as explained in another post I’m about to start SoM as warrior soon. Now I wonder what professions to go for optimally. I will be very casual together with a priest mate, who goes casual as well. We will be 100% PvE, no BGs or so.
So here are some cornerstones:
I never enjoyed farming in Classic and TBC because there is so much competition so my gold per hour was very poor - also when you go casual because of time constraints you don’t want to spend the time looking for herbs or so.
I usually went for crafting professions which was good for me, modest income with little time invest just enough to make a normal living.
As I’m always more or less casual I’m never the guy who gets this super rare XYZ recipe or who can invest 1000 gold in a crafted BIS item, so I’m looking for a profession which can be good with easy to obtain recipes and cheap crafts.
My plan so far:
Go herb/mining + skinning first, change at some point to Alchemy, maybe change herb later, too. Alchemy for the transmute, selling some potions and elixirs, stuff like that.
Afaik BS was never really good in Classic, at least for the BIS guys, but how about casuals? Is there some money in the sharpening/grinding stones or shield spikes (if existent already?) Or do I need it anyways so I can craft my own stones instead of buying them?
I heard Engineering is great for the BIS people who can afford throwing around 1gold grenades on the BG how about for casuals? Anything I need here, anything to make some money with?
You can make money with engineering on bullets and scopes, but that’s about it (maybe also guns and practice locks early). I believe everything else can only be used by other engineers anyway.
Most practical for non-BG, casual, mainly self-sufficient warrior is probably BS? As you say, you will be happy to have the grinding/weight-stones, and you will fill in item slots with your craft while leveling too. Plus, you can make some money with spurs, spikes, and weapon chains (sounds like a tavern name).
Engineering and Blacksmithing are both massive gold sinks to level and aside from a few rare recipes you’ll not make much with them compared to gathering professions.
You could always go Skinning while leveling just for the extra gold from skins and level either mining or herb when you eventually drop skinning. Don’t forget that it’s P1 so Devilsaur is BiS for some classes so if you can farm Devilsaur you’ll make good gold also but they are often camped by mafia’s.
For own first time experience in SoM, I have gone herbing and mining on my warrior.
And i have so far made 17 gold during my journey and will likely have more than 20 gold before reaching level 30, currently in a 25-30 level range. I think i gonna have a good income this time around. and yeah dont forget to get fishing and cooking too for example, fishing in STV you can get alot of chests that contain cloth, leather and boes that will for sure boost up your daily gold farming, during midnight if you spend lots of hours there - you can also go to un’goro and fish nightfin and make nightfin soup - i got 10-20 for a stack of it back on early days of classic.
really good way to make lots of gold if are into it.
Thanks guys, if I stick with gathering, let’s say herbs and leather, can I level alchemy and leather on a level 1 alt or are there level restrictions?
What about going enchanting to disenchant my soulbounds and sell them? Is there a market for that or is the market flooded by tailored items into disenchanting?
As far knows in order to get a profession on a character it needs to be least level 5 for professions, i think you get it much earlier for gather professions but reaching level 5 should not take long.
Also good to note is; In order to buy the skill to go past 225 in a profession you need to be level 35
Bank alt is great too have as an disenchanter for not so good BoEs and will make you more that the item it self and enchanting as far my experince is one of those expensive professions and not something i would suggest for first timer on classic.
No you can’t - you need to be level 5 to take a profession and level 35 to train Artisan level (225-300). You can however make your level 5 an Enchanter and disenchant greens but your best to check the price of dusts/essences in comparison to the vendor price of the green. I’d imagine level 40+ dust/essences are selling well but 1-25 will be flooded due to all the dungeon spamming people have been doing. But of course it’s always best to check your own realms prices as each faction and realm has a different economy.
Just to clarify don’t take Enchanting on your main or even level it - it’s the biggest gold sink in Classic as it costs a lot to level (you lose all the gold you’d make from selling dusts or vendoring greens and you make almost no gold from selling enchants unless you manage to have monopoly on an enchant like 30 SP from MC or AQ40 enchants - something a casual will never have) , take it on your alt and you only take it for disenchanting. Don’t forget that enchanting mats have no listing fees on the AH either which means you can post them even with no gold.
2 Gathering professions is the way to go. If your a class that can solo DM East at 60 (Hunter, Mage, Lock, Priest) then you can make a ton of gold from Rich Thorium at the end of the dungeon plus tons of high value herbs like Dreamfoil, Ghost Mushroom and Gromsblood on top of vendoring the blue drops from the bosses amongst many other juicy drops like epics and rare BoE, class books and darkmoon faire cards (in later phases)
how about for casuals? Anything I need here, anything to make some money with?