Post by justvisiting
I can understand that you feel hesitant to level your enchanting; it will take an effort to get it up to 600 going from 235. Although, I would argue that starting over with a gathering profession will take a decent effort as well. Okay, it will likely be quicker to level herbalism, but you will still need to grind and then you can just as well grind low lvl quests for dust (imho better way than farming dungeons since you get more green items from quests. When you level your skill, you usually need more dust and essences than you need the actual shards you get from blues and purples). The low lvl quest also gives you progress towards the lore master achievements, if you care about that.
I would personally keep enchanting for the following reasons:
- Better profession bonus: 2x >> 1x (at least imho). Sure, herbalists also gets Life Spirit and Water Spirit sometimes when picking flowers, but they share
cool down with pots, give the same amount of health/mana back as the pots but does so over 6 seconds instead of instantly (i.e. stick to the pots, they are usually relatively cheap and you can survive without them). - While it's easier to farm herbs (you just need to fly around the world rather than having to run instances), I would say that farming mats for enchanting is really easy. All you have to do is run instances and press the disenchant button and you get VP and gold while doing so. Plus, you can plant either herbs, shards or motes of harmony at your farm and you can trade your spirit of harmony for mats.
- Herbs do sell relatively well in the AH (on my server), but it's a greater profit marginal on shards. Shards cost virtually nothing to list in the AH so you can just keep putting it back up if they don't sell the first time. You also get the ability to use the shards to make scrolls to sell, while if you go herb/tailor then you won’t be able to craft anything expensive to sell from the herbs.
- You mentioned that mats are rare on your AH, I assume that means that scrolls are expensive or rare as well. From that perspective I'd rather do my own enchants and get in on the rare market as seller rather than selling other things and get in on the rare market as buyer.
In the end, it is naturally up to you. It can feel nice to have one crafting and one gathering profession since the gathering one doesn't rely on that you have the patterns for stuff (which often requires rep or luck with drops). From that perspective, it will be easier to feel "accomplished" - you only need to max your gathering to be done with it, and you only need for get patterns for tailoring, rather than having to get patterns for two professions. But, I believe that you will have more benefit from tailoring/enchanting.
There are ample of guides to level your professions, in case you need more input. I personally use www (dot) wow-professions (dot) com (sorry for the lack of link, my account is too new). The guides at wow-profession are not the cheapest way to skill-up, but it's usually highly efficient and quick.
Edit: I wrote this from the perspective of when you are lvl 90 - as lvl 86, you will also get exp while picking flowers, something you won’t get from disenchanting. Although, you will get shards from disenchanting quest rewards and you will get exp while running high lvl instances for shards, so I'd say that it can be counted as even.
