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Leatherworking doesn't appeal to me. Too much cost and effort for too little gain. There are too few items of value that also take a lot of work to make. and it will cost you money to level.

I currently own the clefthoof set for tanking, which i picked up for hardly anything on the AH, and apart from buying the occasional patch i can't see myself buying anything else. So in most cases there isn't a market for leatherworking stuff compared to the other professions.

I started with leatherworking, and switched to alchemy. Alchemy is a gold machine, even for a lazy alchemist such as myself. potions and elixirs take no effort to make, and sell well. Being able to transmute primals is incredibly valuable. the amount of times i've bought earth primals on the AH, transmuted them to water primals, and sold them for 4x the original purchase price. it and mana potion sales essentially payed for my epic flying skill. To do that with leatherworking would take a considerable amount of work. So i don't see leatherworking as a profession that saves time or money.

I agree that Engineering offers some BoP stuff that can really increase game play experience. I am still leveling my druid, but found that the lower level equipment doesn't make too big a difference unless you really dedicate yourself to getting mostly blues etc.

Personally, I would have rather spent the time I spent in AH looking for two sets of gear grinding XP and the money I spent on that gear to get my mount more easily at 40. For a beginner, I think the Leatherwork allows you to focus more on game-play and less on equipment, while still getting some nice equipment.

For more advanced players, engineering seems like the way to go. It gives early access to those nice trinks like you are suggesting.

Miktimo, I agree that each profession has the potential to make gold. However, it's wow gold finding those 10 or so items that everyone wants that is the trick. For example, most of the pots made in Alchemy are not in high demand, but some are sure sellers at high prices. Figuring that out takes some time.

Also, if you are not in wow gold a raiding guild or PvP inclined, Leather gives you the best items (no raid sets or PvP stuff).

For leatherworking, there is no BoP I (as a feral) wish to have. Drums I can't use in bear form.

For BoE, I have a guild, I have AH, I use my other professions to earn money and buy the mats or buy the item.

While Leatherworking can grant nice money for selling your crafts, it requires to have skinning which sells very bad imho. But i don't know how much money you can do by selling Heavy Knckhide Leather (I was skinner but not leatherworker).

Set boni ? well +20 strength for my tanking set. Crap.

Engineer why not. Depends on your guild advancement I would say. The cards suites bring two +51 stam trinkets. And the googles, if you grab the pattern I guess, would bring you up to T5 which is already very good. I fear that as a feral I can't use most of the items out of engineering without unshifting. It's ok for a cat. It's ok for some trinkets. Also a tanking bear will find it difficult to replace some nice armor trinket or piece of equipment by some toy out of engineering. So I feel Engineering is more for moonkin, healers and/or pvp.

I'm enchanter (smoke of the heart mountain). While this trinket now I that I have badge of tenacity is in my bank, while I don't spend time at all waiting for people to bring me their mats so that I can gain 10-20 gp, while I don't spend much time in buying cheap greens/blues to disenchant and resell the mats, the simple fact that I can turn any BoP blue from instance (cost 5-7gp to npc) into a 20gp shard did repay the cost of bring enchanting to 375. Yet I don't think it's THE profession for a bear nowadays (it was at level 60).

I changed wow gold skinning to herborism now. For money.

Alchemy/Herbo looks very good too. While you can't pick while flying, you still can land exactly on the plant, pick and instant-fly-out which still makes picking herbs very easy. We also have this "be peaceful" spell for beasts. Some potions do sell extremly well, and the market for plants/pots since they are comsommables, is huge. My wife does all her money by selling plants, buying some cheap one from ah, turning some plants into elixirs and selling them back. for a cat its 50+ ap).

So in my opinion, for a feral non pvp today at level 70, I would pick herb/alch.

Mats you can buy, items you can loot or buy. Yet wow items money you can't buy. So except if you need that BoP item, or if you do it for your guild (enchants, threads, leather enchants, resist crafts) you should pick a profession for money.

I myself was enchanter/skinner before TBC, only seen help of skinning when i was gathering mats for devilsaur set then dropped it for JC after TBC came. Druid class is very self-capable class you don't need to do much item searching from AH or need many craftable items for leveling. When you take end game into consideration then as the other guys said engineering has this t5 quality dps helm and LW has nice BoP craftable leathers whose recipes drop in TK and SSC(i'm thinking about dropping JC and lvling LW for them tbh). Also as an enchanter +2 damage and +4 all stats enchants on ring are pretty helpful even how small their benefit seems to be. Don't forget +2 weapon damage gives same damage boost as 28 AP to your white damage and damage based attacks like ravage, shred and mangle.

We can root-n-scoot, cyclone and sleep mobs that are near resource nodes and we have instant-cast getaway capability (travel for azeroth and flight for outland)

Thus I believe our best professions are two buy wow weapons gathering professions. I chose Herbalism and skinning. (herbalism and mining tend to conflict as you can track only one thing at a time)

I would much rather farm buy wow weapons up the materials for the BoE LW items I want and tip the crafter.

It takes very little brainpower or planning to sell herbs and skins on the AH and nearly always (at least on my server) they sell better than items they make.

Keep in mind that gear isn't the only thing you buy with your gold. mounts are nice too and gathering your way to 5k gold is a lil easier than crafting.
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