Backstory: Last month my brother told me he wanted to try WoW out, so last month I got us both time cards so we could see if we could play on the same server together. We went with Classic both to see what it was like and because the server my Main on retail was on was full, so we started Classic a few days after it launched for the public.
He wanted to play Horde, so he chose an orc hunter. I followed suit and chose my favorite race/class combo and made an orc warlock. I chose Tailoring & Enchanting, and I told him to take on Engineering & Mining so he could make his own weapons (and AFAIK it’s probably the objective best profession combo now that I think of the stuff you can make with it).
TL;DR, is Tailoring & Enchanting useful for helping guilds make bags and giving people enchants? I only realized playing Classic that scribes can’t make Enchantment Vellums, which means I’d have to enchant people’s gear before they equip them (thus binding the gear to themselves in the process). I’m thinking it is since I want to have my gear full of resistances and I don’t care about doing PVP at all.
You can enchant people’s gear via the trade window if they drop it in the not traded slot
If I play warlock alt, I will also pick tailoring and enchanting.
Enchanting is fun to do, but it doesn’t make much money. So other option for you is pick herblism or mining for money making profession.
you can enchant other peoples gear by opening the trade window
at bottom of window there is a special slot for bound gear that can get enchanted
and, sure, tailoring and enchantment go together but the competition is stiff if you want to make money from bags and enchantment is pricey to level (even with tailoring greens)
you dont make money from disenchanting greens you might otherwise vendor
engineering is always good
i powerleveled my lowbie warrior with engineering
my level 30 something got the schematic for the goblin jumper cables and my warrior learned it and made some
did a wc run and out rogue died
our druid was wishy washy about using his 30 min reagent needed battle res and i said “wait a minute, let me try these”
a few sparks, puffs of smoke, and some tinged flesh later we had our rogue back
Tailoring can make some decent items for cloth wearers and doesn’t rely on a gathering profession so the question is what you pair with it.
Enchanting is popular to pair with it because it likewise doesn’t pair with anything specific, however the thing to consider about enchanting is that it is largely a money sink if you are mostly enchanting just your own gear. You will need to disenchant greens you would otherwise be vendoring or auctioning, and you may even need to buy cheap greens in order to keep the skill levelled with you depending on how many greens you get.
Can you recoup some of this parking yourself by the sw bank and enchanting for low cost/tips? Sure, potentially. This is a time investment though. And i doubt the math works out to where you come out ahead - optimistically at best i bet you break even, minus time spent.
If you go with a gathering profession with tailoring this gives you another potential source of income to sell to players (could help to sfford the mount), and some tailoring recipes do require skinning materials. You could always switch to enchanting at max level when you can more easily sprint through lowbie dungeons for mats.
I think the prof / class combo is the best.
Simply put, enchanting is bloody expensive. If you’re leveling it, you won’t have cash for a mount.
Warlocks get mount for free.
Win
So at this point I am considering dropping Tailoring & Enchanting until I reach level 60 in favor of choosing Mining & Herbalism to make as much gold as possible until then. Will that work if I sell the materials on the Auction House, or should I stick to what I’m already doing? Money in Classic is difficult to get, and I don’t know which decision would make the most gold.
I think it’s fine to have tailoring while you level, skill ups can pay for themselves through bags. You could even save greens for when you switch to enchanting if you want to mail them to a bank alt or something maybe (this might be more effort than it’s worth)
Mining and herbalism particularly as a combo aren’t going to be great for cash right now most likely because the sheer number of levelling players are bringing prices on the auction house pretty far down and you’ll be competing with other players for nodes.
I recommend skinning as a gathering profession if your longterm goal is tailoring. You can save what little you need and sell everything else.
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My original warlock back in the day was Tailor/Enchanter. Tailoring is amazing for a warlock because of the useful items you can craft for yourself. Shadoweave and felcloth sets are amazing for warlocks. The most bang for your buck robe is the Robe of Power which you can only get if you are a tailor.
Enchanting on the other hand, is extremely “meh.” The only enchant that people may want is Beastslayer simply because it makes your sword glow red. There are a ton of useful enchants you can do, but the reality is people just don’t want to buy any while leveling. Also, you will be D/E the items you make from tailoring which hurts your gold income and slows your leveling of tailoring. Another issue with enchanting is your bag space. You will more than likely have a dedicated souls bag and if you choose to have a dedicated enchanted bag, you will only have two bag slots to work with while leveling.
enchanitng is a gold SINK i wish i didn’t level def will not have mount at 40.
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I like enchanting so I can make wands. Tailoring so I can make bags not only for myself but all my toons.
Enchanting won’t earn you much while leveling besides selling wands to vendors, sadly, but having the wands for cheap is useful. It probably won’t make any money until endgame and battlegrounds come out.
enchanting wont earn you a damn until you have bwl enchants. It will cost you way more than you make. Leveling enchanting to 225 was a horrible decision why i have 40g at 38. Tailoring is bad too bags are over saturated in the market, making it also have no money in it.
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Right now on my server a good tailor can make a decent living. There are no shadoweave peices in the AH ever. Rarely you will see spidersilk boots or dreamweave stuff. Also robe of arcana is a must have for Warlocks who didn’t level tailoring for Robe of Power. Never in the AH on my server.
Pretty much my reasons for skipping tailoring/enchanting this time. I ran tailor/enchanting on my priest/mage for a lot of years…
… but for classic I went alchy/herb.
Both toons are in the 30’s and both are 225 for both professions. Hasn’t cost me jack to level alchemy because I gather my own herbs. Will cash in later with arcanite transmutes… twice.
Also… having my own pots while leveling has been AMAZING.
robe of power is bop, and those peices sell for less than vendor, that’s why you don’t see. The pearls to make spidersilk cost more then the damn boots.
I know robe of power is BOP. But Robe of Arcana is needed to make Enchanted Golden Bloodrobe for warlocks lvl 31 quest. If you are a lock that isn’t a tailor, Bloodrobe is your next best bet.
Not going tailor until 60 is best bet, as it stands vendoring bandages make way more than tailoring. I wish i chose skinning and herb. You can buy arcana on ah for 10s because someone has been trying to sell it forever because aoe farming layer hopping mages made cloth worthless. That being sad since warlock get’s a free mount it’s ok but if not pass it up, don’t be like me you cant compete wott no lifers who farm dungeons 24/7.
I can’t tell you how many times I try to enchant people for free and they think its some trick to get their item. So many retail scrubs missing out on free enchants.
I underestimated how many fellow millennials live at home and don’t work, you can not compete with them in tailoring.