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Ok, I read the FAQ for trade skills and I am still lost on what to do. I'm a level 31 priest and I have not put a minute into a trade up to this point. I've just been leveling. What trade skills should I take? I do want to make money and also do something fun. Any suggestions with a good combo and then also how to go back and level these skills would be greatly appreciated!

Jeddius

anyone that says enchanting isn't expensive to level up is a liar though.

If you want to make some money, pick up skinning + mining/herbalism. As you have been leveling you can skin the beasts that you are killing and make money with them. Once you get up to a higher level (preferably upper 60s, and with a healthy wallet) you can afford to drop one of the professions and pick up something that you may want. For instance, you can pick up herbalism + skinning. Once you get high enough in level drop the skinning and pick up alchemy to make potions/elixirs/flasks/transmutes for you, your guild, and others.

If you decide to do this, I recommend having a bank alt that will hold all of the mats it will take to level up your alchemy as you go along (enough peacebloom, bruiseweed, etc), once you have reached the number that you will need (check out a profession guide) sell the rest on the AH. This way when it comes to you leveling your alchemy (if you decide to go that route) you will need to go back to the lowbie areas on your mount and be picking the level 1 flowers again, you will just need to mail the items to you and you can power level it in a couple hours. (it will also help protect against the insane inflation on the lower level items on the AH).

Enchanting will put you in the poorhouse. Advising someone new to this that they should Enchant to make money is really not a good idea.

You make money from gathering professions, and only disenchanting will make money for you, but you will spend your time running Deadmines and looking for cheap greens to DE on the AH. Better to take skinning and either mining or herbalism as Anobix wisely suggested. Mining and herbalism both have a "tracking" skill and only one can be up at a time, so it is usually better to take only one.

The only experience I have in trying to sell tailoring items on the AH is for prices that are less than what the D/Ed mats sell for. I have a D/E alt with an enchanting level of 225 (so that they can DE items below level 65). It is easy now to use that to make money, but I gave this alt a 75g nest to be able to buy all of the items off of the AH (using auctioneer/enchantrix) and then to DE them and sell the mats. You certainly can make money off of tailoring, a lot of people sell bags. It is just that it isn't as easy to sell the items as it is with herbs/ore that will always sell no matter what level you are at from copper to khorium.

But the OP was asking about profs to make money. And only one person said to stay away from tailoring. If you want to make money right away, gathering profs are going to give you the best bang for the buck, so to speak.



Then we agree, you make money by DEing.

DEing is all i wanted to do

I do not disagree with you. I meant that it is expensive to level up if you do not have a nest-egg to get the mats to help you level the skill instead of constantly going to instances and hoping to get good rolls on the greens to be able to DE them and get the mats. Granted, using auctioneer/enchantrix can net me a large amount of money, but I spend a decent amount (a couple hundred gold) power lvling my enchanting from 75 to 225 so that I can D/E all of the items 64 and below. Now if I were smart and saved some of the mats to make sure that I had enough to level and then sold the excess... I would be golden.

That is really it with skinning. Skin your kills and sell leather on AH. This works so well because Tailoring, Blacksmithing and Leatherworking all use leather to make various stuff.

As for your second profession I suggest as others have mining or herbing. Either of these two will make you good steady money. This is fairly important in a first/low level toon.

I also suggest you not try Enchanting for a money maker on your first toon before reaching a high level. While it is true you can make money dis-enchanting (D/E) greens and selling materials, this is much more difficult and time consuming for an unsupported charactor. In the past a skill of 1 was needed to D/E anything(that could be dis-enchanted) in the game. Today you will need to level up to 275 skill in order to D/E up to level 70.

Leveling enchanting will cost money. No matter how you look at it materials will be consumed to level this skill. That cost is more or less fixed. I don't know what it is but someone could figure it out if they wanted to. Say that number is 1000G. As a toon leveling from 1-60 1000G is a lot of the gold you will make from drops and questing. After reaching level 70 1000G is a couple of weeks of work. D/E for cash is much easier to do at this point as the cash is a much smaller % of cash availble to you.