Skinning/Leather vs. Engineering/Mining?Follow

I think that Skinning and Mining would be alot more helpful for a Hunter, because i know the trinkets for Hunters from engen are good but if you are skinning/ leatherworking you can make your own full set of gear. But that is only my opion. See ya



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That post made almost no sense, L2Type. As for the OPs question, personally, I took Leatherworking/Engineering. I used to have LW/Skinning but seeing the nice stuff in Engineering I switched to Engineering/Mining. Later, since I had never leveled Mining at all [80 skill]. So seeing the nice armor sets in LW [some of the BoP] I went for Engineering/LW. But for you... If you decide to drop LW for Engineering, I wouldn't drop Skinning for Mining. You already have Skinning up so high and really, you'll be making more money with skinning than mining, giving you don't have to go out of your way to gather ores with skinning and you'll be able to purchase to Engineering Skills up with Skinning.

Thanks for the input, folks! I have to say, LW and Engineering would be a good combination... if this weren't my first character, and I had the cash to spend. After looking at the Engineering list again, I will probably stick with LW/Skinning because, aside from the guns, gun mods and jumper cables, the rest of it didn't appeal to me too much.

Then again... Feign Death + Jumper cables seems like a good raid combination, in case things go sour. Hmm.

I personally chose to Skinning/Leather, because skinning easy to get, making more money, and i have making my armor up to date.
but if u is a gun hunter engineering more usefull, because u can create a gun, ammo.

I wouldn’t recommend engineering to anyone unless they either like the toys or if they like blowing things up. Though one can make money with engineering, that’s not its strong point. It mostly exists simply because its fun. So if you don’t find the items engineers can make to be fun, there’s little point in pursuing it.

I would also suggest caution when it comes to skinning and engineering as a combination. Having to buy all your engineering supplies from the auction house would be a major pain in the backside. Even with the money you can make from skinning, the supplies would still be extremely costly. A single stack of copper bars costs 1 gold on my server and a friend at work can sell his very quickly on another server for 2 gold per stack. You’re not likely to get that kind of money for a stack of light leather, which is the skinning equivalent of copper. You can certainly give skinning/engineering a shot, but it’ll be a more difficult road to travel.

To go into a bit more detail for each of the things for engineering I'll post one more time. In my opinion as far as engineering items more specifically go they are all still more for fun. The high level bombs can actually do more damage to you than the enemy. The transporters have been useful but I really don't go to everlook anymore and the costs to make the one to area 52 makes me just fly instead. The pets used to be nice but if I was forced to use the pet it would mean I was in a bit of trouble. The pets die quick if they are the target of the mobs frustration and if the pet is still alive at the end of the fight it will just go off and aggro something else making it a pain. I have never used any guns from engineering as quest rewards and drops have always seemed better. Making my own ammo wouldn't be too bad if I farmed the materials myself but it would be lengthy and cut into the money making portion of mining as well. Shoving that much adamantite into mobs just doesn't appeal to me. I sort of wish at this point that I had gone a different route but I can't complain about the money that mining brings in when I don't use the stuff I get. As I said in my previous post though engineering is supposed to be getting fixed so it may just be better to wait on any kind of decision and see what they do with it first.

No, I’ve not taken the combination of skinning and engineering. But I have level capped twelve characters, pre-expansion, with a wide variety of professions. So I am somewhat familiar with the subject. But there are a heck of a lot of variables. How much things sell for and how much they cost fluctuates a lot between servers. And each person’s play style can differ greatly. If that combination of professions works for you then that’s great. But from my experience it would not have worked very well for me. I still feel the easiest, though not the only, rout is to take the gathering profession that matches the production profession.

As for the usefulness of engineering, again it largely depends on play style. As a hunter I have absolutely no need for it. I don’t like AoE bombs. Unlike paladins, I have plenty of ranged attacks and I don’t PvP at all. I have no need of a combat pet, as my class already comes with one. I don’t need additional teleports. And my hydrocane (http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=9452&locale=enUS;source=live) works perfectly well for underwater combat.

That having been said, I do like engineering. The pets are fun. I miss the mechanical yeti my alliance engineer can make. Toys like the shrink ray are a hoot. And while I don’t need an additional transportation device, it’s nice to have a backup. And the view from on high is quite nice when the device fails, at least for a moment before I plummet to my death. But for my play style, even on my human paladin, engineering is more of a fun profession than a useful one. Though I fully admit that your mileage may well vary.

I've got skinning and engineering, but I levelled to 60 with skinning and leatherworking.

Honestly I would go with skinning and one of mining/herbalism to at least 40. Get yourself lots of cash. In fact, I'd be tempted to stick with those until I had my epic ground mount.

Making armour for yourself can be nice, but the level cap on profession skills (5 x level) means you are always making armour that has as its level requirement, your level minus about 3. You could get any BoE gear earlier by farming the materials and having someone make it for you, or just buy it off the auction house if someone's selling it.

Engineering is in a shaky state now. It has its uses but not as much as it did at 60 when the PVP emphasis was on battlegrounds, rather than arenas.