Quote Originally Posted by luxlunae View Post
Definitely make your tanks be the tailors (and possibly the enchanters as well). Tailors get extra cloth drops only they can see.
I don't see the need to make a tank the tailor anymore. With AOE looting, I just have my slaves loot with the main. If there's cloth, the slave picks it up, just like they would with quest drops. Especially now that you can use Jamba Advanced Loot to "Assign" loot to a character, making all other characters leave not just the bonus cloth, but the standard cloth on the corpse. If a corpse still has cloth on it, it'll still show as lootable, so I can just assist/interact with my slaves and the tailor will loot all the cloth.

Enchanting, I don't think it really matters. You can swap all BoP loot among your toons for 2 hours after picking it up, the only thing you can't swap around is quest rewards. Honestly, I don't really like to have any trades on my main that take up a lot of pack space. I need that space for looting. Historically, my healer ends up being my enchanter.

For gathering I like having the ability to get every little bit I can out in the world. It can take a lot of mats to gear up early off, especially if you don't have a stockpile of gold. And whatever I don't use, I can sell. Gathered mats have always been a great way to boost my gold at the start of an expansion. Dungeons may not always have much, but when they do, I want that too. It can add up when you're doing them over and over. Especially with a 25 guild where you can get bonus gathered mats.

I have a little breakdown of professions in the 2nd Newbie's Guide - though I did switch the second alchemist on my main team to a tailor for the extra cloth.

Are there any 'must not miss' items to make life easier? I recently found a list of tranlocation items such as the Deppholme potion - are there any other things liek these people could perhaps recommend looking into?
There's not a whole lot of translocation stuff. There's not too much need for it, really. It's pretty easy to portal-hop, especially if you've got a mage, or summon with a warlock. Many of the rare spawn mobs in MoP have some neat, toys, though. There's also some rare discoveries that reward nice toys, like bind to BattleNet gear.

Should I stress too much about MoP content? I mean - I was just thinking that the best thing for me would be to farm TI and get 496 gear for all my toons, and really not worry about catching up as there is the great leveler of WoD coming Soon.TM
We're looking at 6+ months before we see the expansion. They say "fall" but it's "fall" until the middle of December, so... I wouldn't kill myself gearing up, but you're going to have a fair amount of time to kill waiting for something new.