I am planning on maining a prot pally when TBC hits, but I am a bit undecided on what professions to take.
I am thinking of either taking blacksmithing or alchemy (along with their appropriate gathering professions.) Blacksmithing seems like the more obvious choice, but I am leaning towards alchemy because I believe it will have more utility and be more useful in the long run. Thoughts?
Engineering for the stamina trinkets and the cool goggles. Not to mention the helicopter mount! BS doesn’t really offer paladins anything of value, unless you like that fantasy (I know I do)
You will run alot of dungeons, go mining, skinning, or herbing for gathering whatever the guild bank needs. Second profession should be enchanting as you will run alot of dungeons and being able to shard any blues and purples from them is always a plus. Also the ring enchant +12sp is pretty cool.
There’s a couple really good gems and trinkets you can make for prot paladins with Jewelcrafting, but honestly engineering for the gnomish auto-blocker (iirc that is eng only) and the darkmoon card vengeance is the way to go.
Which I suppose leave you open to take both Eng and jewelcrafting.
For prot paladin aoe tanking, a thunder fury and some explosives with engineering mix with that darkmoon card is hard if not impossible to top!