Hey guys, i’m looking at leveling a hunter first and have some questions about professions, namely engineering.
Would people recommend picking up engineering early and leveling during the leveling process, or to pick up something else and swap at level 60? Also, what would people recommend to pair with engineering?
Also one more question to generate some more discussion: Hunters mains to be out there, what are you most excited for? Personally, i’m most keen for trying out a survival/marks build (I was about 10y/o when vanilla came out and I actually didn’t even know there were 3 trees, I put all my points in to bm thinking that by 60 i’d have every talent filled out and that’s what I was meant to do, LOL!)
You may not know, but several professions had Specializations as well. Leatherworking for example has Tribal, Elemental and Dragonscale. Professions are a very good way to get gear in classic. If you are going to be a hunter, I would suggest Skinning/Dragonscale LW.
Tribal is geared towards Druids and Rogues.
Elemental is geared towards Rogues and Fire Resist.
Dragonscale is geared towards Hunters and Shaman.
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As an avid Hunter player for vanilla.
I suggest LW/Skinning or other gold making professions while leveling.
If your end goal is going to be PVP then go engineering once you are 60 and build it up from there. LW/Skinning actually flows VERY WELL with the hunter play style and when used with all 3 of the side professions it fuels the immersion of the hunter class ludicrously!
People will argue that making your own ammo and making some nice guns here and there will be a huge bonus. I feel that having the good gear from LW however outweighs this when the game gives ample viable options of bows and guns throughout the leveling process.
As for what I look forward to?
Immersion Immersion Immersion.
LW/Skinning/Fishing/Cooking/First Aid as a NE hunter with their dark tiger pet living the wild life through the levels, eventually reaching Winterspring only to eventually hunt down and tame the infamous Rak’Shiri while doing the. . . cruelly long reputation grind to attain the Winterspring mount in the most hunter-esque zone of all.
That and the AMAZING WPVP of a NE hunter in Vanilla!
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I was actually going to say the same thing, when I walked in to Winterspring for the first time it absolutely blew my mind, it’s still burned in to my long term memory, such a fond recollection for me!
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I spent roughly 8 hours a day almost every day for almost two full months in Winterspring alone. All to attain that mount while getting Rak’Shiri.
I LOVED the zone so much but dang haha that wore me out of it. I still cannot fathom how I got that mount.
While doing it however I learned so many neat little tricks to play the hunter class to its fullest extent out of experimentation as well as attaining the pet I always wanted, Rak’Shiri.
Also I claimed that house just off the road. IT IZ MINE! Logged out in it every night back then. Lol but seriously being a vacant NE house was just too perfect for an immersive NE hunter being there.
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I think my number 1 goal of classic is to try get rank 12, I don’t have the time go go for rank 14 but we’ll see. I absolutely adore bgs, back when I was level 19 on my hunter I stopped leveling because I was finally the highest level in the bracket, I stayed level 19 for months just doing WSG.
I found the transporter from engineering to be very helpful while leveling. And slow falling cape to go with it, in case it backfired. Also for when I wanted to waste more money on nogger fogger elixir.
Speaking of slow fall cape, i also found that usefull for getting to ungoro by jumping down instead of having to run around.
I personally will be going lw/skinning or skinning/mining instead of mining engineering. Bag space will be so limited. Hunters lose one bag slot to a quiver and even more bag space for pet food. Professions in general take up a lot of bag and bank space but I feel like engineering takes up even more. You aren’t going to be going to the ah and buying a few 16 slot bags to ease the bag space pain as you level. You will be using just one or two 6 slot bags for quite a while.
You do you though. There could be opportunity to make some low level recipes dirt cheap with engineering that you could sell for a fraction above vendor price that will help you flip items relatively easy for low income.
Once I get to 60 I will decide to keep lw/skinning and drop for engineering or keep it pending on the markets.
Engineering has a lot of low level recipes you’ll find quite useful as your leveling up.
However it is also the most bag hogging proffession in vanilla and there was no engineering bags until BC so your ganna fight with that.
And you will need a blacksmith to complete some recipies as well as a leatherworker if you don’t plan to farm battered chests for 1-2 leather at a time.
But its all worth it in the end for when you finally make Core Marksmanship Rifle, the coolest looking gun in vanilla!
Mining/skinning to stock pile mats to train LW/eng away 60. 2nd 60 hunter will be the farm toon with permanent mining/skinning. Plus you get dual spec for free. Twink hunter will have eng/idc.
To maximize efficiency I would recommend skinning and mining. You can trade the leather to a LW for gear and save some for when you level engineering at 60. Mining, you save all the ore/bars on a bank alt for when it’s time to lvl engineering.
Once you are 60 you drop skinning and power through engineering. Then for gold you can solo DM tribute, thorium exc.
As a hunter engineering is the best late game profession because of the utility and versatility it gives you because not only does it make your combat better, but the utility out of combat can save you time and make you gold. Like the seforium charges for DMT soloing and not needing some rouge to open the door for you and having to split the income.
Skinning is also good for extra gold while leveling and you need some leather for being able to blow through some engineering levels.