Hey all! ATM im lvl 62 and have Mining and Skining, both of which are close to 375 (342 and 374 respectivly). At lvl 70, once I have got my epic flight form, I would like to start a new Trade Skill. I have narrowed the choices to either enchanting or engineering, as they seem to be the funnest to lvl up.
I need some advice as to which prof to take up. I have heard that emchanting gives almost no profit until quite high lvls, so I am kind of leaning towards taking engineering as some of the cool stuff you can make! (Googles FTW!) I want to be able to make quite a bit of money from the proff that I choose, but also enjoy doing it.
Can somone please help me to choose which to take and which prof to drop?
TY in advance.
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you will make no money in engineering, most of the craftables are BoP, epic goggles and gun at 375 but that is a verrrrry expensive level to get to
at least in enchanting, you can DE crap and sell the mats on AH after you have outgrown them
i am at 370 engineering and completely broke, about to quit the proff because of blizz neglect
blizz has buffed some enchanting things (huge essence drop rate, and higher drop rate on used-to-be leet recipes)
engineering is fun, until about 250
just my two pennies... good luck
at least in enchanting, you can DE crap and sell the mats on AH after you have outgrown them
i am at 370 engineering and completely broke, about to quit the proff because of blizz neglect
blizz has buffed some enchanting things (huge essence drop rate, and higher drop rate on used-to-be leet recipes)
engineering is fun, until about 250
just my two pennies... good luck
I wouldn't take engineering unless you need something specific (Jumper cables and Death ray comes to mind).
I just powerleveled engineering from 1-245 yesterday because I needed an engineering-only headpiece (green lens of shadow wrath (+10 sta, +36 shadow damage) for my 39 warlock twink.
It was incredibly easy and straightforward, and took me only a few hours (this includes traveling times to seek out Master engineer, and buy various recipes).
If you can mine a bit of mithril yourself (around 5 stacks) it's also incredibly cheap. I spend a little under 100g to get from 1-245, and the only thing I got myself was the 100 or so mithril needed.
And you get loads of fireworks (200-300 or so :D) and lots of bombs to throw around.
I'd say engineering is for utility and fun, not for profit.
I just powerleveled engineering from 1-245 yesterday because I needed an engineering-only headpiece (green lens of shadow wrath (+10 sta, +36 shadow damage) for my 39 warlock twink.
It was incredibly easy and straightforward, and took me only a few hours (this includes traveling times to seek out Master engineer, and buy various recipes).
If you can mine a bit of mithril yourself (around 5 stacks) it's also incredibly cheap. I spend a little under 100g to get from 1-245, and the only thing I got myself was the 100 or so mithril needed.
And you get loads of fireworks (200-300 or so :D) and lots of bombs to throw around.
I'd say engineering is for utility and fun, not for profit.
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engineering is more fun imo, also you'll get some nice pvp stuff
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Posted: Jun 18 2007 at 1:59 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) engineering is worthless to night elves because they cannot use guns as far as i know
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It almost seems like Blizzard uses up all of its good idea "points" and spends them everywhere else but on Engineering. I have been nothing but dissappointed. I started my road of annoyance many months ago when looking to make a twink pvp mage. I didn't look at the fine details. After the annoyances started piling up I figured I could just have fun with things. After all, one bomb is better than blacksmithing. But no, fun quickly turns to frustration.
The BAD
Take the speed boots. Great for grabbing the flag...until it ends and you run around in random directions for a while, which is a lot.
Take the various mechanical pets that fight for you. The Mechanical Dragonling lasts a whole 60 seconds and has a 1 hour cool down. The Gnomish Battle Chicken lasts almosts two minutes and has a 30 minute cool down...but does 1 damage half the time.
Bombs? Yawn. I saw a post from a guy who says he loves them in PvP. He says you just need to know how to use them. That's what I thought. Still trying to figure them out.
Gnomish Cloaking Device...very fun. Except you can't see players or creatures while stealthed. Oh, and again, the cool down is an hour.
Gnomish Death Ray. Oh man was I jazzed for this one. And a 5 minute cool down...mmmmmmmmmmmm. Oh and damage, oh yeah. I do something around 900 all the time. Little problem...you can't take damage during its 5 sec (?) powerup. That and the range is shhhhheaaaat. 75% of the time in a BG I either take damage or my target leaves my range (remember the stupid long charge time).
The Rocket Helmet. CLASSIC Engineer "Use: Charge an enemy, knocking it silly for 30 seconds. Also knocks you down, stunning you for a short period of time. Any damage caused will revive the target." This is in "bad" because, once again, something has to go wrong for the engineer. Its also in "good."
Gnomish Net-o-Matic Projector. Another "wow" that turns out to suck. Want to root someone for 10 seconds? Cool! I can even live with the fact that I'm rooted "on occasion." Oh, but wait...here comes Blizzard. It PULLS you to your target when you get entangled. WTF. That's great if you're not, say, a freaking MAGE.
The GOOD.
Green Lens. I was making a Fire Mage twink. I made 8 lenses until I finally got a "Fiery." Something like +32 to fire damage. This kind of extra damage can not be found at the level I received it.
Rocket Helmet. Great when you're out of other ways to stop someone.
Discombobulator Ray. I've never used this but it looks like a winner esp in PvP.
The UGLY
Why you have to be an Engineer for half of the items is beyond me. I would understand if the items did not have such painful negatives. Please, take those away or allow non-engineers to use them. But both is just mean.
FINALLY
Like most people say, "engineering is not a money making profession." Noooo kidding.
And for bows and crossbows. I agree. I don't understand why engineering is not the place for all ranged weapons and projectiles...oh wait, I guess I should re-read my opening paragraph.
The BAD
Take the speed boots. Great for grabbing the flag...until it ends and you run around in random directions for a while, which is a lot.
Take the various mechanical pets that fight for you. The Mechanical Dragonling lasts a whole 60 seconds and has a 1 hour cool down. The Gnomish Battle Chicken lasts almosts two minutes and has a 30 minute cool down...but does 1 damage half the time.
Bombs? Yawn. I saw a post from a guy who says he loves them in PvP. He says you just need to know how to use them. That's what I thought. Still trying to figure them out.
Gnomish Cloaking Device...very fun. Except you can't see players or creatures while stealthed. Oh, and again, the cool down is an hour.
Gnomish Death Ray. Oh man was I jazzed for this one. And a 5 minute cool down...mmmmmmmmmmmm. Oh and damage, oh yeah. I do something around 900 all the time. Little problem...you can't take damage during its 5 sec (?) powerup. That and the range is shhhhheaaaat. 75% of the time in a BG I either take damage or my target leaves my range (remember the stupid long charge time).
The Rocket Helmet. CLASSIC Engineer "Use: Charge an enemy, knocking it silly for 30 seconds. Also knocks you down, stunning you for a short period of time. Any damage caused will revive the target." This is in "bad" because, once again, something has to go wrong for the engineer. Its also in "good."
Gnomish Net-o-Matic Projector. Another "wow" that turns out to suck. Want to root someone for 10 seconds? Cool! I can even live with the fact that I'm rooted "on occasion." Oh, but wait...here comes Blizzard. It PULLS you to your target when you get entangled. WTF. That's great if you're not, say, a freaking MAGE.
The GOOD.
Green Lens. I was making a Fire Mage twink. I made 8 lenses until I finally got a "Fiery." Something like +32 to fire damage. This kind of extra damage can not be found at the level I received it.
Rocket Helmet. Great when you're out of other ways to stop someone.
Discombobulator Ray. I've never used this but it looks like a winner esp in PvP.
The UGLY
Why you have to be an Engineer for half of the items is beyond me. I would understand if the items did not have such painful negatives. Please, take those away or allow non-engineers to use them. But both is just mean.
FINALLY
Like most people say, "engineering is not a money making profession." Noooo kidding.
And for bows and crossbows. I agree. I don't understand why engineering is not the place for all ranged weapons and projectiles...oh wait, I guess I should re-read my opening paragraph.
Enchanting vs Engineering
I've never really made money with enchanting. I've made money Disenchanting, lots of money from disenchanting. There's a trick you can do with Wizard pants, it doesn't look appealing since it requires 1x dream dust to create. Yet it yields 2-5 dream dust when disenchanting.
There's your money making tip for the day.
Engineering you won't be able to make money with, but you'll have a ton of fun. Bomb's stun unsuspecting flag-runners, goggles help in Arena, and boy the list just goes on.
I hope this helped.
I've never really made money with enchanting. I've made money Disenchanting, lots of money from disenchanting. There's a trick you can do with Wizard pants, it doesn't look appealing since it requires 1x dream dust to create. Yet it yields 2-5 dream dust when disenchanting.
There's your money making tip for the day.
Engineering you won't be able to make money with, but you'll have a ton of fun. Bomb's stun unsuspecting flag-runners, goggles help in Arena, and boy the list just goes on.
I hope this helped.
Players don’t even buy engineered bullets now, so other than the trinkets and items that you can use for yourself, it’s really a profitless tradeskill. Sure some people get into the scope market, but how often will you remember to make those scopes and sell them? After some time, you don’t even level up around the zones where you can get those mats now.
Guns don’t sell too well because people want the bop guns/bows from instances. They figure they’d rather put in time and get exp while trying to get that gun/bow drop. The gyro khorium gun is definitely good, but you’ll need primal nether to make it. That’s one mat that is keeping people from just pumping out epics after epics. Other guns are just as good that you can make, but again, 10-40g or run an instance? Many will choose the instance or quest.
For those reasons above and the fact that you wanted to make money on a regular basis, I’d suggest enchanting.
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