WoW newbie looking for advice

[Klaus]

I now adopt two gathering professions when I start a new character for a rapid influx of gold, which I can use to buy bags and skills. However, when I first started playing, I would always pick a production profession with its associated gathering profession. It's just so cool to be able to make your own stuff.

I usually recommend the two-gathering-professions route for new players, because it takes a while to get bootstrapped on cash to use for various stuff. This isn't as important for the warlock, because your lvl 40 mount is effectively free, instead of the 90g that others have to lay out.

If you decide to join us on Terenas, there are numerous tailors available that can make you bags and armor as you level. There are very few patterns that you must make for yourself until you reach level 70. Leveling tailoring is somewhat easier to do as you go along, but doing it all at once when you cap isn't horrible, either. As far as bags go, I personally have way too many 14-slot bags floating about that I don't know what to do with. Gifting them to a new player would be fun.