I started an Orc Warrior. He’s my first character on the server, so there’s no main to support him. I enjoy professions and intend to make him a blacksmith and miner.
My question is whether I should take Blacksmithing from the beginning or go with skinning instead for the gold. I’ll take mining either way. I intend to do a mix of questing and dungeons to level, if that matters.
I would enjoy being a blacksmith while leveling, but I am concerned about gold. Will I use the items I can craft while leveling without them being replaced too quickly with quest rewards or dungeon drops? If I go Blacksmithing from the beginning, is there any chance I will get my mount at 40?
Thanks for any input!
typically crafting profs fall behind. but gathering profs dont.
my suggestion is to save the ore in bank when this gap emerges.
don’t force yourself to stay in the questing zones of ore needed for BS, it makes the leveling process painful. let BS fall behind and catch it back up later.
alternatively some like to level slowly so this wont be a problem.
Level as dual gathering and drop gathering for crafting once you are max level if youre planning on picking up crafting.
You will likely gather most of the mats needed to max a profession out while you are on your journey and you may be able to get a small gold boost from the AH on raw mats you dont need from low level nodes.
Ie swiftthistle, coarse/solid stone etc
Prolly best to go mining/skinning or mining/herbalism in that situation, or mining/engineering if you like PvP and the gadgets. Then switch to BS at a higher level if that’s what you want to do. I like skinning on dps characters because I like to grind mobs, and you’ll also get some skins for free off of other people’s kills.
Blacksmithing has little to offer a levelling character. Most of the gear is not very good, and for the stuff that’s useful its easier to just have it crafted for you cheaply if you have the mats.
On Alliance I really like the sharpening stones, but my understanding is that they don’t stack with other “temporary enchants” like windfury, so they’re not really a factor for a Horde player that runs a lot of dungeons.
You could also look into using the second gathering prof to help you get your mount, and then pick up BS around level 40 if you’re interested in doing the Blacksmithing quests like Mithril Order and so on.
mining/herbalism is a headache due to tracking limitations.
I advise against it.
if you know you want to BS, just start BS and be aware pacing will become unorganic around level 30.
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It’s surprisingly easy to level both. A tracking toggle macro is your friend.
i forget to turn my ‘track minerals’ on…
I just checked the mats to level Blacksmithing. Looks like my warrior will be a miner and skinner. Thanks for the input, all!
Blacksmith is more an end game profession. Nothing interesting while you level.
Go miner engineer for your warrior. Engineer will help you a lot for leveling and wow leveling is real hard for a warrior. Don’t go skinning, you will lose your mind.
Blacksmithing is a gold sink. I highly recommend avoiding it during leveling.
I’m an altoholic, and I like professions. At XP level 35, you can max out a crafting profession (take it all the way to 300). So I typically have a gathering profession until level 35, then switch to 2 crafts.
I agree that BS gives little benefit (crafting your own gear) while leveling, and is very costly (which is no problem at level 60).
I use Engineering for my Paladin, so that I can use thrown bombs as a ranged pull. My warrior uses a gun for that. But Engineering might be helpful to a warrior too. I definitely think if you have Engineering you should have Mining on the same character – every time I want to make something (with Engineering) I can choose between buying Bars or Ore. That choice has been helpful a lot.
My suggestion is to go to wow-professions. com copy their 1-300 list and have it on a sticky ( er a doc on ur Desktop) and just save up that then at 20-40-60 start making stuff, because at that point you will be appropriate level for any quests you may want/have to do)
I did only skinning on my sham and got enough gold by lvl 34. Granted I was also farming mobs for exp and the mats from them from time to time to earn a bit more gold.
BS is a very fun profession.
If you like it, do it for the fun of it. You get to make very useful stuff.
Specialization is cool, and you get to make entire armor set if you choose AS. It’s boring to do that at 60 because you do miss out on the journey aspect.
It’s really fun to overgather mats and keep crafting ahead of leveling. It adds a lot of depth to the adventure.
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