So I’ve been mulling over the idea of playing a hunter, and professions are something I havent had much time to consider. I’m used to tailoring and enchanting as a mage, so im completely unversed in professions for a hunter.
Most people say that Engineering is better for hunter but only cite Thorium bullets as a reason. Is there a case to be made for leather working, or is engineering the only way to go? If it helps, I dont intend to pvp too heavily.
Engineering. Scopes, bullets, but mostly explosives and other gadgets that help overcome your dead zone.
Level engineering at 60. Skinning/Leatherworking is a better leveling combo because you create your own resource nodes by killing mobs.
or you can do engineering while levelling instead and get a hat before level 24 and also have engineering close to 300 by the time you hit 60 instead of spending days levelling engineering after you hit 60 instead of doing something else
anyway, leatherworking has exactly one thing over engineering for hunters, and that is easier levelling
engineering has very many things over leatherworking, craftable bullets included
Good luck with those copper nodes in the flooded beginning leveling zones. Waiting until 60 gives the population time to spread out.
Engineering is practically required if you plan to PvP seriously. And believe me you don’t want to constantly have to pay the ridiculous prices for thorium shells.
Engineer.
Here are a few reasons.
It’s the best profession for serious pvp and pve as a hunter.
It’s the best profession for late game gold generation as it let’s you solo DM Tribute farming without needing someone else to open a door.
It gives you took to reduce the effective weakness of the class, deadzone, weakness to CC, poor sustained aoe (by giving us better burst aoe), no ability to rez (even if it can fail, groups love this and it can even be great in pvp)
My recommendation is this.
Level with skinning and mining. You can trade leather to a LW to make stuff for you, and chances are they will want to do that early on to level their LW. Even if your mining falls behind you will level fast as a hunter so you can go back and get it with ease while others are still fighting through mobs to get to the nodes (once you hit 30 and get feign death+traps getting nodes is easy)
Engineer is the best late game profession for hunters and if you do it right you can save leather and ore from leveling on a bank alt to blow through engineering when the time comes to drop skinning for engineering. And if your a good hunter you can farm the devilsaur leather at lvl 53-55 depending on gear and your pet. Just don’t expect it to be a tank and spank fight, you will be using fear beast, traps, feign death drinking, some kiting, and consumables (bandage, scrolls potions, exc.) when fighting them at that level.
But engineer let’s you get raw gold at a much more efficient rate through DM tribute farming. You can even sell runs to stealth classes. For DMT and Mara.
If your very good at hunter you can sell Mara runs to ANY class at 60. But for an example if you get a decent healing set you can solo princess in Mara at 50+ depending on your healing set gear (Mana per 5 and mend pet +healing, train tank pet for nature resistance, exc.)
Both are very nice…
Leatherworking
Pros: One of the best money-maker professions, is relevant through AQ40, fits class fantasy, helps in all dungeons and raids
Cons: Little utility for pvp, becomes less valuable the more LWer’s there are in your guild,
Engineering
Pros: Very good for pvp, self-built scopes and bullets, useful in niche situations in PvE, fun trinkets and items, the more the merrier for engineers
Cons: Difficult to level up, Expensive, Not a money maker, Fills up your bag space
This is true for most classes. But as a hunter you can solo tribute runs because of engineering, and that easily makes up for the initial gold investment. And as for LW being good gold income, that falls off as people get geared, DM tribute farming doesn’t.
Bag space isn’t an issue with 1-2 bank alts and it’s not difficult to level engineering if you pre plan for it as you level. There is leveling guides out there already and it’s no harder to level engineering than to level LW. Of your leveling skinning and mining as you level it becomes easy at Max level to drop skinning and burst through engineering. Just make sure to keep the appropriate amount of light, medium, exc leather that you will need for burning through engineering.
salt shakers made me a bit of cash its not all doom and gloom for Engineers.
I seem to remember people in guild asking for fishing lures all the time
Also remember he’s asking for a hunter.
End game as a hunter engineering is the best money maker per time / resources invested unless they make DMT solo impossible, but that would be a chance they likely won’t make.
I made a mint off Mining Thorium nodes for the Ore, Dense stone and Arcane Crystals. Plenty of Raiding Hunters looking for bullets and then the exchange from bullets to arrows. My Warrior did mining and engineering for the the gadgets while doing PvP.
What do you think rogues, priests & mages did when popped in the face with a stun grenade? Moments later they had a very quick 1-way trip so the graveyard.
Also…nothing like heading into WSG with 10 sets of Rocket Boots to really tick people off… Granted they don’t explode immediately or soon after ignition. Ahh the shenanigans of engineering, quite possibly the most anticipated part of PvP.
You don’t need engineering for tribute runs O_o… you also have to be wary of whether you will be able to do them or not anyway. Blizz might make it not worth it like some other private servers do.
People always need LWers. Classic won’t be like private servers where there is just one big wave of no-lifers and people move on. The Raid environment will be healthy for many years.
Armor kits, Resistance gear(Fire, Nature, Frost), cured hides(Tier 3 quest requirements), and BiS will be relevant for a very long time… especially because it’s gated itemization. Huge consistent money-maker.
I’ve been an engineer in vanilla, bag space is a hassel!
I had a shaman LW in vanilla and he made decent gold from black dragonscale gear. Remember classic is nothing like retail where you are in full purples within 3 days of hitting max level. Level 56+ blues was used even in raiding.
Think about the last time you played retail. Do you remember enjoying using consumables and gadgets every other fight? I personally love having all these gadgets but then never think to use them. So they sit idle in my bags at max stacks taking up bag space.
Engineering is hands down the best profession for pvp. You just have to use the items you make and farm the mats for said items in order to actually gain this benefit. If you are like me and will sit on full stacks of iron grenades but never use them then you are better off with Leatherworking.
You do you
Engineer or BS for tribute SOLO. Have to be able to open a door.
Also on bag space… Bank alts = no issues
It’s an inconvenience.
We also don’t know if Tribute runs will be viable or not in Classic.
Scope stuns, repair BOTS ARE HUGE EVERYONE will LOVE YOU if you have repair bots. death ray’s nets. Etc.
LW has a lot of good things going for it as well REMEMBER there are 3 types of LW TRibal elemental and dragonskin. Engie is better everyone really, since it just adds in bombs. But if PVP isn’t your main go to, it’s not make or break IF you enjoy LW / Skinning i would say go for that. But keep in mind LW you gotta farm for A lottttta patterns.
It is?
Was just going to make bags with tailoring with skinning on the side on my shaman, maybe I really should take leatherworking too.
Low key… I think it’s the biggest money-making profession in the game.
Enchanting beats it, but enchanting is very difficult to fully capitalize on if you aren’t the guild enchanter.
One obvious way of making a hug amount of money at the beginning is the devilsaur sets, but I am going to assume you are a more casual player, because there is a lot of competition for the devilsaur skins because a lot of people know this.
Making armors kits, some other BiS, Fire resist gear, and the tribal healer cloak will be the next big moneymakers after the devilsaur wave goes.
Then the ZG armor BiS armor sets will be another big wave of money makers, all the while there is still a market for the others.
Then AQ nature resist gear will be the next big money makers.
Then Nax, some frost and shadow resist gear, cured hides(Large requirement for tier 3 quests), and armor kits…
All the while the previous market(Though less hopin’ then before, will still be there)
Some would argue Alchemy is better… but in my opinion, there is way too much competition. Alchemy is a good source of consistent steady income, but it won’t make you super rich quickly… unless you absolutely no life it.
Well if it’s done with no changes it will be.
After all the hunter community has found out how to do it with the boss having +35-40% bonus move speed, cuts edges tighter than any player can, and 2 shots mail wearing hunter (1 shot if crits). The hunter community found ways around all of the private servers attempts at making it unsoloable and unless they make the mobs able to run up walls, +50% move speed, exc. in classic the hunter community will still be able to solo it. Because that’s what hunters are good at.