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You're absolutely right. High end blacksmithing does pay off. That's why you should do it only when you get to 70.

I'd recommend mining/skinning on your pally, as switching over ores will totally suck if you have to do it all the time. At 70, drop skinnning for smithy, and either PL it with the golds you've made, or go make golds at the best gold/hour rate you can get, THEN throw that into smithing. Don't go around picking up copper ore with a lvl 70. It's absolutely stupid when you can pick up ores worth 10X the amount in the same timeframe, sell them, and pick up 10 stacks of copper.

Taking any crafting profession really just depends on your play style and your personal likes and dislikes.

A lot of people will recommend herbalism and alchemy, as you can buff yourself with the potions you make. But that profession doesn’t work for me because I never remember to use potions or scrolls.

If you are big into end game raiding then chances are you‘ll get better items from the raids than what you can make.

Personally I would advise everyone to stay away from crafting professions unless they actually enjoy crafting. This is a game, so crafting should be fun and not a job.

If you feel you would enjoy being a blacksmith then by all means go for it. Another craft you might consider is engineering. But again, only if you think you might enjoy it. Engineering will give a paladin more ranged pulling options. And for me it’s just a hoot in and of itself. The fact that engineers can make what I consider the coolest flying mount in game is just a bonus.

I wouldn't really suggest that. Even if he gathers the mats on his rogue, mining is STILL going to bring him more money than skinning all the way to 70. It would be absolutely ridiculous for him to drop his biggest money making gathering skill for a crafting profession that needs its mats.

At the very least, go smithing/mining. You'll NEVER make enough golds with skinning to even come close to buying enough mats to lvl it up at a fair rate.

I'd wait and PL whichever crafting profession you pick once your pala hits 70.

What I'd do is find a levelling guide and then save the mats that you mine as you go along on your pala that you'll need to level the profession at 70 (you can make a bank alt to store these if you run out of room). Any excess can be sold on the AH and this means you won't need to buy anything for a high price just to get those extra points that you need to level up.

As for which profession to pick, I find that there's nothign really of use that I can make via blacksmithing for my paladin. The bop craftables are not much good for holy or prot and anything that is boe I could get from another crafter (and the price for recipes is fairly high). I realise there are some higher level patterns available (my pala is an alt so I've not looked into this much), but I'd imagine there are easier to get alternatives.

If I was relevelling my paladin I'd go engineering rather than blacksmithing as there seem to be more useful things from that.

As it happens I'm one oft he people who like having crafting professions, so I'm happy with my pala having BS and not using it for much other than making rods for my enchanter.

I agree with the folks who have advised holding off on a crafting profession until much later. If you want to go BS, then find a guide on powerleveling and start saving the necessary materials with your pally. It's easy to say you're going to feed bars off your main, but it's a bore to actually go back to the lowbie levels and do it. It's much more efficient to gather as you level.

Yeah - the rogue has great mining skills so no point in having the two toons be redundent - let the rogue feed the pally and have the pally drop mining for BS or JC or even Engineering.

BS is great as you can make armor and weapons for your toon.

JC is a good general skill as all of your toons can benefits from the gems and jewelery, plus, the higher end gems are pretty profitable to cut/sell.

Engineering is a good leveling skill for pallies as, personally, I've had a horrendous time leveling mine till I gave it engineering - the bombs, target dummies, etc are real life savers for that class.

Mining is still a much better gathering profession than skinning. I can't comprehend how you believe skinning/blacksmithing would be anywhere better than mining/blacksmithing. Even if the rogue can do it faster, the pally can do it while leveling. Also, I'll again re-iterate that gathering mats is dumb. Getting gold and buying mats is smart. It'll save you time.

OP, don't listen to any of us. Speak to Tynuv. He seems to have the best advice for you as he's already been in the situation.

I've got to say, for the most part, unless you're going to be a ret pally, blacksmithing probably isn't worth it. If you're going ret, however, Thunder/Deep Thunder/Stormherald are probably just about the best weapon for you, as that stun proc is awesome combined with SoC.

I started off my pally as a Mining/BS'ing, but I ended up switching the BS'ing to Enchanting. Believe me, BS'ing is a pain in the **** to level up in the high 200's, my shaman is a BS, and I ended up spending several hundred gold buying thorium to get up to 300.