I’m none too good with words but I was rightly wondering is there a good place to look at how popular each profession is going to be in Classic WoW?
I’m hoping to find a profession that is in demand and fits with playing a Hunter on the Horde.
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no way to know but i would suggest engineering or leatherworkong. or both and make a miner skinner alt
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Thanks for the feedback Grudio! I really appreciate it!
any time
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Clothies always have to take TAILORING, because their pre raid BiS (maybe even some BiS forever) are only there and are Bind on Pickup.
All Paladins have to take Engineering or you have failed. That profession completes the class easily.
For a Hunter, you take Engineering for the guns/ammo and whatever else you want.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about engineer. It seems like they have some really useful stuff to help out with a party of raid. Repair bots, Ammo for me and my fellow Hunters, goblin jumper cables for an attempt to rez the healer and so on! I’ve watched a video about it but I was wondering how in demand they are for goods to sell.
I’m planning on playing on a PVP server so I think engineers might not be in high demand since a lot of people play them for pvp.
With a hunter though you spend money on arrows/food for your pet.
My first time playing a hunter I took skinning/lw. Didn’t have my mount money until level 43 or 44.
Second time at it I took up skinning/mining and sold everything.
I had my mount money at level 38.
A hunter just needs a good bow…always keep that updated.
And there were bow vendors in the various zones that sold limited green bows. That and the AH.
Once you get your mount money then you can switch up your professions.
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Atulkaj…most engineering stuff is bound so only you can use it.
Engineering is fun but expensive.
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Oh, dang! I didn’t know that. That makes a big difference. Thanks, Brockthorn!
Hunter goes well with skinning/leatherworking. Or skinning/engineering.
You are able to track beasts for a living, helps with skinning. Engineering you can make scopes and guns. Or armor if you want to sell stuff or make armor.
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Yeah do Skinning/Mining. It helps a lot with gold!
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Also fish, you can feed your pet if it eats fish.
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blizzardguides(dot)com is a good place that has a lot of vanilla guides for professions and stuff.
Also vanillawowhunter(dot)com for the various pet skills you’ll need to learn and which level beast has them.
Sorry can’t post links so the (dot) in the urls.
I would suggest you do skinning/mining til level 40…sell everything either via AH or vendor. Only buy bows and the bare skills needed for leveling. Then you’ll have your mount money by level 40.
And then you can change out for engineering if you want cause you’ll already have your mining skill.
My second time playing I found that my rogue benefited more from LW because they are so gear dependent where the hunter just needs a good bow.
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I am so thankful for the advice so far, guys. I was wondering though if enchanting might be something to consider for a hunter. I can collect enchants and enchant friend’s gear for free and sell enchants in Orgrimmar?
This is something I’ve been contemplating, as well. It’s hard to pick a profession when so many of them have bonuses you can only get by having that profession leveled yourself.
Since I’m either going shaman (preferably) or druid, I’m a bit torn on whether to do skinning/leatherworking or alchemy/herbalism, or for the shaman even mining/blacksmithing. There’s several weapons that would be amazing for a shaman that only blacksmiths can make (eyeing you, arcanite reaper/sulfuras…), though I’d most likely end up being resto/elemental at endgame anyways.
For either class, skinning/leatherworking means access to some relatively decent gear both pre and post raid. Things like onyxia scale cloak or the mail armor set that gives fire resistance would both be good regardless of spec. Alchemy and herbalism, though, give me a huge moneymaker with flasks, though I cant really remember what their unique benefits were to the crafter.
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Mining will bring in the money, there’s never a shortage of warriors/paladins working on blacksmithing.
Personally, I’ll be running leatherworking till 60, as a decent amount of crafted gear is better than the quest reward gear at certain points.
Engineering is baseline for a pvp server sadly.
A big thank you to Nightlynx and Roknar for the replies! I hope you figure out what profession you want too, Nightlynx!
Remember there are specializations in classic. If you are going to be a hunter and a leather worker you should get dragon scale leatherworking.
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Most people will level what’s beneficial to their class, then end up going engineering for the pvp bonus
Enchanting is good for pretty much any class, but its a pain to level. Engineering is solid if you plan on a ton of PvP and obviously if you are a hunter for the ammo. LWing is also good as well, but I think much of it you could have made by someone else.
If gold is what you are after then gathering professions are always a good steady choice ( although might be a bit weak right at launch).
Always forget Alchemy, its like enchanting, pretty much a good choice for everyone.