I would like to try Self found mode on 29th February. I wonder what professions cannot be progressed without trading. I will pick gathering and crafting so I will gather the mats myself. But I know occasionally we need mats from other professions like the rod from blacksmithing for enchanting.
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first, i would do tailoring and make me some bags… than herb/alchemy… i have absolutely no idea 
Enchanting is the only one I can think of that is hard blocked. An alchemist cannot make their Philosopher’s Stone without help from a miner and a leatherworker needs an engineer for their Salt Shaker, but these are kind of high level concerns that are just an inconvenience until you reach 60 and are able to trade.
I’ve leveled tailoring a bunch of times so I know leather often comes in handy even if not required, so if I picked that profession for SF I might be really excited to find some leather in a chest.
Level as much as you can then put stuff in your bank you can’t level with due to needing items from other professions.
They may have put in a vendor that sells the things needed, or you can wait until 60.
Fishing gives you boxes that can contain some other gathered mats. I can’t remember if it’s ore or bars though.
I got some Bars in those boxes you can geht through fishing. But they are rare…
I can confirm that you get Iron bars in chests, though I don’t recall whether it was solid chests or mithril boxes from fishing. Though they are not common, I’ve only had 4 iron bars while I’ve been fishing for stonescale eels.
Enchanters need Silver Rod, Golden Rod, Truesilver Rod and Arcanite Rod that are crafted by blacksmiths and cannot be looted from mobs, chests or fishing. Leather and ore can be looted although rarely.
Then you also need a skinner for leather, just saying 
yeah, tailoring with sinning should be possible… i don’t see a problem here…
You can get heavy leather from the pools above gromgol and thick and rugged leather from the pools between gg and bb and on the other side for example, there are plenty of wreckage pools all around the world. Leather is not that rare, and often bolts of cloth are inside as well. But if you take tailoring you cant get alchemy, leatherworking, blacksmithing or engineering. I think personaly that mining + engineering is the best choice because of the utility and damage items you can craft. I can’t remember what items (if any) require another profession except for the hight ones like arcanite and goblin rocketfuel
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You get normally minerals form land chests and cloth/leather from fishing.
Potions, buckles and lots other items for tailor can’t be fished - also Salt Grinder for LW.
But you can still advance the profession without them.
but at reaching level 60, the restrictions are removed, yo you can trade and upskil your professions afterwards… as i read on another forum, it’s also possible to mail between own SF cars, so you may be able to level multiple chars with different professions… i have to test this tomorrow…
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It isn’t. Wasn’t the last time someone posted it and isn’t now.
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