Thinking Eng+skin, due to gnome’s boost in eng and hunter skinning. Could buy eng materials from the AH. What’s your opinion?
The skill bonuses are now 5 instead of 15 if that matters to you. But yeah that should be fine.
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Eng just fits imo
I used mining instead of skinning just so that my gnome was more self-sufficient, but I agree skinning has a nice class theme.
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Based entirely on DF engineering: I’d advise to have a miner alt then. Serevite is cheap, draconium not so much, and khazgorite can be prohibitively priced. I don’t know how good the yield is for rousing/awakening elemental reagents from skinning can be, but engi uses rousing fire and rousing earth A LOT, it actually feels unfair compared to bs at times.
Cons - it’s kind of useless in DF. You can’t use explosives in dungeons, so that sucks. Also, new tinkers kind of suck and aren’t worth the slot, nor are the goggles or wrists IMO.
Pros - if you do the work, you can have so many teleports, not just around the Dragon Isles, but other expansions, it makes traveling so simple. Also having Moll-e and jeeves is priceless, and some of the older tinkers are way too useful to pass up (nitro belt, for example, though on a hunter that’s not as necessary). Furthermore, you can make your own guns and scopes, that’s pretty cool. I have an engi paladin, and before DF, I also benefited from shock cables; that’s no longer really useful for me, but that brez will still be useful to you.
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Mechagnomes seem better.
And, if you’re going with eng, might as well go with mining to get your own materials.
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Don’t have the allied race
Tried mining, don’t really like it as much as herb
if you wait 2 resets, that problem will sort itself out.
EDIT: 10.1.5 is removing the allied race prerequirements:
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If you take engineering I would recommend mining to accompany it, but in the end it’s up to you.
If you have gathering alts it may not be a big deal.
Never knew! This gets me so hyped! Also, I don’t have a level 40 horde on my acc but will I still be able to get allied horde? Like Vulpera?
Seems to me they’re nearly identical in terms of gathering methods.
If you aren’t going with a gathering prof to provide materials for you main one, might be a good idea to go with another one, like JC or Alchemy.
Go full engineering with mining. 
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If you do not have a miner, or herbalist for awakened and rousing essences, engi is a money pit. Skinning does not really give up any essences, you would have to farm elementals.
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wdym by that? Skinning is bad or good?
Reading it verbatim I think you’re covered:
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It is bad for an engineer. Trust me. Just the amount of Awakened Order needed for engi is insane, and skinning does not provide any.
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I generally go Engineering + Miner for my hunters (though LW + Skinning might work better for Survival) as, even if you don’t use them yourself, you can just sell the ores (and any jewels you might find) on the AH.
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Engineering/Mining. The whole idea of putting effort into professions is self sufficiency.
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