12-10-2007, 06:55 PM
There are primary professions and secondary professions. The three secondary professions are Cooking, First Aid and Fishing: you can learn all three, as well as two primary professions.
One of my main concerns whenever I start out a new character is bag space. You start out with a large bag that can hold 16 items or stacks of the same item. However, this is insufficient for roaming far away from town and killing multiple varieties of enemies (Who all drop different types of items). To be able to go on extended forays without returning to town to empty your bags, by selling items to vendors, you need more bags. These can be found randomly, bought from certain vendors (expensive, not recommended) or created with Tailoring.
Primary professions can be subdivided into two kinds: gathering and production. The three gathering professions are skinning, mining, and herbalism. All of the items collected with these professions (with the notable exceptions of Ruined Leather Scraps) can be sold for ridiculous sums to other players at the auction house. Generally speaking, the older the server, the higher the prices on the auction house are.
I now adopt two gathering professions when I start a new character for a rapid influx of gold, which I can use to buy bags and skills. However, when I first started playing, I would always pick a production profession with its associated gathering profession. It's just so cool to be able to make your own stuff.
Tailoring is different from other production professions in that it does not require, for the most part, any leather, herbs, or minerals. This means that you can combine it with whatever you want, although blacksmithing and leatherworking aren't recommended for a Warlock. For that matter, alchemy without herbalism isn't very useful, as you need herbs to create potions.
I suggest taking a gander at what each profession can make on a site like Thottbot or WoWwiki, to see what looks most interesting to you.
One of my main concerns whenever I start out a new character is bag space. You start out with a large bag that can hold 16 items or stacks of the same item. However, this is insufficient for roaming far away from town and killing multiple varieties of enemies (Who all drop different types of items). To be able to go on extended forays without returning to town to empty your bags, by selling items to vendors, you need more bags. These can be found randomly, bought from certain vendors (expensive, not recommended) or created with Tailoring.
Primary professions can be subdivided into two kinds: gathering and production. The three gathering professions are skinning, mining, and herbalism. All of the items collected with these professions (with the notable exceptions of Ruined Leather Scraps) can be sold for ridiculous sums to other players at the auction house. Generally speaking, the older the server, the higher the prices on the auction house are.
I now adopt two gathering professions when I start a new character for a rapid influx of gold, which I can use to buy bags and skills. However, when I first started playing, I would always pick a production profession with its associated gathering profession. It's just so cool to be able to make your own stuff.
Tailoring is different from other production professions in that it does not require, for the most part, any leather, herbs, or minerals. This means that you can combine it with whatever you want, although blacksmithing and leatherworking aren't recommended for a Warlock. For that matter, alchemy without herbalism isn't very useful, as you need herbs to create potions.
I suggest taking a gander at what each profession can make on a site like Thottbot or WoWwiki, to see what looks most interesting to you.
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