SoD: tryharding profession stuff and high level grinding

WoW Classic Season of Discovery
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So with a lvl 25 cap, SoD players will have their profs capped at 225 before racials. Enchanters will just barely reach Minor Speed to boots, so i expect those mats will be highly prized, but even gnome engineers will fall 5 skill short of making Green Lens. This leaves me with 2 questions:

  1. Which 225ish profession recipes will be in high demand?

  2. What classes/specs will be best for acquiring high level mats?

Regarding question 2, i’ve considered druid for mining/herb for the ability to sneak around and tank/heal up. But i think for killing much higher level mobs ( 30-40) I’m leaning toward afflic (for better hit chance with fear/dots) with chaos bolt (cant miss or resist).

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A pet class for sure.

But without a doubt, Fishing is BIS profession.

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Getting to 225 leatherworking requires thick leather, which requires killing level 45 beasts.

I’m not saying it won’t happen, but I am saying thick leather will be expensive enough to make leatherworking the least played profession.

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you can upcycle heavy leather to make thick, which isnt ideal, but i wouldnt say you need to farm leather the way you do ore/herbs

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Six heavy leather to a thick leather. That means killing 6 level 35 beasts instead of 1 level 45, or i supposed crafting medium into heavy and doing it that way. I’d say farming mineral nodes and herbs are going to be a cakewalk in comparison, because there’s a good few “safe” spawns of mithril and the like.

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I’ve rethought my position. Killing 40 level 25 beasts for 1 thick leather is not outside the realm of possibility for people waiting around in Ashenvale. Lol

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Thick leather will basically be useless in Phase 1, however, as none of the items that require it are equippable at 25. There are likely to be some new recipes related to BFD, but they appear to be unique-equipped. I think the tryhard profs will be alchemy/enchanting/engineering.

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I ran a 20 horde hunter from stv up through westfall without dying. concussion shot can’t miss. hunter shots don’t glance.

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Just my prediction, if things are stupidly easy, “try harding” will be less of a thing.

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I think alchemy and engineering will be a good profession to tryhard, but you’re going to very quickly get diminishing returns on the rest. Most of the things you can craft, you won’t be able to use. And you’ll need a raid group or some skilled hunters to slowly gather materials.

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you need 6 heavy to make a thick and most of the mobs that drop heavy are 26-35. Killable, but boy youd have to be extremely sweaty for almost no payoff doing that. I dont think anything in LW is worth it when you can wait 3 weeks to a 40 cap and just get thick normally.

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And, with the method I came up with for my plans, I’ll be selling it all day long.

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Where do you think enchanters are getting small radiant shards for minor run speed from at level 25?

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Source that a phase is going to be only 3 weeks

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He has none, they said it would be longer than a few weeks, but less than 3 months.

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i think individuals or groups will find ways to kill level 40-41 mobs

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Possible answer would be that we have to see what lvl 25 Epic gear DEs into.

I know there are epics in the mid 30s in the normal game, did they shard into anything special VS blue gear? (for comparison’s sake)

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small radiant shards can come from greens/blues with ilvl 41-45, or epics with ilvl 40-45. the epics in that range are all really good though and nobody’s likely to shard them when they’ll be hot items next phase.

i suppose it’s possible that the new crafted lvl 25 epics will disenchant into S Radiant shards also

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The bigger issue will be getting the hides. Most of the leveling recipes require hides, and you can’t piece those together like leather. The drop rates are bad in general but terrible on under level 30+ mobs.