In the last 3 weeks orso I have been getting a lot of questions about professions. Today I’ll be awnsering the common ones for the broader public.

What are the best money making professions?

Tbh… everything. You can make money with everything. There are a couple ones that are better ofcourse. Tailoring/enchanting works really well, so does mining/JC, skinning/LW, herb/inscription. The best thing is to take one crafter, one gather proffesion untill lvl80 and make the things that give you a good (though slow) profit. Lill’ sparkys workshop can work wonders for that. Once your lvl80, work your way up to 420+ on the crafting prof. and drop the gather one. take up insc, jc or ench and start lvling it with the profit made from lvling it. once that is up to 400+ you’ll make triple money. proffesions that make good money from best to worst: JC, Ench, Ins, LW, Tailoring, mining, herb, skin,alch, BS, Eng.

Should I drop my gathering proffesion for a crafting one?

really depends, I would say yes but only if your first crafing is above 420. AND you have a nice stockpile of good/gold to lvl it further.

Should I take 2 gather professions while lvling?

Nothing wrong with that! I just don’t do it, because I don’t like to spend too much time on the side while questing/dungeoning. Yes, yes crafting takes time too. I usually gather all my mats, and after 10 lvls i go and use them all in one trek to lvl my crafting one. (while I’m afk watching some anime…hey that rhymes!..ahum)


What about engineering?

Engineering has some things that make money (bullets/arrows, bronze tubes for allaince, overcharged cap..) but most of the time it’s just fun, explosive and helpfull. My warlock has Engineering and he’s a walking timebom. Damiän is gearing for pvp, and the cloacks, rocket hands, bombs, etc make it easy to suprise my enemy’s and kick some ass. Also the mailbox and wherever you want auctioneer == great utility for bankers.

Thats it for todays questions, if you have more send them to seth.onecopper@gmail.com, twitter them or post them as a comment!

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The crafter’s corner brings uss a weekly noise. It sounds like *tjing Tjing* And is annoying as hell… Try to stand in the middle of Ironforge for more then 10 seconds and you’ll know why. hammer on metal isn’t the sound that we all love and enjoy. Yet for those first 10 seconds it’s a bliss, since we all know that sound makes uss money.

Now that inscriptioners are still abundant ’cause of th emmo-champion guide I want to get this over with. A lot of new inscriptioners means that they are using a lot more herbs, some by farming, some by buying. Others are even more ignorant and buy the ink’s. And today I’m talking about those.

90% of the new inscriptioners are still doing the Northrend inscription research. Most of them also try to make darkmoon cards. Which in turn means they need a lot of ink. Now selling these ink can be very profitable.

I’m an inscriptioner (orsomething similar) too. And I do the following:

Buy as much northrend herbs as I need. Mill them all, make the inks.
Now the Ink of the sea I need for my glyphs, but the Snowfall inks are practicly useless for me.

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Now I buy a stack for about 25gold. And one stack gives me about 1-3 snowfall inks, which I sell for 12-20G a piece (depending on the current market price)

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Now That means that I can actuallly sell my glyphs for 1gold and make a profit.  The snowfall inks alone give me back my investment so the only cost I have left is the parchments.

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That right there, Is how we can profit from “sheep” people that follow guides without thinking any further. If a guide is out there and it gets a lot of followers, uss Goblins, uss real Auctioneers and bankers Anticipate and React and Profit.

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