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Guide last updated: December 2007
Review last updated: 2007-12-25
Killer Guides’ Profession Guide is, in my opinion, another decent but incomplete profession guide.
Some examples:
- While it discusses profession choices for twinks, mules, newbies, and all classes, it doesn’t go into specializations and some tips are a bit off.
- 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.
Anyway, there are many good things too. I just feel that it could use some improvement.
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. However, in the end the author puts it together and shows you all the different buffs and enchants you can stack at level 70 to get maximally buffed for PvP. Very helpful actually.
Another 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.
In conclusion, I think this guide is too pricey on its own ($30) 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 $80 which would include this guide and all the others, in which case I would definitely give this one a read.
You might also take a look at Valkor’s Gold Making Guide or The Ultimate WoW Guide, which both contain basic skill-up guides for the professions.
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