Professions and collecting recipes from the old expansions

Hello,

As a collector and completionist I like to collect small things such as recipes from different professions. The professions that I would like to complete are Tailoring, Inscription and/or Alchemy. I am curious to hear from more experienced people, which one would be the easiest (the most accessible recipes) for collecting recipes/patterns from the all expansions? Which one would you suggest and which one should I avoid? Considering to pick one of these three mentioned.

Thanks!

Inscription has a daily to unlock recipes so it is certainly slower, but then I think somewhere that Tailoring has a 24hr cooldown to make certain cloth… though if you are just collecting recipes that won’t be much of an issue. Never done alchemy.

I think tailoring is the easiest - certainly to level and cloth drops from the sky. I could be wrong though. In fact I think Pandaria crafting all has a daily to unlock more recipes, it did on my leatherworker and that was a right pain…

With daily for inscription, do you mean something like for Jewelcrafting in WotLK and Cata?
Ohh man, if so, I hope there is less recipes then it is in JC, it takes more then a year to obtain all JC patterns from these expansions.

For Alchemy, I know its very random, because most of the recipes you discover by making potions, elixir and do transmutations.

I have no clue about Tailoring and Inscription, to be fair, I have never leveled them.

Does Inscription requires Herbalism to pair it or the profession use some kind of other resources beside herbs?

Yeah I do, think it is probably a model for most of them now I think of it. Inscription needs herbs because you mill them into pigment.

I think all WoD crafting professions have a gated currency you can make daily to buy more recipes, so best to start early with those.

Older expansions have some recipes that require rep but I’m not too familiar with the specifics so you’d probably want to look those up.

Some BFA tailoring recipes were used to make PvP gear so I think they cost marks of honor now.

Thanks a lot! To be fair, WoD wasnt hard for JC and LW that I leveled before, not sure about these. But WotLK and Cata was such a pain, hope these professions doesnt have that many recipes locked behind daily currencies (Cata has like 9-10 full Vendor pages of recipes with 3-5 currency for each recipe and you get only 1 per day, lol).

Since I am planning to play an Undead Warlock I am more leaning on Alchemy or Inscription since they both sounds good RP wise. Alchemy looks easier but Inscription seems more interesting.

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