I always had a soft spot for herbalism. It may not be the most profitable profession, but there is something relaxing about flying around and collecting flowers. Herbalism is a pure money-making profession. The bonus you get with it is Lifeblood, which is a 5 seconds self-heal with a 3-minute cooldown. It can be useful … Read more
Be it for leveling or for raiding, food is a very good consumable. That’s why cooking has always been regarded as a useful profession. However, with the WotLK release and items like Great Feast and Fish Feast cooking lost some of its value. Now it’s enough for only one person in the raid to have … Read more
Be it for leveling or for raiding, food is a very good consumable. That’s why cooking has always been regarded as a useful profession. However, with the WotLK release and items like Great Feast and Fish Feast cooking lost some of its value. Now it’s enough for only one person in the raid to have … Read more
There’s no other way of saying this: skinning kinda sucks and is by far the worst gathering profession! Herbalism is useful for alchemy and inscription. Mining is useful for blacksmithing, jewelcrafting, and engineering. Skinning is only useful for leatherworking. And leatherworking is already a bit underwhelming, which makes skinning even worse. Max skinners get Master … Read more
Mining is a gathering profession and thus doesn’t have great bonuses. Max-level miners only get Toughness – +60 stamina. This isn’t an awful bonus for tanks, but every other role will find it pointless. On the upside, mining can be an amazing money-maker. Three other professions (blacksmithing, engineering, jewelcrafting) require ore. And engineering and jewelcrafting … Read more
Lockpicking is a rogue-only profession, which isn’t mandatory to level up. It won’t offer you any extra stat bonuses or items – it’s just a little something extra you can do in your free time. Unfortunately, it can be quite boring to level up, so I won’t blame you if you don’t want to bother … Read more
Inscription is a profession introduced in WotLK and it has many different uses. Our WotLK inscription guide will teach you all you need to know and help you level it up quickly. The main purpose of inscription is to create glyphs – special class unique items that make abilities more powerful. Each character can use … Read more
Leatherworking is far from being the most popular WotLK profession there is. As a non-gathering profession, it’s arguably on the weaker side. Still, if you are adamant about leveling it, look no further than this WotLK leatherworking guide. The biggest od advantage of leatherworking is the stronger enchants you can do on your bracers: Fur … Read more
Jewelcrafting is the very definition of a hardcore minmaxing profession. If you are in a more serious raiding guild, there’s a high chance of a lot of your guildies being jewelcrafters – and rightfully so. It offers the biggest bonuses of all professions. If you’d like to easily become a jewelcrafter yourself, continue reading our … Read more
Our WotLK tailoring guide will show you how to max this profession the fastest. If you’re playing a cloth wearing, you should consider getting tailoring as one of your professions. The biggest bonus of this profession is the cloak enchant Lightweave Embroidery, which increases your spell power by 295 for 15 seconds with a 45 … Read more