12-27-2004, 09:12 PM
MongoJerry,Dec 27 2004, 07:17 AM Wrote:I wanted to reach my hands into the monitor and choke him. First aid is a free profession. It's easy to skill up and everyone can get it.
Your analysis of First Aid is right on - for everyone except tailors. I received generous gifts of cloth from many others in the guild and I still barely managed to make it to my current tailoring level. It was owing only to a few more gifts of linen that I was able to raise my character's First Aid at all.
The problem gets worse when your character is gaining levels at a decent pace. You rapidly outgrow the older levels of cloth before you've anywhere near enough of them to cover just your tailoring, nevermind First Aid. This problem is compounded if you're an enchanter as well and have a compelling reason to tailor items that you aren't skilling up off of.
Essentially, you have to go to the auction house at some point to get the extra cloth you need for First Aid. And I'm not saying that's impossible or hard, but the "free" part of your description drops out around here. Cost conscious tailors and especially tailor/enchanters, who are money-short because of enchanting and who are saving for a mount, may find buying cloth for First Aid at the AH is an expense that can be deferred, especially considering its relative lack of usefulness until the very end game. You have a right to expect the mages in an Onyxia group to have first aid, but up until then, cut the tailors some slack.