My Retail account I did mining and engineering. What’s the profession I would want for Hunter? Thank you.
I was playing hunter at launch and started with the usual leatherworking/skinning.
Today, not sure. Skinning for sure, why not, you’re killing tons of skinnable stuff anyway. But maybe taking mining or herbalism alongside skinning, just sell mats on the AH till you have yer epic mount at 60. Then figure out what you want to do for the rest of your virtual life…
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Depends- if pvping, engineering’s generally a must since there were several useful things back then.
If not- skin/lwk got you your armour, and there was some really nice stuff later on like the black dragonscale set- good stats, had FR for doing MC/BWL. Of course, you could also buy that- just mine enough, sell thorium, buy your gear (or raid and skip profession gear).
If you’re solely thinking about practicality though- engineering is the only profession that offered something you couldn’t otherwise buy. Engineering was also however one of the worst for making money- and it cost a lot since it was a mining profession.
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I’m doing skinning/leatherworking for my hunter. I feel the gear I make will get me some change during levelup, plus I want to be able to farm my own starter gear during the time you run out of quests around 58
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If you’re an Engineer and want to make Gold just hope that you’re on a server with a LOT of fishing players that want that Aquadynamic Fish Attractor.
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Skinning/mining while I level and then mining/engineering for a while. Selling the leather (whatever I don’t need for engineering on my hunter and tailoring on my wife’s priest). Eventually I’ll switch to engineering/herbalism once I’m set on engineering stuff. Herbalism tends to be more profitable in vanilla, and it’ll be nice being able to gather all the mats for my raid consumables and have a guildy craft them for me.
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Not too many gear upgrades while questing, unless you hop from zone to zone, and do lots of dungeons. That’s why I’m going leatherworking. Plus, it fits a hunter…to hunt, and make their own armor.
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I am going with enchanting and herbalism on my Hunter. He is going to be used mainly for farming. Since Hunters can solo dungeons fairly well, the enchanting is really good because I can de stuff as I go and also de the bop drops too. The herbalism is because Hunters are pretty good for that since you can run in and let the pet take aggro from mobs while you grab the herbs so there is less risk of someone else grabbing the herb while you are fighting the mobs near it.
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Enchanting for solo dungeon farms for the gold making, engineering for obvious pve/pvp benefits
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Mining/engineering if you’re doing pvp and pve. Amazing for pvp for obvious reasons. Still good for pve since engineers craft the best arrows/bullets in the game and you can do helpful stuff like feign death/jumper cables.
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with the sizes on servers now I’m not sure. Skinning is probably the only one you might be able to actually get since its something you do after looting and aoe loot is not a thing, THANK GOODNESS!
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Thank you everyone I should have mentioned that I want my professions to be for PVP not money making. I will go as I did in retail (mining and engineering).
Skinning/Leatherworking.
Make a fortune selling all the DPS warriors the Devilsaur armor set.
Engineering, so you can feign death and use jumper cables to rez healer to rez group.
I know its not popular but i always lw/skin with tribal spec.
Making devilsaur and living cloak (from dm) is a good money maker.
After a couple phases id swap to engineering