prof advice plz =)

[Izzan]

currently im at 375 tailor/herb. I was looking at c-pimps gear post and i saw that the engineering goggles are the best if you are hit capped. I am wondering if I should drop herb for engineering for these goggles. If i do this, I can have the goggles and not have to waste DKP once t6 or cowl drops. Would it be worth dropping herb for engineering?

[Maltyrius]

'Worth' in this scenario is quite relative. Levelling engineering will be costly in time or money or some combination of both. So, how much time and coin are the goggles worth to you? Of course, you will get other assorted toys that are spiffy.

Herbing costs you nothing and DKP costs you time in raids to accumulate. Personally, I would hold out for drop/dkp upgrades and bank my money. At this late stage of The Burning Crusade I would want to see where professions are headed in Wrath of the Lich King before dumping the coin into powerlevelling a new prof.

[RomaGoth]

I agree with Malt.

My rogue is engineering, and because I have not kept up the mining part of it very well right now, I find myself buying some of the mats I need to level up my engineering. With that being said, engineering is a blast to have. I love watching an explosive sheep go after someone. There are many cool toys from this profession, so if you want to do it for fun then go for it. You won't be disappointed. If you want to do it for some goggles, then I advise against that, as you are better served saving your money. I am also interested in seeing the crafting changes with WOLK.

[Izzan]

thanks =) i was honestly gearing towards going with engineering, but I should probably keep working up my finds for the future and see what happens

[Spook_Cell]

If the goggles are the only reason you want to take up engineering I would say it is not worth it. The pattern only drops from trash in the new 25 man raid.

Even if you do manage to get the pattern from farming or the AH I'm the pretty sure the tailoring, JCing or enchanting exclusive item perks would be a bigger dps boost.

However if you have others reasons for also taking up engineering such as farming gas clouds or you like some of the various gadgets it could be worth considering then.

[Kiralyn]

Just an FYI, an engineering 'lock in my guild bought the Sunwell pattern from a higher end raiding guild. It cost him 7k gold. So unless you know you'll have access to the pattern, you might want to take that number into consideration.

[Ciboire]

I was LW/skinner and I dropped skinning for engineering. My trick to level it without having mining was to roll an alt. Best way, cause I have to ran into lowbies zone to get the mats anyway and questing in outland when my alt hit level 70 worth a lot of gold.

[RomaGoth]

Originally Posted by Ciboire

I was LW/skinner and I dropped skinning for engineering. My trick to level it without having mining was to roll an alt. Best way, cause I have to ran into lowbies zone to get the mats anyway and questing in outland when my alt hit level 70 worth a lot of gold.

So do you have to buy your skins now then? Or do you have an alt do mining/skinning? I dropped mining with my hunter and picked up LW, and it cost me a lot of money to level that profession up (well over 3k gold ).

My rogue (level 35) is mining/engineering and it works out fine. I mostly use my 70 hunter to farm mats and make items for my alts now, I rarely play him for anything else (except for dailies on the occasion). Never cared for herbalism very much, not sure why. At any rate, having alts that do gathering professions is definately a sound strategy.

[katt]

Obviously it depends on the server economy, but I didn't spend more than 300g leveling my engy to 370 on my pally. There's a very good engy leveling guide at: World of Warcraft 1-300 / 375 Engineering Guide

That said, I ran Deadmines a few times on the pally (10 minutes a run) for some of the low ore, with one of my miners at the beginning to run through and mine when I was done clearing. (I have more than one account, so dual logging is easy, and I did use 70 to mine, so the pats that respawn weren't an issue for me) You could probably easily do this without a miner alt by offering to run lowbies through in trade for them mining and giving you all the ore.

I lapped a few of the lesser traveled zones to mine whatever ore was there (on my server, Tanaris, Silithus, Alterac, Hinterlands, Arathi, Badlands, Searing Gorge) and I bought the rest on the AH. I've been too busy leveling Miss Lock lately to bother going mining for the rest of the things I need to get to 375, but I'll be using the repair bot schematic to max it out.

In just an hour of running around SMV, Zangar, and Nagrand, probably over a weeks' time, I easily made back what I spent to level it by farming the mote clouds. (My pally is also an herber, so I get tons of herbs while I farm, which made leveling Katt's alchemy very easy.)