


WotLK will not feature the powerful, endgame-quality crafter-only items, allegedly, which is a good and bad thing.


Engineering isn't, to be honest, very good in WotLK, and Jewelcrafting is kind of a specialized taste. If we assuming mining is a lock-in (god help you, that's all I can say), then of the described professions, I'd say that Blacksmithing is the one most likely to please you, even though it's also the one requiring the most effort and causing the most frustration. If you're looking at gear, your DK gear will take you to 68-ish, as noted, and quests will do the rest. If you're looking at money, you're MUCH better served by simply quest quest quest quest more quest quest questing, which will fill your pockets readily than going back to lowbie areas and trying to skill up gathering skills, wasting hours or days of /played on something you can probably do much faster at 80 (and you'll also be able to do dailies etc. Personally though? I wouldn't bother with levelling a profession until 80, unless it's something you're super-keen to do. If we're genuinely talking "best for levelling", I'd suggest Herbalism/Skinning myself, as both of them have "levelling-useful" built-in bonuses (Lifeblood and +crit %), and Herbalism feed two professions now, and you can only have Herbo or Mine radar up at any given time, so Skinning is a good complement.Īlso, it's much much much much much much less work to level Herbalism to 375 than Mining, and I speak from extensive experience lol. Click to expand.Blacksmithing is fun? I guess it is in a way, but it's important to note that if it's paired with mining, and not fuelled by copious amounts of cash and the AH, it's a hell of a lot of work to get up to the TBC level, and then a significant (but lesser) amount of effort and material-expenditure to get through to the level where you can start making WotLK stuff (I think it's 360 for the Cobalt stuff?).
