Profession Question

Baddwin

Baddwin

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I'm a Gnomish Engineer, and realized that I never use any of my engineering items anymore, with the occasional exception of the Gadgetstan transporter. Gee, glad I leveled to 300 for that. :confused: I'm making money with mining, but really couldn't care less whether or not I keep skilling up engineering as it currently exists. I understand that Blizzard is going to be reworking engineering somewhere in the future, so realize that it might suddenly become usable, but I don't necessarily want to bank on the future when what I have now is essentially useless to me.

As it's really doing me no good, I'm considering taking up tailoring in its place. I know we have a number of tailors, but don't know how many that may be. I'm absolutely drooling over some of the high end tailoring-only gear, like Frozen Shadowweave, Battlecast, and Spellstrike. My question is how much of a burden is it going to be to get it leveled up? I'm assuming I can get to 250-300 fairly easily by essentially throwing some gold at it, but how tedious will it be from 300-375? It seems that I can farm the mats I need, for the most part, but would welcome any input. Also, how likely is it that just as I start being able to make some of this for myself (and waiting out cooldowns...) that raid level gear will eclipse it?

I'm also assuming that tailoring will have much better potential for making profit than engineering (anything is bigger than zero, right?). Considering that I don't have to be making hundreds of gold per day in order to be satisfied, am I mistaken in this assumption?
 
my warlock is a tailor, I like it! Its sometimes a pain too, and im at the point now that its getting pretty hard to level it up heh, 18 slot bags arent giving any skill at all:/ but he is also my alt and only 61 and I havent travelled to actually take up the shadoweave tailoring. I have picked up some rare patterns along the way, arcana robes for example and made some coin off those and I have made money off selling bags, thats about it. But I have made a lot less money off engineering, that is true lol. Unless you use bombs, those are fun, and as a rogue I like to vanish and use jumper cables in case of a wipe if I can do it:)
 
engineering is strictly a stunt or pvp profession, and is a real cash pit that doesn't earn you anything, despite some of its convenience.

If you don't want to level another profession to earn profit you can take up enchanting, or DISenchanting for that matter :p
The mats sell quite well, since you can DE BoP items too.
 
***BOOM, BOOMBOOMBOOM**** I love to make things go boom! Some nice bombs right now at 315-350 engineering. I've always loved it, even though you can't seem to make money unless you sell ore... which I've made a lot on, for a while copper was at 3g a stack and truesilver at 26g stack. Still, BOOOM! gotta love those frags
 
Opening locks, reviving others, cloaking, stamina boosts, dps boosts, stuns, charges, snares, pets, cool shades, explosions, mining boost, speed boosts, scopes, continent transport, make your own guns and bullets, killer grinding shield, mage/warlock/priest killer trinkets... What is bad about Engineering exactly?
 
Plankeye said:
Opening locks, reviving others, cloaking, stamina boosts, dps boosts, stuns, charges, snares, pets, cool shades, explosions, mining boost, speed boosts, scopes, continent transport, make your own guns and bullets, killer grinding shield, mage/warlock/priest killer trinkets... What is bad about Engineering exactly?
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I didn't say it was bad, I just said that I'm not using it. As a ranged DPS class, the grenades really don't offer anything that I don't otherwise have as part of my class abilities, with the exception of a short stun. Since I have fear as a core class ability, I use that instead. Shield? What's that? :p As a Gnomish engineer, the vast majority of my goodies are trinkets. The fact that I'm limited to two at any time has always made them very situational - I have to guess at what I'm likely to need and equip accordingly. With some of the Outlands trinkets giving me significant DPS boosts or aggro dumps (always an issue for Warlocks), I just don't find myself wanting to equip the net-o-matic projector or Gnomish Death Ray anymore. Likewise, the gear that I'd made for myself pre-BC, I replaced long ago.

I have a mid-30s Hunter alt that also went engineering. For him, he can make his own weapons and ammo, use bombs and grenades to get around dead-zone issues, and gain functionality that he might not otherwise have. For my Warlock, it's got some fun and quirky gimmicks that I don't really get any benefit out of 98% of the time.

So it's not that I don't like engineering, or think that it's gimped, it's just that I see my Warlock getting a lot more functionality out of tailoring at this point in his career and with the outlands and tailoring-specific gear available. For my way of thinking and play style, tailoring gear for Warlocks >>> Engineering gear for Warlocks. Hmmm....I think I've pretty well talked myself into it.
 
About a week after BC came out I dropped 375 herbalism and levelled tailoring from 1-300 in a day, then it took like 2-3 weeks to get to 375. As far as gear, for cloth casters, tailoring right now offers the BEST gear available. If you clothe yourself in the tailor made epics available right now, you won't be replacing them anytime soon.

To level from 300-375 you will need heaping amounts of netherweave cloth. Save everything you have now and be prepared to either buy it or farm it, I did the latter for the most part, you save a ton of gold that way.

After you get all the crafted gear you want, selling Shadowcloth, Spellcloth and Primal Mooncloth is profitable.

I would recommend it, however be prepared to also farm for Motes of Fire, Shadow, Water, Life and Mana a lot, to make the cloths.
 
Cool, that's what I was hoping to hear. I actually dropped engineering this afternoon, and and am in the midst of powerlevelling tailoring. At about 175 as I type. I think I'm going to be spending a lot more on Mageweave than I expected, but oh well, it'll all even out in the end.

I've been holding on to Netherweave for a while, so have almost a full 16 slot bag in the bank full of it, but I know that's going to hardly make a dent in what i need. I saw that primals are going to be needed, too. Fortunately I've been saving motes as I've found them. Should help a bit.

Anyway, thanks for the info. I think I'm going to be happy with the switch.
 
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