Killer Guides’ WoW 
Profession Guide
 - 7/10 

Guide last updated: March 2009 for Wrath of the Lich King
Review last updated: April 12, 2009
Guide suitable for:  Those who want to level their primary professions and have a focus on PvP

Killer Guides’ Profession Guide is, in my opinion, another decent but incomplete profession guide. About half the guide is dedicated to skilling up most professions to 450 as well as choosing the right professions for your class (except for Death Knights). The second half of the guide is mostly about making gold (pretty shallow tips though) and enhancing PvP with professions.

The latter part ends up consisting of long lists of items you can craft with cooking, alchemy, engineering and enchanting. Not terribly useful. The gold making chapter isn’t really focused on using professions for gold, but other activities instead.

In the WotLK update some things were added, like discussions on choosing specializations for those professions that offer them; the addition of Inscription, and engineering stuff for level 80 PvP. The guide is now about 120 pages.

One good thing is the resources section. There are links to cool websites that will help you leveling and understanding your professions better. I learnt about a great new website that I will use going forward.

If I had to complain…

• While there are leveling guides for most professions, there’s nothing on cooking, fishing, first aid, or skinning, and the mining guide is "minimalistic".
• I haven’t tried the leveling guides, but they look good. Except that some contain rare drop recipes, which means you have to be lucky and find the recipes from a mob or on the auction house. Not ideal when you’re in a hurry.
• The recommendation for your banker or "mule" to take mining and enchanting for the purpose of disenchanting items and smelting ore is dubious, since you’ll then have to level your banker too, which defeats the purpose or a banker, in my opinion.
• The WotLK update didn’t bring everything up to date. More than a few things are still only updated for level Burning Crusade.

Anyway, there are many good things too. I just feel that it could use some improvement.

Conclusion

The best part is the skill-up paths for all primary professions. Though not perfect, they seem quite helpful.

I think this guide is too pricey on its own to warrant a purchase. However, if Killer Guides have other WoW guides you’re interested in then you might consider their entire WoW guide package for which would include this guide and all the others, in which case I would definitely give this one a read.

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