That’s fair! I think ultimately it’ss about how you like to spend your time. I find herbing relaxing in short intervals - particularly with the tree maxed out so you can pick flowers while mounted - but i don’t do it every week, and it’s not a natural pairing with jc the way mining might be, ya know? so i’m gonna take the opposite track to teishoku and recommend enchanting+jewelcrafting.
enchanting is super easy to level and even better at artisans’ acuity gathering than herbalism, albeit more expensive. you’ll want to get to skill level 25 to open up skill trees, then pick ‘ephemerals, equipment and enrichments’. Put 5 KP into the main wheel to open up sub-specs, then 20 points into “deceptive decorations”. This will give you about 30 cheap ‘first craft’ masks to make that will give you a ton of skill, knowledge points and artisan’s acuity. use them to help you on your way to about skill level 50, then, do the weekly quest given to you by your enchanting trainer, grab your profession treasures, and head out to dig up dirt piles/loot treasure chests until you get your two weekly treasure KP items:
https://www.wowhead.com/item=225230/crystalline-repository
https://www.wowhead.com/item=225231/powdered-fulgurance
(My suggestion would be to buy an inky black potion off the AH and explore Ahn’Kahet looking for purple puddles - you can find the puddles in any zone, but looting the ones in Ahn’Kahet also grants you the currency kej, which you’ll want to buy some enchanting recipes or a jewelcrafting skill book).
Then, you have a choice - you can get further KP items by disenchanting, and if you’re doing max level content like visions or nightfall you’ll have a ton of gear to disenchant. I personally invest all the KP i’ve earned at this point into the “disenchanting” tree, go down the “epic items” route, and buy three-to-four hundred complete suites of darkmoon cards. not the decks! the eight cards themselves. The TWW decks are symbiosis, radiance, vivacity, and ascension. you can buy the complete suite for anywhere between 60-100g, turn it into a deck, and disenchant it. The first six items you disenchant in a week will give you 5x Fleeting Arcane Manifestation (for a total of 5 points) and 1x Gleaming Telluric Crystal (for 4 KP), giving you 9 KP, and if you’ve gotten those PLUS the weekly quest PLUS the two treasure items, any further disenchants beyond that point will start dropping the catch-up item, Shimmering Dust:
https://www.wowhead.com/item=227662/shimmering-dust
As these are a catch-up mechanism, and you’re starting in the middle of the expansion, you can loot a LOT of these, growing every week. The reason i picked darkmoon cards is that epic items have a 100% chance to drop one, while blues and greens don’t, so i waste less time disenchanting stuff that doesn’t give me a KP. Glyneth on wowhead wrote a really helpful macro you can use to track how many are available to you:
/run local a=C_CurrencyInfo.GetCurrencyInfo(3059) print("You've earned ".. a.quantity .. " out of ".. a.maxQuantity .. " enchanting catch-up knowledge")
Alternatively there’s a fantastic weakaura that allows you to track everything for both your professions:
https://wago.io/L7lpDrqUO
Keep disenchanting and looting shimmering essences until you have:
1000 artisan’s acuity (for your enchanting tools and accessories) - then make those (to increase your skill and give you better items from disenchanting). push your way to Skill 60 by making yellow quality recipes, and then open up and pick an enchant in the Everlasting Enchantments category; the expensive weapon enchants will allow you to level all the way to 100 while the cheaper profession tool/accessory enchants will get you close - at least, will unlock the last skill tree. For your enchanting tool, when you’re getting it made, you can pick either resourcefulness (gives you a chance to get more mats back when you craft an enchant) or ingenuity (when you finish maxing out your trees, this could give you a chance to get a “free” concentration craft, which is how you’ll make your money) but the choice is yours and you will probably end up getting both eventually, so pick the stat you like best.
After you’ve had your profession tools made, disenchant more things until you get another 900 artisan’s acuity. This will allow you to make your blue-quality jewelcrafting tools. At this point you should consider filling out the ‘ssupplementary shattering’ tree; main wheel first and then the resourcefulness and ingenuity wheels after that. Now, every time you binge craft, you can shatter a cheap esssence like Crystalline powder at the start of the session and your stats will skyrocket, enabling you to spend less concentration, get more back, and get back more mats too.
Next step is to keep disenchanting until you have enough acuity to pick up your jewelcrafting skill books; these cost 900 to buy all three from the vendor in the artisan’s consortium (Lyrendal), but you’ll get 50 back every time you use them, so you can get away with 750 AA. Fill out the rest of the eternal enchants tree with the KP you earn. you can pick up enchanting skill books too but tbh i’ve never had any issues with feeling like i need more skill points when i level enchanting this way.
You’ve pretty much acquired all the main stuff, but there are a few more things it’s nice to have - the magically infinite messenger bag (work order from a tailor, but it has no quality so you can put in a public order for it) adds to your stats enchanting stats; you might want to buy more enchanting recipes from Lyrendal or other rep vendors etc, or you might want to work on jewelcrafting now that you have the tools and extra KP for it. But even with just the vendor recipes and the ones from the skill trees you can start making a profit. Buy cheap mats, shatter an essence, hit the “concentrate” button and craft until your concentration bar is drained!
