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Resto druid - what to use LW for?
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Post by
mikar
Greetings,
I read in the guide that LW is of the most benifit to resto druids of all professions - yet I cannot seem to figure out why. Maybe someone would be kind enough to point me towards the items of great use that I may eventually make with LW - and even better also the items of use that I may make along the way.
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DraconisAerius
It's not the items. It's the bracer enchants. Pre-4.0.6 they were massively better than anything an enchanter could do for you, but that has been fixed so they are roughly equal with other profs now. imo you are better off getting Alchemy for the +301 Int trinket.
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mikar
Thanks for the replies.
I am probably just missing something - but sofar (at level 65) I dont seem to have gotten much use from LW. Sure, I have used the AC enchants for 4 slots but thats it. The gear I can make simply dont seem to stack up against what I am otherwise getting. If I compare this to being able to making gems or enchants - which I could use - LW just seems lackluster. Mind, this is my first char so gold isnt something I have in spades.
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mikar
Thanks for the reply Giry,
Unfortunately, you know so much about the game that you may have forgotten how it is to not know and hence mention things I dont even know what are. For example - 15 orbs - what are those? Also, the items you mention I am guessing are level 85 - and I am only level 65.
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I read in the guide that LW is of the most benifit to resto druids of all professions
It's not. If the guide really says that then the guide is wrong and you should disregard it.
All crafting professions are pretty much exactly equal. There is no most beneficial one. Take any combination you want.
LW generally sucks because it is a huge pain to level, it's insanely expensive.
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This may be true now, but not soon. BS gets 2 extra sockets for 40 int each, enchanter gets 2 ring enchants for 40 int, 80 more int from flasks for alch ect. however when we get epic gems, those 2 sockets are going to be worth more than the 80 int most other professions get.
I doubt they'll add better flasks, so in the long term those extra sockets will give you the biggest return.
That's exactly what they did in WotLK. With the introduction of epic gems all profession bonuses were increased to match that of BS with the new gems.
I'd be very, very surprised if they didn't do exactly the same thing again.
Professions are
meant to be equal
in their bonus. Blizzard does not want a superior or inferior profession. They want it to be a players choice. If one profession is in some way superior or inferior it gets patched reasonably fast to bring it on par with the others.
That's what happened to LW (Enchanting got new bracer enchants so that the LW enchant was not better than other profession bonuses anymore, indirectly nerfing LW) and Engineering (the special Engineering glove enchant got a buff so that it now provides int, agil or str instead of only int, making it useful for every class, not only casters) and that's what will happen when epic gems are introduced.
Again: All crafting professions are pretty much exactly equal in terms of stat gains (JC has 1 stat more than others because 80 can't be divided by 3 which is completely negligible, some professions have a proc based stat boost compared to a static one but in the end it really doesn't matter at all), the stat boost should not factor in the decision which profession to chose
at all
.
The valid reasons for a profession are: Gimmicks you like having from it (comfort because you can enchant your own gear and don't have to ask a guild mate every time, the nice Alchemy trinket that saves you DKP in a raid, the useful Engineering parachute that will keep you from dying all the time because you keep pressing the dismount button mid-air, the BS lockpicks because you hate looking for Rogues to open your lockboxes and so on), roleplaying (that fragile Undead Mage loves reading old scrolls, he is the perfect candidate for Inscription, Blacksmithing probably wouldn't really fit ... the mighty Orc brute on the other hand would probably be much more comfortable with it) and ease / cost of leveling (all crafting professions can be leveled very fast and easy with the AH but it will cost thousands of gold, Tailoring / Enchanting are pretty easy to level up while leveling a character, Blacksmithing / Leatherworking / Engineering are probably the worst and insanely expensive, don't even think about picking those money sinks up unless you have a dedicated farm character with mining / skinning or very, very much gold).
By the way:
All my new characters take Enchanting + Tailoring as professions for exactly that reason: Cheap to level, provides the same bonus as everything else. Least effort required to keep them at a reasonable level, least money required to max them out if the character ever gets to 85.
Exceptions are only made for roleplaying reasons (e.g. my Worgen Hunter, he has Skinning + Leatherworking since it just fits the theme of a feral wolf wearing the armor made from his prey, I know that the Skinning stat boost is inferior to the one crafting professions offer but I don't really care since it's only an alt and he won't ever do hard mode raiding anyway).
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