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Professions for a rogue
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Lunien
Hi, what professions should I get for a rogue? The rogue will be an alt. Should I stick with the usual two gathering? Or try a crafting? I was planning to try skinning LW..thoughts?
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Crabby
I picked Mining and Engineering when I leveled up my rogue, I picked engineering simply for the reason that I was a gnome. If I were to pick another profession, I'll have to go with either Skinning/Leatherworking or Herbalism/Alchemy. Weaponsmith works great too for some rogues.
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Lunien
ok thanks, skinning LW it is
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Post by
Smaragd
I think Mining would be more fun and more profitable than Skinning. I have had Skinning and Leatherworking since the start, and both were fairly crap until the Burning Crusade.
Now, Leatherworking has drums (which is good if you use them) and every crafting profession has their own unique instance BoP recipes. If you're after this stat effect in raids, I'd rather go for Enchanting or Jewelcrafting and Engineering, which in my opinion has the strongest BoP items right now. Enchanting and Jewelcrafting is also relatively more profitable at a high level than other professions are, and Engineering has fun gadgets that can be useful for certain solo stuff (bombs = rogue area of effect).
Skinning is just generally boring. You have to farm mobs that don't drop cloth or important items, and it never changes. It's not really useful, but you can craft items on demand combined with Leatherworking, rather than waiting for stuff to show up on the auction house. Mining is imo much more profitable, and rogues can easily farm rare nodes inside instances alone with this skill.
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Lunien
Hmm....ok thanks guys, I think i'll try engineering again..I remember it being a pain to level before.
Post by
Aevelynn
Engineering isn't bad. I did it in about a day from 1-355 on my priest alt. Spent about 4 hours on thorium and adamantite, fel iron is pretty cheap on my server.
Leatherworking is great. The Primalstrike stuff is pretty obsolete now, but making your own armor kits is nice. Drums are definitely a plus, and even though they're receiving a nerf/balance in the expansion, they're releasing leatherworking-only bracer kits.
120 AP to bracers is pretty sexy.
Post by
Random0514
One rogue is mining/engi (she's very poor!) and the other is mining/JC (she's rolling in gold!). Engi is fun though and people love the cables (if they decide to work) and repair bots.
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