What do you think should be the best professions for priest in late classic and TBC?
I know tailoring is a must but what are you planning to pick up for 2nd profession? I am considering alchemy and enchanting but not sure which one should be better. I am not planning to go with minning or herbalism since I am not a gathering person. What profession requires less gold to level up and has more usage for holy priest?
Depends a bit if you want to play shadow or not. Tailoring is pretty much a given for SWP (BiS) patterns and early epic crafted sets. Other than that Iād say thereās 3 viable choices:
Personally, Iām going for enchanting on my priest (my main in Classic now and intended TBC main) as it retains itās value throughout TBC, donāt have to wait for SWP to get the most value out of itā¦
Like Rykou said, those are your 3 main options. Another way to look at them would be from personal convenience vs profit.
Enchanting: enchant your own gear, D/E unneeded drops, ring enchants for passive +SP/HP, rarely enchant for tips.
Jewelcrafting: Sell gems on ah if you get desirable patterns first, slightly less passive SP/HP from custom epic gems.
Alchemy: Craft your own consumes, dubious trinket, sell consumes on ah, possibly for a big profit if you put your back into it.
Since you say that you dont like gathering proffestions, my advice is to go Tailoring and Enchanting, those are the only two crafting proffessions that arent dependant on a gathering proffession. (they also synergize well since tailoring needs enchanting dust to create imbued cloth)
Going into a new expansion without the intend of gathering, you are looking at buying mats for insanely high prices. So unless you have massive amounts of gold stocked up, follow my advice
Thank you for the answers! Planning to go as a healer, thats why I am considering mostly alchemy and enchanting a second profession. Also think there will be a lot of JCs and minning zones will be crowdy so will be hard to get mats if you dont have a lot of time for farming.
I have a herbalist/miner character, but honestly I am not using it that much since I dont have a lot of time and I would rather go in to the dungeon then gather materials around.
So guess youre right, maybe I should go with tail/enchant. The only thing I am āafraidā is that I will lose too much with not having that alchemy trinket and stronger potions and will have to invest a lot of time in grinding the rep with Argent Dawn, Nozdormu, Zandalari to obtain to obtain the enchaning recipes, since I just started this character and considering to main it since my main is druid and there will be a lot of them and also they will become T1 healers and I prefer to use underdogs more. 
I donāt think there are any enchanting recipes from Classic that are used in TBC, except possibly Crusader, but you buy/farm that one (it is moved to the scarlet mages in the back of Tyrās Hand in the prepatch, with a tolerable drop chance)
Many enchanting recipes become taught by trainer in prepatch too, and you actually get an artisan in the overworld, not halfway through Uldaman. Basically, just buy up some dusts now and level enchanting to 300 hessle-free as prepatch hits. Thatās what I will do.
(I was gonna get LW, but apparently, that wont be needed now, thank Elune)
You can also use enchanting just as a way to get gold by selling the enchanting materials you will get by normal playing, then buy the consumables you need.
The alchemy trinket is by no means mandatory, while my experience with druids in tbc is low, i dont believe mana is that big of a issue for them. So the empowered potions should be no issue to lose.
For resto druids, JC > alchemy for min/maxing. The alchemy trinket has most value for shammies as far as healers go (the effect boils down to a large chunk of MP5).
I am probably gonna main a Holy priest, thats why I started to leveling one. Currently I am level 33, taking it slow with quests and dungeons, not with boosts. And my goal is to get at least T1 set and Benediction (love that weapon). While I am leveling I also working on my professions. So I think I will definitely go with tailoring/enchanting since that doesnt require gathering and I like to do quests and dungeons so I can DE items that I dont like and sell them to buy other things, or keep them if I need them. Seems like the best combination for me, because I dont run a lot in the open world and I am not a farming person. Also I would like to do some PvP and enchants could be good on my gear to buff me a bit.
I really hope ppl will still run some old instances like MC, BWL or PvP like AV and WSG.
It depends on the server I suppose, but mine has pugs to lower tier raids going several times a day. They are sometimes advertised in the server discord, not the LFG channel.
Iāve gone for Alch and Herb on mine so 
I was in the same boat as you. Holy priest, got tailoring and alchemy in classic and was thinking to switch alchemy out for enchanting. After a lot of thought I decided to keep alchemy for the ease of consumes, the extra potion and , yes, the trinket. I love a fast healing style so going oom is something that can happen fast.
While the first trinket isnāt that good, the Sunwell version has a lot of extra + healing on it, and keeps the added mana/hp pot benefit.
Any combination of Tailoring - Ench or Tailoring - Alchemy is good at the start.
80 Healing power on rings seems like itās OP but itās just a decent bonus. Tailoring is a must though + you get easy leg enchants.
You ācanā have more than 2 professions. You can start with different professions when you are leveling or farming reps and then switch. For example start with 2 gathering professions to either just get more gold early on or to farm resources needed for your final professions. If you want alchemy then you stash herbs, if you wan JC then you stash mining stuff and so on.
If you want enchanting then mining/skinning if you want that extra work to craft engi/LW/Tailoring disenchantable gear. Quests and green drops very likely wonāt be enough to level up enchanting āfor freeā.
tailor/engi could be fun (mote extractor, cloth head pieces).
All boils down to how you want to play and what you find fun. Iāve literally releveled professions on my druid 3 times in the last 2 months, while trying to settle on what would work best for me for TBC. Finally settled on a 3-character setup (at least initially):
Priest with tailoring/enchanting as main option 1. My current main and would like to continue on it for TBC, though my current Classic guild has a potential saturation of priests going into TBC. Is on a seperate account, so I can enchant my other characters.
Shaman with LW/alchemy as main option 2. āBackupā main as resto if I struggle to get a raid spot on my priest. If I do, the shaman will go enhancement as I found it fun to play in TBC. Gives me the means to make my own pots/make some gold.
Feral druid as dedicated gatherer (skinning/herbing). Took a long time to decide this as I played feral tank at a high level in TBC and this was my main in Classic (be it as resto) till a month ago, thus struggled to drop raid related professions on it, but these days healing is more my thing for raiding and priests/shammies just shine so much brighter for that in TBC. Also feral spots are very limited. So, will maybe use this one as a dungeon tankā¦ or just fly around in bird mode and herb my fortune together 
This makes me pretty self-sufficient, only having to buy gems. I was initially convinced I had to have jewelcrafting on a character, but asking around, so many people plan to pick up JC, gem prices are likely to crash fast.
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