My warlock currently has tailoring and enchanting, my enchanting is almost at 300 and I want to get engineering. People say at 60 it is good to be tailoring and engineering. Is there much of a difference for me to keep enchanting and drop tailoring? Will I be able to buy or get my pre-raid bis still without being a tailor? or is it better to just drop enchanting for engineering instead.
Why…would someone suggest Tailoring & Engineering? Sure you didn’t get trolled? There’s zero synergy between the two. I’d suggest keeping Enchanting, but up to you.
You can always level tailoring, make robes of the void for your pre BiS set, and drop it till phase 4 for engineering.
In Phase 4, when ZG is out, you will need tailoring for the Blood Vine Set.
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That’s horribly inefficient. Not to mention a massive waste of gold & time. Why not just make an alt to have another profession if you’re that worried about it. I’m seeing this as some horrible Google & streamer advice. None of this was ever a thing, as that’s extremely…silly, I’ll say.
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This is the ideal thing to do. Not sure why enchanting was leveled initially unless you were going to be the guild enchanter. Once you receive the Robe of the Void, tailoring becomes pretty much useless until phase 4. Mooncloth CD is efficient if you can sell more than 14g, but that isn’t worth it in my opinion.
I’m currently engineering & herbalism until phase 4 where I will drop herb to level tailoring back to 300 again.
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I went mining/herbalism for mara farming. Engineering is good, Tailoring is kinda meh when the robe of winter night is BoE and almost as good. Enchanting is what I would drop unless your guild is gonna funnel rare patterns to you.
What are your goals, OP?
Also, did you mention PvP when they mentioned Engineering? Because I read pre-PvE content from your post, in which case, your current professions play extremely well together & there’s zero reason to change. High level Enchanters & Tailors are invaluable to a Raid, actually.
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yeah I want to pvp as well as raid that is why I am thinking engineering in the first place.
I mean, honestly, if you’re asking for others’ opinions, you’re obviously gonna get varied opinions. My two cents: I’ve played since Vanilla-this whole “changing specs/professions” nonsense that’s getting parroted everywhere is some silly new idea being promoted by streamers & bloggers that honestly typically don’t know what they’re talking about (from what I’ve seen). You can entirely PvP w/o Engineering. If you couldn’t, everyone’s toons would only have Engineering, ignoring other valuable professions. Altho it can be useful in PvP, it’s extremely situational unless you’re on a PvP server. Even then, it’s dependent on you being in PvP. It’s more useful for a twink, rather than because “people say it is”. No one subscribed to this notion back in the day (honestly you’d of been laughed at) & people were excelling in PvP left & right.
However, you can’t get as much Raid utility w/Engin. Enchant/Tailoring earns you a TON of gold you’ll need for getting enchants, pots, gear, etc, eveything you’re gonna need. What people buy from Engineering is very situational, again. Enchant/Tailor are extremely valuable in a Raid. To the entire Raid.
So, you spend an insane amount of time & effort to level those 2 difficult to level professions (well in Vanilla anyway), only to spend a ton of gold to learn Engineering? Not worth it, tbh.
If you’re not aware of all the insane amount of mats it takes to level Engineering, look into it. Look at a profession guide. Unless you have an alt with mining, you’re gonna have to get that too. Even still, it really sucks to level Engineering where it would be “worth it” enough. Just my two cents, but the whole point was: Weigh your options, decide your goals, decide what’s more important, then base your decision on that. Tailoring, you can at least make gear for yourself & if you don’t take Enchant w/it, you may as well only take mismatched professions that will cause to you to spend way more time & gold than is necessary in the long run. Good luck to you.
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there is exactly one reason to be a tailor after crafting robe of the void, and that is to get the 2% spell crit set bonus from the bloodvine set after p4 comes out
aside from crafting stuff for other people
Tailoring and engineering for sure if you’re a PvP server.
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Um. Changing professions isn’t some “new thing”.
I did it a few times throughout my WoW lifetime.
Is the difference between BiS and near BiS huge? No, but it’s something to do.
And the bombs that are Eng only are pretty nice.
OP, unless there is a huge gap where a max level Enchanter should be in your raid group or guild, I would drop that, and level Eng if you want to have fun with it. You can always have a level 5 alt to DE greens for you if you like.
Once you make all the Tailoring items you feel that you could want, swap that to something else later on.
It’s a new thing as far as people parroting it I clearly said. As far as used to be common for people to frivolously swap professions? No, it wasn’t. I never said some didn’t do this. You’re debating me on points I never made. Just adding my 2 cents to OP, backed up with reason, as opposed to telling him what to do, so they can make an informed decision, but thanks.
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Gotcha. You’re one of those “My experience during vanilla is the only true and right one” kind of players.
So just because you didn’t do it, or olay with people who did, then it must have been a rarity.
The fact is some professions are better than others when it comes to various parts if the game. Some professions also have breakpoints, where they are very good till a point then no longer needed.
Trying to mislead peoples advice when it comes to optimizing there characters and progression as some streamer nonsense is misleading. Only shows that you are the one who doesn’t know what you’re talking about.
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If that works for you. Thank you for informing me what I think…wow…“sure, i think that” feel better? >.>
Clearly you didn’t read or absorb the entirety of what I said. I have no time for people like you.
Oh, way to edit where you flat out told OP to do it your way (& your responses to me), to disingenuously “back up” your projections. Good day. 
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To be honest, are you going to be a Min-Maxer for PvE and PvP? Or, just wanting to have “fun” with cool gizmos or gadgets? Then Engineering is for you. That’s all it’s really useful for. If you want to make money and/or productive to the “WoW society and market” then I’d stick with Tail/Ench.
All in all, it truly doesn’t matter what you have. You could be rocking with Blacksmith/Skinning, if you’d like. People get too worked up with, “I should get Skin/LW on my druid and hunter, Tail/ench on my priest/mage/lock, Mining/Eng for my rogue/war, Min/BS on my warr, Herb/Alch on my off class.”, and etc. It just comes down to what YOU want to do. You don’t need to listen to what is “meta”. Just do what you would like to focus on.
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Tailoring has some great advantages, RotV is an excellent class robe.
If you PvP, Engineering is more useful.