20's Profession rotation?

[Paah]

The baseline isnt updated and Blizz decided to be jerks and lock my warband bank along with all of yours...
So, I have several twinks but I want a new one.
My bank is full of stuff but now that the sub is down I would like a bit of info on how to shuffle professions please?!

I have a couple 20's that I am playing now and I would really appreciate a start to finish guide or at least an arrow in teh right direction!

Love you all!

Coinslot

 

[Rahn]

I think the profession rotation isn't as important as it used to be after the most recent level/item squish. For me there's no profession that I feel I have to absolutely hold on to, because a lot of things can be grinded for relatively quickly if for some reason you need to get them again.

Enchanting for example, Northrend enchanting covers most of what you need; and you get all the materials from the vendors. Takes only a few minutes to get all of the good Northrend enchants and drop it. You can save the longer BfA ring enchant grind for after everything else is done (if you feel that grind is even worth it).

Pandaria Leatherworking for leg enchants is a quick pickup and drop.

I think after that you can probably focus on mining / jewelcrafting to get the SL gems for max run speed and the +3 socket necklace settings. Then you can drop the jewelcrafting and swap in engineering for the tinkers and teleportation stuff. Most of the useful stuff doesn't require too much mining investment to get access too.

Once that's done you can drop mining and pick up Enchanting again to do the very long ring enchant grind.

There is consideration for the alchemy flask and shoulder inscriptions and ending on those after Enchanting, but if you do the really long Enchanting grind I kinda doubt you'll want to drop it at that point. If you do want to end with alchemy for the flask (Which has been nerfed in effectiveness since the squish) I'd probably skip the enchanting ring grind altogether.

That's my two cents on what the profession situation currently is.

 

[Chops]

You want to end up with engineering and... something. So start there and work backward. You use your second profession slot to rotate professions on an as-needed basis.

Its not exactly a groundbreaking recommendation, but generally I have enchanting and tailoring as I'm leveling and questing on a new toon. You'll want to keep those during your initial dungeon gear farm too. DE those hundreds of drops youll never use ESPECIALLY if youre grinding the odd piece of gear in WOTLK dungeons (this is where the bulk of you enchants come from and will save you gold you'd otherwise spend buying/de-ing gear) and all that cloth makes bags and bandages. Which... are useful i suppose.

Then once thats done I hold onto them and finish out the enchanting grind. Make sure to make enough scrolls that you can weather a few expansions worth of gear changes.

Then, obviously, I'll pick up, use and drop Pandaria LW for the leg enchant.

Then its time to hit herbing and inscription, enchant your shoulders, and then level alchemy for whatever consumes you might want. I dont typically use many consumes (I think ive had the same stack of 20 speed pots in my bags for like 7 years now) so I generally skip this step

Then its time for mining and engineering. I keep engineering and use the other profession slot to rotate through the rest of them as necessary. Obviously landing on inscription to keep teh should enchant active when Im not actively rotating profs. Keep a few hundred WOTLK herbs on hand to relevel that quickly.

wow-professions.com is an invaluable resource for knowing how many mats to farm before you can drop the gathering prof and pick up the crafting prof. Gather 110% to 120% of what they recommend just to be safe.

 

[Wisenhammer]

Here is the old Dragonflight Baseline Guide. You can follow the professions rotation here, factoring in the additional information from the War Within Baseline Guide, and decide for yourself if you want to skip any steps.

 

[Vandiir]

The recommendations above definitely work for agi and int classes. For strength classes though, the +3 str gems are behind the WOTLK jewel crafting profession grind, which iirc includes needing access to transmutation from alchemy [and mats for those transmutations, and not just mats for the gems]. And thus a much more involved profession rotation is involved with those WOTLK gems.

Older profession rotation recommendations for the WOTLK jewel crafting grind are very likely still valid. Though as Chops noted, "starting from the 'last stage' professions" of this JC grind, and reversing from there also works.

 

[Chops]

For strength classes though, the +3 str gems are behind the WOTLK jewel crafting profession grind, which iirc includes needing access to transmutation from alchemy [and mats for those transmutations, and not just mats for the gems]. And thus a much more involved profession rotation is involved with those WOTLK gems.

yea i wasnt gonna try to get into that its a mess.

This video is old 3-4 years old but it does cover that aspect of the grind if anyone is interested. That said! It's far less obnoxious to wait for TBC Timewalking and farm 2/2 str/stam gems from shattered halls. Do you give up ~25 strength overall? yes. Do you save your sanity? Also yes.

And who knows. With the ilvl squish, maybe stam will be worth something again and you'll look like a genius.