The Best of Insider Trader: Our WoW Insider Profession guide round up
by Dan O'Halloran 
Jan 2nd 2009 at 11:00PM
Note that any of the leveling guides going over skill 350 were written pre-Wrath. You should stop following the guide at 350 and look for Wrath profession leveling guides at that point. The exception to this is Inscription.
GENERAL PROFESSION GUIDES
PRIMARY PROFESSIONS
Alchemy
Blacksmithing
- Darkmoon Faire recipes for young Blacksmiths
- Outland faction Blacksmithing recipes
- Overview of Blacksmithing in Northrend
Engineering
- Darkmoon Faire recipes for young Engineers
- Leveling Engineering 300-375
- Outland faction Engineering recipes
- Guide to Outland Mote gathering
- Overview for Engineering in Northrend
- Leveling Inscription 1-100
- Leveling Inscription 100-200
- Leveling Inscription 200-305
- Leveling Inscription 305-450
- Leveling Jewlerycrafting 300-350
- Outland faction Jewelrycrafting recipes part 1
- Outland faction Jewelrycrafting recipes part 2
- Darkmoon Faire recipes for young Leatherworkers
- Leveling Leatherworking 300-375
- Outland faction Leatherworking recipes
- Overview of Leatherworking in Northrend
- Pre-Wrath guide to farming cloth
- Outland faction Tailoring recipes
- Overview of Tailoring in Northrend
GATHERING PROFESSIONS
Herbalism
Mining
Skinning
SECONDARY PROFESSIONS
Cooking
First Aid
Fishing
Let us know in the comments below if there is a subject you would like to see us address in the column.
Each week, Insider Trader takes you behind the scenes of the bustling sub-culture of professional craftsmen, examining the profitable, the tragically lacking, and the methods behind the madness. Check out the Insider guide to gathering professions in Northrend or see a quick overview of the direction that professions are taking in Wrath.Filed under: Herbalism, Fishing, Mining, Skinning, Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Cooking, Engineering, Leatherworking, Tailoring, Enchanting, First Aid, How-tos, Jewelcrafting, (Professions) Insider Trader, Inscription, Achievements
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
renaw Jan 2nd 2009 11:34PM
FIRST!!!!111!!!ONETWO!!!11111
>_>
Andrew R. Jan 3rd 2009 12:12AM
You were first with nothing to contribute. Thank you for showing the world how dumb you can be.
Leveling skinning in Wrath has to be the easiest profession ever. I think I maxed by skinning in Grizzly hills after clearing the Fjord and Tundra.
The Claw Jan 3rd 2009 4:06AM
If it took 2 zones to max out skinning, then it's harder than herbalism. :-)
Deadly. Off. Topic. Jan 5th 2009 4:30PM
I love that reply: And you were the first with nothing to contribute.
^_^ It hits the head on the ball.
Lots of stuff to read here, still reading through the guides.
jediarchives11 Jan 3rd 2009 12:38AM
The Leveling Fishing 1-375 link is wrong. It goes to a cooking article instead.
Verit Jan 3rd 2009 2:10AM
Professions in this expansion (actually game in general) have been extremely imbalanced. I've skill almost all of them to 450 now, and I'd honestly rate Engineering as the easiest so far (yes engineering - that wasn't the case previously) followed by jewelcrafting (its far from perfect - the whole token thing is borked) and blacksmithing. Leatherworking, Enchanting I think tie for being a complete pain in the arse. I haven't skilled alchemy or tailoring yet - but I suspect it will be cake like it always has been.
Its like they had 20 monkey's working on every profession individually and not working together at all in any way.
Xavs Jan 3rd 2009 9:54AM
What, no posts about Alchemy in Northrend?
Personally, Alchemy is a bit boring right now. Nothing special about it. There are no special recipes like JC that has hundreds of em, or leatherworking or tailoring.
The only recipes Alchemy has is the ones they get from the trainer and the ones they can discover once every week.
Amaxe Jan 3rd 2009 10:18AM
No JC on Northrend either.
Of course the guide would be fairly simple
1) Get lucky on drops
2) Run the JC daily 3-6 times to get a recipe
3) Make sure your faction wins Wintergrasp so you can trade in those tokens for recipes
4) repeat
It would be easier to take if they either
A) Made it so items you collected while prospecting could be traded in (like other profession quests)
B) Be given items on completion of dailies that make the levelling go smoother (like the cooking quest and the spices)
I know they say "At least JC has recipes," but in the end Blizz will fix recipes for other professions while we'll still be limping along on one token a day
Chryso Jan 3rd 2009 1:35PM
Your engineering entries are misleading. They should all just read "Total Failure" or "WARNING: Unsupported Profession" or even "Caution: Taking engineering WILL gimp your character by about 30 stat points".
Stop pretending Blizzard has done anything but neglect this profession when they aren't actively busy pissing on it, or that they will continue to do so for at least the rest of this release cycle, if this is LeCraft's moronic idea of a "revamp".
I know you have to toe the company line, but this is just plain harmful to anyone dumb enough to believe blizz is actually going to let this profession be anything more than a worthless gold sink for vanity trash.