Professions worth it?

[marvein]

Enchanting is a bitch once you get to 260 or so. I can't imaging leveling 5x enchanters.

i found the biggest hurdles were actually right near 300. Im interested to see how it goes with my shamans because up to this point I have always had enchanting mats coming out of my eyeballs from gear I dont use. But my strategy is if anything (bop or boe) drops that I dont need it gets burned and stored for later. my enchanting is around 225 now and Ive got easily enough mats for 50-60 enchants that are orange skill level and i dont expect that to change. Each time I think it will be an issue I gain a level or two and go into a new instance where the next tier of items give me plenty of mats. I even had enough to give to my brother to level his enchanting (hes like 315 now, he is doing it on his druid to get the all stats ring enchants)

[Elektric]

I didnt have enough money to buy a mount at 40 or an epic mount at 60. These all came about 4 levels late. I used Gold I had on mains to buy the non epic ground mount.

I think I leveled fast. 3 toons to 70 in 11 days 20 hours. Speed was most important for me, so like others suggested I skipped doing professions while leveling because I barely had enough bag space to loot corpses let alone pick up herbs, leather, and ore. Leveling the three professions while leveling will cost you anywhere from 5-60k xp/hr depending on your level (dont forget to take into account the extra AH time, Auctioneer is assumed). But you'll get your mounts 4 levels sooner.

You could make the argument that the time will be made up when you're riding around outlands 40% faster then me on my normal mount. Maybe? Four levels is a lot of traveling, but with the shaman class I minimized it as much as I could by using flight points and Recall. Less time on the slow mount then other classes.

My advice would be to do only leveling. Bag Management X3 was enough trouble for me. I had my epic mount by 64 and the income from outlands quests was great enough for me to buy a flying mount as soon as I dinged 70. I've been leveling my professions while waiting for BG and Arena Ques in Org. Seems to be working well.

Professions are a must, you are going to need the Gold for Repair Bills alone.

[marvein]

just wanted to add that I do not have mounts for my shamans for several reasons.

1. ~500g is more than I care to spend when Im trying to get epic flight form.
2. ~ pre-outlands 95% of my time is spent inside an instance so a mount wont do me any good there
3. ~my hearth is now in shattrah as of lvl 40 thanks to a mage guildie lol (he just randomly came over and made me a portal and said "dude you gotta go to shatt thats awsome!" haah) so being able to, every 15min (recall I love you) go to any major city in a matter of minutes has made travelling minute.
4. Once I get to outlands I will probably go for the mounts since ill have taken care of other expenses by then (and being to do dailies on 3 lvl 70s is pretty decent cashflow lol) Since I will be doing much more questing in order to gear myself up before running instances.
5. Ghost wolf is enough for now and I can do it while in combat so win/win

[badashh]

I would say the only professions worth your time when leveling are
Skinning - If you are going to skin have it on your main char so he can loot/skin all at once

Chanting - For reasons stated earlier

Tailoring - Tailoring can be a real space saver and give lot of extra mats for leveling enchanting. Especially at higher levels when you can turn 100 Mageweave that takes 5 slots into 20 bolts of mageweave that take up 2 slots.

Mining - Can be a pain to level as well, but if you run WC and RFK you can level your mining in the instance. Make sure you have your mining up to 125 before you start RFK, there are at least 2-3 nodes of iron in there every run. There may be some nodes in Mara as well.

When you hit 70 you could use the mats you have saved up from mining/skinning to decide if you want to BS/engineer/JC/LW. And you can level herbing in about 3 hours or less to 300.

[marvein]

in my runs through mara ive seen lots of mythril nodes and a few iron nodes. mainly in inner mara. I dont think there are in mining nodes in outer purple. might be a few in orange though.

[Effex]

Currently running a 70 pali with capped enchanting / alch - 4 x 63 shaman with no trade skills.

Im waiting till 70 to sort out trade skills, though as people have said being able to DE while instancing is a great form of cash, I usualy sell the decent BOE items and De the BOP and bad items.

Im thinking:

1 enchanting - DE etc
5 alch - trasmute masters for quick easy cash every 23 hours
2 tailor - make spellcloth etc, and a use for nether i farm
1 mining - to grab the stuff in instances
1 herb- to grab the stuff in instances

I wont skin, I cant see it taking up too much time skinning every mob with 1 char while the others wit there waiting.

[Emo?]

Proffesions always take time to level, as they already have said, w8 with gather proff. untill u have 100% mount, and at lease one should be enchanting, i regret that i didnt put my main to enchanting, ive sold shitloads of questrewards + blue's from isntaces :/.

[Vyndree]

5 alch - trasmute masters for quick easy cash every 23 hours

All alchy's can Xmute -- being a master gives you a MINISCULE chance that you can get extra procs. I believe they took away the 5-proc. Suvega got the 5-proc once on a primal might and it was sweet, but it's not common.

Both Suvega and I switched to pot and flask mastery. Xmute will probably not return you the initial investment (4 primal mights) to become a master. You can still do the xmute earth -> water to get money every 24 hours like an extra daily, without having to be xmute master.

Pot/flask spec isn't capped per day, so there's more profit there. Not that alchy has much profit, but it's more than xmute. I promise you.

[Vyndree]

I have 3 xmute masters. I get about 1 - 2 procs per week (7 days) between them, which normally yeilds 1 to 2 extra items.

In short - its a complete waste of time and money. It probably used to be cool - but it sucks now.

It was cool back when you crossed your fingers and wished for a 5-proc. Not so cool when you go 2+ months without a proc.

Not to mention it was bugged for a LONG time such that nothing but primal mights could proc. I believe they fixed that, but I never got a proc after the fix either. I think I've had a total of... 2? 3? procs

My luck sucks. I'm the kind of person who /roll's and gets a 1 out of 100.


Meanwhile after switching to pot spec and making maybe 20 mad alchy pots, I learned Flask of Blinding Light, Flask of Pure Death, and another flask that I can't remember and would consistently get an extra 3-4 pot proc every time I'd make 3-4 mad alchy pots. Not too shabby. Shame that my luck with those mad alchy pots is always to get the melee enh shammy elixir buffs >.<

[marvein]

5 alch - trasmute masters for quick easy cash every 23 hours

All alchy's can Xmute -- being a master gives you a MINISCULE chance that you can get extra procs. I believe they took away the 5-proc. Suvega got the 5-proc once on a primal might and it was sweet, but it's not common.

Both Suvega and I switched to pot and flask mastery. Xmute will probably not return you the initial investment (4 primal mights) to become a master. You can still do the xmute earth -> water to get money every 24 hours like an extra daily, without having to be xmute master.

Pot/flask spec isn't capped per day, so there's more profit there. Not that alchy has much profit, but it's more than xmute. I promise you.

they absolutely did not remove the 5proc. when i get home ill post a screenie of one recently. xmute mastery just takes a little dedication. always, always burn your cooldown the moment it is up. And it absoultely gives you your return on investment. I have procd over 30 extra primal mights since being specd. and that isnt counting the times I just did things like earth->life or earth-water. However if you are looking for a source of pots/elixirs for your group than the other masteries would likely benefit you more.

*edit* blizzard did indeed break it for a few months recently but ive gotten a 5proc and 2 3procs ssince doing primal mights