Since I will be choosing two gathering professions when I roll my new mage, I was wondering which two of these three professions are greatest for making money towards end-game play(if there even is a best)?
Thanks for your help =)
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There's no point asking which professions, primary or secondary, production or gathering, will be the best for making money because it's dependent on realm, demand, and competition.
As a general rule, folks will often suggest you pair a trackable profession (ie. mining/herbalism) with skinning if the 2 x gathering profession is the route you want to take so that you're not having to toggle tracking to find everything. Generally speaking, however, skinning usually plummets in terms of end-game profitability because every leatherworkers run out of things to make and skinners keep skinning. With TBC, knothide leather wasn't worth the time to farm, and even clefthoof leather was hit and miss depending on how much was on auction at any given time. Anything that sold well had a miserable drop rate (cobra scales, anyone?)
WotLK will not likely be any different. Borean Leather/Heavy Borean Leather is bound to go through the profitability roller coaster that TBC leather went through, and the only likely decent seller will be arctic fur. And I know from experience that you can sometimes get 2 arctic fur in 5 skins and other times you can get 4 stacks of borean leather before you see one. The primary drawback to skinning is that only one profession uses leather in any significant quantity and aside from armor kits, there's only a limited need for it. Mining supplies blacksmiths and jewelcrafters. Herbalism supplies alchemist and scribes. More demand = higher value.
There's no point asking which professions, primary or secondary, production or gathering, will be the best for making money because it's dependent on realm, demand, and competition.
As a general rule, folks will often suggest you pair a trackable profession (ie. mining/herbalism) with skinning if the 2 x gathering profession is the route you want to take so that you're not having to toggle tracking to find everything. Generally speaking, however, skinning usually plummets in terms of end-game profitability because every leatherworkers run out of things to make and skinners keep skinning. With TBC, knothide leather wasn't worth the time to farm, and even clefthoof leather was hit and miss depending on how much was on auction at any given time. Anything that sold well had a miserable drop rate (cobra scales, anyone?)
WotLK will not likely be any different. Borean Leather/Heavy Borean Leather is bound to go through the profitability roller coaster that TBC leather went through, and the only likely decent seller will be arctic fur. And I know from experience that you can sometimes get 2 arctic fur in 5 skins and other times you can get 4 stacks of borean leather before you see one. The primary drawback to skinning is that only one profession uses leather in any significant quantity and aside from armor kits, there's only a limited need for it. Mining supplies blacksmiths and jewelcrafters. Herbalism supplies alchemist and scribes. More demand = higher value.
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There's no point asking which professions, primary or secondary, production or gathering, will be the best for making money because it's dependent on realm, demand, and competition.
This.
As a general rule, and now that I have alts on 3 servers, I've learned to check the AH for prices of ALL levels of herbs, skins, and metal. Granted the economy of today is not necessarily the economy of tomorrow, but at least it gives me an idea of what's going on.
On Burning Legion, I had a level 9 undead priest sitting on 150G thanks to peacebloom and silverleaf. Timing was everything. Inscription had just come out with the patch before WoTLK so demand was high. Now she's not making quite as much from herbs, but it's still better than it was before inscription. I think now she has something like 500G at level 30 afterbuying level 30 mounts for a family of three, and some big mining/herbalism/leatherworking bags for the fam as well.
I have herb/skinning on another realm, because for some inexplicable reason, light/medium/heavy leather are going for about 5x what I see it for on the other realms.
I stay away from mining, because I just don't have the patience for it. Too much of a p.i.t.a., which is probably why the higher level metals are usually always profitable.
I've always said that mining is probably your most profitable. especially over skinning. One thing I ran into not that long back is Competition. I'm on Mal'ganis which is a PvP server, one thing I never accounted for is not only how many will be mining, and how many alliance will try and pick on me when i'm going for a node(i'm horde). On my server Titansteel sells for 150-200 a bar. you need 6 titanium for 1 titansteel. that means generally two nodes, I'm lucky to find one a day. Though the first 1-300 will sell for a truckload. I'm just too lazy to go back and farm it.
Honestly its what you want to do. Skinning is a great profession because you do it while you're leveling. You gain exp while skinning(because you have to kill a mob to skin one) Where mining and herbalism will take away from your time leveling. Theres no right or wrong gathering profession to use. Each gathering profession has a benefit.
Mining gives you Toughness= +hp
Herbalism gives you a natural heal spell. I loved it on my lowbie character
Skinning gives you a +crit to animals.
Maybe one of those perks is something that outways the money aspect of it.
Honestly its what you want to do. Skinning is a great profession because you do it while you're leveling. You gain exp while skinning(because you have to kill a mob to skin one) Where mining and herbalism will take away from your time leveling. Theres no right or wrong gathering profession to use. Each gathering profession has a benefit.
Mining gives you Toughness= +hp
Herbalism gives you a natural heal spell. I loved it on my lowbie character
Skinning gives you a +crit to animals.
Maybe one of those perks is something that outways the money aspect of it.
I have just a little to say which i rarely see said.
Remember one real big thing when choosing two gathering trades and that is you can only track one of them at a time.
So as beasts are easy to spot it has to be Skinning and either Herbs or mining but do not take herbs and mining or you will be missing loads of spawns.
Remember one real big thing when choosing two gathering trades and that is you can only track one of them at a time.
So as beasts are easy to spot it has to be Skinning and either Herbs or mining but do not take herbs and mining or you will be missing loads of spawns.
Mining is always popular as a primary as metal and gems are forever in demand.
I'll be original then and suggest enchanting as a secondary - DE all your greens and toss the dust, essence and shards onto the AH as all of that stuff is selling swimmingly.
I'll be original then and suggest enchanting as a secondary - DE all your greens and toss the dust, essence and shards onto the AH as all of that stuff is selling swimmingly.
AureliusSir wrote:
WotLK will not likely be any different. Borean Leather/Heavy Borean Leather is bound to go through the profitability roller coaster that TBC leather went through, and the only likely decent seller will be arctic fur.
Nerubian Chitin, Jormungar Scales and Icy Dragonscales will also likely have some decent sales value since they're also used in leg armors.
Then again, I really only went skinning on my DK for the crit. Well, that and because it's so easy to level it's ridiculous.
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