{"id":3094,"date":"2022-09-19T20:39:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T00:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2022-09-19T20:39:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T00:39:12","slug":"wrath-classic-professions-and-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wrath-classic-professions-and-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"[Wrath Classic] Professions and Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Vanilla WoW, I had a hunter named Kurnmogh. Kurn was my main. Did everything with him. I was a skinner and leatherworker and got Finkle’s skinner and skinned Core Hounds (when people would remember to loot their bloody hounds<\/em>!) and I enjoyed farming Black Dragonscales for the Black Dragonscale Mail set…<\/p>\n

And I created a paladin, Madrana, and decided she should get herbalism and alchemy.<\/p>\n

When Burning Crusade arrived, I elected to drop alchemy in favour of jewelcrafting and<\/em> drop skinning in favour of mining. So Kurn would supply Madrana with ore until I could afford to just buy ore outright.<\/p>\n

It worked nicely but I swapped Kurn back to skinning to supply my own leather for leatherworking.<\/p>\n

Classic WoW saw me actually change things up. I rolled a hunter, Kurnmogh, who was a miner and an engineer. And Madrana became… an herbalist and alchemist. Okay, so I didn’t really change things there. But I didn’t pick up JC when BC Classic came out. So now, a week away from Wrath Classic, I’m sitting here with mining\/engineering and herbalism\/alchemy on my two level 70 toons. I also have a level 62 toon who is also an herbalist\/alchemist. (Sue me, I like transmutes in the later expansions.)<\/p>\n

While perusing the various pieces of gear available for holy paladins<\/a>, I deliberately skipped out touching things that are available to people with specific professions.<\/p>\n

And then, this weeekend, I was going through the professions and found… the Figurine – Sapphire Owl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Okay, to be clear, it’s not like I didn’t know<\/em> about it. As a JC through from BC to present day (even if I don’t actually play retail much), I knew<\/em> about the Sapphire Owl. I used <\/em>the Sapphire Owl in Wrath.<\/p>\n

I didn’t remember how good<\/em> it was until I looked up the stats. +42 intellect? Two sockets? Add 16 int in each and you have a trinket with 74 intellect<\/em> that will restore 2340 mana over 15 seconds every five minutes. Now the mana restoration isn’t all that amazing, let’s be fair. A Runic Mana Potion<\/a> is basically double that. And, later in Wrath (Ulduar, while facing Vezax), I remember having a mana pool of over 30,000, fully buffed<\/a>, with a Flask of Distilled Wisdom<\/a>. So, like, 2340 mana is not the selling point. The 74 intellect<\/em> is the selling point. I even used that trinket (along with my Pendant of the Violet Eye) for that fight, because it’s all<\/em> about the size of the mana pool.<\/p>\n

So now I’m looking at my toons… Kurn is 70 and mining\/eng, Madrana is 70 and herb\/alch and my priest is 62 and herb\/alch.<\/p>\n

So maybe I should make Madrana a JC…<\/p>\n

I’m not going to be able to afford a Darkmoon Card: Greatness<\/a>. I will probably make myself a Mercurial Alchemist’s Stone<\/a>, but there are no<\/em> other trinkets with any<\/em> intellect on them in Phase 1.<\/a> The next phase, Phase 2, has two nice trinkets, one from Algalon<\/em>, and one from Mimiron. In Phase 3, there’s Tears of the Vanquished<\/a>, off the Black Knight in TOC, which all of my lowbie healers used. But in Phase 1? Just the Greatness card and the Figurine.<\/p>\n

But am I even going to play<\/em> that much?! No idea. So not sure if it’s worth it!<\/p>\n

For anyone playing a holy paladin<\/strong> seriously, though, I highly recommend Alchemy<\/strong> and Jewelcrafting<\/strong> as professions. Engineering<\/strong> is interesting too, if only for the haste tinker on gloves, which you can use every minute. Early in the game, the haste will be useful, but could be overkill later in the game when you naturally hit having a 1s global cooldown.<\/p>\n

The reason I stick with alchemy is the mercurial stone that is a solid trinket to start with and<\/em> gives you 40% more mana per mana potion. Instead of ~4300, we’re looking at about 6k mana per potion with the stone equipped. That is not<\/em> bad. Plus, you get the Mixology<\/a> perk, which is super nice.<\/p>\n

If you decide to power-level alchemy or JC, check out the guides at wow-professions.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, what do you think of my choices? What are you going to enter Northrend with as your professions? Let’s hear it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Vanilla WoW, I had a hunter named Kurnmogh. Kurn was my main. Did everything with him. I was a skinner and leatherworker and got Finkle’s skinner and skinned Core Hounds (when people would remember to loot their bloody hounds!) and I enjoyed farming Black Dragonscales for the Black Dragonscale Mail set… And I created […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,41,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paladins","category-professions","category-wrath-classic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3096,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions\/3096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}