Hello, I was curious what people thought as to which professions I should do while leveling. PvP is my main focus, but I want to be a resto/balance spec Druid - which I assume means I will need to raid as resto while building up my gear for PvP.
I’m aware that Engineering is required for PvP, but I didn’t know if I should start leveling that immediately, or wait until I am ready to start pvping.
I was thinking leveling with Herb/Alchemy or Herb/Mining for gold, but am not quite sure what the best course of action is.
Also, does anyone recommend anything like Fishing / Cooking along the way?
My goal is to have 1 character that eventually “wins” and has everything I could possibly want, at which point the game will just become helping friends/guildies and PvP’ing both in BG’s and open world.
Thanks for any input.
Day one i will probably take skinning and mining. Send all of my bars and stone to my bank alts, vendor/ah the leather.
My recommendation…level gathering professions while you are leveling (skinning, herbalism, or mining) and sell everything on the AH you get (unless it is something useful for engineering) then when you have the gold you need you can level engineering (from what I remember it’s a pretty expensive prof to level).
Do you think Druid is fine for farming, or should I have an alt for farming mats?
There are many armor class items that are BoP, when crafted, so it’s def important to plan ahead. Some of the best tailoring made items are only tailor only.
Fishing. If you can handle the pace (and it’s double the current cast time, remember), it’s a moneymaker. At least, it was in vanilla. I bought my first mounts–40 and epic–with gold from selling certain fish on the AH. I think I remember paying for mounts for friends, too. I spent hours and hours fishing, though. So you do probably have to enjoy it to stick with it long enough for adequate profit.
Like all crafting professions, engineering is pretty expensive. If you take time leveling you shouldn’t have too much of an issue, but if your trying to make some headway focusing on leveling, you’re going to not have enough money or time to deal with it.
If you’re in a raiding guild I’d recommend herbalism/mining to start out with. You’ll get lots of points farming mats for your guild and druid is possibly the best gathering class due to travel form, stealth and entangling roots.
When you have the gear you want from raiding you can always switch out one of your gathering professions for engineering.
Also if you go this route I’d recommend making a castsequence macro which switches between find herbs and find minerals.
Something like
/castsequence Find Herbs, Find Minerals
I think that’ll work. If not there’s something that will work where you hit the same button and it alternates between the two.
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Druids have essentially no downtime farming, although they’ll mostly be single target pulls, hunters do the same.
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PvE or PvP server? Horde or Alliance? I would think Horde for Tauren war stomp and extra health if your focus is PvP. Shadowmeld is meh on a class that already has a stealth option.
Are leveling as balance/resto? Or switching at 60? Are you trying to keep up with the server firsts? or do you have limited playing time?
Going mining + skinning is okay I suppose, but when a server first starts nodes are sometimes very hard to find with all the people racing for them.
If you go Tauren, I would say go tailoring and skinning. You will need leather in a couple tailoring recipes (especially bags). You will also need leather for your engineering. I would sell the leather you dont need, while trying to maintain a decent amount of stacks of each type in the bank (especially medium for deadly Blunderbusses).
I say tailoring because Tauren dont have any classes that wear cloth. The only ones that will probably go tailoring are druids so they can use it to help enchanting for that one item (trinket) they think is other worldly. So there is a lack of cheap bags in the Tauren starting zone. You can make some nice start up coin selling bags under the vendor price in bloodhoof village.
Bags are a premium in Vanilla/classic they do not drop like candy like other types of servers. anyone that can make bags will have a reliable income early. Since you will drop tailoring, do not train all the recipes. Just the ones needed for skill ups and bags. Training all the patterns is a quick way to the broke house and a lot of them are useless.
You can change prof’s at 40 or when you get a mount. Then you have a fast way to run from node to node. And since its going to be later in the server life. there should be more nodes as the population moves on.
So, that is my too long .02.
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Awesome info, very much appreciated!