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bardmedicine11
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I'm surprised I couldn't find threads like this, so I made my own.
Pure PvE casual player, what are your recommendations for profession?
Pure PvE casual player, what are your recommendations for profession?
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other useful ones are jewelcrafting and the ones for your classes armor/weapons
Drunken Goose of MidNight Express. - 3.3k Paladin , 3.6k GWF , 3.1k GF,
And unless you are going to invest in 4 mithral tools, there's little reason to level armorsmithing for your class. The main use for it is the shirts and pants - and you won't get a gem slot without the mithral tools.
Leadership, Jewelcrafting and Alchemy are the professions I max on everyone nowadays.
yeah I guess. my suggestion of class armor / weapons was as he said he was a casual pve player, so he probably wont rush up to 70 and smash out hard farming sessions.
Alchemy is good to level because on unified but I used to find myself just selling all the buff pots that dropped on AH because you can get some decent AD from them.
Drunken Goose of MidNight Express. - 3.3k Paladin , 3.6k GWF , 3.1k GF,
I was a very casual player when I started this game, and I still out-leveled armorsmithing and weaponsmithing professions on my way to 60. I think the only stuff I ever used were the green shirts and pants, but otherwise gear drops from questing were always better for my characters than whatever I could craft for them. And as you get higher up, items with gem slots drop -- and the only way to have gem slots on crafted gear is to invest in those expensive tools.
I mean, I have invested in the tools, and I make a decent living from crafting shirts, pants, and jewelry. But it took a long time to accumulate the necessary equipment, and I wouldn't recommend it for anyone just trying out the game.
Do Leadership, then Jewelcrafting, both to 20. Then do Weaponsmithing or Artificing to I think 14, then switch to Alchemy to 20. When you're doing your overnight leveling quest in Alchemy, go back to Weaponsmithing or Artificing.
Alchemy gathering tasks give no Prof XP. You may as well get the mats you need from Weaponsmithing or Artificing. Then its a fast road to 20 on Alchemy as you have tons of mats.
And by then you probably have a bunch of <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> potions stored up too!
If you are playing free then ignore alchemy since you have no way of acquiring basic alchemical knowledge without spending money that I have been able to find. Just buy pots with gold, it is easy enough to make with a few drop hunting passes on any given map.
Good luck.
Artificing / Weaponsmithing are plain useless...
...in Mod 6 there's nothing useful you can make with them. Nothing. Medicre weapons and offhands anybody? What? You all got artifat weapons and artifact off-hands? Doh...
The Armor Professions (Platesmithing, Mailsmithing, Leatherworking, Tailoring) at least offer some Armor Enhancement kits, which can be useful and / or auctionable.
Leadership is the slowest Profession to level, so it can be smart to start with Jewelcrafting until Level 10 - and use the second row slots to level Leadership. Also it makes a lot of sense to pull all professions to level 25, 20 is just the slot unlock, but the goodies all come from the level 25 tasks...
...Alchemy: Well, there''s that thing about Unified Elements. But all those potions are rather meh, the Dyes (Level 7 or 8 unlock) are the only thing from that that really can be sold for some AD...
If you have access to purple assets, alchemy can be leveled up to 3 quickly, and there's a rare task that you can use to unlock another profession slot.
If you don't have access to purple tools, then simply stick to leadership - it'll give you character XP, gold, skill kits, potions, and most importantly, astral diamonds.
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The key to Alchemy's AD income is Unified Elements, which sell for around 75k AD each still. While the cost for the mats is only 4 Elemental Aggregates for 20k, 5k AD each, and 2 gold worth of vendor mats, that's 50k profit. The task takes at base 12 days with 1 white quality worker, meaning 4k/slot/day, with 4 epic quality workers it takes 4 days meaning 12.5k/day/slot, and this is a common task that can be run on all 9 slots.
For those who don't mind tedium, there's also Arcane Shard->Eldritch Crystal farming, which typically earns 5k+/day/slot.
Okay, Panic.
Yeah, unlock the 100% speed with 2 purple assets i.e. 2 Grandmaster Alchs. They used to be cheaper, but you could always buy 2, use them on all your toons, then sell them back...
With 3 Quality assests in alch at level 3, you can then get the other unlock off a blue batch task.
For the 3rd prof, folks have said "armor kits". Well, if you have a bunch of toons, I pick up those profs on them, 1 type each, but if you run out of *different* profs, then go do Artificing or Weaponsmithing for the Alchy mats on others.
You don't need fancy tools to make the personalized jewelry, but you will have to buy the precursor item (Gemmed Exquisite Adamant Ring of Piercing...) off the AH.
4 blue workers will accomplish the same thing, and may very well be a cheaper investment.
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