Quote Originally Posted by 'Khatovar',index.php?page=Thread&postID=216312#pos t216312
With RAF xp, you are going to outlevel things very fast. You work on tailoring, but you blow past things so fast that you're getting silk drops when you still need a ton of linen. You're level 40 but you still need mats out of RFC to level enchanting. I almost always took gathing professions to start, so I can sell ore/herbs/cloth/leather to fund my way to 80, then at 80 I switch and powerlevel a profession I want.
All it takes is a few runs through Deadmines or Stockades at 40 to fill your bags with wool and cloth. Tailoring is probably the easiest profession, because you get the mats from looting. I always have too much cloth, from alts.

I would do this:

Get a guild bank. Get at least 3 tabs. Yes, it's gold, but it's worth it.
Take enchanting, for de's
Take skinning, herbalism, and mining.
Dump everything you gather into the bank, fill your bank slots on each toon when the bank fills up. Drop your gold and mats off when you return to town.
Level to 80.

By the time you get to 80, you can pick and choose which professions to take, and will have enough mats that you'll only need to buy a few things off the AH, or going to get the stuff is easy - just go knock over a few low level dungeons for whatever you need.

Bank every recipe you get along the way, for professions you don't have - and do this for cooking too.

The only flaw with this is tailoring gives you more drops of cloth in Northrend, which is nice, but it's not that bad.

Along the way, play the AH hard. It's the best source of big profits, if you know what you're doing. The quest and white drops while leveling can be pretty profitable, like the white vendor trash fangs that are needed for blue level gear, and twink gear sells very well.

Don't buy anything until 80, and gear your guys through quests.

Professions will slow you down, and with RAF, anything you can make will be replaced quickly. Just save, and only spend on training.

Do your fishing and cooking and first aid, they come in handy later, and if you start the cooking and fishing dailies at 70 in Dalaran, you can be almost all the way to revered with Kirin Tor by 80, and exalted after doing the Kirin Tor quests and a few instances. Plus, it's good money, fishing dailies are easy, easy money, and some fish sell very well, as raiders need them for buff food.