Professions worth it?

[marvein]

sorry but that is a very incorrect answer. the cost to lvl enchanting far outweighs the return you would get from old gear unless you are like getting epics on every character every day and DE'ing large pris and voids on all of them but even then... The reason to have enchanting is to DE drops you get from instances you dont need and to sell for money.

I think you can fund most of your enchanting leveling by DEing quest rewards that you're not going to use or by DEing old armor as you replace it. Another reason to have enchanting is so that you can get that last little bit of bonuses from enchanting your own rings.

I currently have enchanting on just one of my guys, but I've saved every green+ item they've ever gotten so that I can DE the stuff once I start leveling enchanting on them.

Personally, I'm holding off a little bit on my profession plan until I see how the new profession in WotLK impacts my team. I have 4 spell-casters, after all...

no actually you cant, you dont get skillups for DE'ing past about lvl 80 so the rest of the skillups must come from actually burning enchants. Now, leveling up enchanting on all your alts to have the ring enchants falls under the category I mentioned of "when you have money to burn". IMO the only professions that you should bother with *while* lvling to 70 would be enchanting on one character to DE drops you dont use. skinning since you are going to be killing skinnable mobs atleast at some point and no reason to waste potential cashflow. and possibly first aid which people have mixed opinions about. All the rest should come after you have taken care of the essentials, such as getting to 70, training all your skills, epic land mounts and being moderately geared up.