Is engineering and Tailoring a good idea for a main mage?
Mining and alchemy for my alt?
I know it’s a tedious thing to do since it will make my mage slow a bit slower in level but at the end it will serve me well. I based this professions on the following things i currently know.
Engineering a must for my mage for pvp and pve.
Tailoring for the pre Bis set bloodvine- binds when picked up
Mining on the alt will help me level this proffesions probably after i reach +40 on the mage and i have the mount.
And alchemy will help me make Flask for dungeons-Raids.
What do you guys think? is it a good viable idea?
On my mage I tailored till 60, then AOE farmed scarlet elites for gold for mats, and maxed engineering in the bank in a day.
Yeah, sadly raiding/pvping caster dps don’t get much for options…
Engi is more or less required for PvP and Tailoring provides multiple bis pieces up into Naxx. So you’re on the ball with the mage, and for exactly the reasons you already listed.
As for the mining-Alt conundrum and Alchemy (presumably also on that alt)… At this point you are going to be needing 2 gathering materials regardless (herbs for alchemy and ore/bars/stone for engineer)…
What it (imo) will come down to is the market… and how efficiently you can gather on that alt… Since you need both mats anyhow, you might as well go with whatever generates you the most gold/hour, since you can use some of the farmed mats to supply yourself, and the rest to sell on the ah, to then buy mats of the other type. It should be noted that this might not even be a profession choice, as your top gold/hour earner… You want a mage, which has numerous spots to AoE farm for pretty substantial gold/hour… In the end, whatever gathering profession you take has to outperform that baseline function to be worth spending a profession slot on, vs maybe just having engi on that alt as well, if it ever intends to pvp like your main.
EDIT: I can tell you my plan, if that helps illustrate the point:
Warlock: Tailor-Engi(goblin)
Rogue: Mining-Engi (gnome), Dropping mining for Alchemy by the ZG patch (madness boss farming for Rentakis)
Shaman: Enchanting/Engineer (don’t care spec)
My rogue is starting out miner because I’ll be able to mine things that other classes can’t efficiently (mining caves in the world, and dark iron in brd being two examples)… Furthermore, with all 3 of my characters wanting to be engineer, I’m going to need WAAAAAAY more ore than anything else. That being said, my rogue can also pickpocket farm BRD for ~40-50g/hour, My lock can solo for Eye of shadow (which sells for a couple hundred gold but it’s potentially hours between drops), and once Dire Maul is out I can do lasher runs and sell warlock epic mount runs… So I will be paying attention to just how much gold I’m actually earning with mining per hour, and it may not make the cut.
so you are saying AOE farming will give me more gold(to buy mats) than using mining to level my main 2 proffesions? which i assume it means AOE farming will be faster?
I’m saying that is the question you need to look at, without definitively giving you an answer.
On Pservers, raw gold farms where more popular… but Pserver economies aren’t going to be super comparable to retail economies because of respawn differences and overall realm populations being astronomically higher. So it’s difficult to outright make a conclusion as to how it will work on a real server.
Basically I’d say start out with a gathering profession… They only take a day or so to level to cap from scratch (when doing them 0-cap at level 60), and then see how you are performing gold/hour wise on it… Then spend a day doing some various non profession grinds and pick whichever one is going to net you more gold overall.
EDIT: one final bit I’d mention…Herbalism was also typically treated as the better gold/hour choice over mining (though again this is pserver based data… It’s been too long for me to remember much about OG vanilla gold making)… Since you want both materials equally (for both engi and alchemy) you may want to strongly consider Herbing over mining…
Also, a really stupid easy “farm” you can do on an alt with stealth for herbalism: one of the two right entrances for SM has a guaranteed fadeleaf spawn in the first room. I used to park my rogue pvp alt there during the raid week, and just log over maybe 1-3x a day and zone in ->grab fadeleaf spawn—>reset—>repeat until instance locked. You won’t make a ton of gold doing it, but it was super fast/easy to do, and the rogues on your faction will love you for keeping the AH stocked with cheap fadeleaf for blind.
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