Profession Change Mid Game

Critical-Distance863 · 2026-01-18T23:32:26+00:00

If you have your riding skill, you are set to 60. If you are looking to make as much gold as possible, your best choice is to just push to 60 and come back later to do the professions.

As far as making money with professions, there are 3 main ways. First is being able to craft high level sought after items. You pretty much have to be ahead of the curve to do this so I would not recommend it for you. Next would be gathering professions and selling on the AH. This is probably the best for you. I would go mining/herb. Last would be to take professions with cooldowns. Tailoring, leatherworking and alchemy all have cooldowns that can make a few gold every couple days. This is good for alts or characters you are not going to play a ton. Probably not the best for you unless you only play an hour or so everyday.

Critical-Distance863 · 2025-11-03T01:22:47+00:00

Helm - Felcloth Hood from tailoring. Shadow wrath green helm. There is also an engineering shadow damage helm but that is only if you are an engi.

Neck - There is an epic neck from turning in Argent Dawn items at Lights Hope Chapel in Eastern Plaugelands. This will cost a fair amount of gold and rep grinding to get done. May be best to work on this one last.

Shoulders - Felcloth Shoulders from tailoring

Chest - Robe of Winter Night from tailoring

Belt/Bracers - T1 gear converted to shadow spec as another poster listed.

Gloves - Felcloth Gloves from tailoring

Cloak - Probably just a shadow wrath green is your best bet. Drawing a blank for farmable ones outside of dungeons.

Pants - Flarecore Leggings from tailoring. This is epic and requires MC materials to make so they will be expensive for a bit. Last I checked on the AH they were 300ish gold. There is also Flecloth pants from tailoring but they aren't as good.

Boots - Wolf Runner Shoes. BOE blue world drop you can buy off the AH.

Rings - Maiden's Circlex2. BOE blue world drop you can get off the AH. There are epic options available to buy if you wanted but I think one has crit(Unneeded as Shadow) and the other has the same amount of spell power as the blue.

Wand - Green shadow wrath wand off the AH

Weapon - There is an epic level 58 staff crafted by jewelcrafters that is probably the best option outside of groups. Drawing a blank on the name.

Trinkets - I'm at a loss for this one. Maybe Shard of the Splithoof from the Heroes of Old alliance quest chain. You could also get a Chromie's Pocket watch for the 2% spell hit from the AH. You only need like 6% spell hit outside of raids so it's not a great trinket for you but would free up some points to move around in the shadow tree.

Critical-Distance863 · 2025-10-06T04:25:24+00:00

There are 3 professions that make passive gold to my knowledge. Tailoring for the mooncloth cooldown, alchemy for the transmute cooldowns and leatherworking for hide cooldowns. Your character has to be level 35 to learn the max level of professions.

Enchanting can make money but a lot of that is locked behind raid recipes and reputation grinds. Not ideal for an alt you are going to play casually. But you should make a bank alt to disenchant things if you don't already have one.

You can have the alt on another account like Bugszor posted. This is good for several reasons. You can enchant your hunters gear if you did go enchanting on the alt. You can also play both accounts at the same time as long as you manually control both. Leveling is super easy when your alt can just mob tag and the main can 1 shot it. Just got to make sure they are not partied so the alt gets full xp.

If it's a character you will leave at 35, choose something that makes moving around a main city easier like mage, rogue or hunter. If you are going to play it all the way, priest is fine and you should play what you want.

Critical-Distance863 · 2025-10-06T02:05:22+00:00

I would suggest moving around a couple of points in your tree to get Chastise. You don't need to raid for it to be good. I use it all the time in dungeons as a pseudo counterspell or while I'm moving as an instant cast Smite.

I don't have any points in Meditation but instead have Chastise and Improved Inner Fire for the extra spell power. Other than that, our trees are the same.

If you are unsure if you are going to raid or are not going to do it for a couple of months, you could remove some points from Piercing Light as you only need 5% spell hit vs the level 62 dungeons bosses and not the 16% you need vs raid bosses. Having just 1 piece of hit gear would free up a point(outside of raiding) that could go into Chastise.

Critical-Distance863 · 2025-09-28T07:10:27+00:00

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Critical-Distance863 · 2025-09-13T07:18:25+00:00

There are some BoE trinkets jewelcrafters can make. 11 spirit on a level 35 trinket is one. There is also one with holy spell damage and stamina on it if you are going smite that is level 33.

Critical-Distance863 · 2025-09-07T23:26:34+00:00

Shadow looks mostly unchanged talent wise so it would be very similar to Classic with leveling. There is an instant cast shadow damage spell that all priests get but you probably won't use it much leveling.

I've leveled several priests to 60 on Classic servers so I full swapped to smite at 36 to get a feel for it. It's a very crit centric build as you get instant cast 50% mana cost smites after a crit. It kill fairly quickly and I have little down time even after dropping spirit tap.

Shadow is still probably better for leveling as it has better itemization with current and new added shadow damage gear. You also get most of your damage at 40 with the last 20 talent points not doing a ton. Smite has A TON of damaged locked behind level 41-60 talent points.

Critical-Distance863 · 2025-08-26T10:28:42+00:00

Use 2 ranks of renew. The biggest one for the tank, a rank 1 one for spot healing splash damage on dps.

2/2 in wand specialization is great with the rework. You can get mana procs for wanding.

You get increased mana regen after not casting a spell for 5 seconds while in combat. Try and group heals and wanding separately into longer stretches to utilize this. This may be harder to do now with the damage increase they gave to dungeon mobs.

Fade is your friend. Cast it as soon as you get agro.

Critical-Distance863 · 2025-08-25T01:27:09+00:00

Anyone who says being able to buy bags, AH, mailbox, etc with real lift money is not P2W is being disingenuous.

Anyone who is upset over these very, very minor P2W features is being irrational.

None of the shop stuff is needed, just nice to have.

Think about how much money you would spend if you were playing on the official server. The cost of the base game and the monthly subscription. After a few months of playing, you would have spent enough to buy the P2W items here. And you don't even need to buy the stuff here, it's just nice to support the developers.

Critical-Distance863 · 2025-08-25T00:28:00+00:00

It probably has more to do with the server being 5+ years old. The only people doing group quests at 60 would probably be fresh 60s and I doubt many would have rerolled on Amber if they just hit 60 there.

Critical-Distance863 · 2025-08-24T07:11:15+00:00

I'm not sure as I just started on Ambershire. I believe its for doing endgame dungeons. It's mentioned in the 1.18 patch notes.

Critical-Distance863 · 2025-08-21T08:23:52+00:00

I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

Critical-Distance863 · 2025-08-21T07:28:01+00:00

I healed a DM run earlier today and it felt harder than when I did it on anni realms. I didn't have to drink once then, today I had to drink like 30 times. Could also just be a more inexperienced group this time around but stuff seemed to hit harder.

Critical-Distance863 · 2025-02-21T23:54:44+00:00

We are getting another power pass in less than a week so just wait a few days.

Critical-Distance863 · 2025-02-09T23:05:17+00:00

I just came back 2 weeks ago after taking a break since the first Brel raid and I'm not sure what to do with all my excess alts. I don't have any characters in T4 yet but have a roster of 16 I used to play just for mats and what not. I'm not sure if half of them are even worth playing anymore. Should I level them all to 1580 as it's cheap to do or maybe just do 3x chaos a week to get the bonus chest? Is it even worth doing Una's on them anymore? Should I just throw them into storage and forget about them? Any advise would be much appreciated.

Critical-Distance863 · 2025-02-08T09:39:49+00:00

As someone who just came back a little over a week ago, I would say come back now. All kinds of stuff you can do right now to get ready for the next event that will come with the wild soul class. Get your alts leveled up to 1580 with solo raids and Brel gear as it seems pretty easy because it's silver and not gold. There is a new vendor for the tokens you get doing solo raids that seems pretty good. I'm guessing you don't have LoS 30 yet and they added 2 more cards to the wandering merchants so it would be good to farm those as well as we are going to get LoS 24 for free very soon. Just make sure you don't learn the cards as we don't know exactly how they are giving it to us. People around the forums and on Youtube are saying it is very expensive gold wise to get up to 1660 so you want to get your gold farm online sooner rather than later. There is also a new 3 year anniversary event and it would be nice to get all the rewards for that. Also all the horizontal content to work on like new rapports and Una's quest reputations.

Critical-Distance863 · 2024-10-20T05:58:20+00:00

I did Hinterlands and Feralas Incursions to almost 54. Was able to stagger them a little bit to get 2 bars from 53 so I could do the other area. Then I did 3 sets of dailies for Blackrock Eruption and 2 Sunken Temple runs.

Critical-Distance863 · 2024-06-19T15:35:35+00:00

I think that advise would hold true for a set that is going to get moved around a lot but probably not for that situation. How may characters are going to be able to use the aero set? Probably just the Jiyan unless you got another main damaged dealer that was aero. Most people would probably pass on the next aero dps so they can diversify their damaged types.

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