WoW Professions Guide: Gathering Professions is continued from WoW Professions Guide
Gathering Professions in World of Warcraft are used for gathering items to use for crafting or selling on the auction house. Gathering professions can be learned from trainers found in the major cities and towns throughout Azeroth.
Your choices for gathering professions are Mining, Skinning, and Herbalism. Each of these has advantages depending on what other professions you choose to learn. Many people choose not to spend the time gathering items for their professions, and prefer to buy them at the auction house. Keep reading to learn more, or check out my affiliate link to start leveling professions faster now.
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Mining
Mining is probably the most popular profession in WoW. By itself it can be the biggest money making profession in the game. Blacksmithing, Engineering, and Jewelcrafting will all use the materials from mining.
The ores you get can be sold on the auction house as, is or smelted into bars and sold. The stones can also sell, though sometimes they do not sell as fast or for as much as the ores. You will also be getting jewels that can be used for crafting. These usually sell very well at auction.
To get started Mining, find a trainer in a town or one of the major cities. You will also need to pick up a mining pick from a trades vendor. Some of the pick type weapons can also double as a mining pick. Read the item description, and it will tell you if it can be used this way.
Once you are apprenticed as a miner, make sure you turn on the mine node tracking. This will show you where the mining points are on the minimap.
Skinning
Skinning is one of the easiest professions to learn. Once you find the trainer and buy a skinning knife, you can start skinning the beasts you kill as you level. The different leathers you will be getting can be sold. Leatherworkers and Tailors will be using the items you gather for leveling their skills.
One good way to increase your skinning is to follow someone else killing beasts and leaving them behind. If they are fighting multiple mobs at once, give them the chance to finish fighting and then move on before skinning. They may be a skinner themselves and it would be rude to steal their loot. This can be an easy way to level your skinning. You can even do this to skin beasts that are too high level to fight, but are within your level to skin. If you are higher in levels and having to grind lower level beasts to level your skinning, you can take along a weapon type you have not leveled yet, and level this at the same time.
Herbalism
Herbalism can be a very useful skill to learn as you level in World of Warcraft. Alchemists and Inscriptioning mainly use the skill. However, some other crafts will use a few of the herbs as well.
If you choose to level Herbalism, you will need to activate the Find Herbs ability once you have accepted apprenticeship.
You will not need any special tools or equipment to gather herbs. You just need to make sure you have the bag space to carry them. You can find herbs scattered in most areas of the game.
Since many people do not like spending the time to collect their own mats, you can sell them on the auction house easily. Different herbs are in different areas, so as you advance you will have more variety in what to harvest.
In the WoW Professions Guide: Secondary skills, I will discuss secondary professions and how they can be used to boost your game.
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