Alchemy VS EngineeringFollow

Engineering doesnt have any heals besides the side effects of recombobulation. All the good warrior items (guns, ammo, and shields) are tradeable. There is also a variety of dynamite which can be used by nonengineers.

Alchemy is good throughout. I still make potions and transmute fairly often. Not so much on engineering, as all the items I use dont have limited number of charges.

Also, since the warrior is usually the first to die, jumper cables arent very useful for them. They're better for rogues and hunters.

Ah, thank you both, Alchemy sounds better...

Think it out for a bit, alchemy rox, i love it, but man o man you bone yourself listing to somebody telling you it is useless.


Wrong, a good Portecion spec warrior shouldnt be the first to die, usualy it is the mages/warlocks/rouges to go they strip hate form the tank the most and cant take it like a good warrior should, while i am not saying that jumber cables is a relevent reason to go in to engenering, just that the warrior dies first issue.



Then you are just choosing not to use your engenering in PVE not becasue it is useless becacue you either choose not to or dont know how to use it effectivly. Occasional? death ray, you should be using that every time it is done with cooldown. Great PvE uses, Pets drangoling, chicken both rock in pve but are next to useless in PvP, Giant AoE Bombs like the big one are fantastic for grabbing and keeping hate as well as mild Croud controle with the daze period. Goblin Sapper charges seem to be made for Warriors. The teleporters rock, they maxamise the area you can call your home, allowing for fast world travle(since you can have hearth set to one contenent and teleporter for the other)

while you can trade it, cant use unless your are a engeneer, notice the 44 Block(always carry a extra sheild when using froce reflective disk, it breaks often)
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=18168

Herb alch is good, dont get me worng i have 2 toons that use it, I am more thrown off by the folks that chime in and give a perspeciteve that is far form informitive, or in some cases WRONG.

remember with alchemy that anybody can use potinos engenering items for the most part take engenering to use. When you pull your first aracne crystal out of the ground with mining and sell it for 20 gold, usualy folks feel confedent that they made the right choise. My alchemest makes potions for my Gnome Warrior Engeneer buddie, in a fight he is the last one standing, usualy becasue he chose to use the potions i gave him, and the engenering gear he made, the big diffrence is when he dies or a time peroid is over, he still has his engenering items, the alchemy buffs are long gone.

Realistly I say Ignore folks that tell you to pick one or the other, the real thing to do is to try them out yourself, or look thought the items that the trades produce and pick based off that.

Perhaps you'd like to rephrase that to 'I don't use bandages in instances' because you are very wrong. Any character who does not have aggro on him/her can use a bandage and it's a real life-saver, especially if the healer is too busy keeping somebody else alive or has gone OOM.

Typical example in my group is a Rogue who will either kill her opponent or get the aggro on to the Warrior, then bandage herself. Another example is when a Priest takes a couple of hard hits before fading (or takes damage from AoE etc), rather than using up mana on self-healing you just use a bandage on yourself. While it may be harder for a Warrior to bandage during a fight it is certainly achievable.

My warrior took up engineering. While i have never been an alchemist (well at least not yet, planning to with my shaman), i can say that engineering is really fun. I can make my own guns, craft my own ammunition, which is better than what I have seen at the vendors for the current level, use a variety of explosives, as well as several fun gadgets such as a Target Dummy, which causes the enemies to attack it, and the Gnomish Remote Control, which can give you control of a mechanical enemy for a short time.

I am not gonna speak against alchemy because, honestly, I have never went with alchemy, but engineering is really fun, and most materials are not that hard to get. I cannot wait for Gnomeregan because of my remote control, and my jumper cables could provide very handy for when a priest gets too much aggro. Also, when in a party with a druid, you do not want to die, because of the 30 min cooldown on their rez spell. Jumper cables would be a must if a druid is your only healer, simply because, it is easy to die if you are not careful (has happened to me so many times), and if one person dies, sure enough another is not far behind.

Really though, choose whichever sounds best to you: fun gadgets and explosives, including the always cool explosive sheep, or plenty of potions that do all sorts of things.

I've often found myself wondering the same thing... which profesison should i choose? As much as i respect and understand the statement that the choice is "up to you and your preferences", that really isn't an insightful response when you're looking for someone with experience to give you information.

As someone who has played both alchemy and engineering >200, I would say that both are fun. In my case, my choice of profession was directly correlated to the class of my character. As a shaman, i chose alchemy because most of the neat things engineers can do i could already do, such as res, root (earthbind), see far in the distance, can run fast (travel form) and stuff like that. Alchemy was particularly helpful as a shaman because as a hybrid class I found every buff to be useful in different situations. All in all, I found alchemy to be very fulfilling and interesting.

My latest character is a mage engineer. Mages can't res, can't see far, doesn't have a travel form so dont run fast, and are weak at melee (so would benefit greatly from a pet/more crowd control). Lots of these problems are solved through engineering. I don't use bombs that often because i already have AoE, but a priest engineer friend of mine says he uses bombs all the time for the AoE damage priests lack.

You can't go wrong with either. I personally found myself using potions more as an alchemist than i use bombs as an engineer, but some of the engineering headgear is nice for mages and lots of the other engineering stuff is fun to use.



Edited, Mon Aug 8 12:58:42 2005 by PrayForMojo