Question about Professions.

[Talonn-Shu'Halo]

Happy New Year to all,


After many tortured hours of thought, reading, more thinking..even more reading... I have finally decided to drop a profession and take another.

Currently I am a 375 Alchemist, 375 Herbalist and I do enjoy the drinks I can make, some are just nasty...


My gear is good... well, I think its good LOL. However, from reading the guides, asking questions, reading.. I have decided that perhaps I am underequiped by not having tailoring for the Frozen Shadoweave and the bonus to the spell strike set.

Soooo

I have decided to drop the herbs in favor of tailoring

Is this the right choice?



I do not rely on herbs to make cash, I mostly use what I make on myself or my guildies.

I do not like the idea of grinding for months on end in pvp, getting frustrated as all heck in BG's, or getting owned in arena due to inferior gear,trying to get better gear to run the instances to get the great gear.
I have racked my brains for months on this question... sighs... and still have doubts about dropping the herbs, sure I can buy them...but some are damm expensive on my server.

Is the shadowweave set that worth it?



As a destruction lock, sure the shadow bonus is sweet. However I use all my spells, fire and shadow, so I am wondering now what will happen to those spells if I go to just shadow damage bonus.

[Daergel]

I hardly ever made anything from the herbs I collected, but I do a lot of transmuting (now transmute master), and that in itself can make decent money, especially if you get rep with Sporeggar to buy the transmute primal earth to water (transmute 4g to 20g, in other words!).

I dropped herb for tailoring, and have my first piece of FSW, but you need untold amounts of netherweave, and mageweave isnt cheap either (if you go down the buying route).

As to how it complements your talents, I have no idea - a look at my talents and gear will probably tell you that!

[Malevevely]

If you are almost done T4 stuff with your guild keep what you have or take enchanting or JC. You will regret Tailoring very quickly in SSC/TK once you pick up robe or hateful, boots of blasting and T5 shoulders. I am currently an enchanter/tailor and I'm thinking about going JC/enchanting.

[Talonn-Shu'Halo]

[quote=Daergel;159673]I hardly ever made anything from the herbs I collected, but I do a lot of transmuting (now transmute master), and that in itself can make decent money, especially if you get rep with Sporeggar to buy the transmute primal earth to water (transmute 4g to 20g, in other words!).




Yes, I am currently down in Zangamarsh doing my part in keeping the bog lord population down. Its great, lots of herbs to stock up on.

Originally Posted by Daergel

I dropped herb for tailoring, and have my first piece of FSW, but you need untold amounts of netherweave, and mageweave isnt cheap either (if you go down the buying route).

As to how it complements your talents, I have no idea - a look at my talents and gear will probably tell you that!

I have been following the tailoring level guide that was on these forums. I have been off having way too much fun running instances for different cloths. Currently, I have all the linen, wool, silk, mageweave, and runecloth . Now I just need to finish off gathering the 180 stacks of netherweave, and I am off to the races....


maybe.....

[Räum]

My 2 cents. I recently dropped tailoring after having the full FSW set. Why? There was no need for tailoring except to be able to wear the FSW set. The money it makes is crap as there are SO many tailors flooding the AH with bags. Also, it made running any instance under T5 all but useless (not fun!) as the gear was inferior to FSW...

...bottom line for me, I was broke and not having fun passing on most drops.

I chose to go engineering/mining. I now have a ROFLcopter, awesome engineering head (Destruction Holo-gogs)and TONS of gold thanks to mining. I may not have the highest +spl damage now...but I am not very far off and having fun again. Gnomish Battle Chicken FTW!

[Talonn-Shu'Halo]

I think it may be too early for me...cause I can not wrap my sleep filled head around that.....

How does having tailoring make you unable to roll for drops in instances???


Sure..just what I needed guys...LOL..more ideas of what to take for professions.


Just to clear up something...I am not looking at going to tailoring to make money...I am going to tailoring to get the buff bonus on the Spellstrike set... and to perhaps craft some of the BOP FSW set...

Perhaps it would be easier to answer this if my armory link was working and you could see my gear to find out if its a viable switch for me, or to stick it out and grind for better gear in instances. .....


Cheers....I think my bed is calling me again... I best go answer it.

[neej]

He/she meant that having FSW (Tailoring set) makes you pass on Oblivion (D3 set) for example. If that's a good or a bad thing... decide...

Seriously: If you are doing PvE raid Frozen Shadoweave + Spellstrike Set Bonus (only for tailors) is worth alone the hassle. I don't see any point dropping it even when I won't wear it anymore. I wouldn't be too annoyed if there would something similar with Wrath of the Lich King again... And passing that - NO!

Back in the day when I had my FSW quite early (not a the hardcore players, but in our guild) the damage was insane compared to classes without access to easy epics. Mages and Priests also have their sets indeed.

BTW: I also think that Enchanting is great for max dps (+12 damage on each ring only for enchanters). Somewhere here someone said that Tailoring/Enchanting is THE way to go. I totally agree with that if someone aims for raiding or instance runs.

For money grinding purposes: I must admit that the easiest way to make money is: Finish all quests (I mean ALL). Then do all 10 dailies all day, grind primals, repeat. You can fish or farm other stuff but seriously, there's little point imho, the market is pretty simple on my server at least.

[Psywrath]

I'd have to back up the Tailor/Ench as the way to go.. i've done it a few times before on old characters and was by far and large the best way to go even pre bc i made enough money for epic mount in under a week... and having done my share of raiding and not really intending to do it again i'm definately going to make these sets.

[gimmpy]

All depends on your goals, guild, and time. It sounds like you are aiming for pvp and as such, you won't see much benefit in having the fsw set. The fsw set is a pve raiding set which is equivalent to t5 drops. It basically allows you to skip the heroics, grab a few things from kara and gruul, and go straight to 25 mans. Raid progression otherwise is regular instances until you can do heroics, heroics until you can do kara, and kara until you can do ssc or bt.
If your focus is on pvp though, then pvp for gear. There is little gear that you can get in pve that is optimized for pvp. Rather, you should do dailies, quests, etc. for money and pvp for gear.
There is not alot of money to be made in tailoring. My understanding of tailoring is it provides you with a jump start it gives you when you hit 70. Which provides its own challanges. Now I am overgeared for most of the instances I need to do for keys and such. What a predicament!

[Talonn-Shu'Halo]

Originally Posted by gimmpy

All depends on your goals, guild, and time. It sounds like you are aiming for pvp and as such, you won't see much benefit in having the fsw set. The fsw set is a pve raiding set which is equivalent to t5 drops. It basically allows you to skip the heroics, grab a few things from kara and gruul, and go straight to 25 mans. Raid progression otherwise is regular instances until you can do heroics, heroics until you can do kara, and kara until you can do ssc or bt.
If your focus is on pvp though, then pvp for gear. There is little gear that you can get in pve that is optimized for pvp. Rather, you should do dailies, quests, etc. for money and pvp for gear.
There is not alot of money to be made in tailoring. My understanding of tailoring is it provides you with a jump start it gives you when you hit 70. Which provides its own challanges. Now I am overgeared for most of the instances I need to do for keys and such. What a predicament!

Hmmmmmmm,


My goals are.. to start running instances, and start getting ready to run Kara with my guild. I am not big into pvp... due to inferior gear it frustrates the heck out of me... *spoiled by a 29 twinked out hunter* LOL

I am just worried that I am going to cut my throat again, by dropping herbs to take tailoring to get the bonus to SS and to make the fsw gear.
I already cut my throat by not taking tailoring..I dont want to do it again by taking it..LOL..