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What's the best class race to put Mining/Herb on?
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Adent
I have a lv 80 mage that has tailoring/enchanting and a lvl15 warrior that i'm going to put Blacksmith/Jewlcrafting. I really don't find gathering very fun so I don't want to put it on those two characters which I actually want to put some time into. What's a good class that can do gathering easily. I was thinking of making Blood elf hunter as my gatherer. What do you think?
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Adent
Hmm... Yeah I was thinking that just buying the mats might be a better use of my time. I just want hear what people think.
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Post by
Chomeric
Nelf Balance Druids are the best. Herbing they can stay in flight form. And mining you can use the trees to distract mobs and after you get they ore simply shadowmeld > flight form. That is of course assuming you are in Northrend or the Outland. For old world I would have to go with Hunters. They can have a speed boost and the pet to occupy mobs while you gather.
Post by
KittyKat77
There are advantages/disadvantages with any class:
DK- speed boost, pet, movement snares, plate wearer for mining in hostile conditions. Starts at high level so you can immediately power through starter areas without any trouble.
Mage- frost has some movement/snaring abilities, polymorph, blink, and invisibility are all advantages. Cloth armor makes them squishier though.
Druid- Flight form herbing is AWESOME. For Taurens, you get the racial bonus too. Not sure about mining with a druid, but my druid has herb/alchemy and it's been great so far (level 69, just starting Northrend quests).
Hunter- your pet can distract mobs/enemies while you gather. I believe Beast Mastery also has some speed boost talents?
Paladins- Speed bonus, Hammer of Justice stun ability, Bubble and healing abilities if things get really dicey. My paladin is mining. I often land to mine stuff, get attacked, use my stun and finish mining the node before roflstomping the attacker. Re-mount, and with Crusader Aura I am still at the next mining node before the other guy. ;-)
Since you have a level 80, I'd say a mining DK to gather for your warrior sounds pretty good actually.
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Zorrah
I have a level 80 rogue that has mining / herbalism and it just rocks.
I farm WG for about an hour a day and get 3-4 frost lotus..sometimes more...few stacks of Saronite and 1/2 a stack of Titanium along with stacks of herbs.
Easy stuff...and I never fight. Mob is close to a node...blind...vanish after. Less chance on getting ganked :)
Never been much for pvp and my rogue is fairly well geared but no pvp gear at all.
The only pain is having to switch back and forth between what you're searching for..which I do constantly. Its still not bad...pull them out to a bar and its just back and forth.
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Adent
Rogue sounds like a really good idea. Although I've never made a Deathknight and am missing out on that cool quest line supposedly.
Post by
fsngnshiekfan
pally or DK due to the 20% speed increase
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Post by
Zxian
Honestly, if you're going just for the gathering abilities, get yourself a DK. They're stupidly easy to level, On a Pale Horse gives you the same speed bonus as Crusader Aura, and you start 55 levels ahead of any other class (that's about 1.5 days worth of /played).
For a retardedly easy leveling and grinding spec, stick with
this
. Fill out the points in blood first, and then work your way down the unholy tree. You can keep the spec at 80 for farming, since it gives you an added move speed bonus, great solo survivability, as well as a pet to deal with any mobs while you're gathering.
I started my DK as a farming toon. He's been every gathering profession at some point or another, but I've ended up dropping one of them for blacksmithing (since I actually use him as a tank now).
Post by
Animer
The only problem with having herb/mining professions is that you can only have find mineral or find herbs on one at a time. Thus unless you have really good eyes and gatherer add on it will be hard to get all the nodes closest to you.
On topic if you want to know what class, Id recommend a DK since they start at level 55, 100% mount and spec unholy for the speed boost and perma ghoul. It took me about 4 or 5 hours to get mining up from 1 to 300. I did smelt, but to get the nodes was really easy since mobs = useless and the speed is great when farming.
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Zorrah
The only problem with having herb/mining professions is that you can only have find mineral or find herbs on one at a time. Thus unless you have really good eyes and gatherer add on it will be hard to get all the nodes closest to you.
On topic if you want to know what class, Id recommend a DK since they start at level 55, 100% mount and spec unholy for the speed boost and perma ghoul. It took me about 4 or 5 hours to get mining up from 1 to 300. I did smelt, but to get the nodes was really easy since mobs = useless and the speed is great when farming.
Hope this helps
Someone here on the forums mentioned it...but get an add on called Spotter. It automatically switches at a time interval that you choose.
I just downloaded it a few days ago for my rogue herb/miner and WG has never been so easy. I do have to keep a close eye on the mini map...but its easy farming with the autoswitch. You can set it to turn off when you're gathering too...meaning on the ground not on a mount.
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