Wow Gold -- Maximizing Professions with DK

In the game, we have always recommended that everyone should strive to have a toon with every profession since Wrath of the Lich King has become a pretty steep challenge, especially for the new player. The thought of taking 6 toons to level 60 at the minimum can be a little staggering even with the changes to experience gains.

To really throw a few more rocks into the mix, Blizzard decided to have a few professions give a toon such great buffs that a serious player can hardly ignore them.

The Death Knight starts at level 55 and by the time you even leave the starting area you should be around 58. And also Death Knight's level wickedly fast, so even if you choose to go all the way to 80 with the guy you've got a 55 level head start on anything else.

In game, the Death Knight is a sweet choice for filling up your ability to make just about anything with professions without ever really having to depend on the AH since you have to hit level 60 to train grand master level in any profession. So let us give you the whole professions from here and which ones you should probably give your Death Knight as a part of a complete system.

Enchanting - the mother load of gold making.

JC - wicked JC only gems in 3 slots

Blacksmithing - 2 extra gem slots for those killers JC only gems

Inscription is by far the best shoulder enchant in the game, cya Sons of Hodir rep.

Alchemy has 4 hour flasks and a bigger buff from every flask you use.

Mining is hard to beat if you simply must farm, plus toughness bonus.

Herbalism is another decent way to kill time and make some dough, plus an extra heal.

Tailoring is still a nice choice and some of the epic patterns are very good.

Leatherworking is on par with tailoring.

Engineering - sigh on the vendor mats for the cycle being 15k eh?

Skinning – the last but not least, except for maybe a Rogue.

The point here is that you definitely want to consider how professions help your raiding toons just as much than which ones earn you the most gold. Now, what the heck does a DK have to do with all of this? That sort of depends on whether your DK is your main or not, but you're going to have to live with yourself on that one and sort through the rest of this the best you can.

If your main is not a DK, then you have two good options. One is to give the DK Enchanting and then Leatherworking or Tailoring, although you will probably want to get them to level 80 anyway if you go the tailoring/LW route just to make it easier to sort of max those two things out. You've to hit Exalted to get the epic spellthreads from some folks so that might be more than you want to do but chanting is a no brainer here. Enchanting has a "buy the recipes" system that has nothing to do with rep, so a level 60 can hit 450 just as easily as a level 80.

Another is that you could also choose to have your DK be your farming toon. Given that dude herbalism and mining and have him feed you with mats. The catch to this one is a bit like the one above, in that this will work far better at level 80 with an epic flying mount. Still, starting a toon at level 55 makes the run to 80 a lot easier than leveling up a new toon from 1 and it certainly makes more sense than blowing a profession slot on your main for a profession better suited to an alt.

Using DK's for your professions is really slick. One DK on all of your accounts and you can have all of the professions covered in no time flat. Plus, you can save the professions with the best bonuses for your level 80 raiding toons.

To pick up the straggler professions like gathering professions and Leatherworking will allow you to drop herbalism from your Druid main and pick up something really useful such as Jewelcrafting without really giving up much time. To be honest, nothing is easier to level than herbalism anyway.

It seems like a better plan to put those professions on a wastes toon instead of wasting them to have the professions around. Death Knights have the advantages of starting at level 55 and the fact makes them worthy of serious consideration when it comes to maximizing professions.