Dropping mining for alchemy?Follow

Yes.

If you are looking for money, drop herb instead, and grab (dis)enchanting.

If you really REALLY want alchemy, okay drop mining, but you WILL have much less gold.

OR you could buy herbs for alchemy with mining's money.(2nd choice, its kind of dumb though)

What's your motivation for training alchemy? You have one reason for keeping mining (a pretty good one) and a grand total of ... none listed for becoming an alchy.

Most potions cost less on the AH than the cost of the herbs that go into them. Pick flowers, sell flowers, buy pots => PROFIT.

If you're going alchemy for transmutes or some other legitimate reason, you can always wait until you're closer to lvl 70 to powerlevel your crafting profession when you're flush with gold.

The problem with taking two gathering professions from the beginning on your first toon is that you will never fully appreciate how easy it made your game.

If you want to switch because mining is "boring" then I echo muffinyumyum's advice that you become a (dis)enchanter instead. More money than you can imagine is to be had if you follow ohmikeghod's intermittent but always valuable guidance on the subject.

how is mining/engineering a dual-gathering profession? did you mean to say skinning?


I personally just dropped mining for herbalism, (then again I was 70 and did the 1-375 leveling in about 5-6 hours played). I have made a good amount of money with herbalism now and I can easily afford my pots/flasks/etc for raiding.

OK, I'll buy that, but NOT AT LEVEL 34, which is what the OP said. Perhaps if you learned to understand what was written, you'd be able to provide answers that are relevant to the original poster instead of to you. So tell us again - exactly how is mining/engineering a dual gathering profession at level 34?

Edited, Jan 17th 2008 9:54pm by ohmikeghod

But between 34 and 60 (the earliest he can get get the quest), he will be a money-loser. My advise: get rich first, then go with Engineering and power-level to 305 to get the quest with stockpiled ore. Here is a guide that will be an aid in knowing what you need to obtain to level engineering.

Edited, Jan 18th 2008 10:21am by ohmikeghod

Guess my last question is do I need to make any money off professions or will there be other avenues to have enough gold for say a epic mount?

both are equal. I had enough gold (from fishing) on my first toon to purchase an epic ground mount before I hit 50. Buying the standard flier was also trivial. The epic took 2 weeks to gather the gold, but I also bought my wife a ground epic mount while I was building up the 5K. There are many ways to make gold while you are leveling, and when you get to 70, only a little bit (questing) is added.