Min/Max Professions

[mgp84]

I'll be starting up my mage after a 4 month sabatical from Wow, and I've been reading up on different specs etc. I've always been one to maximize DPS according to every controlled feature of the game (gems, enchants, talent specs, consumables and professions). I have 4 of 5 things covered but I am here to ask advise about what professions currently hold the most potential for maximizing DPS. Any comments/advices would be highly appreciated.
Thank You.
PS Again, only professions, I got the other four corners of the pentagon covered.

[cheeezitz]

If I am not mistaken JC gives the most bonus right now followed by enchanting and inscription. In addition, leatherworking has nice spell power bonus to wrist "enchant", but I do not believe it is enough to justify not taking enchanting +40sp total over two rings. The shoulder enchants for insciption are a close runner up, but from my current knowledge I wouldn't place them up with ring enchants and extra amazing gems from JC.

If it was me, I would say enchanting and JC. I welcome discussion about this.

[mgp84]

Thank you in advanced. Time to wake up the sleeping giant ;-)

PPS Is SWP gear good enough to get to 80 (full SWP gear) or should I gear hunt in instances?

[cheeezitz]

I found some new info on it...I was wrong about JC being the best, but it is up there with enchanting/inscription/leatherworking. Check it out:

As a raider your professions are part of boosting your maximum potential, just like showing up with flasks, oils, food, special items and trinkets and so on is. So which professions are the best to do this?

I myself have some reason (god knows why) stuck with tailoring throughout tbc, but it seems to me it looks like I am going to look for a new profession in the upcoming expansion.

This item is what we get from tailoring http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?spell=55642#comments

Taken from wowhead:

Compared to the other professions perks this seems very weak to me. It is 24.4 dps (a bit more with crit included) vs 23 haste (http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?spell=47898)

While for example:
Inscription: +37 spellpower http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?spell=61120 vs http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=44135

Enchanting: +38 spellpower http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?spell=44636 x 2

Leatherworking: + 37 spellpower http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?spell=57691 vs http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?spell=60767

Blacksmithing: +38 spellpower (http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?spell=55641 + http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?spell=55628 with http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=39998 )

Unless more BoP crafted items are added later on, I can't see the point of having tailoring.

It might be worth adding that so far that special cloak enchant for tailors does not work on dots, only binary and direct damage spells.

Jewelcrafting is a bit harder to anything useful about you can only have 1 of each unique gem (to a maximum of 3), so its up to your specc how many of those gems you can put to good use.

These are the gems that be of good use

27 crit raiting (normal one is 16)
32 spell power (normal one is 19)
27 hit ratnig (normal one is 16)
27 haste rating (normal one is 16)
27 intellect (normal one is 16)

For a warlock this could be something like +11 haste, 14 spell power, 11 hit/crit + maybe a socket bonus of some sort.

I hope that we will see some BoP tailoring items or the profession is not worth having at all (which is kind of silly since we are cloth users and this profession could so easily be great for us)

[Swizzle]

JC+tailoring to max your DPS. go go

[cheeezitz]

As a response to your other question: SWP/T6 will be more than enough to get to 80, but you might benefit from doing some of the lvl 77-80 dungeons to get blues from quests or drops. I wouldn't waste too much time doing dungeons before 80 though as many upgrades come from questing alone from 77-80 (assuming you finish a lot of questlines in stormpeaks/icecrown). Otherwise, if you have plenty of gold and some friends to run you through some heroics I would suggest doing that instead of questing to gear up.

[highwind01]

Jewelcrafting is a bit harder to anything useful about you can only have 1 of each unique gem (to a maximum of 3), so its up to your specc how many of those gems you can put to good use.

This isnt true, u can have 3 drageneyes total in your gear and all 3 may be the same (for example 3x spellpower)

Enchanting, Leatherworking, Inscriptioning, Blacksmithing, Alchemie (when pottet) equal out for spellcasters, the difference is marginal, 1 spellpower at max.
JC is a little stronger because dragoneyes count for every gem color so u get some socketboni as well as the requirements for ur meta gem "for free" and dont have to gem suboptimal colors for this.

Dont know how strong the tailoring thing is - I would go JC plus any other profession u already have already at a high level because, as said, there isnt a difference and u safe a lot of money.

[Emiex]

Tailoring is actually the highest DPS profession for a mage there is, yes even better than JC. The enchant to cloak is + 280dmg for 15 sec every ~45 sec with an extremely high proc rate so you can count on it being up all the time when the 45 sec internal cool down is up. You also get 1g cost leg enchants nice plue! JC is your 2nd best option for the extra dmg from the gems and the fact that the dragon's eyes are prismatic so they take care of your meta req. This allows for a dps gain also because you don't have to find blue gems.

[mgp84]

Thank you for all your responses. I will go with Tailoring/JC as the cloak enchant is a nice proc to base macro's off of. I've always been a whore for Set-Bonuses (even when they might seem bad). So thank you in advanced.