I have been struggling, to figure out what professions I want for what toons. So I am humbly asking for the opinions of the WoW community.
Here is what I currently have:
Paladin: Mining/Blacksmith
Rshaman: Herb/Alch (Elixir Master)
Bear Druid: Skinning/Herb
Mage: Tailor/Chanting
Hunter: Skin/LW (Changing to Mining/Eng for wrath)
The two characters I play most, are my resto shaman, and bear druid. I know I want inscription, so I am debating dropping herbalism on shaman and throwing Inscription on there (Shoulder enchant for resto is nice). I am also thinking of dropping herbalism on druid, and picking up LW, and once I have a stockpile of current mats, swapping skinning for JC making bear have LW/JC in wrath.
I will also be leveling a DK, but I am not much of a fan of DK’s, so that will just be a farming alt. So that makes my wrath proffessions look like:
In general, I just focus on maxxing out a few crafting professions across all of my characters (they offer support to my main through crafted gear/consumables/etc.) and then just double gathering on all of my non-mains. The higher your ratio of Gathering to Crafting across all your characters, the more saturated your main professions will be.
I personally think it would be way less efficient to have more crafting professions than just your main characters can have unless you’re the kind of person who is okay with devoting a huge amount of time to farming for mats for all of them.
So if I were to just focus on my two main raiding toons, the resto shaman, and Druid, would you think it’s viable to go with alch/script on resto shaman, and LW/JC on druid, and just have my alts being able to shove mats towards mains, or think there is something to be said about keeping herbalism on druid, or even skinning on it with LW?
Part of me wants to be able to gather mats, but part of me also says that fighting all the bots for things like herbs is damn near impossible anyways.
Personally, even when I raided hardcore in Wrath, I never had double crafting professions. It just didn’t feel right to me. There will certainly be really min/max guilds who will require you to have crafting professions in both slots, but I’m guessing it won’t be particularly common.
I just never liked farming for materials on a character that didn’t need those materials. Keep in mind too, that in Wrath, even gathering professions offer stat boosts. Crit for Skinning, Stamina for Mining. I don’t remember what you get for Herbalism though.
In wrath if your raiding on the toon one proff is Eng. it’s just to strong vs any other proff to give up really. Doubly so for a bear druid.
The 2nd proff it’s all the same raiding wise so long as you are not using a gathering proff. Thou on bear mining is acceptable as stam but still worse than any non gathering.
Jc is the most optimal 2nd proff for bear thou but it’s only by a small bit and only in the later tiers.
Engineering. Every character you intend to use outside of just being a profession slave should be an Engineer.
Engineer/JC
Engineer/BS
Engineer/Tailor
Etc
Engineer is by far the strongest profession in Wrath, and 11/10 times the people that don’t role engineering on the PServer I play end up Engineering a week or two later after caving.
Going to be overworked with so many characters. It also seems redundant to have different characters for tank/heal when you could just use dual spec. Personally as someone with 5 70s here, I plan to cut it back down to 3 with wrath. A 4th is out of the question unless they fix the dungeon problem to make my life easier.