Profession for my first char

[7moeden 0]

Hi! I created my first character, a priest, and I don't decide on which profession to choose. I'm between Herbalism & Alchemy OR Tailoring & Enchanting...

It's my first time in Vanilla. Thanks!

[Sanosuke 0]

As a preist i would recommend tailoring paired with engineering for pvp or enchanting/alchemy for pve.

[Drehar 2]

Skinning/tailoring would be good for a first character. I've seen a fair amount of tailoring need some skins. Maybe pickup Engineering or Enchanting later down the road. Or keep enchanting but only use it to DE old gear and quest greens. level it when you hit 60.

 

[Mentathiel 5]

Alternatively, here's the advice I was given: take skinning and mining because spells are expensive. Skinning is not too profitable per unit, but you can skin so many creatures and everyone leaves animal corpses lying around, so you get a fair amount of leather to sell. Mining nodes seem rare, but you can sell your metals for a fair amount in the AH (at least on Darrowshire) and use that money to buy smithed goods.

If you do that, you'll have spare money for spells and can buy from the AH or take advantage of the many players offering gear free with your materials. 

[ServerDaddy 2]

Tailoring is easy gold while leveling, you can also get some pretty good gear

[EffToyz 12]

On 1/21/2017 at 5:25 AM, Sanosuke said:

As a preist i would recommend tailoring paired with engineering for pvp or enchanting/alchemy for pve.

It's FIRST character, can't go engineering with tailoring =) just 2 gathering professions till 60, then decide what do you need.

[gotmilk0112 10]

Herb/Alch. Really good for any starting character. It's a bit tough in starter zones, getting Peacebloom and Silverleaf, but once you get past 50 or 60 herbalism, it gets better.

 

Tailoring is also a nice choice, but I find that unless you invest money into it, you tend to out-level the gear you make from tailoring. You don't start making items with stats until like, skill level 90 or so. And by then you're level 15-20 and already getting a fair amount of greens.