Professions for a Priest

[warz]

I've been playing as a priest, lately, and I haven't chosen a profession yet. I was thinking I'd go Enchanting or whatever it is that can make perma bufs on armor and all that, and maybe Tailoring, because it sounds more interesting than Herbalism/Alchemy (what I have on my rogue).

Anyone have a priest, and want to suggest some professions that yall have found actually useful to yourself or your party?

[Thing]

I think Grok does tailoring and skinning.  Tailoring is obvious because you can make your own armor.  Skinning is a handy way to make money.

[Skywing]

Be warned that Tailoring loses a lot of it's allure once you near the level cap.  All the patterns for good armor pieces are rare drops at that point, such that you're more likely to start acquiring armor set pieces that are better anyway.

And selling items you tailor on the AH is usually a bust; most items sell for less than their components.

[Grok]

Agree with Skywing here.  In fact, Tailoring has been largely useless for me, because the drops are too much better and more frequent than what a tailor can make.  This is not true for all professions.  Skinning and Mining are no-brainers.  You cannot get Frostsaber leather or Chimera leather by going out and finding it.  You have to skin for it.  Same with mining.

If Blizzard wanted to make Tailoring attractive, they would make it more difficult to acquire the ingredients, have a higher number of rare patterns, and make those patterns significantly (meaning 2% or more) better than quest rewards at the same level of difficulty.

The best-selling items I have are rare and required 6-8 ingredients that are difficult to accumulate.  Even those don't sell for what the ingredients cost.

[warz]

Alright, so tailoring isn't all it's cracked up to be. I'll stay away. :-P Thanks.

[Mitosis]

Enchanting and leatherworking works great, makes lots of money.

[Grok]

Enchanting and leatherworking works great, makes lots of money.

Because Leatherworking makes money, so does skinning.  Most of the money Grok makes from tailoring+skinning is from selling leather on AH.

[Adron]

And myself I'm doing leatherworking, skinning, alchemy and herbalism. Having potions is a good thing - I love being self-sufficient in healing/mana potions. Plus having a few extra to offer to team.

[Spht]

One of my characters does alchemy/heralism.  I didn't plan on making money with it, I just like the buffs.  Alchemy is a fun profession.

My other is a leatherworker/skinner.  The only time I made any large sum of money with leatherworking was during the first month of retail.  I was one of the first 5 or 10 people that could make thick armor kits, and we were actively selling them at the auction house for 1 to 2 gold each.  After I went on a two-week vacation and came back, the "going rate" for all the leatherworking things I used to sell dropped significately (due to so many people being able to make them now).  So I stopped selling my "common" productions in the auction house, and instead gave them away or sold to vendor.  I think it was early January that rugged armor kits started showing up, but the going rate for those has dropped quite some bit too lately.

I'm making good money selling leather though.

[warz]

I chose tailoring and enchanting.

[l)ragon]

I chose tailoring and enchanting.

Enchanting is cool, remember to write down what items give you what when disenchanting for reasons of crawling the AH for cheap items and knowing what you will get from the item, also the easyest way to level up your profession is by droping in the noob area and just giveing away enchants I did this when ever I needed the points back on closed. Mind you its good to have people giveing you magic items eg. talors/black smiths etc

[warz]

Yeah, I actually started writing down those thing when I first realized what was going on (with the disenchant, and stuff). I kinda figured it might get  frustrating in the future if I didn't. I can tell it will take some time though to get these two professions leveled up. :-P

[Adron]

You can also use online references such as thottbot.

[Mitosis]

I chose tailoring and enchanting.

Enchanting is cool, remember to write down what items give you what when disenchanting for reasons of crawling the AH for cheap items and knowing what you will get from the item, also the easyest way to level up your profession is by droping in the noob area and just giveing away enchants I did this when ever I needed the points back on closed. Mind you its good to have people giveing you magic items eg. talors/black smiths etc

It's all random...say you enchant a chest piece, you don't recieve the same item from it.

[l)ragon]

I chose tailoring and enchanting.

Enchanting is cool, remember to write down what items give you what when disenchanting for reasons of crawling the AH for cheap items and knowing what you will get from the item, also the easyest way to level up your profession is by droping in the noob area and just giveing away enchants I did this when ever I needed the points back on closed. Mind you its good to have people giveing you magic items eg. talors/black smiths etc

It's all random...say you enchant a chest piece, you don't recieve the same item from it.

I was talking about disenchantment of items, I used to buy my junk from the AH in mass and 9 out of 10 times the disenchanted green item is the same, which is the reason to write down what you get from them, out of all the blues I have never seen anything other than shards.

thottbot is good also, but I allways liked haveing my binder infront of me.