Question about leveling professionsFollow

Ok, so I've been telling myself I'd choose my professions later since I started playing last month and now I'm 85 and doing heroics dungeons so it feels like I should have started this a long while ago lol

I was thinking LW and JC but would like to know how much it would cost to level those using only the AH and no gathering professions?

I got about 6500 gp saved, would that be enough to max one of those or even both?

Thanks

I'd use a DK for the gathering. You start at a higher level with decent gear and can pick a spec with with a mount speed talent and built in a built in run speed boost.

You will need the boost to get you through the Azeroth portion of the crafting mats as they are very pricey. Outland and Northrend mats are relatively cheap then they get pricey again when you get to Cata levels.

The later parts of Azeroth profession mats are down right brutal to buy outright though.

It's hard to say really, completely depends on your own server's economy. 6500 might be enough to max one, or at least come relatively close. It would definitely be cheaper in the long run to level up an alt (the DK idea is a smart one) and take skinning and mining on it, using the mats it gathers to feed your main's trade skills. But it will also take longer.

Currently I'm leveling engineering and jewelcrafting on my goblin, and I have both maxed for her level at 300 right now. I might have spent 1k gold between both so far. Honestly I haven't really kept track because it didn't make much of a dent in my stock pile. Whatever it cost, I've more than made up for it since then.

Telling us what class you are would also help. For tanks, at least, mining is just as good as any crafting profession since it gives a comparable amount of Stam. LW's advantage over other crafting professions is also getting nerfed with there being a primary stat enchant for wrists added in 4.0.6.

Considering how rare and expensive lower level mats are getting you'll be lucky to clear Outlands with that seed money.

Best to take one tradeskill and one gathering profession and simply write off a weekend leveling them by gathering.

I'm going to recommend mining/JC as flying now makes mining a piece of cake, plus, there's zero competition for the lower level ores, meaning that you can fly around and pretty much have every ore node in the zone to yourself, meaning very fast gathering of mats resulting in very fast leveling of the gathering and trade skill.

On the other hand, skinning means going out and wasting time slaughtering thousands of grey mobs and even though you can one shot them you've still got to waste time looting them, then skinning them and eventually either selling or destroying whatever you've looted.

The plus point is that if you're willing to take the time you can make a mint selling the inevitable blues and greens you'll find or, if you're interested in chanting, effectively level the chanter for free between the drops from the critters and the leather items you'll make leveling LW.

All said though, class will ultimately decide which to choose - mining gives a health bonus while skinning gives a crit bonus - which do you need?

JC gives you three super gems while LW gives awesome wrist/leg chants on the cheap - again, which gives more benefit?

For gear, JC will give you all of your gems, rings, neck and trinkets while LW gives you everthing else - once more the question is which is of more value to you?

To answer your question, I'm playing a Rogue.

I've read somewhere that 2 crafting professions is better to maximize your character while gathering professions are better to make a lot of gold so I thought I might take 2 crafting professions with my main and take some gathering professions with my next character.
But, if I start an alt, I'm sure I'm gonna want to have a crafting skill good for him lol

Anyone has a link where I could see the better stuff I could make with LW and JC?
Also, can you buy anything that can be crafted or there's some stuff you can only craft for yourself?

Thanks for the advices

I've found a slightly outdated link that details what each profession gives you as far as buffs/extra sockets/etc, more or less. It's a WotLK link, but with a little research building on that, you can actually see what you can get from each for Cata recipes. For instance, in JC, you'll see that they have different forms of Dragon's Eyes listed. Look up those prefixes with Chimera's Eyes, and you'll find what benefits you can have pretty quickly.

Not quite all craftable items can be purchased. Here's a list of craftable items that bind when crafted.

That list is missing the new Alchemist Stones(which haven't been implemented yet). This one is likely to be interesting to you. It's also missing the JC quest trinkets. This one you might find interesting.

Talking strictly about the benefits that stick with you, and not about how much one can save, JC is actually a fairly decent one.

3x Delicate Chimera's Eye = 201 Agi
3x Delicate Inferno Ruby = 120 Agi

Net Gain: 81 Agi.


Enchanting:
2x Enchant Ring: Agility = 80 Agi

LW:
Draconic Embossment: Agility = 130 Agi

No comparable high level Agi enchant, so effectively it's 130 Agi minus either 65 haste or 65 crit. This one's actually really good, but only because it's poorly itemized otherwise. If there were a 50 Agi enchant, it would still be an 80 Agi gain.


Inscription
Swiftsteel Inscription = 130 Agi, 25 Mastery
Instead of Greater Inscription of Shattered Crystal

Net gain: 80 Agi.

Blacksmithing:
With Socket Bracer and Socket Gloves, filled with Delicate Inferno Rubies...

Net gain: 80 Agi.



Seems to be a bit of a pattern there, and yet, somehow JC comes out on top(aside from LW and its aforementioned issue with no really good agi bracer enchants making the LW one REALLY nice). So really, JC provides the same boosted stat benefit as the others, for now at least. Epic gems will change the game a bit when they drop.

Oh, good post Pold - I retract said analysis then.

what I am finding is that in the mad rush to hit 85, some folks are trying to tell me I can't have the time in dungeons I need to be able to practice my tradeskills... the last one I was in on my lower lvl druid, the tank actually told me it was always a least time run for him because he wanted it that way, and he tried to tell me to suck eggs... he noticed that he started to lose some of his healing after that comment though... and I wasn't the healer:*) I realise that some just want to run to 85 pell mell, but don't try to tell others they can't practice their tradeskills when they get the chance to... because technically they could accuse you of interfering with their questing, I think is the term...

Sigh, my biggest beef with pugs - everyone is apparently so rich now adays that they don't need to loot their kills and that means me losing a fortune in leather. >_<