Choosing a profession for your alt can be an important decision when it comes to making gold. In this post, I break down most of the main professions and which ones and the best choices and why so sit tight! If you have not already check Part 1: Here.
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Gathering Professions
There are different schools of thought on how to set up gathering professions and really it depends on your playstyle. A lot of people will say to pair a crafting profession with a suitable gathering profession. If you actively use and do content on all your
If however, you do not actively use all of your alts then it’s not as useful. I have over 12 characters, and honestly? Beyond hearthing between Farms and Garrisons and Order Halls I don’t do much content on any of them so having gathering professions on them would be useless, as they are rarely ever out in the world to gather anything. Whereas they can sit in the Halls and make transmutes and craft.
If you do a lot of content on all your alts, by all means, pair their crafting profession with a gathering profession. If you do not do a lot of content on your alts, you will want at least one ‘Gathering Alt’. I’m going to do another post on how to set up an idea gathering alt later. But for now, that is simply a character with Herbing and Mining. Preferably Druids or Demon Hunters, for fairly obvious reasons I will explain later.
Secondary Professions
First Aid is being removed in BFA so I wouldn’t start worrying about that now.
Cooking is a good skill to have but you don’t really need to level it to max in every toon. I have one character that has maxed out cooking and I treat it like a third crafting skill. I have a TSM list etc for making buff food and the likes. Not a market everyone remembers so keep it in mind. Particularly around new raid releases and expac launches. I also mail all the fish and meat I gather while leveling alts to this Cooking Character.
Fishing is personal preference. You can make gold by fishing without a doubt but it is not something everyone has the time and stomach for. I always like to have fishing at least a little levelled on all my alts. Enough that they can do the Darkmoon Faire Fishing Quest when the Faire is in town. For tokens and for Darkmaw Daggerfish. For reasons that we’ll get into in another post.
In Conclusion
I think if you have enough alts then it’s a good idea to keep one of every crafting profession on hand. You never know when you might need something or when something might be lucrative to make so it’s good to have them. As discussed above you also need a gathering toon which we will take in more depth about in another post. But for now; you need to work out if you are going to pair gathering with crafting or make a designated gathering character.
Then I would suggest you fill in any spare profession slots you have left with multiple alchemists and engineers. To fuel these with materials you will need Ghost Iron for the Engineers. The Alchemists will depend on which transmute you want to do; but the most profitable one is likely living steel from Trillium. So this will either require you to do some Pandaria ore farming or running farms on these characters with Snakeroot Seeds to grow the needed materials.
That should leave you with a complete army of crafting
