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Going engineering - should I drop herbalism?
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Tenshigure
Unless you've got Alchemy or some other Herb-connected profession, it can be a little beneficial to get Mining to help if you lack certain mats for your Engineering leveling. However, if you're needing to drop two professions for it, you'll want to be careful about it. While you can smelt most of your levels, you'll still need to spend time grinding the mining up. You don't technically need to drop it though if you've got the money to fund all the stone/bars you need to level.
Is it worth dropping Tailoring/Herbalism? IMO only if you plan on doing PVP since you really can't make too much profit off of the profession as opposed to Tailoring. You may be better off powerleveling a DK with it to see if you like it first.
TL/DR: If you need to drop one or the other, I'd say drop the other Gathering profession and use your Tailoring to make money at a faster rate making bags.
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LoqueNahak
Engineering is a
great
profession if:
you do
not
need to make tons of gold
you hate farming
you need
cool and useful
engineer-only stuff
Some engineer-specific stuff that will make the game better for you:
parachute enchant on your cloak
pyro rocket (free
great
dps bonus)
rocket-speed on boots (useful in many situations, both PvP and PvE)
Moll-E, Jeeves and many teleport-gadgets
Auction House in Dalaran
from a engineers-only vendor
In my opinion everyone should get any gathering profession while leveling 1-80. Then as soon as you're 80 and got some gold in your pockets (as well as some usefull stuff such as flying skill + 280% speed mount) drop a gathering prof and get engi, alch, jc or any other trading profession.
The only negative side of engineering is that among all the trading professions this is maybe the worst one to make good money. You can make gold from it, yes... but it wont be easy as with other professions.
Technical note: I powerleveled engineering 1-450 in 2 days buying stuff from AH and spent around 2000G.
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LoqueNahak
wow you are lucky Loque. On my server it cost me about 5k total to powerlevel it altough now i enjoy every single moment i get to use one of the gadgets! great fun for me as im more of a casual player
Now I have to decide if I will keep Alchemy or drop it for JC... damn. Flasks dropped to 27-29G each while Lotus raised to 50-60G, not even worth crafting them. The only thing I like of Alch is the free bonus on pots and 2x duration...
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