A common question players ask is, “what profession should I get?” Most of the time they are interested in knowing what profession will make them the most gold and more often than not the question pertains to which gathering profession they should pick up.
A common question players ask is, “what profession should I get?” Most of the time they are interested in knowing what profession will make them the most gold and more often than not the question pertains to which gathering profession they should pick up. Now while I can understand the desire to make more gold, I don’t like how picking a profession has come down to deciding on what gathering profession to pick instead of what profession would enhance my character the most and which profession seems like the most fun.
Now gathering professions aside, I hardly ever see a recommendation for players to pick up crafting professions to make gold with. Now I’ll give the gathering professions their due credit, they are really easy to make gold with, but they can also be pretty boring to make gold with as they are simply a way to farm for gold. Don’t get me wrong, I have several miners, but I also see that you can make lots of gold with crafting professions and I usually pick professions for my characters that I would actually like to do that will enhance my particular character.
So is the potential there to make a lot of gold with crafting professions? The answer is definitely yes. Is it going to require a bit more thought and creativity than gathering professions? Definitely yes. Will you have to spend hours farming for mats? Definitely no.
The really big benefit in using crafting professions to make gold is that you don’t have to spend hours farming, and with gathering professions that’s a big part of how you make your money. Next time you create a new character don’t opt for the standard mining or herbalism or even skinning to make gold pick something you actually want to do and you will be able to make gold with it.
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Francisco Jones is the author of this article on Leveling WoW Professions.
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