I am a lvl 35 tauren shamen. I have had herbalism and alchemy since the beginning but am getting frustrated. I am around 200 now with herbalism but my alchemy is really lagging. I have a backpack full of exotic plants but don' seem to ever have what I neeed to make potions more advanced than apprentice level ones (which I get no xp for). Even those are hard as I now am adventuring in areas where there are no longer "beginning" herbs. I have sometimes used recipes where you start with low level potions (as with the healing potions), but again, getting the ingredients has been hard. Seems like many of the ingredients for high level potions are only available at the auction house. I'd like to start making some money with my profession, as I am pretty impovershed for my level (leveling up as a shamen is expensive and it would be fun to get a mount someday). But buying ingredients to make potions really cuts down on the profit margin.
I am even thinking of dumping these professons and starting afresh with mining/blacksmithing, since I will be able to use mail at level 40. But it will take a while to get those skills up to scratch too and a lot of poking around in newbie areas to find copper initially.
Anyone else had this problem?
Kip