I am now approaching the last bit before TBC, and it’s time to lay out my specific plans!
I’m not 60, but I boosted
After the last post I got absolutely spammed in the youtube comments about buying boost. Sadly for the commenters I’ve been having too much time leveling so I did not boost my Shaman. I did boost another character however so I have two characters within shot of TBC professions. As of right now my shaman is level 50 and I have about 150 gold on me. I have tailoring at 145, so still a while to go. It is still 2 days to go until TBC launches. I did also just get very lucky and got a 100 gold value BoE from Zul Farrak.
Finish tailoring
The main thing that is now within reach is to level up tailoring to 300 before I go to TBC. This will get me one max level crafting profession, which is pretty much the best I can get. With that I should be able to leverage my gold from leveling into enough skill that I can start profiting. Hopefully I can get to 350 and get the Bracers of Havok recipe early on, that would be my number one priority. That recipe alone will easily carry me to a second maxed profession.
Second profession on my main
For the second profession I’m going with leatherworking. This means I do have to farm some Consortium rep as soon as possible, so doing quests for them is a big priority. This will get me the fel leather recipes which are also very popular pre-bis options.
Plan for the hunter
For the hunter I want two professions that do not require doing much outlands content. The main one is jewelcrafting where the most valuable recipes are BoE. I’ll probably pick alchemy as the second one, but I’m not sure yet. If I have to choose jewelcrafting is the priority here, but it depends on how much gold I get as I do have to buy the recipes for gold, which is quite expensive.