How much mats to collect to lvl Eng and Alch?Follow

This question has probably been asked about prviously, however i couldn't find it in the first two pages. My question is, while I am still gathering ores and herbs, how much should I collect of all the varieties of ores and herbs before I want to switch to Engineering and Alchemy.

In otherwords, right now I'm mining/skinning and gathering at the 150/180 skill lvl for both. Eventually I want to swap mining for herbalism and start gathering herbs.

I want to know how many ores I need to collect toatal in order to fully level engineering, and how many herbs I need to collect in order to fully level alchemy. I want to avoid spending any unnecesary money on the AH, so all mats for the two proffesions need to come from drops.

I need to know how many of each mat ranging from the lowest grade material (example: copper) to the highest grade material (example: thorium) that I would need to effectively level up.

The skinning is there just because I know I'll need varrying ammounts of leather to skill up engineering, and I didn't want to have to buy any at the AH, plus since I'm lvl 50, I thought I could sell the extra leathers on the AH for my mount.

I also have Fishing at arisan lvl (possibly maxed out at 300, cant remember that though).

Thanks in advance for your help.

I was checking out the trade skill forum on the o-boards and stumbled upon a guide for leveling trade skills, and found the following:

Here's the link to the guide

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Component Minimum Amount Estimated Amount
Peacebloom 60 (3 stacks) 60 (3 stacks)
Silverleaf 60 (3 stacks) 60 (3 stacks)
Mageroyal 15 (1 stacks) 20 (1 stacks)
Briarthorn 80 (4 stacks) 90 (5 stacks)
Stranglekelp 40 (2 stacks) 50 (3 stacks)
Bruiseweed 30 (2 stacks) 35 (2 stacks)
Wild Steelbloom 5 (1 stacks) 10 (1 stacks)
Kingsblood 30 (2 stacks) 40 (2 stacks)
Liferoot 30 (2 stacks) 40 (2 stacks)
Goldthorn 45 (3 stacks) 50 (2 stacks)
Khadgar's Whisker 15 (1 stacks) 20 (1 stacks)
Sungrass 60 (3 stacks) 70 (4 stacks)
Blindweed 30 (2 stacks) 35 (2 stacks)
Arthas' Tears 20 (1 stacks) 25 (2 stacks)
Golden Sansam 40 (2 stacks) 60 (3 stacks)
Mountain Silversage 20 (1 stacks) 30 (2 stacks)
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and

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Shopping list of items needed:

90 Rough Stones (AH)
80 Coarse Stones(AH)
75 Heavy Stones(AH)
90 Solid Stones(AH)
50 Dense Stones(AH)
10 Wooden Stock (EVend)
29 Weak Flux (EVend)
50 Heavy Leather(AH)
10 Wool Cloth (AH)
10 Mageweave Cloth (AH)
33 Runecloth(AH)
51 Copper Bars(AH)
10 Silver Bars(AH)
55 Bronze Bars(AH)
19 Iron Bars(AH)
*4 Coal (EVend)
4 Steel Bars (*get a blacksmith to make from iron and coal, MUCH cheaper.)
126 Mithril Bars *cringes, sorry.*(AH)
159 Thorium Bars *runs*(AH)
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Thanks for the reply LordMeridus, I gleaned from that link that I'll need the following shopping list:

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Shopping List (all the supplies you’ll need consolidated):
Peacebloom – 74
Silverleaf – 74
Empty Vial – 99
Lesser Healing Potion – 25
Briarthorn - 105
Mageroyal - 40
Wild Steelbloom – 30
Stranglekelp – 70
Lead Vials – 110
Life Root - 40
Kingsblood – 40
Goldthorn – 65
Iron Bar – 4
Black Vitriol – 1
Purple Lotus – 4
Firebloom – 4
Sungrass – 49
Khadgar’s Whiskers – 24
Crystal Vials – 73
Thorium Bar – 1
Arcane Crystal – 1
Golden Sansam – 48
Mountain Silversage – 24
Recipe: Philosopher’s Stone – 1
Recipe: Major Healing Potion – 1
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Now I have to go gather all this stuff, and all the stuff for engineering. Hope my bank alt has enough room in his bags!