Leveling profs: take engi for 1-60 or switch after?

[phocus26 3]

For me, money is very important and while I do play the AH a lot, I still want to be able to farm up gold for my epic mount quickly so I was planning on going skin/herb.  But eventually for PVP I will need engineering but I am not sure how painful swapping profs is.  I imagine it wouldn't be too bad as the low level mats should be cheep with the flood of new players.

 

Thoughts?

[phocus26 3]

Haha, i do plan to skin some dinos and I will be no-lifing a bit but was going to make a detour for herbs.  idk.  Does that impact /played time much?

 

edit: and yes, it will be for wpvp and 1v1.

Edited November 16, 2016 by phocus26

[phocus26 3]

yeah, that's a good point.  On a fresh server it will take a while with the competition for spawns.  Even on a saturated server you have to go out of your way a bit to get it started and caught up to your level.

[Tholren 7]

Are you talking to yourself on this thread, or was someone banned?

 

Regardless, my personal vote goes to not leveling up engi between 1-60 and simply switch at max level. Take whatever prof combo suits your class best whilst leveling, since it can not only compensate on the economical end but also gear wise. 

[Docholy 4]

I would level both as I leveled.  Just make it a priority to mine everything you can and don't buy anything from the AH for engineering. As you hit max level you should have plenty of gold from selling ore and your minning will be max level.  You'd also have a few hundred points into engineering by the time you hit max.   

 

I would do at least mining with anything else, if you want to wait on engineering.  I

[Undertanker 88]

Gathering professions can be hard to level while starting off due to over population. If you are willing to grind it out at the start, mining/herbing will help you a lot when not everybody man get those consumables level 20+ zones because they gave up.

If you roll melee, I recommend alchemy herb.