Switching Professions; Dropping Skinning for Herbalism
In 2008, I started playing World Of Warcraft although I enjoyed the game almost from the start I took a break about three months after I started playing. That break lasted for a little over four months.
When I came back to WOW I stayed on the Auchindoun for about a month more before I created Horde toons on the Zul’jin server. One aspect that has always been appealing to me within World Of Warcraft is the professions. If you choose your professions wisely it can be the jump start you need to making an insane amount of WOW gold.
Low level herbs sold well on Zul’Jin, and that wasn’t too surprising since Wrath of the Lich King was only few months away. Inscription was actually being introduced before WOTLK was being released so naturally the price of low level herbs increased too. My Priest picked up Herbalism, and her other profession was Skinning. Skinning is slow, steady money and it’s something I usually choose for a toon on a brand-new server.
Fast forward several months later and I got the itch to play the WOW gold game on a brand new server. I created Alliance toons on Kael’thas server. I promptly made bank toons and checked out the Auction House. Herbalism, at the lower level wasn’t doing as well so I chose Mining instead and went with my old standby, Skinning.
By the end of the first week on Kael’thas I had made over 1000WOW gold. Before Deimonia was 70 she had over 12k WOW gold. How did she acquire over 12k WOW gold in a little over two months? It definitely wasn’t from my quest rewards or my professions. I didn’t buy the gold with real money either. Doing that can get you banned. While it’s true that early on quest rewards and professions did supply Deimonia with the money needed to purchase things. The main way my toons have made money is at the Auction House. My bank toons buy low-priced Auction House items and resell them back at the market price. It didn’t take hours of mind-numbing farming to make that gold. (Some people enjoy doing this, I don’t. I’ll only do it when I’m leveling a profession, after that, forget about it. I just played the Auction House.)
How do I search for low priced items quickly? when playing the Auction House I use the Auctioneer Addon. I take advantage of the Search feature to find low prices items that I can resell at the market price.
The WOW Addon, Auctioneer Suite has a feature that enables you to Batch Post items so if I have a few hundred items to list. It’s a quick process, takes less than five minutes, and nets me several hundred gold daily. That is on the days my bank toons play the Auction House. My Bank toons will only use the Batch Post feature after they have scanned the Auction House, in doing so I get a fairly accurate idea of the prices.
Switching Professions
Last week I thought about dropping Skinning on Deimonia. Initially, I was leaning towards Jewelcrafting to accommodate Mining, but… I decided to level Herbalism instead. A few days ago it was official, Deimonia dropped Skinning and picked up Herbalism. Although I know people who’ve maxed it out in one day, I knew I didn’t have that type of time. My goal was to train one level each day. I’m happy to say that early this morning Deimonia became a Grandmaster Herbalist.
Herbalism: Selling what I gather
Interestingly enough even the low level herbs that Deimonia has picked along her journey to become a Grandmaster Herbalist has sold very well. Deimonia, sent all her herbs to one of her gnome bankers. Little gnomie promptly put some of them on the Auction House. Thus, far the herbs have made Deim over 800 Gold. That’s not too bad, seeing that I still have tons of it to sell or keep in case I choose to level Alchemy on another toon.
So what about Jewelcrafting? My Death Knight will be the Jewelcrafter and I’m thinking of dropping Inscription on her and picking up Alchemy instead. I will have to level her to 65. She’s currently 59 at the moment.
