WoW newbie looking for advice

[Crusader]

But now I'm thinking of an alt, and getting curious about two professions: Engineering and Enchanting. I've done a bunch of research and yet still can't confirm which one of them allows the crafting of items that increase your character's haste rating (translating to attack speed, for my purposes). Do any of you high level players know? Or are items that increase attack speed just mostly random drops? 'Cause if they are, I'm just going with Herbalism/Alchemy on that alt.

So ... if some kind officer could add the Rogue named Anaesthetist ("Supernatural" didn't fit, unfortunately biggrin.gif ) to the guild, it would be greatly appreciated! I see people adding alts all the time, so I hope this isn't a major imposition.

About Herb/Alchemy: I really, really recommend it. It's extremely easy to level compared to the other crafting skills, costs very little and can earn you a good buck. Added to that, making your own potions&elixers rules! A lot of people go squeemish on spending money on elixers or healing/mana pots and try to save them as much as possible, but once you can make them yourself you are under no such restraint. Added to that, if yu're a rogue, you have a lot easier time reaching herbs that are 'guarded' by just stealthing over and possibly doing a sap.

My most played chars exploit alchemy to the maximum, my lvl 70 Druid (herb/skinning) and 62 Shaman (herb/alchemy) both benefit because they're on the same server. My druid can stealth and fly to gather some of the trickier herbs while my Shaman makes all the potions and sells them for a good buck where I don't use them myself. Never again shall my resto druid show upto a raid without 20 mana potions and Elixirs of healing power.

Added to that, the most imba potion of all is available to my shaman: Mad Alchemist's potion. It is a rejuvenation potion (restores both mana and hp) that gives you a random elixer effect. In short, a mana potion, health potion and elixer in one. The insane cost? 2 ragveil and a vial. Dirt cheap! I love these things. Ragveil is gathered with ease or bought cheaply from the AH. (An hour of flying around with my druid nets me enough for 20 potions with ease). The random elixer is usually useful too for a shaman, as there isn't really a 'bad' buff where shamans are concerned.

Now, I may sound like a Microsoft Salesman, but Alchemy has a lot in it's favour. It remains extremely useful throughout your entire career and it can make you lots of money (transmuting arcanite still nets me 10g per transmute, and I haven't even looked at the primals yet). It's easily skilled up too. My first 60 (a rogue) had herb/alchy as well, and I never regretted it.

I have a 70 warrior (mining/Blacksmithing). I stopped bothering with blacksmithing as the cost involved to up the last few levels is insane, and the return virtually worthless now that you can easily gather equivalent epics from, say, PVP, which is a lot more fun then spending days prowling for mining nodes. My 61 mage has Enchantment/Tailoring, and at least that's a half-decent tradeskill combo, but so far it has only cost me money, not earned anything.

I never bothered with skinning/leatherworking, but I believe it ends the same as mining/blacksmithing; minimal return for maximum effort.

Well. That's my 2 cents on tradeskills. ^^