{"id":3157,"date":"2024-07-14T19:31:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T23:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2024-07-14T19:31:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T23:31:32","slug":"the-war-within-professions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/the-war-within-professions\/","title":{"rendered":"The War Within – Professions"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been reading my blog for virtually any amount of time, you know that I get a ridiculous amount of pleasure out of making gold. At one point, I was at like 7-8 million gold? Buying WoW tokens for myself (and my brother) can be expensive, though, so I found myself at something like 700k about 6 weeks ago. I am now approaching 1.1 million gold. And every single copper of that gold was hard-earned<\/em>. With it being the dog days of the expansion, plus with MOP Remix active, it is damn hard to make any money. I’ve gotten my ~400k through quests, mostly the dragon racing world quests on numerous alts, and very little through the Auction House. And that makes me a #sadmoose.<\/p>\n

So I am going into The War Within aiming to be super organized with my characters and my professions. How organized? Well, I’m glad you asked! Here’s a public (view-only) spreadsheet of my toons and professions<\/a>. That links to the spreadsheet, feel free to make a copy and tailor it (hah, get it? Tailor?!) to your own needs. And here’s an image.<\/p>\n

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It’s not<\/em> final yet. Like I don’t know<\/em> that I need 4 herbalists and 3 miners, frankly, much less two scribes and three alchemists. Let’s break it down a bit.<\/p>\n

Kurn is, as always, going to stick with skinning and leatherworking. The couple of times I dropped skinning for mining<\/a>, I eventually picked up skinning again<\/a>. I am not going to drop skinning again<\/em>, even though you no longer have to go through allllllll the prior expansions again to get to max level.<\/p>\n

We’ll come back to Madrana in a minute, because she’s pretty much the outlier.<\/p>\n

My shammy (not the baby shammy, that’s a whole other shammy!), has generally been the<\/em> farm character for Madrana’s alchemy and jewelcrafting since, uh, 2007? 2008? And, I think it was back in Cataclysm, when you were able to gain experience <\/em>by herbing or mining, I was like this is the ideal way to level a character I don’t know anything about<\/em>. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’ve grown accustomed to my shammy. I spent a lot of time being enhancement\/resto and, in more recent years, elemental\/resto. But I spend almost all my time on the character just farming herbs and ore. And, because of that, I get experience and I get to level and it’s grand.<\/p>\n

Now, because of the experience one gets while gathering, I have decided that I want most<\/em> of my characters to have at least one gathering profession that doesn’t require killing anything — so herbalism and mining. This explains my evoker (which I still don’t know how to play), my warrior (which I can kind of play but don’t like<\/em> to play), and my warlock (no idea beyond incinerate and chaos bolt, tbh).<\/p>\n

But I sort of know how to play a mage and I know how to play my “grandbaby” paladin (I’ll explain in a minute) and I know how to play my baby shammy and I don’t super<\/em> know how to play a priest… but I know how to play Madrana.<\/p>\n

So because I know how to play Madrana, she can just heal her way to 80 or whatever. I could theoretically<\/em> do the same with the priest. I just go disc and bubble things, right? hahaha!<\/p>\n

And I could do the same with my mage, but DPS queues are still a thing, so I thought, no, I’ll make him a miner, which is currently is. But I also wanted him to be a tailor. So that’s how I started Dragonflight with him.<\/p>\n

As to the grandbaby paladin, this is my Dark Iron Dwarf paladin I rolled on Mists of Pandaria Remix. It’s not my “baby” paladin who is, I believe, still sitting on Skywall. I rolled the character with the goal for him to be a miner and a blacksmith, so I could drop blacksmithing on my warlock and pick up mining to feed his engineering. And I could absolutely heal on the grandbaby paladin… but honestly, am I going to? Probably<\/em> not. So mining to level makes sense.<\/p>\n

Then we come to the baby shammy. This is another character I rolled on MOP Remix. She is 65 presently and is destroying things on Timeless Isle (sidenote: DANG, that frog poison still sucks<\/em>!!!). She is also…<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

… a goblin<\/em>.<\/p>\n

LET ME BE CLEAR, I STILL HATE THE HORDE. It makes me feel sick to turn in quests to Garrosh and to kill Alliance soldiers. I loathe the Horde with every fibre of my being.<\/p>\n

So why did I roll a Horde toon?<\/p>\n

I rolled a goblin<\/em> for the racial. Goblins receive 20% off normal vendor prices when the vendor is associated with a rep. It’s the same discount you’d receive at exalted with the rep in question. And goblins get it as baseline<\/em>. Note that it doesn’t<\/em> mean you get exalted automatically or that you get access to exalted goods or other things behind a reputation barrier. It just means you get the 20% discount.<\/p>\n

So I rolled a goblin<\/em> (and would have done so if it was Alliance too) for this discount. Do you know how much a single Draconic Vial costs? FIVE GOLD! Ridiculous!!! A single Primal Flux? FIFTEEN GOLD. HIGHWAY ROBBERY!!! Is it the cost of doing “business”? Yes. But eff that<\/em> noise. With Warbands coming in about a week (July 23), you will have the ability to share a Warband bank with your other toons — even cross-faction ones. So maybe my warlock needs like 100 Primal Flux. That’s 1500 gold<\/strong>. But with the goblin? 1200 gold<\/strong>. It’s not necessarily worth it for 5-10 reagents, but when you scale it up? Hell yes, it’s worth it. And if I can level a toon easily (and holy COW, is it easy!!!), why not do it? (If I feel like it, I may roll an Alliance druid as well. We’ll see.)<\/p>\n

So my goblin will not be doing much apart from buying stuff for my Alliance toons, but if I want<\/em> to, she’ll be able to level via something. I am not convinced<\/em> I want her to do herbalism and alchemy, but is it ever bad to have a lot of herbs? Is it ever bad to have “too many” toons who can do transmutes? My thinking is no.<\/p>\n

Still, I have beta access, so I’m going to check in on some of the things each profession can do before I finalize everything here. I may ditch inscription on the warrior and keep alchemy and get herbalism instead of the other way around. We’ll see!<\/p>\n

And speaking of beta, have you seen my latest YouTube videos? Here’s a link to the playlist of my War Within Beta vids<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, tell me, what are you planning to do with your professions and characters in TWW?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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