Multiboxing professions? Should I get all professions?

[Otlecs]

So do you get all the gathering professions and then what others?

Only one of the shammies in my current main team has any professions, and those are Enchanting and Jewel Crafting

Outside of that team, I have a herbalist and a miner so that I can gather my own materials if I want to, but I so rarely even bother that it's hardly worth it.

The only "must have" for a multiboxing team is somebody capable of disenchanting. Beyond that it really just depends on what you like to spend your time doing.

My team, for example, spends all its life in heroics or battlegrounds, so I'd never use the gathering professions in any case.

[Schwarz]

Does anyone have Engineering on more than one toon. I want to know if you have multiple toons click on the mote extractor at once will they all get motes? This would be pretty sick if you could get *5 the loot out of each cloud. Plus motorcycles are pretty cool.

[Redbeard]

Im torn here.

I dont really like professions and dont feel like they offer too much (beyond perks) that you need to have them for specifically.

Part of me wants to just do BS / JC on all my guys (except for my main, who already has enchanting so prob Ench / BS for him). That gives them great prof perks with a LOT of versatility.

Im just afraid blizz will nerf it and then ill have to relevel something else haha.

[Dawnstrider]

I am in the process right now of making everyone on my team into a Transmute master for the epic gems transmutes every 20hrs and a JC for the JC daily. The way I see it, 10 mins of time should get me at least 4 epic gems and 4 Dragon's Eye per day. Assuming xmute mastery didnt ever proc. Sounds pretty good to me. The downside will be the no disenchanting for me . But I'll have enough gold I"ll be able to pay an enchanter to just tag along lol. If I felt so inclined.