5 man dungeon leveling: Are professions viable?

[Nessimon]

My only concern is BRD - you can easily spend 10 levels there, maybe even a lot of time at 60 doing lava runs. That instance has a lot of Dark Iron Veins and those will quite likely be very sought after - but depends, is Thorium Brotherhood gonna be in phase 1?
Anyway, I see two options apart from skipping it and that is either at 48 or so before goind to BRD:
1) power level mining with your slow mount. Close to 50 mobs should give you no trouble, but the competition might be fierce and while you are leveling mining, the rest of your multibox setup is kind of idle.
2) splash some cash on smelting. You can get to 230 and the only really hard part might be getting to 125 using silver. You can do a quick stop in arathi for the bloodstone I think? To help bridge that gap.

[SinusQuell]

Skinning should easily be doable. Mining might be tricky like Nessimon said, but if you exclusively run dungeons, it should be no problem, I think. You can always skip a few levels by smelting stuff.

[daviddoran]

I'm planning on running multiple characters with Tailoring and Alchemy to take advantage of the cooldowns on Mooncloth and Transmute Arcanite, respectively. I will either farm the mats and convert them to the rarer mats to sell or craft with, or simply sell the cooldown to others. I am also planning on having a team of warlocks to sit around the world as summoning minions, so they seem like a perfect fit for this. Just stop leveling them at 35, and park them near key dungeons, in groups of 3, like Scarlet Monastery, Blackrock Mountain, Stratholme, Maraudon, Dire Maul, wherever. I can also leave a bunch of level 1s there too, so I can hearth the locks one at a time to go to mailboxes, craft, then get summoned back.

Then on my regular teams, I can focus on the things that have BoP items like Tailoring.

[dalo199]

I'm planning on running multiple characters with Tailoring and Alchemy to take advantage of the cooldowns on Mooncloth and Transmute Arcanite, respectively. I will either farm the mats and convert them to the rarer mats to sell or craft with, or simply sell the cooldown to others. I am also planning on having a team of warlocks to sit around the world as summoning minions, so they seem like a perfect fit for this. Just stop leveling them at 35, and park them near key dungeons, in groups of 3, like Scarlet Monastery, Blackrock Mountain, Stratholme, Maraudon, Dire Maul, wherever. I can also leave a bunch of level 1s there too, so I can hearth the locks one at a time to go to mailboxes, craft, then get summoned back.

Then on my regular teams, I can focus on the things that have BoP items like Tailoring.

Wont it take a very very long time to get that many warlocks up to level 35?

[daviddoran]

Wont it take a very very long time to get that many warlocks up to level 35?

Yes, and this is obviously not going to be something I have early on, but once I get a solid boosting toon, I can run the lowbies through dungeons to set this all up.

[dalo199]

Yes, and this is obviously not going to be something I have early on, but once I get a solid boosting toon, I can run the lowbies through dungeons to set this all up.

Yeah I didn't think of boosting it will still take a while but you can make some ok gold as well... what are you thinking for a boosting toon? Maybe a frost mage to AOE farm lower level stuff?

[daviddoran]

Yeah I didn't think of boosting it will still take a while but you can make some ok gold as well... what are you thinking for a boosting toon? Maybe a frost mage to AOE farm lower level stuff?

Probably a feral druid. For places like Scarlet Monastery Cathedral, can stealth to the end boss and pull the boss, who pulls the entire instance, and drag it back to the entrance to be in range of the lowbies. But my "main" team will have multiple classes so I should be able to test out multiple classes and find what works best for me.

[Tsazao]

Prot paladin is pretty solid for boosting low level dungeons.

[daviddoran]

I'm rolling horde this time around, but will probably eventually make an alliance team with a prot paladin.

[dalo199]

I've been thinking about this and I would love to know what dungeons have Veins and Herbs in them and what level you need to be to harvest them... has anyone seen a guide like that around?