Recommended Profs for a Mage

[MEGAMAYN]

Which professions do you guys recommend i get for my mage?

I had tailoring and herbalism in mind..

but you guys that have been playing longer probably have a better recommendation for me..

appreciate it!
:grin:

[teacake]

For tailoring you need to take skinning as well as this is one of the materials you will be working with (leather). However you cannot use leather as a mage so a big part of your tailoring is useless. You can of course tailor cloth. However you can buy much better stuff than you can make in the early levels.

Herbalism goes with Alchemy. You use the herbs to make your potions and elixirs. As a mage you will get great use out of many of these, armor elixirs, mana potions.. they are very useful.

Of course you can take tailoring and herbalism, nothing to stop you. But you will be buying all your leather for the tailoring and you will be selling all your herbs because you will have no use for them.

Now personally I would recommend 1st time characters skip the crafts part and take two gathering professions. Skinning, Herbalism, Mining are gathering professions. Pick two and sell everything. You will have tons of gold and be able to buy any potions or armor you need. You make absolutely nothing from crafting professions until you are a high level. By then you can always drop one of your gathering proffs and take up a craft if you really want to, you will be able to power level it in a day with all the gold you have.

That said a lot of people really enjoy the crafting professions and that adds a lot to the game. If you think it would be cool pick one that appeals the most and pick a gathering profession that compliments it (ie Tailoring and Skinning).

[MEGAMAYN]

thanks..

i'll try the two gathering professions thing...

it sounds good to me

[Eileithyia]

Tailoring requires cloth not leather, its leatherworking that needs skinning for the mats.

Tailoring is a good profession for Mage if you wish to make the specialist robes at lvl 70.

It’s not a profession to count on for making gold, so you’re better of having a gathering profession to go along with it. (Skinning, Herbs or mining) any of these 3 will work, as your mats for tailoring are gathered from mobs.

[teacake]

OMG please excuse my ignorance. I thought it required leather as well. OP I hope you haven't chosen your proffs already :(

I think I was confused because engineering uses cloth and leather. Yes I know this makes little sense.

[MEGAMAYN]

Nah i haven't chose them yet.. I'm just in the planning stages of making my character..

I like being prepared before i do anything..

I just hate when i do something i'm not prepared for it..
it kind of delays me....

but I am thinking of doing Herbalism/Skinning
but I also have a Hunter that is Skinning/Leatherworking
and I plan on making a Shaman with Herbalism/Alchemy

so I'm not exactly sure if it's a good idea...

[Maoileoin]

Just to clarify for the OP, there are some tailoring patterns that require leather, but very few. Definitely not enough to justify picking skinning.

[elsegundo]

i've come across several bags that required leathers. but that doesnt justify picking up skinning if you dont want to.

the two gathering professions is great if you just want to make money. but remember that you cannot make anything to use for yourself. you must buy these from the AH or from people.

if you do want a crafting profession, there are a few that go together where one is the gathering profession, and the other depends on the gathering profession.

mining - jewcrafting, blacksmithing, and engineering.
herbalism - alchemy
skinning - leatherworking.

also know that some items from mining can be used for alchemists too, and some herbs are used by tailors, engineers, and blacksmiths.

blacksmiths can make the rods that enchanters use.

stuff you make from leatherworking, blacksmithing, tailoring, and jewelcrafting can be disenchanted. and tailoring requires mainly cloth, so many people choose tailoring/enchanting because it doesnt require a "gathering" profession as a third profession.

good luck with your choices. remember its your game and only you can pick what you want to do. we have given you details as to what fits where, and what is good with what, and the benefits of gaining straigh gold vs. progressing in one crafting profession. enjoy the game!

[MEGAMAYN]

uh thanks for all the help...

i think i m going to go skinning/mining on my mage
then herb/alchemy on shaman
and skinning/leatherworking on my hunter

i think skinning and mining will work for my mage just cause i wanna make hecka gold and then i can do whatever profs when i hit 70

[rgirty]

Take gathering until 70.

At 70 take at least one crafting, unless its an alt.

I have a mage alt that is my farmer who has tailoring/herb but is soon to switch to alch/herb.

[elsegundo]

my mage is a skinner and a miner. good thing we dont need specialized bags because that would suck as a gatherer. my hunter and warlock always has bag space issues.

[Vandir]

I would suggest taking Tailoring and Enchanting as your professions. You can make some okay gear for yourself, and disenchant the stuff you don't need.

This can make you a lot of money, as enchanting materials sell very well on the Auction House. It also helps because you can disenchant the items you get from instance runs or instance farms.

[Vandir]

my hunter and warlock always has bag space issues.

Eeeugh. I hear you... you should see my druid at the moment. >< Like 6 sets of gear in his bags in instances. And at least 3 normally.

[elsegundo]

Eeeugh. I hear you... you should see my druid at the moment. >< Like 6 sets of gear in his bags in instances. And at least 3 normally.

have you gotten out of your money issues yet? i remember you saying you were level 49 with herbalism and only having 18 gold. or something. hehe.

time to get 20 slot bags.... (unless you already have them, then that totally sucks)

[theshard]

mining - jewcrafting, blacksmithing, and engineering.
herbalism - alchemy
skinning - leatherworking.


Also just as a side note, the new profession, inscription, will rely on herbalism very similarly to jewelcrafting and mining. Of course this won't be an issue for long but I made quite a profit selling copper ore the day TBC came out.

[elsegundo]

Also just as a side note, the new profession, inscription, will rely on herbalism very similarly to jewelcrafting and mining. Of course this won't be an issue for long but I made quite a profit selling copper ore the day TBC came out.

are the recipes out at least? i'd like to just farm herbs on my free time. hopefully i'll have several bags and bank characters worth of herbs to crush.

[theshard]

are the recipes out at least? i'd like to just farm herbs on my free time. hopefully i'll have several bags and bank characters worth of herbs to crush.

None that I am aware of. If they do it like TBC we should see some vendor recipes about the same time they update the talent trees for level 80 progression.

[Dark Viper]

uh thanks for all the help...

i think i m going to go skinning/mining on my mage
then herb/alchemy on shaman
and skinning/leatherworking on my hunter

i think skinning and mining will work for my mage just cause i wanna make hecka gold and then i can do whatever profs when i hit 70

I think that you have made a good choice there mate! Skinning/Mining has made me tons of gold. Good luck mate!! :thumbsup:

[Olofman]

Ehm, sorry for my noob question, but im kinda new to WoW but oh well:
Can i delete my older proffesional? I chosed engineering on my gnome mage because its cool.... now i wanna have tailoring and skinning. Please help me

[Gorny]

Ehm, sorry for my noob question, but im kinda new to WoW but oh well:
Can i delete my older proffesional? I chosed engineering on my gnome mage because its cool.... now i wanna have tailoring and skinning. Please help me

You can always unlearn your professions, but you will loose any and all recipies/patterns/formulas etc,. from the skill you delete.

You may unlearn a profession and start a new one but this removes the chosen profession. If you were to learn it again, you would have to start leveling it from a skill level of 1 again. You will also forget any recipes you may have acquired in your old profession so they must be reacquired if you take it up again. The new profession you choose to replace it with also starts with a skill level of 1. You can unlearn a profession from your skills tab (the hotkey is k). To do so, click on the appropriate profession, and in the bottom part of the panel is a tiny icon that when moused over will tell you it lets you unlearn your profession. Be sure you really want to unlearn a profession; Blizzard will not undo it if you change your mind!

One way to make use of this is to look at primary professions from a different perspective. You can only have two. But they are not 'cast in concrete', you can discard a primary profession and replace it. And they are dirt cheap - Apprentice level training in a primary profession costs 9 copper in your starting area. When you are first starting, you can might benefit by switching professions to meet a goal. You can use this to get a fair upgrade to your starting gear cheaply, and stock up on some low level consumables.

The downside is that you loose all of your built up skill and recipe knowledge.