PVP Professions, Battlegrounds and Arena

[Nixi]

I'm just starting to grind out the professions on my 4 shaman team. I've already got engineering up to 300. I choose engineering because 1 of my shamans was on my pve crew and already has it maxed out, plus goggles. So when I cloned him I wanted everyone to have the same appearence, therefore i'm planning on getting goggles for everyone.

Will the goggles be gimp in PVP?
Will Engineering bring anything to the table besides sapper charges in BGs and rocket boots in Arena? (I read the other thread on this topic but I made a new one so I can ask about other profs.)


For the 2nd profession I was leaning toward alchemy (+40% to the effect of chugging mad alch pots) because i'm ALWAYS running outta mana. Granted I just turned 70 and have 386 spell damage, 16% crit (not including the 10% from talents on lightning bolt) so i'm hoping my mana situation improves. Will I get more staying power?

I know alchemy doesn't do jack for arenas, but do any professions really help at all for Arenas?

Back to BG's, What does Leatherworking offer?

I'm guess i'm kinda looking at Engineering + [Alchemy] or [Leatherworking]

Any insights are much appreciated.

[Drizzit]

If you go enchanting you can get +spell damage to your rings (i think it is +12). Enchanter can only enchant his own rings you cannot enchant someone else's rings. Enchanting is not the cheapest to lvl up too, the rods alone will cost you a couple hundred gold.

I have 2 teams and both of them went enchanting (4 sham, 3 locks and priest [don't have enchanting on one of the locks because she is 70 already and has alchemy maxed out]), and it wasn't cheap. Thank god my locks and priest has tailoring. It saved me a ton of money on mats.

[magwo]

Thank god my locks and priest has tailoring. It saved me a ton of money on mats.

I don't get this kind of reasoning. You do realize that you could have sold all that cloth/etc and bought enchanting mats?
Why are people so reluctant to convert between currencies (mats, other mats, gold)?

[Depherios]

Thank god my locks and priest has tailoring. It saved me a ton of money on mats.

I don't get this kind of reasoning. You do realize that you could have sold all that cloth/etc and bought enchanting mats?
Why are people so reluctant to convert between currencies (mats, other mats, gold)?

On most the servers I've been on, it can often be chaper to buy cloth, make green/blue items and DE them for enchanting mats, rather than buying the mats/greens/blues directly from the AH. I do believe this is what they're talking about.

[Kyudo]

I agree that with patience, LW is the cheapest profession to level, especially with the input of enchantrix. However, in terms of sheer benefit to a new class, the class relevant skill is best (less so now TBC is mature, but the situation will be reset again in Wrath). My shammies are 4x leatherworker for this very reason, to have a head start in wrath.

Apart from this, engineering and enchanting can both give you a nice boost.