a shaman who's leveling blacksmithing will go weaponsmith. I have an alchemist leveling, and another enchanter for the second team. Anything I don't use, I sock away, to sell or use.

I have maxed out leather, skinning, herbs, inscription, tailoring, and enchanting at 80, and a miner/JC at 70 who will level eventually.

The idea is to be self contained. Make everything myself. Maybe make some extra gold. Shrug off that "gotta get xxx" mentality, and it's a lot more fun!

So what if my 80's don't have epic flyers yet. If I really want them, I can go get them.

[Fef]

I have every gathering profession on each of my groups. It is just too painful to walk passed a node and not be able to hit it. Passed 60 (well, actually passed RAF), levelling gathering professions is really easy. I never had to actually go "farming" at all. On my last group, for instance, I hit 375 minging (the most difficult, it seems) at level 67, just in time before heading north.

Gathering professions to me include enchanting. I want to be able to DE instance loot.

I also levelled a Tailor in my last group, for the extra cloth loot. I don't know whether it will prove a good deal, though, as I didn't have it on my first group to 80 (the only one passed 70 for now).

Bottom line is that I would not skip any of the gathering profession. I mostly don't have any crafting profession in double, though, so my groups have plenty of "profession slots" left. I like to fill them with herbing and mining (left at level 1) so I have the "radar" ability on several characters in the group.

[Adronson]

I have a Thief as a bank alt (it seems appropriate). I have him on enchanting so he can bid on items to disenchant and on inscription simply because it showed up late. I take him out to level up solo from time to time and to train up lock pick. He comes in handy as support. He can also make scrolls, enchant them and send them out for the team or for sale. I also have an enchanter on the main team to DE loot.