Monk proffesions

[Ultima]

My "main" is JC/Tailor and my Mage alt is Engineer/ Enchanting.

I will be ditching the main for a Monk and keeping the Mage as my alt This will allow me to cover Tank, Healer, MDPS and RDPS. Enchanting is such a money saver when you get to DE your old epics for crystals to enchant the new epics and Engineering is a lot of fun, as well as providing a "burst" CD (480 of X stat at the moment, I presume this will be upgraded to MoP level).

It seems weird for my Monk and Mage to have the same professions and I wouldn't mind an Alchemist. So maybe Enchanting and Alchemy? Money saving and provision of raid buffs. My main annoyance with this is that I have levelled every profession several times on my 9 level 85s (boo @ my 73 Hunter) and dropped professions several times. I miss the days when all my characters were on the same realm, providing a good network :'(

[Nodata]

Just to elaborate on Ultima's post, I tried to do some napkin maths about how much would Enchantment save you in the course of an expansion - provided you're a decently invested raider.

I am going to hypothesize that a character would change his entire set of epics about 5 times during a expansion. Of those, 80% can be disenchanted. The other 20% are from rep and various vendors.

That's 18*5*80/100 = 72 items.

If you assume that (by cataclysm's level of economy, which we're all familiar with) each crystal averages 800g over the 2-year period, you are then basically saving:
72*800+= 57600g over 2 years.

That's not bad by any means. I'm not here to judge whether you find that a big advantage or no. I choose to ignore the blues you make in heroics because I don't think they amount to that much money. For some people, 58k over 2 years is a really solid choice.

For people who are really into making money, that's probably about half of what we make in a month, so it's not all that fancy. But Ultima raised the option, so I figured I'd analyze it a little bit.

PS: it's true that you can absolutely make 100% of your money with professions on your alts, you just need the discipline of connecting them all the time. I would argue that if your main character has a profession, you're more likely to make use of it in the long haul.

[DemoBytom]

I'm most likely going with inscription to get the staffs asap. Depends how affordable they will be to craft.
As second one I'm thinking alchemy, because I don't have one yet... Though I don't have high level herbalist.. i might go with inscirption/herb at start and then change herb to alchemy when I get to max lvl...

[Yorgl]

I'm most likely going with inscription to get the staffs asap. Depends how affordable they will be to craft.
As second one I'm thinking alchemy, because I don't have one yet... Though I don't have high level herbalist.. i might go with inscirption/herb at start and then change herb to alchemy when I get to max lvl...

If you plan to be alch in the end, just go with it from the beggining and make one of you guildmate craft the staff (assuming you have scribers in your guild -or friends btw).
They are BoE and you can provide the mats thanks to herbalism, which you plan to have anyway.

[DemoBytom]

If you plan to be alch in the end, just go with it from the beggining and make one of you guildmate craft the staff (assuming you have scribers in your guild -or friends btw).
They are BoE and you can provide the mats thanks to herbalism, which you plan to have anyway.

wowdb says it's BoP:
http://www.wowdb.com/search?search=I...ed+Tiger+Staff
wowhead says it binds to your acc, but sure they are not BoE.
The lesser ones are.

[Yorgl]

Oh, my bad.
I hope it's BoA so I can craft it on my alt (my current main) !

[r3d3mpt10n]

If you plan to be alch in the end, just go with it from the beggining and make one of you guildmate craft the staff (assuming you have scribers in your guild -or friends btw).
They are BoE and you can provide the mats thanks to herbalism, which you plan to have anyway.

While getting a guildmate to craft a staff is a good idea, arent they upgradeablke into BoP version? so wouldnnt it make more sense to keep inscriptions?

For myself, im going to pick Inscriptions and one of Blacksmith/Leatherworking/Jewelcrafting. The Final BoP staff will probably last you atleast through the first tier, if not the second too, and the shoulder enchant means you have one less rep to grind, which is always a godsend.

For the second profession, its a tossup, firstly, the sockets from Blacksmithing are currently rather good, although from Leatherworking you have your bracer enchant, aswell as leg enchants, and possibly some raid ready armor at max level... JC ofcourse would provide you with Rings/Necks, also the bonus from the gems... for me, that aswell as the race of my monk are the only decisions i have left to pick.

[Spazzeh]

I will probably go Enchanting and Alchemy, again.

"Again?!" you say?

Early Cata, I ran dungeons for VPs/drops for gear...lots of dungeons. No one needs an item that dropped from a boss? Select DE and hope you win. Although VP interaction here for gearing up has changed, the principle remains; even Heavenly Shards sold for a good amount of cash at the beginning. The guild perk makes this an even sweeter deal (pro-tip; hit Greed, and if you win, manually Disenchant for a chance at more materials). When Firelands, and even Dragonsoul hit, I still chain-ran heroics (more fun to me than farming nodes) to DE things and sell; sure not as profitable as other professions, but it kept me well enough off. Not to mention the gold I saved (and saved guildies) by DE'ing my old gear instead of vendoring it. Enchanting is a really strong profession considering all these.

Alchemy I'm still on the fence though...mostly depends on how the cauldrons end up working in MoP. BS is my second choice, just because of the strength of the extra bonuses.

[Edds]

enchanting/leatherworking

[Chuyin]

I plan to go Skinning/Leathworking. I get to make my own gear, plus I wont have to rely on the AH to buy mats because we all know the prices are going to go through the roof when MoP launches.

[tadus]

What you folks thinking about leatherworking, any good? Only couple ppl mentioned. It used to have writs enchant, also leg enchants sells quite good. I'm thinking about leatherworking/inscription I take my dudu to farm mats for both perhaps

[Nodata]

What you folks thinking about leatherworking, any good? Only couple ppl mentioned. It used to have writs enchant, also leg enchants sells quite good. I'm thinking about leatherworking/inscription I take my dudu to farm mats for both perhaps

LW/INS is a great combination if you have either tons of cash AND are on a populated server, or if you already have a skinner and a herbalist that can get the mats for you. LW is quite possibly the most expensive profession to level, but yeah, it has its perks, you will probably have "free" pvp gear since you will have to make it to level up, and wrist enchant perk is likely to be back.

[r3d3mpt10n]

The only downside i currently have to level Leatherworking is the lack of a Skinner, but i can sort that out without a problem... and just use my druid to level both herb and skinning, and use my current Scribe to mill the inks for me to powerlevel 1-525 Inscriptions aswell as the same for Leatherworking. Sure its gonna be a pain in the ass, but you never know they might actually nerf the levelling of the professions 1-525 making it easier still.

[Eliot123]

I've already farmed all the herbs needed to powerlevel incription 1-525 and I'm trying to decide between engineering and jewelcrafting for the secondary profession... JC would be more gold but engineering is more fun. :X

[r3d3mpt10n]

Either way they both take alot of mats to level so i would start atleast grinding the ore you're going to need, then just buy all the extra bits when you decide on the profession...

[myhomeboy]

Im stuck in the dilema between 4. I like engineering just because i find it cool, then I want to grab JC because i dont have one and the mounts they are starting with are dope as hell. then there is also leatherworking for the gear and enchants and then there is inscription for the staves. So im kinda stuck and dont know what to chose

[Zeglo]

Probably inscription and/or jewelcrafting.

However, I am going engineering! I love this profession and miss using it on my mains (old characters did have it).

[Nodata]

Eliot123, keep in mind that both inscription and JC involve having a LOT of free bagspace when you do AH sessions (buying tons of plants to mill and tons of ores to prospect) so having both on the same character is not optimal imho because of this precise reason. Better have 2 chars with them, so you can do your "herbs" session then your "ores" session.

It's all comfort and preference, really, but I find it better this way.

[Edds]

changed my mind to enchanting/engineering. which ive got a mining alt. which i tend to lvl to 90 stright after. got the mats ready for 1-500 for cooking/first aid/engineering/enchanting. took me a couple of weeks without avoid spending at the ah.

[Hijiri]

This thread keeps popping to top.

The profession bonus is about 320.
Enchanting and Inscription support this. (wrists/shoulder bops)
If Primordial (red) gem are also 160 then it's the same bonus for Blacksmithing.

Hopefully we'll see what tailoring has to offer.

I'm keeping track to see if the factions will give the same shoulder enchants as boe inscription shoulders.
If factions don't give the shoulder enchants then will make a inscriptionist,
There is a chance that Blizz wants to make the least popular proffession of cata, really strong at least for start of MOP.

Not sure on 2nd prof yet.

Still considering whether to Pandaren Monk or other-race Monk. +300 stat on MOP food just sounds lto strong for a min/max player.