09-30-2005, 09:08 PM
I leveled a druid up to 60 on a RP server at release with Elemental Leatherworking as my profesion, and am now in the process of bringing up another druid on a PvP server doing herb/alch, so I've experienced both trades to a large extent.
As for preference? I'd definately opt for herbalism as one of your main professions. Druids are natural gatherers, thanks to hibernate, soothe animal, and their travel form. One rarely has to get into any sort of combat; just hibernate whatever beast happens to be on the herb you wish to pick, gather it while they're taking a nap, and move on. The beauty of this is that no combat is required. Furthermore, the "track herbs" switch for the minimap is largely unobtrusive: the only time you need to toggle tracking is when you switch to cat form's "track humanoids."
I'd take as your alchemy as your second profession, but that's pretty much up to you. Mana and healing potions are always in demand for me (as well as the occasional shadow protection/fire protection potion for priests/mages). I don't like toggling tracking too much, so i'd avoid doing both mining AND herbalism (although raw ore always sells well). Skinning seems more a hunter driven profession: first, they've too many tracking abilities as is --- one of which, to note, just so happens to allow you to track leather sources, and second, their dps (at least at current) is far superior to druids (cat form has admittedly much improved, but still) --- which is important insofar as skinning requires you to kill loads of beasts to skin.
As for preference? I'd definately opt for herbalism as one of your main professions. Druids are natural gatherers, thanks to hibernate, soothe animal, and their travel form. One rarely has to get into any sort of combat; just hibernate whatever beast happens to be on the herb you wish to pick, gather it while they're taking a nap, and move on. The beauty of this is that no combat is required. Furthermore, the "track herbs" switch for the minimap is largely unobtrusive: the only time you need to toggle tracking is when you switch to cat form's "track humanoids."
I'd take as your alchemy as your second profession, but that's pretty much up to you. Mana and healing potions are always in demand for me (as well as the occasional shadow protection/fire protection potion for priests/mages). I don't like toggling tracking too much, so i'd avoid doing both mining AND herbalism (although raw ore always sells well). Skinning seems more a hunter driven profession: first, they've too many tracking abilities as is --- one of which, to note, just so happens to allow you to track leather sources, and second, their dps (at least at current) is far superior to druids (cat form has admittedly much improved, but still) --- which is important insofar as skinning requires you to kill loads of beasts to skin.