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Level 35 Dwarf Hunter. Coming up on the magic mount number 40. I currently have Skinning, Leatherworking but LW has gotten me nowhere $ wise. I'm going to drop leather but do I take tailoring or mining. I'll be looking for $ for my mount and tweaks for my alts. Any thoughts or advice??
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You cant have track and detect mineral up at the same time...
I would consider what my next character is going to be a roll something to support that
I would consider what my next character is going to be a roll something to support that
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It all depends on what you want to do. Like he said if you are going to plan on creating another character you might want to choose a gathering skill that might help them out such as herbalism if you are going to make an alchemist or mining if you want to mak ea smth or engineer. Another thing is you might want to consider just doing skinning/mining if you want to make money since they are the biggest money makers in the game for the most part.
gakmonster,
Your at a fork in the road. Down one you'll find copper and silver a plenty. Down the other satisfaction of a job well done and a chance to become one of the few high level crafters. Mounts are great and they do save time, but don't concern yourself with getting one straight at level 40. From what I've seen most of us got our mounts at about level 42ish.
Here's what I see may happen if you drop your crafting for another gathering career. A dip in your Exp per hour. This will something to consider. By choosing to take up another craft you'll either have to grind out the low level resources or spend your own money to increase your skill. If you choose mining you can't even buy the materials you'd just have to go to the lowbie areas and compete with them to farm Nods of copper/tin. No problem easy going, but you are earning any exp. This problem will be the same with any new craft you take up.
Try instead to watch the Auction house. See what goods you craft are selling for. If you can't find a good item to sell simply grind out mobs that have decent drops. in example the goblins down in SHV drop a fair amount of silver and some lanterns that sell pretty well. Or try farming an instant with your guild. Farming instances is a wonderful way to make a little extra money.
Should you determine that you will be changing your crafts take two gathering professions. Tailoring although independent from a gathering profession, is a long term money maker not short term. Otherwise, mining and skinning seem to be the quickest way to a buck.
Your at a fork in the road. Down one you'll find copper and silver a plenty. Down the other satisfaction of a job well done and a chance to become one of the few high level crafters. Mounts are great and they do save time, but don't concern yourself with getting one straight at level 40. From what I've seen most of us got our mounts at about level 42ish.
Here's what I see may happen if you drop your crafting for another gathering career. A dip in your Exp per hour. This will something to consider. By choosing to take up another craft you'll either have to grind out the low level resources or spend your own money to increase your skill. If you choose mining you can't even buy the materials you'd just have to go to the lowbie areas and compete with them to farm Nods of copper/tin. No problem easy going, but you are earning any exp. This problem will be the same with any new craft you take up.
Try instead to watch the Auction house. See what goods you craft are selling for. If you can't find a good item to sell simply grind out mobs that have decent drops. in example the goblins down in SHV drop a fair amount of silver and some lanterns that sell pretty well. Or try farming an instant with your guild. Farming instances is a wonderful way to make a little extra money.
Should you determine that you will be changing your crafts take two gathering professions. Tailoring although independent from a gathering profession, is a long term money maker not short term. Otherwise, mining and skinning seem to be the quickest way to a buck.
as a dwarf you also get the find treasure ability. so having that up in the caves and finding minerals might be annoying to change between them often.
for the sake of money, though, mining will bring in some good money even on copper and tin/silver stuff, at least for you to get your mount.
for the long run, i think crafting is better in making money. it doesn't mean you have to craft all the 300 skill items..it simply means if something you can make at 100 skill is very profitable, keep making that while you go out and adventure or log out for the day. nothing feels better than to come back with 2 stacks of some kind of leather..and instead of selling the leather for 30-80s per stack, you turn it into 3 items that sells for 90s-1.50g
Which professions to pursue is a very personal decision. What one person loves another person will hate. It really depends on what you want out of professions. Myself, I just love trade skills. I like making things. I don’t do it for the money. I’m not saying money is bad, its just not what drives me when it comes to professions.
From the sound of your post money is your driving factor. In that case you may wish to go the same rout as my rogue and add mining to skinning. Mining can be a pain in the backside to raise, but it can also make you good money. My rogue farmed for a week or two and made the 90 gold he needed to buy his mount by the time he hit level 40. He sold medium and thick leather and he sold mithril and truesilver bars. If you price them right they will sell very quickly.
It’s true that any profession that requires the use of the mini map will be a pain for a hunter. But it can be done. Though I’ve not tried it, another alternative would be to take up enchanting just for the ability to disenchant items and then sell the materials you get in the auction house. I’ve heard there’s good money in it, but I expect that all depends on the items you disenchant. For some of them I expect you’d get more money selling the item itself.
Best of luck.
From the sound of your post money is your driving factor. In that case you may wish to go the same rout as my rogue and add mining to skinning. Mining can be a pain in the backside to raise, but it can also make you good money. My rogue farmed for a week or two and made the 90 gold he needed to buy his mount by the time he hit level 40. He sold medium and thick leather and he sold mithril and truesilver bars. If you price them right they will sell very quickly.
It’s true that any profession that requires the use of the mini map will be a pain for a hunter. But it can be done. Though I’ve not tried it, another alternative would be to take up enchanting just for the ability to disenchant items and then sell the materials you get in the auction house. I’ve heard there’s good money in it, but I expect that all depends on the items you disenchant. For some of them I expect you’d get more money selling the item itself.
Best of luck.
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