Gathering professions are your friends! Take skinning + mining or herbalism and start selling what you collect on the AH. You’ll be rolling in gold before you know it.
Crafting is a big money sink. The only recipes that you can turn a profit on are high-level rare drops. When you’re low level you don’t have access to those recipes, so you’re better off doing gathering exclusively. Who’s buying your materials you might ask? High-level characters who don’t want to waste time in newbie areas harvesting copper and light leather. Or other low level characters who haven’t been told what I’m telling you right now … .
I rolled a new gnome mage last week on Moon Guard. She’s level 15 now and has about 10 gold in the bank, just from selling copper bars in the AH. YMMV depending on the economy of your server, but you’ll definitely make enough to buy yourself decent gear.
You’ll want to start accumulating gold not just so you can get better gear, but also because at level 30 you’ll need it to buy your mount!
Pochacco is right. At least when I played over 1.5 years ago, every single guide/knowledgeable person said to take two gathering professions when one is leveling, then switch one for a crafting profession at maximum level, if desired.
I did discover that, on the map, I can right-click on the quest icons and set 5 levels of priorities from “lowest” to “highest”, or even tell it to “ignore” a particular quest. The “ignore” option is useful when I get handed a quest that’s way too high level for me (like when the hunter trainer in TB handed me the Frostmaw quest (lvl 37) when I was still only lvl 29 or so). I can concentrate on more appropriate quests without "Go this way for quest “Frostmaw” flashing at me all the time.
I’ll take a look at that
I really enjoy skinning - you can gather almost limitless resources! Anywhere! My hunter has Skinning/Leatherworking, my warrior has Mining/Blacksmithing, and my druid has Herbalism/Cooking. My paladin has the (currently-unfortunate combo of Blacksmithing/Enchanting. But she was one of the first characters I made and I didn’t know any better. I’ve got her Enchanting up, but her Blacksmithing is languishing without materials. Where do I go to ditch a profession? I haven’t seen that option, though I know it’s there somewhere.
On another note, my druid finally finished Trial of the Sea Lion tonight! And hit lvl 20, completed 100 quests, and successfully acquired a Westfall Chicken pet
Make sure to have growl on and cower off - I have no idea how birds manage to growl but apparently they do. Some skills are currently bugged (they’re working on it) and switch themselves on or off when you recall the pet.
To ditch a profession, open your skills interface. Droppable professions have a little “forbidden” symbol, click there to drop them. But don’t be so sure that having two “craft” professions is unacceptable, you just need another char to send the main mats to that one or to use the AH. It’s best to do that with high level chars, tho… you can just leave BS stuck for now and come back to it later.
I… can’t relate. I’ve never found that a problem. Are you using your mouse wheel to zoom your field of vision in and out? If you can’t see where you’re going from far back behind your character’s head, zoom in until you can see as though you were looking through their eyes. Reverse if necessary.
I’ll have to apologise. I’ve been guilty of this, but only because I never realised other people found me to be blocking their view. I’ll try to be more aware from now on.
Yeah, I had a similar experience on my newest toon in Westfall last week. I had to fight off two of those big rusty things to get to a bag of oats, and just as I’m about to deal the death blow to the second one, a dwarf runs up, grabs the oats I was standing on and runs off. I yelled (actually, I just said) “asshole” as he ran away, but I still sulked about it until I got my pet chicken a few minutes later.
Just in case you didn’t know, cooking isn’t one of the primary professions…it’s one of the secondary ones.
You can take any two of the main professions (herbing, mining, skinning, blacksmithing, etc), and also take all of three of the secondary professions (cooking, first aid, and fishing).
So if you’re after the cash, make sure your druid picks up another primary gathering profession.
True. I can say on Archimonde, horde side I’ve made over 300 gold just selling ore at the auction in the last ten days…and that without actively seeking out ore.
These days it’s mammoths. You get a couple of Tauren on mammoths standing around in Dalaran and they can block half the town! It’s very annoying.
The spouse has a good solution for it, though: when they (or anybody) deliberately stands on something he’s trying to get at, he tosses Baby Spice on it, shrinks it down to a wee little cow-on-mammoth, and goes about his business.
BTW, another trick (I learned this during the days when the badge vendor came out on Quel’danas Isle and everybody was mobbing it): do Ctrl-V to show nameplates, then click on the vendor’s nameplate. Pisses off all the opposite faction types who’ve flagged up to try to get you to click them by accident (I’m on a PvE realm.) Doesn’t work on mailboxes, though, unfortunately.
I’m jealous! We’re still working on two drakes–Sarth + 2 or 3 drakes is the last thing our guild needs before we’ve cleared all the current raid content. Any tips?
I own birds in real life. I can’t speak for all species, but several varieties of parrot can and really do growl. (They also hiss like snakes) So the “growl” ability for hunting birds has never bothered me as a concept.
You can abandon a profession anywhere - just go to the “skills” window of your character sheet, and I think there’s a red x on the right end of your different professional skills which you can click to abandon the profession. (The game will ask you if you’re sure).
Although I admit to occasionally shrinking a vendor or flight master down while a crowd is surrounding them just to stir up a little trouble. But only rarely.
Hmmmmm. These two paragraphs go a long way toward explaining a really irritating phenomenon I’ve been seeing off and on in Ironforge recently. There’s folks lounging around on their mammoths in the main square between the auction house and bank, and every so often one of them will suddenly BALLOON up until he fills half the square and completely obscures vision, then quickly shrinks back to normal size. I’ve seen that behavior on both PCs and NPCs that get transformed somehow, but he wasn’t transforming, simply changing size rapidly.
It’s mainly a problem because it’s rarely just one person. The other day I found a little circle of people around the mailbox in SW all doing (or appearing to be doing) crafting. But sometimes one person can be a problem — particularly in Thunder Bluff where many of the vendors are in those small wigwams/huts and stand just inside, and the door is only “one tauren-width”, so it only takes one tauren to completely block access to that vendor.
Forgive me my doubting I’ll tell you, though, it’s next to impossible to accomplish that task without drawing a crowd. Every single time I’ve tried it, I end up with at least one person running up and challenging me to a duel, and several others who are apparently puzzled or amused by my behavior and start clucking themselves.
That’s what finally prompted me to complain — the area between the bank and AH in Ironforge was literally packed with mammoths and what looked like oliphants. Most of them standing on or at either end of that bridge.
I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Where does one obtain this “Baby Spice”?
That’s the other thing I saw happening, though from where I was standing (some distance from that bridge) it appeared that this one particular mastodon/oliphant who was standing on the bridge kept disappearing, reappearing behind me, and flying sideways back to the bridge. I suppose the “flying” could have just been an optical illusion, and it was actually ballooning up so big that I was simply encompassed by it and its shrinking back down created the illusion that it was flying back to the bridge from somewhere behind me.
If you’re selling for profit, check the prices. Sometimes a metal’s ore sells for more than a smelted bar will. I assume it’s because people are buying ore to smelt and level up their mining skill.
It’s because jewelcrafting uses raw ore for prospecting. Once you hit 150 mining, you can’t skill up on smelting because each new smelting ability is gray when you get it.
Actually, this was changed a few patches ago, these days it is possible to smelt your way to 300 mining. Technically it’s even possible to reach 375 but then you would need to smelt Elementium at some point.
I’ll tell you, though, it’s next to impossible to accomplish that task without drawing a crowd. Every single time I’ve tried it, I end up with at least one person running up and challenging me to a duel, and several others who are apparently puzzled or amused by my behavior and start clucking themselves.