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Apprentice Posts: 2 Joined: 29 Apr 2009   | |
WarCry Choice  Posts: 6301 Joined: 30 Jun 2004     | Wrong forum. This should be in the World of Warcraft section.
I want to see gamma rays. I want to hear x-rays. I want to smell dark matter. |
WarCry Choice  Posts: 1197 Joined: 16 Oct 2004  | *Moved* Engineering or enchanting
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Adventurer  Posts: 337 Joined: 10 Jul 2006     | I would say engineering, as at least with enchanting you can sell off your product. DM: From the deepest crypts crawls the undead thread, it's death rattle shakes you to your core. What foul necromantic forces brought forth this foul beast. |
Looking For Group  Posts: 154 Joined: 26 Mar 2009    | What do you mean by hard? None of the professions are hard if you are looking at them from the standpoint of EQ2 professions or something that requires active participation in the crafting process. If you mean which are the worst to level then I'd go with Jewelcrafting, leveling that from 1-300 is really terrible. |
Looking For Group  Posts: 166 Joined: 25 Feb 2009     | Engineering.
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Master Looter  Posts: 1540 Joined: 6 Apr 2008    | At the early levels engineering is hell, there's a lot of different materials to get, mostly what you can get from ores, but frequently you'll need stuff from skinning, occasionally alchemy and some cloth pieces. Added to which, it's not a big moneymaker profession. For the sheer amount of materials though, Blacksmithing can be be pretty bad too, you don't need as much variety as with engineering, but you do need a -lot- of ores/bars. And, many of the rarer metals you need for some of the high end Blacksmithing gear are, well, rare, you'll need to grind a bit to get what you need, or swallow your pride and buy of the auction house, and that is frankly expensive. |
Looking For Group  Posts: 117 Joined: 24 Jul 2008   | I would say enchanting for the sole reason that it's difficult to turn your unneeded weapons and stuff into mat's rather than Gold. |
Master Looter  Posts: 1744 Joined: 5 Mar 2008   | Jewelcrafting is a pain to level to 300 due to the ungodly amounts of ore you need to prospect in order to get the gems you need to lvl up. Those gems drop on their own rarely and cost a fortune in the auction house. So unless your prepared to pay 25 gold for a single azerothian diamond your in for a long time of mining thorium. Engineering isnt that hard because you can craft random parts and stuff to lvl all the way to 450. Except maybe the last 10 points being a bit tedious if your bent on getting the nesingwary 4000 or the motorcycle. |
Master Looter Posts: 1540 Joined: 6 Apr 2008 |
And that motorcycle...my head just about exploded when I saw how much the non-manufactured parts were going to cost! |
Looking For Group  Posts: 119 Joined: 19 Apr 2009    | Depends of how the economy is for me. If I can get stuff off of my guildmates/friends, it isn't that hard to do any profession. The rewards for engineering aren't worth the effort, IMO. But jewelcrafting can be good, even if its arguably the hardest profession. |
Dungeon Crawler  Posts: 649 Joined: 8 May 2009  | engineering is just downright horrible. leveling it is expensive. nothing sells. it has almost no rewards worth mentioning. blizzard makes sure to nerf the results worth mentioning with every new patch. Undead Army 4 life. |
Master Looter Posts: 1540 Joined: 6 Apr 2008 |
Well...I think it's a -fun- prof. at any rate...even if it is hopelessly useless. I've got a parachute cloak, rocket boots and rocket launcher for my gauntlets. Also, made the top eng. goggles, sure, they aren't as good as the top raid gear, but they look pretty damn snazzy :3 |
Dungeon Crawler Posts: 649 Joined: 8 May 2009 |
engineering costs thousands of gold to level up, its actually a close rival to enchanting (enchanting costs anywhere between 5000 to 7000 depending on realm to level up. engineering is almost higher than that, and nothing you get from it is really all -that- good. most are mediocre situational devices that arent BiS for raiding or pvping, and keep getting nerfed. im not hating engineering, i think engineers need more to the profession, cheaper, easier to make patterns till 450 and more stuff @ 450 that is useful and can be sold. maybe a few BiS items that are BoE. Undead Army 4 life. |
Power Leveler  Posts: 3597 Joined: 14 Jan 2009     | Well back when I played, Blacksmithing was damn near useless. About as expensive and a bitch to level as engineering, but at least engineering gave you cute gimmicks and now awesome flying mounts...Blacksmithing gave you a DPS chest that was debateably worse than your T5, or a weapon outclassed by Season 2... |
Epic’d Out  Posts: 5076 Joined: 23 Mar 2009    | Engineering is fun, and I've always loved crafting things with it...but leveling it up is pretty damned hard. At least my Jewelcrafter and Blacksmith can get my higher-level miner to play sugar daddy and get them the raw materials they need... Wait, we have signatures? |
Power Leveler  Posts: 4221 Joined: 30 Oct 2008   |
This man speaks the truth. People actually BUY materials? I smell money rolling into my Netherweave Bags... |
Epic’d Out Posts: 5076 Joined: 23 Mar 2009 |
Oh yes, they absolutely do. It caught me completely off-guard the first time I saw stacks of copper being sold for gold. Wait, we have signatures? |
Power Leveler Posts: 4221 Joined: 30 Oct 2008 |
How have I survived in the land of Azeroth thus far? I must take stock of my silver reserves... |
Adventurer  Posts: 249 Joined: 9 Oct 2008   | Enchanting is just nasty. Hard to level and in my opinion hard to make money off of. Engineering is at least fun :) |
Master Looter  Posts: 2581 Joined: 6 Sep 2008   | I don't know but as a Warrior I thought Enchanting and Inscription would be a good idea... |
Looking For Group  Posts: 191 Joined: 19 Aug 2008  | PVP /flex Gladiator title? high warlord title? pvp takes skill and dedication by far the hardest "Career" in wow ^.< na but other than that id have to say enchanting/engineering |
Master Looter  Posts: 2351 Joined: 14 Jan 2008  | Alchemy is hard The Following Sentence Is False I'll Wait For Your Heads To Explode.... |
Power Leveler  Posts: 4582 Joined: 12 Feb 2009   | I say enchanting. Mainly becuase at low levels it is diffcult to get the certain mats. In every other proffesion you know what your getting. Add on the fact that it ain't really a moneymaker until the master level. |
Adventurer  Posts: 377 Joined: 20 Mar 2009     |
Seriously, Alchemy?...In what way is it hard? I'd personally say that Blacksmithing is the hardest "profession" in WoW. It simply requires the most ore/ materials that necessitates mining until complete frustration sets in. |
Dungeon Crawler  Posts: 828 Joined: 17 Apr 2008    | Blacksmithing. Towards the end the materials are rediculous. Much better to just be a miner who knows a blacksmith than to be one yourself. |
Adventurer  Posts: 288 Joined: 2 Sep 2008   | Alchemy is pretty hard Off-Topic: why was madBird put on probation for the post? |
Apprentice  Posts: 5 Joined: 25 Jul 2009    |
Selling over priced ammo to "hunters" is a good enough reward for me. |
Dungeon Crawler  Posts: 807 Joined: 17 Jan 2009   |
Your mining thorium, unless things have changed since i quit shouldn't the money you get from thorium make it worth it? |
Master Looter Posts: 1744 Joined: 5 Mar 2008 |
Not if you need all the thorium for lvlling your own proffesion. |
Adventurer  Posts: 458 Joined: 10 Jul 2009 |
I have a character who is an herbalist/alchemist. I have had almost zero difficulty levelling up my alchemy with that combo. I still haven't tried an engineer yet. I have to say that enchanting is the toughest one i've run into... Though once you reach the higher levels, it does start to pay some of that money back a bit.. "See, Jimmy? And you said a manicurist had no useful role in a police investigation." |
Ding! (Grats!)  Posts: 29 Joined: 23 Jul 2009  |
Yeah, easily Engineering. I dropped BS for ENG, and I'm having a blast (get the pun?) with ENG, but it wasn't easy to power level. Þá kvað þat Heimdallr, hvítastr ása,vissi hann vel fram sem vanir aðrir: "Bindum vér Þór þá brúðar líni, hafi hann it mikla men Brísinga." In short, it involves Norse cross-dressing. I'a Cthulhu! I'a Yog-Sothoth! I'a Nyarlathotep! Glory to the Old Ones! |
Master Looter  Posts: 2122 Joined: 8 Apr 2009  | Speaking as an engineer, it is slow to get up but greatly outweighed by the fact that you make explosive sheep! |
Master Looter  Posts: 2843 Joined: 1 Feb 2008    | Enchanting is hard to level if you aren't playing any alts, but if you have a different alt leveling something like leatherworking, you pass all the greens they grind out as they level to the enchanter to disenchant for mats. And if you are going to be an enchanter, there is absolutely no reason not to be a tailor. Take your linen, silk, what have you, craft it, disenchant it, use the mats to level your enchanting, lather, rinse, repeat. You can convert stacks of linen into stacks of dust and shards in no time. I actually have have at least one alt in every profession, more than one in the gathering professions. Whatever one of them needs, one of the others can provide, whatever one of them doesn't need, one of the others can use. It's time-intensive, because you do, to some degree, have to level them up together in order to keep the circuit going, but it's just a matter of whether you prefer to spend time or gold. That said, I just have engineering to have it. I don't really see much use to it and it takes an ungodly amount of base materials for what you get. Welcome to Planet Toilet. Here's your brush. |
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