I started playing wow classic on aniversary server for the first time in like 10 years. I have picked up Ench + Tail on my mage i am currently level 22. I have skilled up Fishing + Cooking to like 125, tailoring to 125 and Ench to 100. I now fear that i will be really poor due to having enchanting. I am trying to sell Essences on AH, but they are not selling rly good and i dont know what is the play now. Should i toss Ench at 100 + some gold spent for DE + training and get skinning instead? Should i just leave it hanging and just DE things from Tail and AH them, while vendoring quests items and drops from mobs? I am going really slowly with it as i try to enjoy leveling + some evenings i have sleeping baby on one hand so i am doing just running quests + fishing (hence the high skills). My bigest fear is that i wont have enough gold for mounts, so i am even willing to go back and skin some boars for that, or do you think that ill manage anyway?
Skinning is useless. Leather sells at vendor price. Explore auction house, check all the fishes. It is very possible that you can find a valuable fish that you can catch at your level and make good profits. May be mp5 fish.
ty for you reply! so you wouldnt bother swaping it now and just leave it hanging, while trying to make money through fisnihg. I will try that, thats why i picked fishing up this time around.
Disenchanting is a good money-maker. Very often disenchanted mats sells for more than item vendor price. You don’t have to level it, you can disenchant anything at skill level 1. Just disenchant your quest rewards and boe drops.
Tailoring is probably not a good money maker, but I think that it doesn’t cost too much to level anyway, you’ll get plenty of cloth as you level.
Don’t worry too much about 60% mount. You’ll get good rewards at 40+ level quests, so even if you won’t buy it at 40 level, you’ll buy it at 45 level or something like that. Not a huge issue. 100% mount is harder to get, but mages have plenty of farm options, probably best class in the game to farm gold.
IMO herbalism and mining are best professions to earn the gold. The competition is hard, though. Tailoring and Enchanting are more like RP-professions.
If this is your first char then dont bother skilling crafting professions - it is simply too expensive. Get skinning + herbing or mining, and then when you are 60 you can switch to crafting proffs.
Usually, people ignore crafting professions while leveling, as getting enough crafting resources for skillups while leveling would take way too much time, often staying in zones you over-leveled. Then, in the vanilla part, there are limitations on professions’ usefulness, so not every profession is a money maker.
Enchanting it is hard-ish to make money with. You won’t be selling raw enchants right now, but if you plan to do a lot of dungeon runs, especially in TBC, then you can disenchant unwanted loot and sell that on AH. Enchanting resources have no AH fee, so if it doesn’t sell, you aren’t losing money.
Skinning is mostly a vendor profession - you take it on a FRESH server launch, skin and vendor most leather for extra early income. On TBC launch, there will be a lot of mobs killed left to be skinned, and some of that leather will sell, but not much. Clefthoof rarer leather will be a money maker to some extent, but the market can saturate or botting/overpopulation may prevent farming.
As you level, greens and even grey items start to vendor for more, and around 40+ green weapons can vendor for 5-8g, so you can gather up all the gold needed for the level 40 mount. When you hit 60, just continue doing green/orange quests, and you will get bonus gold - easily over 1000 gold for the 60 mount. With the TBC prepatch, the requirement will also be lowered.
Fishing can sell - check prices on oily blackfin and firefin - they are needed for potions.
Id say stick to what you started. As mentiond enchanting will be a money cow later on and tailoring has a few items that are good on your way to 60 and even here it will bee good later on and even lukrative if you craft bags and the cloth whit a coold down that i cant remeber the name of it.
When going in to TBC tailoring will be bigg and enchanting to.
For tailoring check the low level green items(robe, pants, cloak) made from linen, sometimes they sell for over a gold and cost nothing to make.
The bigger profit is at 180+ when you learn Shadoweave tailoring from Undercity, Red Mageweave and Frostweave. There are many items you can craft and they bring in a really good profit and are a usually sold easy because they are so good for mages/warlocks while leveling.
Then at 225+ there is the Wildvine set, but that requires farming trolls from STV to be profitable.
When TBC hits you can make Spellcloth every 4 days for a 200+gold profit per craft.
Enchanting requires deep knowledge about what sells and at what time and how to get the recipes and many hours spamming in town. Even then you’ll be outmatched by bots since they automate the whole process. Wouldn’t suggest to keep it unless you have a clear plan.
For fishing there are two main fish to catch that are in demand, but they are usually farmed from 12am to 12pm for Stonescale Eel and I forgot the schedule for Nightfin Snapper, but both required high fishing, probably 200+
Keep in mind its now mid to late naxx phase and things are dirt cheap on AH, at least on Thunderstrike PvE.
Ppl are offloading before TBC while vanilla mats are still worthwhile.
At the same time sweats are hording materials they think will sell well come TBC such as essence and thorium ore (they won’t jump too much in worth, too many people are doing the same thing)
at 40+ you can fish along Tanatir coast for wreckages and stone eel schools.
Thanks guys i guess ill stick it. I will try to fish for some valuables if needed. Last night i just made money fixing market with essences, bcs there where auctioned for like 13s and with just simple wood for 38c i made wands and vendored them for 15s 35c. Sold few for 17s via trade chat and even got some tips from higher level players, so my faith in being able to get some gold if needed is restored :).
My ench is now 150/150 and i will not progress it for now. Maybe at 60 or in TBC. Just make wands on lazy evenings.
You’re seeing things. They are not bots. They are ordinary players who installed addon or weakaura with auto-invite. You can do the same. Botters have better things to do, than staying in town and risking character with enormous investments.
Farm/grind humanoid flavoured mobs to farm cloth. Turn cloth into armour to level tailoring and Enchanting. Sell the armour if you need gold. Enchanting mats don’t sell well on the AH as a lot of mats are scrap until later mats.
Alchemy is the real money earner. I always tend to go to. 1-60 with gathering professions and then forward those mats to other characters to use. At level 35 you can get your professions to 300.
Hope this helps. 
We aren’t bots. You simply can’t sell enchants without auto-invite, and even then if your ping is above 40ms like mine you rarely ever get the invite through. I invested many k gold into enchanting, maybe 10k+, have all but 2 AQ recipes, every tailoring recipe in game, and even then standing in city with auto inviter selling my enchants, glacial/bloodline/bag crafts and mage portals in every city, I am still hard pressed to make 100g in tips per hour of focused gameplay. And probably 20-35% of that can be from portals alone, not profs.
Ench/tailor is pure RP choice in other words, not a money maker. I could boost people in dungeons for 3 times that without having reserved nothing but enchants in raids since week one. Except I’m terrible at it and find it distasteful anyway. So I auto-invite players to make for them speed on boots and fiery weapon for meager 2g tips and a thank you bye.
It’s gonna get better in TBC of course, but I decidedly DO NOT recommend ench/tailor in vanilla.
Edit: As for OP, if you decide to stick with it anyway (unlikely you will play much at 60 before TBC hits at the place you describe), you can get Auctionator addon, it will show you vendor price and disenchant price of any magic item you mouse over, so you can decide if you want to vendor it or disenchant and try to sell the materials. Just remember to scan the Auction House before every gameplay session for up-to-date estimates.
Enchanting will change as the servers progress to BC.
It’s a long game (in Classic as well). There are some valuable materials and also enchants, but most of them are raid drops. It’s a clumsy profession requiring face to face trade.
Regarding materials, make sure to have some addon like Auctionator which can show you the disenchant value of each item. Aim for something well above vendor value, like 150% at least.
You can return to low level content later, and park enchanting for now. However, that means that you can’t disenchant your own quest drops (above a certain level).
This character used to have skinning + enchanting.
Make sure to make money with bandages. It’s a small margin, but definitely there. Silk and above.
Crafting (tailoring in your case, blacksmithing in mine) is generally not worth it. Solo server aside I don’t recall a single instance of equipping my gear. Regardless, cloth is cheap now compared to BC but you can also farm it later at your high levels.
Gathering professions require bag space, so I wouldn’t double down on them.
Enchanting is sometimes painful to level but can be very worthwhile when at max level.
Having tailoring is perfect, cloth drops from mobs so you don’t really compete for nodes like herbs/ore does.
Use the cloth to level tailoring then use what you craft to DE to level enchanting.
Then enjoy knowing you’ll never need to travel endlessly around the map trying to beat other people and bots to get the herbs and ores.
In all honesty I would drop both and pick up Herbalism and Mining if you are looking to make gold there’s plenty of low level herbs that sell and with TBC on the horizon plenty of people will be looking to level Jewelcrafting so you can take advantage because the price of Mithril Ore will start increasing as well as gems so mining will net you a lot of gold. I predict there to be a price hike on Mithril as soon as Blizzard officially announce TBC.
Make a bank alt so you can quickly send everything you herb/mine to sell on the AH and save you bag space on your main.