Switching proffesion at level 36? too late?

[Youwish]

Well. Im a level 36 mage. Skinning/chant. The thing is that im getting very bored with skinning. And i feel it slowly slows down my leveling speed. I thought about switching to tailoring instead. But a friend of mine told me it would be hell to level up a crafting proff at this level (getting the low level reagents). But i think it would be more fun to craft stuff and looking for recipes instead of using extra 5 seconds on every beast mob.

I got 112 G atm. So i dont feel i need skinning for the money.

Any inputs apreciated

[RebirthOfMak]

you can do it.. you'll just need to run DM's a few times for linen cloth + wool cloth and at your level you can run SM for silk cloth.. so you oughta be ok

[Falchan]

Go ahead and drop skinning...tailoring will be easy for you to skill up past 225. Best place I've found to farm linen was in Westfall...there's a windmill in the nirth/west section of the zone with a large cluster of lv 12-14ish defias...they drop easily, and respawn very quickly. For wool, Stockades always worked well for me.

'course, I'm making a brash assumption that you are alliance...if not, I have little advice to offer, since I really have not played Horde much.

[rgirty]

I don't want to hijack this thread, and I apologize if this is a hijack but my question is related to the initial post. I am level 24 and have yet to even think about starting a profession. I normally have stacks, upon stacks of wool and linen cloth and now starting to get some silk. I normally just throw it on the AH and be done with it, however would I be better off to begin tailoring? I'm alliance dwarven priest..if that matters.

[DonovanQ]

I don't want to hijack this thread, and I apologize if this is a hijack but my question is related to the initial post. I am level 24 and have yet to even think about starting a profession. I normally have stacks, upon stacks of wool and linen cloth and now starting to get some silk. I normally just throw it on the AH and be done with it, however would I be better off to begin tailoring? I'm alliance dwarven priest..if that matters.

It does matter. Since you're a priest and priests are restricted to cloth, tailoring is a good choice of profession. It also has the advantage of not requiring you to stop what you're doing to collect materials aside from normal looting.
As far as a second profession, might I recommend enchanting? It gets rid of low-level magic items and permits you to improve on the items you make (or loot), all without taking additional time to collect materials (as opposed to the gathering professions).

Of course, there is a side effect. Collecting the cloth (and a little leather) will take up space, as will the reagents resulting from disenchanting. (But, tailors do make nice bags!)

Hope this helps.

[DotComm]

I personally wouldn't recommend doing enchanting til at least 40. Instead I'd take a gathering profession (mining or herbalism probably) and sell everything you gather on the AH. After 40, when you get your mount from the money you've made selling your herbs or metal bars, then take up a production profession such as enchanting.

Tailoring isn't a bad choice as you level up, because you can make stuff you can use and it doesn't require a gathering profession, meaning you can make money with your second profession.

Also, if you have lots of spare cloth I'd really recommend first aid, even as a priest. You never know when you'll need to heal yourself and you're out of mana.

SB

[Ailill]

I don't think 36 would be a bad level to switch... especially for tailoring: after all, how hard would it be to go chain-kill some lowbie humanoids to gather the needed linen and wool? ;) It's not *that* time-consuming. I wouldn't worry about the low-level reagents; personnally, I find them easier to get (my level 26 mage has reached 200 in Tailoring, and I sure can't go solo the mobs who drop Mageweave cloth at this level: inverted problem, hehe).

For the Dwarf priest: Taloring/Enchanting is a good combo, but I'd side with the advice of not starting Enchanting early. It's costly, and it's either selling the green items etc you find, or disenchanting them... which can hinder the earning of money. Ultimately, I'm going Enchanting too, but until I have my mount, Mining it is.

And I'm not sure why nobody ever mentions it, but I could make a hefty stack of money just selling woolen/silk bags and some mage robes on the AH, all of these being the byproduct of my levelling in Tailoring. I never had any money losses with this, even if it probably doesn't bring as much as mining (now that I can make the Robes of Arcana, though, it flows in *grins*).

Hope this helps. :)

[Harwel]

I dropped 300 mining on my warlock (level 57 at the time) just to level Tailoring to 300 to make a Robe of the Void. At some point I'll switch back to mining to supply my other crafting professions. Moral of the story, it's never too late.

[Mallstrop]

Never too late to drop a profession, it's a bit more work doing it late but it'll be worth it in the end. I dropped engineering at 50 and picked up enchanting, Dead mines is so easy that I hit 150 in no time at all. 40 mins per run for the dead mines.

It's also good for wool and linen cloth, it should let you catch up with the silk that should be dropping at your level.

The other choice is not to waste time skinning mobs, just let them rot. If you don't need money then there's no real need to skin, Later on it'll become more usefull. Grinding Humanoids might leave you better off anyway. Tailoring and enchanting together are allways going to be very expensive when you're leveling.

[Ailill]

Just remembered this now. One thing you could do, though, before you switch would be to stack on a few heavy leathers to make bags, while you can still gather them yourself. It probably depends on the servers, but on my tailor, making silk packs is easy cash at the AH, not to mention that it'll of course help level your skill.

[GenXCub]

Since it wasn't touched upon for horde... Ragefire Chasm is full of level 14 elites that drop linen in stacks of 5 (the troggs). at level 36, you can solo all of RFC in about 15 minutes.

Wailing Caverns isn't great for wool, but Shadowfang Keep is pretty good.

[rabidstoat]

I dropped my mining as soon as I hit 40 in favor of herbalism, as my alt was doing alchemy and I wanted to grind her up to 225 fast. It was a piece of cake. I got on my horse and rode around, collecting herbs, and was quickly past my highest mining level. Basically the same day I dropped mining, played a few hours, and had herbalism around 200ish.

Also ended up helping lowbies in the lands I was passing through. One hit kills, woot!

[oramac]

my mains tail/chanting. at lvl 47 and about 260 in both i feel im too far into the prof to drop it atm, although ill prolly drop tailoring at some point in favor of mining. i will say that lvling tail/chanting is a HUGE money pit. i can sell some enchants even now for upwards of 35g (Firey Weapon) with a pretty low mat cost (about 15g for Firey weapon), but the tailoring is a huge ***** getting mats for, especially at my lvl where i need mageweave and there just are really no good places to farm the stuff.

my 20 hunter alt is mine/herb and its a pretty damn good money maker. hes been over 10g since about lvl 10-11, and never really has less than that at any given moment. i dont really concentrate on farming with him cuz i just play him for fun when im bored of my main, but i envision that he'll eventually take over my main as my primr money maker.

[innorton38]

Just last night I dropped my lvl 300 skinning in favor of enchanting. I wasn't getting anything out of skinning other than crowded bags. The only leather I was using regularly was rugged leather and I figure I can just buy it if I need it. My only regret was not making the switch earlier because I could have disenchanted all the stuff I made while lvling my tailoring to 300 and from useless quest rewards. Oh well...

[LordXeper]

At 60 I dropped Skinning (300+ finkles skinner) to take Engineering (Goblin). Alot more profit.