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but now, it seems that we're SOL... not too much need for potions/flasks/elixirs any more... maybe i'm thinking prematurely... not many guilds are raiding...
Yup - you're thinking prematurely, heck, most people haven't even dinged 80 yet so of course there's no raiding yet. I belong to one of the top horde guilds on my server and we haven't gotten an official raid schedule up so no point in even pretending to sweat it.
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selling herbs in TBC was fine...
Are LK herbs not selling?
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i was thinking of mining and blacksmithing again...
mining is easy to level... just stay out of the AH...
BS on the other hand... there's my dilemma...
Actually, it all comes down to cost vs time - my druid started the expansion with 500g in his pocket, at level 80 he's now got close to 4500g in his pocket and he's been doing some spending to boot.
Once you ding 80 you'll be earning 10-20g per quest done and that's not counting pocket change the mobs drop, vendor trash and greens, so the reality is that the time it'd take you to farm the ore to skill up BS can probably be better spent just running quests in the xpac.
So if you want to go BS then here's what you do - keep herbalism and dump alchemy, level up your mining first and just bank all the ore and gems and once you've got mining up to 300, then start working on BS.
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who cares if the gold dots show for both herb and nodes? will it show? can i track only one item?
You can only track one thing at a time so you'll have to keep swapping back and forth between tracking herbs and ore.
The reason I say keep herbalism while leveling mining is so that you can still scoop any herbs you find while looking for ore - with all the inscriptionists out there the herbs will still sell nicely on the AH.