best two professions to min/max stats?

[heyaz]

I'm slowly running out of stuff to upgrade (without getting some arena rating) and may finally take the plunge into professions. My main goal is to min/max stats, so duplicate professions across all shaman is probably a given.

I'm considering enchanting/jewelcrafting but my only concern about JC is that epic gems (which are probably on the horizon) may replace the JC gems?

Other combo I'm looking into is enchanting/leatherworking for the bracer enchants (but not much else I guess).

opinions?

[Oatboat]

You could go two gathering professions if you didnt want to decide. This way you'd have cash coming in from selling all mats and you get bonus's from them.

I have Leatherworking and Mining on alot of my toons for the crit and stam add. Herbalism rejen is nice at lower lvls but for higher levels its lacking.

Also you can lvl this very fast seeing as you can have every toon skin and every toon mine the same node/dead item. Just have them not loot and then let the next toon skin/mine.

[emesis]

Min/maxing as a boxer seems a little nuts to me, but I think BS/JC synergize + max the best currently and depending how epic gems/JC gems turnout, this may stay the case in the future.

[kadaan]

Any future patch will change the min/max professions. There's no way to know what professions will be getting what till it hits the PTR. What if they finally put in epic JC trinkets? Higher tier epic BoP LW mail pieces? Wrath Blacksmithing BoP weapons? Just go with the best now: JC+BS or JC+Enchanting.

[suicidesspyder]

Umm the whole mine node i thought they stopped that. I tried and it said tapped. It seems like when one taps it you cant tap it on another toon. But if you've had success gratz. Oh and on the professions i have an enchanter/ inscriber. Awesome user only enchants and same with some user only shoulder enchants that are actually better then the rep ones. Bs/jc is nice you get added sockets user only trinkets rings and neck pieces. But mining/skinning on my tank is the best i ever did. Added crit for added threat and added stam for staying alive longer lol.

[Hor]

Since I decided to drop shamans from my group and sub in a Boomkin, Disc Priest, and Mage I also decided to rethink my tradeskills.

DK Tank - JC / Enchanting
Ele Shaman - JC / Inscriptions
Mage - JC / Tailor
Boomkin - JC / Leatherworking
Priest Heals - JC / Alchemy

My other shamans have other trades covered, like mining, smithing, and one's an engineer so I can make mana and health pot injectors, and ... mechano hogs.

The Dragon's Eye gems are hot, and the daily Quest is nice for quick extra monies. I honestly thought about getting Inscriptions for the easy shoulder enchant, but meh.

[Bot]

i just leveled jc on my main solo dk tank and all i can say is its gonna be nuts x5. there's a couple spots where you pretty much have to rely on the ah for some stuff like truesilver and aquamarine mainly due to the large amounts of each you need. all the gold in the world wont help you if, as it was in my case, there's only like 2 aquamarine on the ah every day. also it takes about 20 or so huge emeralds and they were sorta rare too. but it is the best. the dragons eye gems are sweet and the monarch crab with solid sky sapphire in the blue slot and a solid dragons eye in the yellow is a super nice stam trinket for your dk.

so start reading the leveling guides and hoarding mats ahead of time so you don't get stuck and frustrated when the ah is depleted.

edit: spelling

[Hor]

I have 4 Bank tabs, and 3 bank alts with nothing but JC mats on them. I'm not too concerned atm.

That, and I'm levelling mining on 2 different characters too. For the Aquamarines, etc best option is to prospect ores.

Today I got 2 of my toons to 300 JC.

[Multibocks]

i just leveled jc on my main solo dk tank and all i can say is its gonna be nuts x5. there's a couple spots where you pretty much have to rely on the ah for some stuff like truesilver and aquamarine mainly due to the large amounts of each you need. all the gold in the world wont help you if, as it was in my case, there's only like 2 aquamarine on the ah every day. also it takes about 20 or so huge emeralds and they were sorta rare too. but it is the best. the dragons eye gems are sweet and the monarch crab with solid sky sapphire in the blue slot and a solid dragons eye in the yellow is a super nice stam trinket for your dk.

so start reading the leveling guides and hoarding mats ahead of time so you don't get stuck and frustrated when the ah is depleted.

edit: spelling

to get to 350+ JC on 4 guys (tank was already maxed) it took 10kg+

I was not happy =(

[puppychow]

epic JC gems are not in patch 3.1, probably patch 3.2. So JC is "the best" for at least another 6 months. There are 4-5 new epic gems in patch 3.1 you get from fishing, but they are unique-equipped. Second best would be LW for bracer enchant, inscription for shoulder, or tailoring for new cloak enchant (+250 spell dmg, 45 sec hidden c/d, effectively making it +83 spell dmg assuming always casting).