How's everyone enjoying leveling thier skills?Follow

My observations so far:

Herbalism has been very difficult to level. There are just too many people running around right now. The nodes are gobbled up very quickly. But, I did manage to get some herbs off the guys near Nexus that are herb-able. But, no skill-ups from that.

Alchemy is suffering a bit from the herbalism issue. I have skilled up a few points with the pygmy fish. I'm not too concerned about leveling alchemy yet. I figure once things settle down it will be relatively easy to level.

Cooking has been easy so far. All kinds of fish to cook up. So far, I spent way too much time fishing that could be spent leveling, but oh well :-)

Fishing, piece of cake. Nice to see such a wide variety of new fish available. I've already caught a few of the water motes (whatever they're called now).

First Aid. I decided I'm not even going to worry about it for now. Number 1, on my druid I hardly ever use bandages. Number 2, the drop rate on cloth seems really low so far. What I get I'm going to stockpile and sell on the AH. Seems like a profitable thing to do right now.

Jewelcrafting...holy crap there's a lot of cuts/patterns to train right off the bat. I think it was like 40 or so. There is a nice unique BoP +4 all stats gem though.

My only other profession observation so far relates to enchanting...

I was quite dissapointed to find out my level 36 DE alt is out of business. At level 300 enchanting, I could DE any Outland blues or greens. But, apparently the iLevel of the new WotLK greens is too high. I sent a couple level 68-70 WotLK greens for DE and wasn't able to. Oh well, I guess I'll have to start up that DK DE alt sooner than I anticipated.

On the whole, it seems like profession really have a lot to offer and look to be a lot of fun.

DE'ing stops giving skill-ups at around skill level 50 or 60. I'm pretty sure that hasn't changed.



I'm Alliance, but I don't think switching starting zones would probably matter too much. I thought about it though. Borean Tundra is linked to Stormwind Harbor, so I'd guess that the majority of Alliance went there. Whereas the Orgrimar path to Howling Fjord probably means most Horde went there. But either way, I think there's probably a ton of people in either zone. It'll start to thin out as people level up though.

Blacksmithing is really awesome too. I can actually make decent armor :) 445, cant level any more till i get frozen orbs :(
Mining: all i can say is wow. i actually timed/counted my ore in one trip around scholazar err whatever its called.
11 min-76 saronite ore, 18 titanium, and about 3-4 primals at least.
If this keeps up, ore is gonna be like 5g a stack its so plentiful. Then again i was one of prolly the first 100 to get my flyer, so there wasnt hardly any competition.

giggog, you can fish your way to lvl 415 cooking, right there off the coast of Vengeance Landing. After that, you won't be getting recipe drops that will skill you up; you'll have to earn them by doing the cooking daily quest. (At least that is the way it is now, things could change, I'm sure)

I've gotten 4 of the emotion food recipes. I think there are 5? Don't remember. No skillups from em, just an achievement from eating one of each. Too bad, I was hoping there would be appearance changes or something from them.

Herbalism is a true pain. I'm not sure if it's a genuine lack of nodes, or just that they're all being farmed quickly, but I've seen very few. I'm up to roughly 410 or so (from 385 - GO TAUREN!). I have't looked outside the starter zones yet, so hopefully they'll get better.

Alchemy isn't too bad, despite the lack of herbs - just dinged 400. The recipes still just have one or two ingredients with goldclover being predominant.

Cooking is a blast. I enjoy the daily quests and just bought my first recipe with the badges. Too bad I have to go to Lagaran each day to pick it up. I feel like I'm in that Ah-ha video from the '80's (literal version).

Fishing has been kind of sterile so far, in my opnion. Some variety from the mana ray and herring pools would be nice.

I haven't taken my other toons over yet, except for my inscriptionist (see herbalism critique above).

Some of the Jewelcrafting items are looking awefully attractive, made it a please to level it. Took 3 days while taking my time. Not to mention green quality gem cuts that sell for more than 75s each? YES PLEASE.

Mining was craziness, had it levelled to 450 on day 1. Sholazar has Saronite everywhere.. 20 stacks in a couple hours. Zul'Drak has Cobalt everywhere, nearly the same speed. I can't see Ore, Bars, or Gems selling for much once the Blacksmiths finish levelling.

On the other hand, it makes levelling a Blacksmith far more attractive knowing you can have the mats for 375-450 in about 4 hours of farming.

Cooking is maxed
Fishing is maxed
Skinning is maxed
LW stuck at 440 (WTB frozen orbs - at least they're down to 500g or so)
1st Aid untouched due to all cloth going to tailor

I must be lucky on my server.

Maxed Herbalism before 72, most of it off Goldclover in Howling, the rest off Tiger Lily and Talendra's Rose from Frozen Herbs in Dragonblight. I've got quite a stockpile of stuff in the bank. Selling the Goldclover on AH is decent profits as well. I have found that Howling is a better zone than Borean. There seem to be more nodes. I'm sure most have noticed, but Frozen Herbs grow next to trees, so that pretty much rules out central Dragonblight for Herbalism.

Alchemy was going nicely at first, but I've hit a bit of a wall at 421 Skill. Green recipes are proving to be unreliable as they will be grey at 425, and the only yellows are transmutes and the new alchemist stones. Here's to getting lucky with greens, or my next research giving me something good. (First one gave potion of speed)

My best cook isn't my main, and isn't high enough to get into Dalaran without a port, so don't have any of the spiced recipes yet. Still skilling up on green normals though, doesn't seem too bad. 3/4 emotion foods. Bad Clams dropped in UK, Tasty Cupcake and the Haunted one dropped off simple mobs in Borean.

The cook is also my fisher, (need to get my main up in those, so tedious though) but there's fishing nodes allll over the place. Lake and river fishing turns up Suckerfish which sell quite nicely on AH. Don't need them anymore on my alch.

First aid stalled at 400. I have the heavy frostweave pattern, but all frostweave drops I get go towards tailoring or AH.

Tailoring is going slow due to not so hot drop rate on cloth. I recently found a place to farm humanoids, so hopefully that will change.

Enchanting. Oh enchanting. I hate this skill, the only reason I keep it is to DE stuff for mats. No comment on leveling it.

Mining is pretty easy since it doesn't seem like there are that many people competing for nodes. I just wish the prices would level out. It seems to fluctuate a lot.

First Aid seems near impossible since the cloth hardly ever drops. I imagine Tailoring is the same.


Cooking I haven't done since I was around 40. The same for fishing.


Edited, Nov 29th 2008 12:32pm by Minoran

Mining isn't as bad now but it isn't as profitable now. I remember the first week of the expansion people were fighting over nodes, sometimes dismissing mining etiquette and mining a node that someone already had. That was when Cobalt Ores sold for 100-120g on my server for a stack. Now I believe it's dropped in half. Same goes for Saronite Ore. The first time I sold a stack I was getting upwards of 50-55g for a stack, now it's down to 30-35g. Which isn't bad and now there are more open nodes that anything else. I don't even actively look for nodes, if I'm in the middle of a quest and a node pops up, I'll go mine it.

If/when more higher level BoP designs are implemented for mining I'll probably drop herbalism for BSing and try and mine as many nodes as I can. And since my death knight has only done a handful of pre-BC quests, it'll be a nice break for when I go after the loremaster titles in both lands. Nothing more exciting that using a level 80 character to do quests that were designed for a level 8 toon. *end sarcasm* Wonder if Hogger can beat me?