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I'm making a Gnomer Mage, and was wondering should I go Mining/Engineering or Tailoring/Enchanting. The 15 racial boost to engineering is good I guess, but enchaninting has so many perks. Help me out =D
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| 02/03/08 13:12 |
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From my viewpoint, I'd say Tailor/Enchanting. It's eaasy to make money, and in Outland and the hi-end instances, there are enchantments that people pay oodles of gold for.
My alt with mining/engineering has not leveled past 21, so I cannot say much about those professions.
Tailoring is what got me enough gold to get my epic gryphon, though. Them primal mooncloth bags go for a lot of mooolah. And those Runic/Mystic Spellthreads, oy, they get eaten up in the AH :-)
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| 02/03/08 15:05 |
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Engineering/Mining is very useful. It makes you a mercenary type character. But as a mage, tailoring/enchanting is more useful to you. The + stats is nice, especially for a mage and being able to make your own armor is just plain awesome.
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It may depend a lot on what you want to do with your Mage end game wise. And what you have for fundage in the game.
The Cloth tailor patterns don't do for the Mage class what they did for the Warlock. Were you to be a devout Frost Mage the crafted pieces are worth it. But were you to be Fire or Arcane at BEST you can take advantage of the robes. There are much better pieces to be had than the Arcanoweave pieces. And the patterns for the REALLY good stuff drop out of high level end game content. Will you have access to that?
Tailoring/Enchanting would be the best cost effective and money making proffesion choice.
Enchanting materials sell well on the AH as do bags and such.
Mining/Engineering is a money pit. But a lot of fun and useful stuff for the avid PvP fan. You could potentially make good money on raw ore, but leveling mining is one of the most tedious proffesions to level with Engineering or Armorcrafting coming in a close second.
Were you to already be established on another character to fund the Engineer, it would make it much less painful.
Back to my original comment..... What do you plan to do with that Mage in the long run?
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| 02/04/08 07:17 |
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| QUOTE | The Cloth tailor patterns don't do for the Mage class what they did for the Warlock. Were you to be a devout Frost Mage the crafted pieces are worth it. But were you to be Fire or Arcane at BEST you can take advantage of the robes. There are much better pieces to be had than the Arcanoweave pieces. And the patterns for the REALLY good stuff drop out of high level end game content. Will you have access to that?
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I don't agree with that since the Shadoweave set is the best up to tier 5 for a shadow priest, lock or frost mage and the sets are bought from a vendor, also same goes for a fire mage with the spellfire set, and a holy priest with the mooncloth. Tailoring nowadays it's not required but will make your life a lot easier to gear up, you can hit 70 today and have quite a few pieces of epic gear that are up to the tier 5 ready to wear. On thing to remember tho is that as a mage it's very ironic what they did, cause in order for you to have the shadoweave set you need primal water and for you to get those you need to farm water elementals and guess what they are frost immune!!! Also same goes for the spellfire set that you need primal fire! So unless you have a 70 alt that can farm those mats for you, you are in for a treat! lolz
On the topic, I think tailoring/enchanting is a great way to make money, tailoring not so much (unless you sell bags) but you can get lots of enchanting mats from it. But enchanting in the other hand is very good, what I did was level my enchanting to 300 and then just disenchant items and provide AH with the mats I had making easy money and also having my own mats to get my enchants :)
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| 02/04/08 08:18 |
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I would say tailoring and enchanting. Tailoring is just crazy good for making your own armor and enchanting is always a very nice thing to have.
I don't know that much about engineering, but to me it looks too gimmicky, sure you get to make some nice gadgets but in the end I don't think it's worth it.
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| 02/04/08 11:54 |
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along with being able to make your own armor, and making armor sets at 70 that help you w/ gear before kara/za. with enchanting you also get to enchant your rings, which you can only do if you are the enchanter, so thats pretty cool too.
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| 02/04/08 23:58 |
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I use the spellfire set for PvE in Gruuls Lair and The Eye along with my Kara and ZA drops, so to say that its not good is wrong. If you wear all three peices for the set bonus its DEFINATELY worth it if you are fire spec to wear spellfire.
Just put the right gems in it and you are fine.
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| 02/05/08 02:46 |
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| QUOTE | On thing to remember tho is that as a mage it's very ironic what they did, cause in order for you to have the shadoweave set you need primal water and for you to get those you need to farm water elementals and guess what they are frost immune!!! Also same goes for the spellfire set that you need primal fire! So unless you have a 70 alt that can farm those mats for you, you are in for a treat! lolz
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I'll leave the debate on Spellfire vs Shadoweave for a different topic string, but I can offer advise on farming the mats.
There is a really great Arcane/Frost build that the Mages are using for early raid DPS before they get decent hit rating gear. It's a bit of a mana hog but the damage vs similar under geared Mages is noticeable. It's perfect for the Mage tailor farming mats for either set. You can always spec out to Fire or Frost afterwards.
Our Fire Mages that have their gear do out DPS them now, but in the first stages in TBC raiding the Arcane build really compensates for the gear. And the Arcane Mages are still out DPS'ing the Frost Mages.
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| 02/05/08 05:38 |
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frost is a big time fail when it comes to pve dps these days, they fall behind spriests who generally have the worst dps due 2 having to be played for mana effiency.
however for the topic, you all seem to forget the goggles engin make...they are all a t5 lvl gear and iv seen semi t6 geared players still wearing them, not to mention the epic mount from engin is a flying machine...its also about 2-3k gold cheaper because so far as i know it has no req on flying lessons.
and dont forget...once engin is capped at 375 your free2 drop mining and pick up enchanting or tailoring as im doing with my war ;)
edit: on a personal note of failure....my account expired 2day just as i was applying to a tk/ssc raiding guild :'(
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| 02/07/08 09:27 |
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You have to have riding skill to use it. Its not cheaper in the end.
Also the goggles are aweome and mote extractors are a good way to make money.
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| 02/07/08 09:50 |
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| QUOTE | You have to have riding skill to use it. Its not cheaper in the end.
Also the goggles are aweome and mote extractors are a good way to make money.
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yes, two of the best things about engineering, my googles wont be replaced until T4 and i make a good amount of G off of the motes i get, can get up to 6 motes off each one and on my server one primal air sells about 16g
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| 02/07/08 17:12 |
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| QUOTE | | frost is a big time fail when it comes to pve dps these days, they fall behind spriests who generally have the worst dps due 2 having to be played for mana effiency. |
I don't agree with that at all, it pretty much depends on what type of PvE you're talking, if it's just regular 5 man/heroic, raids or what else there is. In any 5 man/heroics I have been I usually top the meter. Could be just your bad luck with frost mages, or me just being lucky by playing with crappy players.
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| 02/07/08 21:08 |
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