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This guide talks about the basics of making money through your professions. There are five main ways to make money through your professions.

Latest Update: 2009/04/13

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1) Two Gathering
2) One Producing & One Gathering
3) Combination of Service, Gathering, Producing
4) Two Producing
5) Secondary Professions

1. TWO GATHERING

Any combination will do fine but you might want to go into the Auction House first and see what sells more and how fast they sell. However, I would suggest mining + skinning or herbalism with skinning, as you can track only one type at a time.

- herbalism
- mining
- skinning

Skinning is the easiest profession to gather materials with since you can skin almost every Beast encounter you kill or that others have killed.

At higher levels, you may want to drop one of the gathering professions to complement the remaining gathering profession. Look at Choice B for ideas.

2. ONE PRODUCING & ONE GATHERING

My suggestions:

- leather working + skinning
- jewel crafting + mining
- alchemy + herbalism
- blacksmithing + mining
- engineering + mining
- engineering + skinning

3. COMBINATION OF SERVICE, GATHERING, PRODUCING

My suggestions:

- enchanting + alchemy (xmute primals to help enchanting)
- enchanting + leather working (to enchant crafted items)
- enchanting + blacksmithing (to enchant crafted items)
- enchanting + tailoring (to enchant crafted items)
- inscription + herbalism
- inscription + enchanting

4. TWO PRODUCING

This is better and easier for you if you’re at a higher level. My suggestions:

- jewel crafting + alchemy
- blacksmithing + alchemy
- engineering + alchemy
- engineering + blacksmithing*
- engineering + tailoring
- tailoring + alchemy

*This will be an expensive combination but if you have another toon to gather mined and skinned materials, you’re set.

5. SECONDARY PROFESSIONS

You can’t go wrong with learning Fishing and Cooking. Fishing is super tedious. I know. I’m still leveling it after 3.5 years. /cough

With Fishing, you can get ingredients for your Alchemy. As well, you can get various chests and other loot like Strangle Kelp and various cloth.

With Cooking, you can pick up recipes that make food that give certain buffs. Eg: +agility for 30 minutes, +stamina for 60 minutes, etc.

Don’t bother trying to sell Bandages. You might as well keep them for yourself. Take a look at my First Aid Guide in the First Aid section for leveling details.