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I just started doing BS/mining again (Im a pally) the reason I did is I heard the armor you can make off of it is really great starting gear for lvl 80 and stuff so I just started that. My plan was to get mining up very high and just sell my ores and get stuff for lvling BS(I am pretty poor right now) so I am thinking now I made th eright choice.
On my server copper ore, yes i said it COPPER ORE, costs 9g 50s 90c on the AH per stack!
This blew me away and they give you the money that you'd get basically off of 70 dalies. So yes my gathering skills are bringing in tons of money now :)

I dunno if you can say enchanters don't gather. I was making 200G a stack on the northrend dusts for a while there.

So, simply split the days take and milk the powerlevelers...

I have a hunter and my professions are Mining/Blacksmithing. I do regret taking those on, because at lvl 72 my professions are still not being closed to maxed. SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love being a miner. 60g a stack for cobalt bars and 50g a stack for mithril bars is all you need to know. plus the toughness is a nice bonus

Toon #1: skinning + leatherworking = poor, got mount 8 levels late due to funding issues. treading water with pots/repairs/etc.

Toon #2: mining + blacksmithing = poor (crafted weapons sell poorly in my experience). mining ore wasted on smithing.

Toon#2 switch: mining + tailoring = enough money, but not rich-feeling. spent it all on making high end bags. so I get $ from selling ore/bars and get mats for tailoring from humanoid kills and to a lesser extent, the AH

Toon#3: herbalism + skinning = rich. Had more money than I needed, and the crafted items I wanted on the AH were cheap due to levelers dumping a dozen items at a time on the AH. Had mount money 10 levels early. Could afford enchants+(mats from AH) for all gear.

Thought I'd try it again:
Toon #4: herbalism + skinning = rich again.

Toon #5: mining + skinning = freaking rich. way rich. IT kinda helped that this guy came on line before Burning Crusade. I made an absolute killing on raw ore and gems for everyone picking up jewelcrafting.

Toon #6: mining + jewelcrafting = poor again.

Toon #7: mining + skinning = freaking rich again.

I think I found what works for me, anyway.
So, for me, I prefer to have the money than the ability to craft par and sub-par stuff.
So my opinion is: take 2 gathering skills as soon as possible, pick one that needs mini map and one that doesn't, or you spend your whole time switching your map radar.

JC Engy fortunately I planned ahead and my alt miner enchanter is helping me weather the price fluxuations by gathering my own mats. Unfortunately with 3 crafting professions I have very little surplus :( .. so far

Dailies are my main source of income, but the massive distances to be travelled to do some of them represents a rather large financial hazard :(

I'm just gonna say.. What gathering mats sell for on Executus is insane. My level 25 has well over 300g... My 73 dual crafter (like you), has much less comparatively. I feel your pain.

It's Winter Veil though. Go get some eggs. :D

Lvl 78 Undead Mage (Aggramar) -
Lvl 70 Undead Rogue (Aggramar) -

I have been a miner/skinner on my Mage since day one. It has been very profitable for me. My Rogue is a LW and JC. My secret on the WOTLK expansion was early exploration into icestorm to max out my mining. Producing titansteel early on was slow, but insanely profitable when people finally needed it. I run a guild and have bought all the tabs. As a perk, I buy my highest ranked members their epic mount training (if they don't already have it). I'm focused now on the 3 person Mammoth mount. I should have it soon. :)

For money making profs. i would say to go Alchemy/Herbalism. Alchemy is one of the most profitable prof. of them all, because unlike most of other, you can sell 1-2-5/player and that limits your market over time. In Alchemy you never run out of buyers, raids/dungeons and other stuff are made with flasks/potions/elixirs and they come and buy more when there pots run out, so alchemy is a gold mine. Herbalism is another great one, players will always need herbs when the can't gather. Inscription works with herbalism so all you Herba/Alch out there can make some serious cash from the Inscription guys. Enchanting is not a very good way to make money, yes i know that everyone needs enchants, but they are very expensive for the Enchanter (mats can reach up to 95% of the price you ask for the enchant) and there's the same problem on 1 player you don't have a limitless sell capacity like in potions or herbs. As for mining is good for everyone, but is best for tanks, so if you are a tank screw all profs. and go find a pick axe.

mage: tailor and enchanter im making a killing selling the ebonweave robes and gloves all the dps classes are wanting em and ive made going on 10k selling em for 1k each and i have yet to sell a single enchanting mat making it easy mode when i get that awesome raiding gear that needs to be enchanted

paladin: miner and engineer making a killing off cobolt and the other metals and doing ok with the engineering ting buy selling the crystallized elements

needless to say im banking it if i combine both toons cause these professions are making me richer and richer by the day 3 man mammoth here i come

I went Mining/Blacksmith with my Warrior's, just felt best and so far I've made more in the the AH then on quests, so that's a thumbs up.

As for my Hunter, I went Herbalism/Inscription. Though buying Herbs to level up Inscription was a lil' expensive, I made that all back when I finally learned to make Glyphs. It's the easiest thing and should be the most focused item to sell for Inscriptionist. The last few days I've made all 78g (what I sent from other toon) back with 3 Glyphs on the AH.

I've heard that Enchanting makes good money actually, so I don't know about others. Some people go Herbs/Mining and just do that for money, which isn't bad but you do miss out on a lot of the benefits of being able to make items, but the gold is still very nice I suppose.

I learned really early the only way to make it in WoW is to have lots of chars with all skills and profesions so i never spen any money on AH for mats been playing dor 2+years and Never bought mats! of course its slower to lvl profesions but unlike most players i like to take my time lvl my chars and skills i only have..

lvl 78 \hunter LW / SKIN
lvl 72 Warlock Herb / Alchemy
lvl 71 Mage Mining / JC
lvl 60 Warrior Minning / Engin
lvl 54 Shaman Mining / BS
lvl 52 druid Mining / Tailor
lvl 52 Priest inscription / enchant
and a few others above chars are All maxed on all the profesions for their Lvl's

this hasent made me rich as i dont sell matts but means i never have any trouble buying my chars mounts :) epic or normal.

im a tank on wildhammer eu and i just thought for profs u should take l/working and maybe alchemy for the simple reasons that the trinkets and armour kits u can get (ie +90 stamin on bracers from lw/ing) and the 75 stam 59 dodge trinket from alchemy it can realy boost your stats

btw to my last comment im a lvl 80 tank that has cleared nax not tht that matters tho :P

Hi am a lvl 23 draeni and i dnt no what armour i should get i like running in getting crowds then just AoEing them and getting mass ex p.

i have herb and mineing and its a huge money maker...saronite bars where selling for 250 a stack and adders tounge for 150..its was insane..

Back in the good old BC days, JC/Mining netted me around 500g a day without much effort, and if I pushed I could make around three times that. Now I pull in around 1200g for the same small effort (read: one or two hours of farming). I haven't tried a full-day farm, but I don't doubt that if I wanted to buy that rediculously expensive mammoth, I could do it in a week or so.
I'll let you in on a little secret (okay, maybe not really a secret) but if you're bored and leveling an alt like me, do herbalism and mining (which I did with my first toon). Even the low-level stuff sells pretty good. I discovered, much to my dismay, that I wouldn't be able to just go BUY copper to level my alt's blacksmithing. At 45g a stack, you probably wouldn't either.

As it stands now, the endgame bar-stock prices have settled to something a little more sane (except titanium and titansteel, of course)

illee
~who once had this pop up in Aszhara general chat:
Hey kids, what's shakin?
Oh great, the hoover vacuum is here. I might as well go pvp or something.

I made 16,000+ Gold in 1 week after the release of WoTLK and after i reached lvl73/74 i think it was.

Started up my mount, went to sholazar basin and ran in circles near the edge, every single ore was available for me, I prospected them all and sold all raw green/bue gems in stacks of 5 for 120/500g (depending on the type), now titanium bar was truely a goldmine, 500g each.

A week later I had my mammoth mount and other people started to do the same thing, so good thing I made this move a week earlier as the place got crowded :P

So yes, Mining + Jewelcrafting = win