New to World of Warcraft and need to brush up on WoW Classic Professions wow classic gold Professions in the original vanilla World of Warcraft were expensive, time-consuming and in some cases, not terribly rewarding. That didn’t stop us from doing them, however, and they’ll be popular once again in Classic WoW when it launches later in August.

In all cases, we don’t recommend that you pick up Classic WoW Professions, particularly crafting Professions, until maximum level. It is dramatically easier to find and afford materials at max level, particularly if you save what you get along the way.

Which WoW Classic Professions you choose will depend upon your in-game priorities. Some are best at making you gold, which is much scarcer in Classic than it is on Live servers. Some are best at helping you out as you level up, and might be a higher priority if you plan to take your sweet time getting to the maximum level of 60. Other Professions don’t make exciting gear, but do make items that virtually every player uses from day to day. And one notable Profession exists mostly to make you laugh. So, which are the best Classic WoW Professions?

BEST CLASSIC WOW PROFESSION FOR GOLD FARMING: MINING AND HERBING

While many Classic WoW Professions in vanilla can make you gold by turning less expensive materials into more expensive things you can auction or sell off, the biggest source of gold is other players, and the things they typically need most are materials to make other things.

Gathering Professions such as herbing or mining can be lucrative at lower levels, but they’re also very time-consuming, so skip them if you want to speed your WoW leveling path to 60, as mining and herbing don’t give experience. If gold is your priority, collect everything you pass and sell it immediately. Materials are worth more in the early days of the game, when everyone is leveling Professions and wants your herbs and bars – don’t forget to smelt that ore – than at the end, when more players are flooding the market.

Given how difficult gold is to come by in Classic, this is a solid strategy for affording all of your maximum level skills and your mounts at level 40 and 60, which in turn makes mining and herbing easier.

BEST CLASSIC WOW PROFESSION FOR LEVELING UPGRADES: TAILORING, BLACKSMITHING, LEATHERWORKING

The gear you can make as a tailor, blacksmith, or through leatherworking can provide you with solid upgrades as you level up. Combined with the appropriate gathering Profession – mining for blacksmithing and skinning for leatherworking – this can be a very efficient way to keep parts of your gear that lag behind up to date, speeding up your leveling, and getting you ready to pursue max-level gameplay.

Unfortunately, once you hit maximum level, your opportunities to get upgrades from these Professions drastically drop off, particularly if you’re doing large-group raid instances. Some specialty items are crafted from raiding materials, but even those are rarely the best items you can equip overall.

The exceptions are resistance gear (frost resist, nature resist, etc.) which are required for some high-end raid instances. Those pieces typically require items from those raids to craft, which perhaps doesn’t make a lot of sense wow private server gold but they are worth crafting. They bind on equip, so you can also purchase them from the auction house or have a friend make them for you.