Profession Planning

By Author: Chris Coker
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There are eleven different primary professions for you to choose from, each with their own way of earning WoW Gold. Since you're only limited to having 2 professions per character at a time, this means you have to make decisions and carefully plan your professions out to ensure that you're making the most out of them.

You have to take many things into consideration when planning what to do with your professions. How much time and WoW Gold are you willing to invest in your professions? How many of your toons are able to max out two professions? Are there any professions that you need to level up a bit, but not necessarily max out? What can you accomplish with the resources you have on hand? All these questions need to be answered before you proceed with the rest of your planning.

When picking which professions you want to learn, don't just choose them because you heard that they're good for earning WoW Gold. Think about what you will be selling, how much they sell for, and what you will buy. To know this, you have to do your own research and look into your realm's market. Different realms have different economies, ...
... different supplies and demand, and different prices. You have to make sure your prices are based off of these bits of information, or else you might be pricing too high for customers or too low for you to make a decent profit.

Once you've selected your professions and start working on them, it's important that you keep the law of diminishing returns in mind. In every market, there's a point wherein the more time and materials you spend on your profession, the less profit you'll make out of it. The only way to counter this is to ensure that you keep diversifying so that you can choose the most profitable bits and work on each of them. If, for example, you have time to spare in between crafting some glyphs and selling them at the auction house, you can spend that time mining for ore or leveling up a different profession.

To ensure that you have this diversity, however, you're going to have to have more characters take up different professions. The time and effort you put into leveling multiple characters is part of your investment as a professional, and you're going to have to make sure that you earn enough gold to pay off that investment.

There is a way to make having more characters with more professions easier: make a death knight. Death knights are at level 55 when they start out, so leveling them up to the minimum level for level 450 professions (level 65) will be much easier than leveling a different toon from scratch. Some markets may be unavailable for level 65 characters, given that there are some high level recipes and formulas that only drop from mobs that a level 65 character will never see. Still, death knights make for a quick and dirty way to have more professions available to your toons.

Whether you're a long-time professional with a sizable amount of WoW gold attached to your name or a newbie just starting out, make sure to spend some time on scrutinizing your profession roster and plans. This helps you be more efficient and will, in the long run, make things simpler and more efficient for you.

Chris Coker is a freelance writer and avid gamer. He has written on all aspects of the MMO industry, focusing on his latest favorite, Star Trek Online. Check out some of his posts where he dishes out everything from ship interiors to energy credits to good old-fashioned grinding.