Hello, Am currently level 55 Protection Paladin and need help in professions: I’ve been having a real hard time with WoW Professions and I need help, Before I started playing WoW I read many guides about professions and most said take Mining & Skinning so I did then one time I had like over 400 Different kind of skins/leathers so I went to sell them and I didn’t get much money at all and then I decided to give it up and it was like level 300 skinning and now I have level 315 Mining and decided to take Engineering for the cool items and mainly for the 80+ stamina trinket until I found out that it wasn’t the best stamina trinket an there are many 150+ stamina trinkets so now am going to give it up as it is useless as crap to me an it’s currently level 275 engineering. So tell me what the heck should I do ? I’m considering to take Enchanting but I here that people are saying take enchanting and tailoring so is enchanting good for a Protadin ? I don’t want to take Blacksmithing as I don’t want to use saronite ore when I start raiding instead I want to sell it.
So my questions are:
1 Which professions would be much help for a protadin?
2 If I combine mining and enchanting will that be a good idea to do that?
3 Will there be easy money making ways at level 80? Because I currently have like 1700 Gold at level 55
4 Blacksmithing doesn’t provide the best tanking gear for level 80.. Does it?
Thanks in advance.
Well, I have a 71 prot pally, and I picked up mining and skinning at first as well. Then I ditched skinning for the engineering, but I never took the time to pick that up.
1- I would think that blacksmithing would be good, if you took the time to get it up. Otherwise, mining should be enough.
2- I thought about it, I’m not sure if it would be a good idea though for a prot pally.
3- If you get your mining up to 450, titansteel and titanium bars will sell for a lot. Keep your mining up.
4- I never knew where to get a good sheild. So maybe you could get the sheild from it, or just buy one at the auction house and not worry about it.
So what should you do? It depends on whether or not you want to take the time to get your blacksmithing up, or if you want to take another profession for the other perks. Other than that, its up to you.
Protadins FTW! but really, ill try my best:
1- Not quite sure, sorry
2- YES! I have heard that those are the best combined professions to use (i guess since you get gems from mining)
3- not sure again, sorry
4- This one’s easy =). Simple answer: No.
I would go mining/jewelcrafting. You can use the ore and gems you get from mining to make the socketable gems, and some of those you can sell for a pretty penny. But you probably wouldn’t start making much money on it until you get in the 400 range with jewelcrafting, which kinda sucks, but that’s about when you start making the epic gems. You also get to make some super uber gems than only jewelcrafters can use and they’re way better than what you can get on the AH, so that’s a plus. Enchanting could work out as well, especially because you could sell the enchants on the AH nowadays thanks to vellum (way easier than the old days of standing in a city and shouting out what enchants you can do). So it’s really all about what your preference is.
Once you get to 80, money comes in quite easily these days. You can just do heroics and daily quests and make several hundred gold in a day. If you have a good set of professions, you can only add to it. I dunno about your server, but on mine people have gotten kinda lazy and will pay an ungodly amount for lower lever materials (be it ore, cloth, herbs, etc).
Blacksmithing is one profession I’ve never tried, so I can’t tell you what kinda gear you’d make or if it’s any good. I’ve been content to raid and get badges to buy the good stuff. :p