Profession Woes

[Locke07]

I am a hunter that recently bought mount and am now saving up to power level leather working. My idea behind this is purely for the ebon netherscale pieces (which totally rock!) and the Felstalker Pieces as I lvl up from 40-70. I am taking mining and skinning right now, and once I feel that I have enough early leather banked up and money to power lvl leather-working I will drop mining.

However, I also want to take engineering because I am in a guild that will be raiding Kara and I think both the Power Goggles (the ones that give 100 attack power) and the Goblin XL Jumper Cables would be extremely useful, not even taking into account the better ammo for my Gun. So should I do LW first and drop skinning, or would I be better off dropping mining first and Power leveling engineering? Or should I just forgo Engi all together?

[sparklebunny]

My warlock has been my engineer for two years now and honestly I did it to have all the professions between my toons but for the most part I found it worthless. Now in the last 3 months I swear I use it as much as my shaman jewelcrafter. You have the mote extractor, which allows you get gas clouds around outland - airs and waters in Nagrand and Zangar respectively can give 3-5 motes per cloud :).

However the one thing that is really impressive is the epic goggles you can make at 375. They are on par and sometimes even a little better then the tier 4 helm from Prince. My warlock only wants the tier 4 helm for the look of it - stat for stat I think my engineering helm is better.

The engineering mount is just cool and there are a number of other things that are useful. The Gyro-balanced Khorium Destroyer is a great gun for tanks and there are other useful things to make. It does take a lot of mats to make stuff but I did well by making parts. The ammunition you can make (43 dps) is great until you get to Violet Eye Revered (obtained through KZ) when you get 46.5 dps ammo. The pattern is a drop off the Sunfury Archers north of Kirin'Tor village. When I got the pattern for the arrows it trained me in the bullets...not sure if it is the same.

My hunter is my leatherworker and it is not bad but I don't think it has quite the utility that engineering does at this time....6 months ago I would have said go leatherworking.