Professions for a hunter...Follow

I know that there is already a post about this, but that post didn't help. What are good proffesions for a hunter, i was thinking leatherworking and skinning, but you guys are say engineering. i am confused....

I'm engineer and it sucks to be honest. Mining is good to make money, but the things you can craft with engineering are more or less... useless (at lvl 70). Most professions are very expensive to lvl BUT you don't have to be broke all the time. Just pick your profession and lvl it at your own speed. You can put more time/money in it when you reached 70 (at least that what I did). Although I would pick skinning if I would roll a new hunter, especially for all the hunter gear you can craft (black dragonscale, felstalker, netherdrake).

Lt do not let any of them tell you what you should do. If you take mining/skinning you will have money. If you take skinning/leatherworking you will have armor. It all comes down to what you want. Personally I went skinning/mining so later on I can get all the most sought after materials for people who craft the items.

I have a paladin who has herbalism/alchemy and he can make potions which peopl(amazingly) buy quite often for decent prices.

This just goes to show it is what you want rather than someone elses opinion that matters.

skinning/mining and then you have both money and the skinned items to have another leather worker craft your armor for you.

Skinning/mining doesn't always work, because some of the craftables are BoP... so you have to make them yourself.

Stick to the gathering profession if you are only starting out. That way you can save up gold.

Once you have all the gold you want/need, you can switch professions from gathering to crafting.

The main point of crafting professions is to make your own items. Don't dream of becoming rich with crafting items. You end up spending more than making gold with these.

Logical choice is leatherworking for armor or blacksmithing for you 1H or 2H. Engineering is also a good choice, you can make your own gun and scopes.

My first Charachter was a Hunter and I took a LW/Skinning and I was never broke but I never had alot of money but If you wanna make money take mining/skinning. You can also take Mining/Blacksmithing but you can use that if your lvl 40 but you have a good mail for free than. jsut pick the 1 you think fits you

Sorry to abuse ur thread, but it threw up some questions for me too =p

So.. I really think hunters have it pretty bad..
If I pick leatherworking (+skinning) it will be kinda useless when u can use and get some decent mail items...
If I pick blacksmithing (+mining) it's only usefull going from lvl 40++ and (i wildly guess) most of the items I can produce are more melee-like anyways. You can't craft bows either, right? As they are wood... (how about the melee-weapons though? are there usefull weapons to craft for a hunter-blacksmith? =p).
Then if I pick enchanting I can't even enchant my own frigging weapon!! (not talking about melee weapons, duh.. I know that there are very usefull enchants for melee weapons for hunters, but still.. I'm talking about the bow) Which is quite stupid IMHO.
Tailoring.. I don't use cloth..
Alchemy+Herbalism - Well, works for every class.
Same for engineering with mining - Scopes are nice. But I doubt the overall usefullness of engineering.

That's about it for the crafting professions, no? Now... Nothing seems really usefull to me.


My hunter is currently being lvl 19 and having some fun in BGs but I'll carry on with leveling her pretty soon... And I don't want to stay Mining+Skinning for all my lifetime, I rather craft something really cool (lol), so some help on this one would be nice =O

If I'm not misunderstanding you, you're saying that one hunters get access to mail armor (40) that leatherworking is useless. Well... one thing that leatherworkers can make is the Tough Scorpid set, and there is actually a specialized tree of leatherworking that goes into Mail armor, specifically designed for Hunters and Shamans.

To the OP: As most are saying, Mining/Skinning will keep your funds up, but Skinning/Leatherworking will allow you to make armor for yourself. Personally I think the latter is more fun, and every now and again, take a break from skilling the craft and sell some Armor Kits on the AH to help keep yourself funded.
Also another good money making craft: Enchanting. If you just DE every green you get your hands on and sell the mats on the AH, you can make some good money.

That is indeed good stuff, but it's all very high level. There are also some good recipe's throughout most levels, if you decide to go with leatherworking, I would suggest researching it a little bit, so that you know what recipes you cannot get via a trainer that you may want, just so you don't miss out on anything.

Do not be fooled by "leather"working, past 200 or 225 you can start making mail armor, this is probably because shamans and hunters would go into leatherworking and then complain they invested the time and money into it only to be wearing mail.

I'd reccomend either mining or herbalism, with skinning to start.
Later on, you can drop one gathering profession and pick up something else. I think pretty much everything, except maybe tailoring, would benefit a hunter:
-Blacksmithing - post 40 you get mail armor, and at all levels melee weapons
-Engineering - make guns, scopes, bullets, and later jumper cables (which are wipe-prevention if you don't have a lock/shammy/druid+another healer or if their rez's are on CD).
-Leatherworking - Armor for all levels, plus kits for more armor, plus quivers.
-Alchemy - pots, anyone?
-Jewelcrafting - rings, neck pieces, and if you need some cash prospect ore and sell the jewels.
-Enchanting - same thing as alchemy, only more permanent.