Should they? And if not, what other profession would i get besides tailoring?
EDIT: spelt "profession" wrong... ><
Edited, Fri Dec 2 08:43:31 2005 by smashingcabbages
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Should tailoring and enchanting go together?Follow
Leatherworking is actually much better.
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What if i'm a cloth-only class (warlock) ? and if im a low level?
This is what I wrote up in the sticky:
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I don't know if this is true... cloth can be collected without use of a third party (ie, the AH). Leather cannot without skinning. Still, I guess one would have to compare the cost of leatherworking materials to tailoring materials. Leather is usually cheaper than cloth, I will admit.
Basically, if you want to do it yourself, collecting the materials yourself, tailoring is the way to go. But I could see leatherworking functioning, and it might even be more useful for a leather/mail-wearer than tailoring.
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Enchanting is indeed a stand-alone profession (well, more or less). It gives you the required skill to get materials and make something out of them. In this way, it is a lot like tailoring; you don't need a second profession to support your craft (as, for example, blacksmithing NEEDS mining for most of the way up to 300).
Therefore, the tried and true formula is Enchanting/Tailoring. With this combination you can make your own items to disenchant. The catch is a minor one: you won't get any weapons made from tailoring, so getting essences can be slightly harder. Also, now you take out cloth as a source of income, making yourself even poorer.
Another combination is enchanting with a gathering skill. This way you can make money and then buy items off the auction house. It frees up any cloth you find to be sold, but means you need to either go after beasts in particular (for skinning), or out of your way for resource nodes (herbalism/mining). Out of these skills mining probably would make the most on its own, as two professions need a lot of ore.
Therefore, the tried and true formula is Enchanting/Tailoring. With this combination you can make your own items to disenchant. The catch is a minor one: you won't get any weapons made from tailoring, so getting essences can be slightly harder. Also, now you take out cloth as a source of income, making yourself even poorer.
Another combination is enchanting with a gathering skill. This way you can make money and then buy items off the auction house. It frees up any cloth you find to be sold, but means you need to either go after beasts in particular (for skinning), or out of your way for resource nodes (herbalism/mining). Out of these skills mining probably would make the most on its own, as two professions need a lot of ore.
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Leatherworking is actually much better.
I don't know if this is true... cloth can be collected without use of a third party (ie, the AH). Leather cannot without skinning. Still, I guess one would have to compare the cost of leatherworking materials to tailoring materials. Leather is usually cheaper than cloth, I will admit.
Basically, if you want to do it yourself, collecting the materials yourself, tailoring is the way to go. But I could see leatherworking functioning, and it might even be more useful for a leather/mail-wearer than tailoring.
I would not suggest Enchanting as a profession until later in the game. Low level enchanting will not make much, if any money, for you. Pick a profession that will make you some money! At low levels, most items vendor for more than they are worth in enchanting mats. Most low level enchants are given away free from enchanters looking to get a skill-up. Even mid to high level enchants are usually sold for less than the cost of the mats.
Later in the game it is very easy to skill up enchanting to the higher levels. Enchanting starts costing more and more money to skillup around skill level 250.
I just said leatherworking because.
1. Cloth costs more than leather. Sell you cloth buy twice as much leather at the AH for making items. (see the price of Wool vs Medium leather)
2. Green leather armor uses less special items to make. Lots of patterns that only need leather and thread.
3. Leather armor has a greater chance to DE into essences.
I know of no cloth armor that DE's into essences over 30% of the time, with leather there are several and they only need leather and thread to make! Look hard enuff and you will find that for 1.5Gold in LW mats you can make 10Gold worth of essences 30% of the time, the other 70% you only make 1 to 3 gold.
10 items cost 15Gold to make
10 * 30% * 10G = 30 Gold
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10 * 70% * 2G(average) = 14 Gold
So, for the cost of 15Gold in LW mats, you can make 44Gold in Enchanting mats. Need money? sell the mats and make more!
Later in the game it is very easy to skill up enchanting to the higher levels. Enchanting starts costing more and more money to skillup around skill level 250.
I just said leatherworking because.
1. Cloth costs more than leather. Sell you cloth buy twice as much leather at the AH for making items. (see the price of Wool vs Medium leather)
2. Green leather armor uses less special items to make. Lots of patterns that only need leather and thread.
3. Leather armor has a greater chance to DE into essences.
I know of no cloth armor that DE's into essences over 30% of the time, with leather there are several and they only need leather and thread to make! Look hard enuff and you will find that for 1.5Gold in LW mats you can make 10Gold worth of essences 30% of the time, the other 70% you only make 1 to 3 gold.
10 items cost 15Gold to make
10 * 30% * 10G = 30 Gold
+
10 * 70% * 2G(average) = 14 Gold
So, for the cost of 15Gold in LW mats, you can make 44Gold in Enchanting mats. Need money? sell the mats and make more!
Great points, Nekar! Major rate up, and adding you to the sticky (and giving you credit in it, of course :-P)
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