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Man the grind is real with this.
You definately wouldnt like proper old school mmos then, wow is designed casual lower skilled gamers (this is not meant to be offensive in any way)
Man the grind is real with this.
This is classic, you have very very limited options of a cookie cutter hybrid skill trees that will do raiding and pvp well. The ability to raid as a healer with a more pvp focused tree though can be more heavily controlled with skill rather then spec. Know when and how to down rank and reduce your overhealing as much as possible.
That's what I preferred with Vanilla over Classic, so much was unknown. As a result people could play what they had fun with even if it wasn't optimal. Player skill was a much bigger factor. Obviously things like melee hunters were an exception. Used to see some bizarre choices back in the day!
Parked my priest at 40 for now, will just heal the odd dungeons to level up, trying a mage. Quite refreshing actually doing damage.
Now I've finally got my mount I'm considering professions for my warrior. I was planning to go herb/alch or min/black smithing. Are either of these worth it. I know black smithing can potentially give me a BIS throughout a whole expansion but I'd say there's little chance of me acquiring the recipe. Can it produce anything else worth having? Can it potentially make me any gold or should I just go with dual gathering?
Did you go with hoard or alliance?
I have a level 8 gnome mage and getting rekt frequently lol
min/bla would be the obvious choice to suit the profession, but like you said if you don't think you will get a lot of recipes, then you are limited with a lot of stuff.
herb/alch could be a good choice. What are you plans end game ? PVE or PVP. Either way you can save yourself a lot of money by making pots yourself and a lot of the most used recipes you get yourself will be the ones you use. You can also transmute arcanite every 2 days which you can charge 10g each time.
Black smiting seems like the fun choice but seems pointless if I'll never use the gear or able to make any gold from it. I'd want the recipes but from what I understand they're very rare/hard to come by.
PVE is what I'll be concentrating on.
Cooking is for the stats buff or the comedy side effects, not as a healing aid.Am I imagining it or is the best healing food only available from vendors...
I've got 300 cooking and the best I can make is still worse than the NPC sells.
...and worse than the conjured food that mages can make for free.
Actually I would say the opposite, if you wanted to PVE seriously or PVP seriously your options became more focused on the task in vanilla and your ability to do the other was reduced. In Classic especially now in the early stages, due to the late patch 1.12 improved itemisation and +healing and +damage going on items so early, you have the option to spec PVP and do PVE easily. Unless you massively underperform no one will know/care your not a pure pve build as you cant inspect talent trees (unless I have completely missed that).
Cooking is for the stats buff or the comedy side effects, not as a healing aid.