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Professions for priests- a question from a noob
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OscarDivine
Personally, I really like Tailoring for a priest because your raw materials can be farmed easily while you're leveling and you get
excellent
bonuses
especially
as you get to the
highest
levels of
tailoring
. That, and you can make items that help you level that are several times
better than items
you could otherwise obtain. You'll use the robe of power for like 10 levels.
You can pair this with Enchanting so you get mats to level with as you level your tailoring as well.
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OscarDivine
At end-game Tailoring offers you very little aside from the opportunity to make expensive bags and to sell high-end cloth pieces for about 150-200 gold every 4 days. The Embroiders for tailors are nice but not, like, awesome. The best reason, imo, to keep Tailoring at end-game is to have the carpet mount.
I strongly disagree.
Lightweave embroidery
is by far and wide THE single best cloak enchant in the game, and probably next to your weapon enchant, the best enchant that you can obtain on your gear. As well, Darkglow Embroidery is the second highest regen enchant you can obtain next to your
IED
.
These are not enchants to be ignored.
The carpet is one of the stupidest reasons to keep tailoring there are tons of other mounts out there that you can get, but aside from haste to your cloak, there's nothing more a non-tailor caster can get for their cloak unless you're an
engineer
, which still doesn't even hold a candle to Lightweave.
Also, don't forget your leg threads, which only cost you one eternium thread. They're cheap and you'll probably have one on you in the field, so you can just put it on and use your items on the fly without worries.
If you want to make money, go take up a gathering profession. But if you want something to help you level and that will be substantially useful to you as a max level player, I don't think Tailoring is a bad way to go.
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Synectics
I do <3 my Darkglow Embroidery as Discipline in raids, and it's probably one of the many reasons I sit full-mana at the end of encounters.
But really, most of the profession perks are on a level field. You can go Jewelcrafting for nice gems. Go Blacksmithing for extra sockets. Enchanting for ring 'chants. Inscription for Shoulder 'chants. Engineering for welfare 'chants on top of some really cool and nifty stuff. Really, they're mostly even, and it's just a matter of which one you'd like to put time into leveling.
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OscarDivine
Well Gusideon, I think you're right about leveling fast. If you do want to level fast then do it without professions, but I think our OP seems interested in having a profession while leveling for the helpful aspects of it, otherwise I don't think he'd be asking. Personally, I like to level up professions, more than leveling toons actually. I find it's a good way to take away from the monotony of the grind from time to time. And I get to reap some rewards benefits out of it too! :-)
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OscarDivine
Potions and herbs are a great combo for an priest. They make money easy and herbs gives the much needed help of Lifeblood. With the money you can make from selling you can buy your armor and enchants.
youre a priest...you can heal yourself. lifeblood isnt that powerful and is on a cooldown, whereas your own heals are only restricted by the amount of mana you have.
You dont live long when things go bad do you hahahaha.
If things "go bad", I doubt that Lifeblood will be the thing that got you out of it. You should have a renew and a bubble on you at all times if you're in a sticky situation to begin with.
Lifeblood WOULD be nice if you were shadow spec because you don't have to pop out of shadow form to cast it. The only reason I like to have Alchemy is for gems, but honestly, it never really made any serious difference for me while leveling, especially considering that potions can only be used once so long as you remain in combat.
Elixirs are nice to have, but they shouldn't seriously make or break you either. Flasks are good to have at higher levels, but those aren't that hard to come by either, especially if you have a herbing toon and a friend who has an alchemist.
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OscarDivine
At end-game Tailoring offers you very little ....
I strongly disagree.
Lightweave embroidery
is by far and wide THE single best cloak enchant in the game, and probably next to your weapon enchant, the best enchant that you can obtain on your gear. As well, Darkglow Embroidery is the second highest regen enchant you can obtain next to your
IED
.
These are not enchants to be ignored.
The carpet is one of the stupidest reasons to keep tailoring there are tons of other mounts out there that you can get, but aside from haste to your cloak, there's nothing more a non-tailor caster can get for their cloak unless you're an
engineer
, which still doesn't even hold a candle to Lightweave.
First of all, you are NOT the gold standard of what is reasonable for priests. You have no business saying what is or isn't stupid from someone else's point of view. You may disagree that the carpet is worth keeping tailoring for and I'll respect that. For my part, the flying carpet is cool ... and that is sufficient reason for me. Others will agree with me, others will agree with you ... but this game is definitely not all about you.
I prefer the Darkglow embroidery to Lightweave since it accounts for a good chunk of my mana regen during boss fights. Like all individual enchants and buffs, the augmentation provided by Lightweave is a small percentage of the base amount that is provided on gear at end-game. Since we are talking about leveling, I accept that Lightweave would be a good enchant though, as someone else pointed out, acquiring the enchant might actually delay leveling progress. For end-game, Lightweave is fine but for my part it is not, like, awesome and does not form part of the basis for keeping Tailoring. Others will agree with me, others will agree with you.
Perhaps when we face the M'uru equivalent in WotLK that will have us obsess about min/max'ing to such an extent and to such a degree, then you will be able to feel vindicated. But for now, what I said originally about Tailoring as a profession choice for priests remains apt.
Relax amigo, we're having a discussion here, not a mud slinging contest.
Of course we're here to discuss the ins and outs of things and I'm just here to argue the point that Tailoring is not a bad way to go. I think I said that a few times already.
Whoever said I was the gold standard anyway? I think you're misconstruing things and taking this a bit personally. I think we should just take a deep breath right now.
As well, we aren't talking about min/maxing. We're talking about a profession while leveling. To answer the OP's question: I like Tailoring for leveling any cloth wearer. I find it very useful and has lots of plusses that you cannot get elsewhere. But then... I've already said this.
Post by
Jemnai
Skinning and Minning is also good for young priest crit and the extra hp can be the key of killing or being killed. If your shadow Spec the +crit really helps me esp if it your first toon on realm.
Post by
Nivrax
I personally train my Priest in Herbalism and Alchemy. While Lifeblood isn't all that powerful, the
Endless
pots
are pretty sweet, along with
extra stats
, both availble at level 65. Also, don't forget stronger
Flask and elixirs
and nice
Trinket
at level 75.
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Post by
Paolo
I am knew to the priest world, and I am confused about which profs are best for a lvling, holy heavy priest-
The OP never indicated his criteria for "best." On the assumption that this is your first toon, it's pretty standard to recommend getting two gathering professions, as they (1) are easy to level as your toon progresses, (2) will make you easy gold, and (3) will not slow your leveling in the least. Gathering professions include skinning, mining, herbing. If you choose a crafting profession (tailoring, enchanting, etc) you will have to spend gold to level it, and it will certainly slow you down some.
When you hit 80, you should have enough money to drop one (or both) of your profs and powerlevel one that you like better.
So, as an example, you might pick skinning and mining while leveling. Then when you hit 80, you can drop skinning and pick up jewelcrafting.
Edit:
If this isn't your first toon, and you're already familiar with profs in general, head
here
for a full discussion of end-game benefits of each profession.
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