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#1 Nov 22 2004 at 1:50 AM Rating: Decent
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I really cant put my finger on what to go. At lvl 40 they can wear mail which makes skinning/leather absolete at that point...tailor/enchant may be good...im not sure. is Engineering very good with hunter??
#2 Nov 22 2004 at 1:52 AM Rating: Decent
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Engineering and Mining.

Trust me, as a hunter you need no more. The ability to make guns better than what drops anywhere near your level, to make bullets better than anything you can buy, and the ability to trick out your weapons....Trust me on this....you will not be sorry you went engineering.
#3 Nov 22 2004 at 1:54 AM Rating: Default
and later you get to make net... :D

seem usful :D


#4 Nov 22 2004 at 1:54 AM Rating: Decent
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awesome, thanks. I figured quest bows/guns will be much better then anything you could make
#5 Nov 22 2004 at 1:58 AM Rating: Decent
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Well there are quite a few quests out there which will give you better rifles than you can get off of a current level in Engineering. Not to mention that later on you'll be seeing plenty of awesome guns for your level running about the AH. It's not a bad choice to take Engineering but I wouldn't say it's the BEST choice. Personally I think Skinning/Leatherworking is the best choice. You'll save on a ton of cash on armor, have a much higher ac than your non leatherworking compatriots who need leather armor and have a good tradeable skill to make some good money off of.

Think of it this way. Would you rather buy a gun every 4-6 levels or pay the money to get a full suit of armor every 4-6 levels? Sure armor drops MUCH more frequently than rifles do but their sub par to what you can make via leatherworking. It's not terribly difficult to get your leatherworking a good 20-30 points past your level so you can make armor that you can't even wear yet.

And of course there are Scopes, but I'd rather drop the extra cash on a scope at the auction house then devote an entire profession for just one or two items to use personally. If you take Engineering do it because it'll be fun (which it really is) not because it's "best" for your profession.
#6 Nov 22 2004 at 1:59 AM Rating: Decent
isn't a bow more useful than gun for a NE hunter? i mean a NE hunter using a gun just dont't seem right.

Edited, Mon Nov 22 02:00:23 2004 by Stranglethorn

Edited, Mon Nov 22 02:14:38 2004 by Stranglethorn
#7 Nov 22 2004 at 2:01 AM Rating: Default
good point. I personly was looking in to Engineering and Mining.

since they have cool stuff like that net stuff (sure i can kill npc and get them but...) and cool goggles :D


but leather or alchmst would be nice to have

btw there are not that many bow drops and gun can be made by ppl... bow (not yet)

you will find better dps gun at lower level then a bow (imo)

Edited, Mon Nov 22 02:02:01 2004 by XvermonX
#8 Nov 22 2004 at 2:06 AM Rating: Decent
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Id like to have this discussed more, Skin/Leather vs Engin/Mining
#9 Nov 22 2004 at 2:18 AM Rating: Decent
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I had taken both on two different characters.

Leatherworking/Skinning takes a lot of time and effort to get to a level where anything is really useful for you. I found that by the time I was able to make something out of leather, I was too high a level for it to be useful, and could find much better for my level in the AH.

Engineering/Mining you get more ore per attempt than you do in leatherworking, and it takes less materials per peice than leatherworking, so I was able to raise in it much faster. Also I was able to craft a few nice things for me at 16th lvl:

Flying Tiger Goggles (Cool looking shades ;D )

Deadly Blunderbuss

Standard Scope

Crafted Heavy Shot

Best quest weapon that I found for around that level?

Hunter's Muzzle Loader

But even if you were able to find where to get Little Timmy's Peashooter, with Engineering, you could make it Oh so much better.....

#10 Nov 22 2004 at 2:20 AM Rating: Decent
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I go guns. Only because a.) they're more common and b.) if you compare the top gun and bow that you can quest for in the game you'll notice that the gun far outweighs it's counterpart. And that's pretty much how it rolls all the way. BUT--there's always a but--bow's have one single great advantage that many people don't attribute... it's quiet. You'd be surprised how a little thing like that can help you in PvP or hunting in contested/enemy territory (when you're flying solo of course).
#11 Nov 22 2004 at 2:25 AM Rating: Decent
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Right...the only reason I went Bow on my guys in PVP is because of the noise a gun makes.

Guns hit harder but are MUCH louder. Louder as a Rogue is bad :-)
#12 Nov 22 2004 at 2:26 AM Rating: Decent
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engin should make silencers :D
#13 Nov 22 2004 at 2:30 AM Rating: Decent
maybe i am wrong but i swear long bows hit harder then guns, and since i got to level 5 for a craft almost every animal is skinable in the low newbie areas as supposed to go find a spawn point fot the materials, leatherworking is so easy to level up it is not funny not only that people leave dead bodies that can be skined all over the place.
#14 Nov 22 2004 at 2:31 AM Rating: Decent
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Leatherworking/Skinning takes a lot of time and effort to get to a level where anything is really useful for you.


I have to STRONGLY disagree on that one. While I admit that it really depends on what zone you start out in (some have more skinnable creatures than others) it's AMAZINGLY easy to level up skinning. Insanely so. Why? Becuase you have a MUCH larger abundance of supplies to draw from than you have in any other profession. Take Dwarven/Gnome starting location. There's a ton of creatures that are left to rot all around the zone after they've been killed, especially Grizzled Den. Dun Morogh will get you to 130+ skinning and 60 leatherworking EASY. Loch Modan, next zone over, the entire west bank is chalk full of creatures to skin. 60-100+ before you hit lvl 15. South bank and east bank. 140+ leatherworking before you even touch lvl 20.

From lvl's 20-25 the east bank of Loch Modan is going to be your best farming grounds for skinning. In one hour you'll be able to pull in around 60-70 light leather skins, 10-15 Medium Leathers, around 5-8 light hides and if you're lucky a handful of medium hides. When you start needing more medium hides head on over to Duskwood.

Omg is it easy to get to 170 leatherworking before you even hit lvl 22. Just don't hunt what you can't skin, unless it's for a quest. But admitedly, soon as you start needing heavy leather (i.e. 170) leveling starts to slow down alot. But that can be said for any profession really (except for enchanting which is the toughest of all professions).
#15 Nov 22 2004 at 2:38 AM Rating: Decent
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from what i found on the web and read in the forums leather/skinning is not useless after 40 because you can make mail using scales from creatures... engineering/mining does seem to have its upside, but since i an going to go with bows there isnt as much reason to use engineering
#16 Nov 22 2004 at 2:42 AM Rating: Decent
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true but then youd have to find someone to make you it and you have to pay them or something for all the other ingredients
#17 Nov 22 2004 at 2:48 AM Rating: Decent
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Perhaps it is just my playing style. I found it much faster to do mining and engineering and got more useful items from it than I did in leatherworking.

Course, with the Mining when I did not have anything I wanted made in engineering made me 4 gold in one day at the AH...can buy alot of armor off the AH for that, but can't wear the goggles unless you are an engineer, and it seemed there were alot fewer guns, scopes and crafted shot on the AH than there were leather armors.

EDIT: This was at 16th lvl....

Edited, Mon Nov 22 02:49:21 2004 by StandsInShadow
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