How To Chose The Right Professions - Catacylsm 4.1.0

Welcome to my guide on how to choose the right profession for your character or multiple character(s) in World of Warcraft!

For many years I have been playing this game and I have seen multiple people ask the question "Which profession or professions should I take up to make gold easiest in the game?"

The answer to your question is pretty basic. Do you feel like a gathering profession where you can quickly sell items through the Auction House on your realm? Or do you prefer to craft items where you can make a lot of gold selling items to other players such as gear, weapons, or crafted gems, potions, elixir's, or other great stuff?

Now lets see which character you may have in the game and which class you are playing as.

For instance, if you are playing on a rogue, you'll want the professions skinning and leatherworking. The reason I recommend this is because rogues wear leather in-game, and the skins you skin off dead beasts can be used as you level up to make leather armor.

Additionally, with the leather that you don't use from creatures in-game, you can sell on the Auction House for easy gold.

Now if you were playing a mage or other cloth wearing character like a priest for instance, you may want to take up the skills enchanting and tailoring. I recommend these as you can make gear for yourself and then put enchants onto the items. This can prove to be very useful along the road as gold can be coming your way in greater numbers as you level up to the higher levels.

Now lets say you said "Oh, I want to mix up professions. One where I can create items and one that I can use to gather items." This itself is not a bad idea either. I myself have my professions mixed on my mage with me having tailoring and engineering.

I haven't seen many engineer's in-game that are mages, but the reason, I picked engineering to go with my tailoring was to create the mounts for myself to go towards my 100 mount achieve from the last expansion before Cataclysm came out.

Some may say this is a bad idea where others may agree with you doing this. Personally, I think doing this is quite awesome! Namely because I get some gold out of this weekly and I also get to create some pretty awesome items for other players on my realm!

Now, there is one thing you should always remember when you grab your professions, weather they are the secondary ones (Archaeology, Cooking, First Aid, Fishing), or the ones you picked on your character. Make sure to level up the professions in every zone you play in. Always do this because if you wait till you get to the very highest level in-game before leveling them up, it can be costly for you in the end.

If you have professions which are gathering ones, You'll want to remember that information I provided just now because you'll be gathering in many, many, zones as you level up, in-game! If you wait till the last level, you'll find yourself backtracking to older zones you played in to level those kind of professions up.

Same with professions you have for creating items, you'll want to remember this, because lots of the items you need for creating items do indeed drop of mobs in-game as you are leveling up.

Do also note that when you do level your professions to ensure you upgrade them at the trainer for your professions. You may do this in cities in the game. You can also learn new skills to create other goodies too while at the profession trainers.

Besides, If you were to just leave your professions maxed out, This woudn't be too good of an idea. Namely because you need them upgraded to create better items. Also, you want to have them at the highest level possible when you are at the highest level in the game.

This is also a great idea to have them maxed out at the highest level as you can learn epic recipes to create epic items. Epic items sell for a lot of gold and are used by many classes in the game!

It is all up to you, in the end which profession you wish to have! Weather you want to have gathering ones with another profession to create gear or other goods, or have two gathering ones or vice-versa, All professions in this game are good to have!

Here now is a list of all of the professions in-game, and if they are a gathering profession or a profession where you craft items!

Some professions can only be learned at specific levels. Those only being Archaeology (Level 20), and Riding that allows you to ride mounts (Level 20).

Crafting Professions:


Alchemy
Blacksmithing
Enchanting
Engineering
Inscription
Jewelcrafting
Leatherworking
Tailoring


Gathering Professions:


Herbalism
Mining
Skinning


Secondary Professions:


Archaeology
Cooking
First Aid
Fishing
Riding


Read on below to see class and profession combinations I feel are the best for each class. I put them based off of how they fit the character's needs as you level them up!

Here now is an excellent combination of professions you may want to choose from based on your class. I picked the most useful combination that would benefit your class you play mainly in-game! Hopefully this list I compiled is useful for everyone! =)

Important Note: I put more than 2 recommendations on some classes as some classes may want more than 2 recommended professions as they level up. This can vary from gear changing from leather to mail among other reasons.;)

I put a link under each profession recommended as the page linked provides information on the profession recommended. =)

Death Knights Professions Recommended:

Recommendation #1: Blacksmithing
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/blacksmithing

Recommendation #2: Mining
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/mining

Druids Professions Recommended:

Recommendation #1: Alchemy:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/alchemy

Recommendation #2: Herbalism
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/herbalism

Hunters Professions Recommended:

Recommendation #1: Blacksmithing
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/blacksmithing

Recommendation #2: Leatherworking
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/leatherworking

Recommendation #3: Skinning
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/skinning

Mages Professions Recommended:

Recommendation #1: Enchanting
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/enchanting

Recommendation #2: Tailoring
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/tailoring

Paladin Professions Recommdended:

Recommendation #1: Blacksmithing
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/blacksmithing

Recommendation #2: Enchanting
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/enchanting

Priests Professions Recommended:

Recommendation #1: Enchanting
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/enchanting

Recommendation #2: Tailoring
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/tailoring

Shaman Professions Recommended:

Recommendation #1: Enchanting
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/enchanting

Recommendation #2: Herbalism
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/herbalism

Recommendation #3: Tailoring
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/tailoring

Warriors Professions Recommended:

Recommendation #1: Blacksmithing
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/blacksmithing

Recommendation #2: Mining
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/mining

Warlocks Professions Recommended:

Recommendation #1: Enchanting
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/enchanting

Recommendation #2: Herbalism
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/herbalism

Recommendation #3: Tailoring
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/tailoring

Here is an excellent list of webpages, I found on the web that contain further information regarding professions. They contain profession recipes, skills you can learn as you level up, and what you can possibly create!


http://www.wowhead.com
http://www.wowwiki.com
http://www.wowpedia.org


Those three sites I listed above, contain great useful information, plus many other World of Warcraft players utilize those sites above for information along with this community site!

Below is a list of where you can safely get add-on's that can help you with your professions!


http://www.curse.com

http://www.wowinterface.com


If you require assistance with your add-on's be sure to check out the UI and Macro Forum listed below and the Installing and Troubleshooting" thread on that forum.

FAQ: Installing & Troubleshooting AddOns:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1536706542


UI and Macro Forum:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/1011693

Guide taken from Teloraelin on Garrosh