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Hey, I'm starting a new character (I haven't played in awhile) and I was wondering which profession I should take, Alchemy or Inscription. I am going to be playing as a Tauren Druid by the way if that helps.
I would say Alc.
You will always need more pots and elixers and Xmutes
you can buy or have guildes make glyphs for you when you need them, which shouldnt be all that often unless you are respec'n alot.
You will always need more pots and elixers and Xmutes
you can buy or have guildes make glyphs for you when you need them, which shouldnt be all that often unless you are respec'n alot.
As usual, the answer is "it depends." =) What is your ultimate goal for the tradeskill? Are you wanting to make coin for yourself or make items for you/your friends/your guild to use? If coin is your goal, then two gathering skills seem to be the way to go.
I'm currently slogging through inscription on my shaman alt and find it interesting yet fairly unfulfilling. I essentially give away my skillup glyphs on the AH because nobody wants them and/or there are a bunch of low priced ones on the AH already. You could sell the herbs that you are milling for way more than you can get for the glyphs (on my server, but it seems to be most servers from what I've read).
Granted, my inscription skill is only 215, but I can't even give away most of the glyphs I make because they don't favor my friends' specs. Or they have better ones than I can make already.
At the higher level of inscription there are some very nice treats. Some day I will get there. But for now I'm using up a whole bunch of herbs that I could be selling for good coin in order to skill up on glyphs that I have to throw away in the AH in order to make room in my 32 slot inscription bag.
By contrast, when I leveled up alchemy on another toon I could always pass out any skillup items that I wasn't going to use myself, and sell the remainder.
Whatever you decide, good luck with it!
I'm currently slogging through inscription on my shaman alt and find it interesting yet fairly unfulfilling. I essentially give away my skillup glyphs on the AH because nobody wants them and/or there are a bunch of low priced ones on the AH already. You could sell the herbs that you are milling for way more than you can get for the glyphs (on my server, but it seems to be most servers from what I've read).
Granted, my inscription skill is only 215, but I can't even give away most of the glyphs I make because they don't favor my friends' specs. Or they have better ones than I can make already.
At the higher level of inscription there are some very nice treats. Some day I will get there. But for now I'm using up a whole bunch of herbs that I could be selling for good coin in order to skill up on glyphs that I have to throw away in the AH in order to make room in my 32 slot inscription bag.
By contrast, when I leveled up alchemy on another toon I could always pass out any skillup items that I wasn't going to use myself, and sell the remainder.
Whatever you decide, good luck with it!
Definatey Alchemy.
The vast majority of inscriptions you can make you'll never use and the ones you do want to use, you'll only use it once and that's it. The AH is pretty much flooded so the profit potential really isn't there and any inscriptions you'd want would be cheaper to buy from the AH or get a guildy to make for you anyway.
On the other hand, while you still wont get much profit out of alchemy, you'll at least have a constant use for the pots and elixers you can make, plus, there's a rather nice trinket you can score to boot.
The vast majority of inscriptions you can make you'll never use and the ones you do want to use, you'll only use it once and that's it. The AH is pretty much flooded so the profit potential really isn't there and any inscriptions you'd want would be cheaper to buy from the AH or get a guildy to make for you anyway.
On the other hand, while you still wont get much profit out of alchemy, you'll at least have a constant use for the pots and elixers you can make, plus, there's a rather nice trinket you can score to boot.
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Thanks, I went with Alchemy :)
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