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I agree with groid except for the bit about reading the www.worldofwarcraft.com stuff. My experience is that the descriptions are so vague that they are either meaningless or unintentionally deceptive. Just play the class how you like and you will eventually find something you like.

Fishing provides food for you to eat, and as such it's good to have for when you need some healing between battles.

Check your mail, I am going to craft some basic weapons and armour and send them your way.



(As soon as whisperwind comes back, that is! I cant seem to log on!)

Last edited by Warin (2005-04-22 3:45 pm)

Might be a bit...  It seems like something is dead between me and Whisperwind.

So much for the BRD run

FYI, you generally regen health/mana faster if your 'toon'/'character' sits down ('X' key). Also, food generally increases stamina (health) and spirit (mana) for roughly 15 mins. Oh, and you can drink (for mana classes) and eat at the same time, thereby regenning both bars much quicker (this is common for Mages to reduce down time between fights, specially since they can conjure both). You take cooking to take meats, eggs, fish, & herbs to make these foods with stats.

Regarding Fishing, fishing is a source of food and there are recipes for some of the fish you catch too be used for cooking. There are still other fish such as Oily Blackmouth and Sunfish that are used by Alchemists for potions. There are still other fish such at Big Catfish that can be used in offhand for humor purposes and also a Deviate Fish recipe which I believe Naggy is still searching for that causes all sorts of strange and humerous transformations and buffs.

Tailoring (sewing) that is where generally who makes your equipment bags. The bags grow in size by level from 6/8/10/12/14/16 as the Tailor's skill increases. Besides bags, tailors make good cloth gear for Warlocks, Priests and Mages.

I believe Leatherworkers/Skinners make quivers and shot bags for bows and guns respectively. Besides Leather clothing for Druids, Rogues, and Hunters.

Enchanters basically provide buffs to chest, hands, legs, feet, sometimes back, and to weapons. They can also make wands for caster classes.

Blacksmiths/Miners make Mail (plate?) and weapons of various sorts. My paly is not high enough in this to know much more about this profession. Someone else can fill in info about this one.

Engineers/Miners make explosives, bombs, recombobulators, lil' robots, mechanical sheep/chickens/vendors, jumper cables (trinket that allows you to rez), and other fun/humorous gadgets.

Alchemists/Herbalists are the flower pickers. I'm one of these and can make mana/health potions, invisibility/detect invisibles, underwater breathing, fire protections, RAGE generation, and many other potions.

First Aid is where you learn to be your own lil mini-doctor and apply bandages to yourself to heal yourself. You create bandages from various humanoids that drop linen/wool/silk/mageweave/etc.

You can have all 3 of Cooking, Fishing and First Aid. But you can have only 2 professions out of the remaining gathering/producing skills of Mining, Skinning, Herbalism, Blacksmith, Engineer, Leatherworking, Alchemy, Tailoring, Enchanting. Please note that generally Mining is the gather skill for Blacksmith & Engineer, Skinning for Leatherworking, Herbalism for Alchemist. But your free to mix and match without impunity, but if you pick 2 productions and no gathers you will have a hard time leveling or go thru a lot of money buying materials at the Auction House in Ironforge. Some people pick 2 gathers and become materials suppliers to keep their player stocked with gold to end game and then 'unlearn' one of the skills and power level the production skill they want, or just keep the 2 skills indefinetely and be a mats farmer for other guild members in exchange for potions, gear, and enchants.

Also note that there is no gather profession for Enchanters or Tailors. The Enchanter dis-enchants (DE) green items or above to get dusts and shards with which they do their enchanting. Tailors get their materials from cloth drops off of humanoids of linen/wool/silk/mageweave/etc. but also use other materials such as pearls(dropped by clams underwater), iron buckles (blacksmith), sewing thread(tailor vendor), elemental drops and various other real world drops.

This ends todays professions lesson (by me anyway). Later -netnutz

Thanks much.  That was very informative.  Since I've got a warrior, blacksmithing sounds like a good match.  Due to my real life, engineering looks like fun too.

OK, so I should eat something before entering a mine for increased health.
Cool thanks.

Is first aid available to all or does that count as a profession?  I'd really like to have that in addition to the others.

I think you guys mean the Abby at Northshire, not northwind

And as a warrior kirk i got some suggestions that i hope help ( im a paladin but played warrior in beta and the first week of retail).

If  you have proper gear and weapons you can usually take on a beast 2 lvls above you, 3 and above gets hard and youl die a lot more. If its an elite then your gona have a lot more trouble, Elites have about 4x the HP as normal mobs and hit harder. You can define elites by the silver dragon around their icon, or when you mouse over them it will say they are elite. If you ever see something with a grey dragon around its icon it isnt elite, just a rare spawn. Below around lvl 12-15 vendor armor is better then armor off of drops, once you get past lvl 12-15 you really should start checking the auction house or keeping drops and using green items with the proper stats.

Also when you get new armor, green and above dont just give armor they give stats like stamina intillect spirit etc, the main stats you want as a warrior are stamina and strength, stamina increases your HP and Strength increaseshow hard you hit, youl also want some agility in there.

Once youv done all the quests in elwyn forest and are a little higher lvl youl get quests to go to loch modan and westfall, both areas for lvl 11-20 ish.

And a little later on you should get a chain of quests about the defias brotherhood (rebels) inw estfall that leads to going into an instance dungeon, when the proper lvl for an instance you have to go with a group of the right class mixes to survive, i suggest not going the MTM84 way and attempting to solo the deadmines at lvl 20

Oh and how mail works is, theres a mailbox in front of the inn in goldshire, and multiple scattered around in stormwind like in front of the bank. Sending mail cost 30c each time so at your lvl you might want to avoid sending too much also when you log out i highly advise you log out in an inn or a city so you get rest, the longer your logged out the more "rested" you are and when your rested you gain 200% experience from kills, so when you log off log in an inn or city and it helps you lvl faster when you get back on, at your lvl it wont make much of a difference because you lvl so fast but at higher lvls it really makes a ton of difference.

Hope all that was useful

Last edited by ColPanic (2005-04-22 6:04 pm)

You guys are very kind.  Thanks for the tips and stuff.

if you wanna see what your big bad warrior can be when he's all grown up... take a look at daeran, or me and pretend that i can do damage or tank

Thanks Levi!  Bags and money!
Thanks also to Naturnix (Warin) for that sword.  That should be very useful in a few levels.

Last night I was wandering around the farmlands on the eastern edge of Westfall just west of the Elowynn woodlands.  Those harvest golems give considerable goodies.  There were a lot of people at the community around Sentinel Hill last night.  I noticed that a vendor appeared under a tree along the road at night and disappeared in the morning.  Similarly a mailbox appeared near the inn during the day but wasn't there at night.

I ran into my first elemental, a dust devil.  I thought I was passing far enough away for him not come chase me.  ha ha, I died again.

I wandered most of the length of that realm on the road and found yet another entrance into the Dusk Wood.  I stayed away from the level 17 venomous spiders this time and only looked around a little bit, from the road.

I realized I was grossly in error regarding my level mentioned previously.  I'm a level 15 warrior currently that's working on level two warrior skills.  I was actually about level 8 when I said I thought I was level 2 on the first page of this thread.

How do I drop a skill?  I accidentally picked up leatherworking since I ran into that trainer first.

I've had my first gryphon ride.  That was fun.  I'm working on the last two quests from Sentinel Hill before moving on to another area.  I'm getting way tired of beating up on the Defias Brotherhood.  Who knew murloc eye was part of a tasty pie?

Thanks for that hint, NC.  That cleared it.  I'm a miner now.

d'oh! 403'd!

I'm stuck figuring out how ranged weapons work.  I'm not finding it on the WoW site. 

I picked up a bow and arrows but can't seem to make it fire at targets.  Equally important, how do I switch back to my sword when the enemy charges in close?