To Profession or Not To Profession (except for Enchanting)

[OzPhoenix]

Even if you don't level them up right away at least pick a bunch of different professions on each toon so you will get BOP patterns/designs/etc when you run instances.

Yep - already doing this. If a BoP pattern drops, it goes to the Shammy that I plan to use for that profession.

Thanks for the responses all. I think I'll stick to my current plan, and level them up once they're maxed out.

[Tdog]

...(and I'm thinking of a way to build a "sit it out for the moment champ" macro for when 1 guy gets too much hate), ...

While I don't have a macro for this I'd imagine that you could simply do a macro that swaps that specific toon's action bar to another actionbar that does not have any offensive abilites on it. I'm thinking basically something to the effect of...

/swapactionbar 1 6

for /swapactionbar you need the 2 action bars listed that you want to swap inbetween. In this case you'd switch between bars 1 and 6. Now if you have 5 buttons to spare you could assign one to each toon so say just for simplicity sake we used F1-F5 you'd do a set-up something like this.

F1 (for toon 1)
/swapactionbar 1 6

F2 (for toon 2)
/swapactionbar 1 6

etc...

Action bar 1 would be your normal bar that you use all the time and Action bar 6 would have no offensive abilities on it. Say maybe a heal or totem only so that toon could still at least heal themselves. Would just have to make sure you remember to swtich them back to the right bar :P

[Molt]

Whilst levelling my chars to 70 I'm doing First Aid plus one profession each- Mining, Skinning, Herbalism, Enchanting, Alchemy. This way I'm getting the cash from mining and any mats I DE which I don't need, herbs are converted into potions which whilst levelling me normally aren't losing too much cash when they hit the AH.

When I hit 70 I'm going to redo skills a bit, possibly even end up with Blacksmith/Engineer (Paladin), and the Shamans a LW/one-of-four-gathering-professions. May involve a lot of running round getting ores etc. but with the changes to Mining skill-ups from Smelting, and the need for metal for the Paladin, it could make a lot of sense.

[badashh]

Someone had a great idea of starting your own guild and putting all crafting items in the Gbank. I don't think it makes sense to level anything other than herbalism, chanting, and alchemy on your way up. Those professions will help a lot while you level, others not so much.

Maybe tailoring so you can make bolts of cloth, and reduce the number of slots that things take up, and give you chanting mats.

[pinotnoir]

My advice is make all your cloth guys tailors for the nice crafted sets. Make sure you have an enchanter. Likewise make sure one of your toons is herb/miner. I would highly recommend doing one JC and as many alchemist you can. Its easy as hell to level and a gold mine. What you do is spec them all transmute masters. You make mights for all the crap you need to craft. Then when you dont need the items you make diamonds and have your JC cut metas making a shit ton of gold. I can spend 50g on mats for the diamond, turn around and cut a meta that sells for 180-220g. If you have multiple achemist thats lots of free money. Not to mention when you proc a transmute and get two diamonds or mights.

The trick to getting them all transmute master is making them potion masters first. Its the easiest master to do. Once they are potion masters you drop it and go talk with the transmute master guy. You pay 150g and your a transmute master. Or you can waste 5 primal mights and do his quest.

[Heenan]

It depends on what you want to do. I am on my 57th time through the game (feels like it anyway :P ), and now I just want to level. So taking the time for all of my characters to work on professions is going to cut into leveling time. So I usually just take the gathering professions on my main and work on the others at later levels.

It's usually not hard to farm mats off of the AH for tailoring and leatherworking. But I sometimes find a lack of herbs at certain levels so you'd have to run around whichever lowbie zones until you had enough mats to progress. But I would say tailoring is the easiest, as I had dropped it twice and gone from 1-300+ just by purchasing mats.

Now I am playing through again with QuestHelper and all I feel like doing is skinning. I'm too lazy to mine/herb even when it pops up close to me on the mini-map :sleeping:

[Crayonbox]

A good use of netherweave is to turn them into arcanoweave bracers and disenchant them for shards. This is assuming you don't have a shortage of large prismatic shards.

If you an abundance of large prismatics, you could also turn your cloth into void crystals by using the soul essences from kara that almost no one ever holds unto.

Personally I use all my cloth to turn them into 16 slot bags and stuff all my alts with them.

[Silly Gooooose]

Someone had a great idea of starting your own guild and putting all crafting items in the Gbank. I don't think it makes sense to level anything other than herbalism, chanting, and alchemy on your way up. Those professions will help a lot while you level, others not so much.

Maybe tailoring so you can make bolts of cloth, and reduce the number of slots that things take up, and give you chanting mats.

Once you start grinding instances, you're going to have so many greens and blues to DE it'll make your head spin. I channel everything through my banker character, and I constantly have all my bags full of crap I need to DE. I've actaully considered just vendoring all the greens just to get rid of them, because DE'ing takes time too.

That and netherweave..... o the f'ing netherweave. My server AH economy was selling netherweave x20 stacks for less than you could vendor bandages for (20x NW into banddages = 3g vendor). So I couldn't sell my cloth in the AH... I had like 2000+ (not kidding). So I sent it all to a first aid character, and hit the "grind all" button. 1.5 hours later a (I was working on real work on my laptop), I had large chunk of vendor change. lol

[Edit] Lol the guy above me said the same thing.

There was a movie on warcraft movies about it, it's actually profitable even if you just buy the NW cloth yourself, for less than 2.3g per i think.

If you want to spend the time, Buy netherweave thread and turn all that cloth into bolts, and then into netherweave bracers. They are a green item you can DE for 2-3 dust per. Takes 3 bolts and 1 thread per.

If your willing to put in the effort, it's really good money.

[razorbax]

Personally I would pick LW for all toons, it may become expensive to level or slow you down a little but the BOP epixs are nice. I would take skinning on a Slave, since it is the only Gathering trade that can be macro'd easily. That leaves you with 3 to go. I would either get Herb, Alc for transmutes or grab a tailor or 3 for Cloth Selling and DE'ing.

[Bunny]

5 sham team here too:
Toon1: ench
Toon2: lw + skinning
Toon3: tailoring

I will put alch on one toon upon reaching the outlands buying mats of the AH. I may get mining, herb or both, but not without an epic mount. Having those while leveling slow down too much.