*First off Why bother with butchering? Well simply put, Butchering (imo) is the best profession to take if you want to be a self sufficient Alchemist. You can get a good range of main ingredients (including a ton off effects that Scavengers cannot get) as well as stabilisers AND even sub-ingredients. You won’t make as much money off it as scavenging early on, however, if you are really into the alchemy, then you aren’t doing it for money in the first place. However, don’t be fooled into thinking its totally useless money wise.
* Deer. I cannot stress this enough. Now before you do a double take and think I’m crazy, I’ll explain.
Currently, Deer critters have loot tables comparable to regular humanoid/more difficult mobs. The difference is Deer can obviously be one shotted and in many parts in the world, respawn instantly AND of course they can also be skinned. Now, you probably won’t get much in the way of skill ups killing these critters (except for early on) but if you find a good spot, you can get a ton of Fleas and Ticks (Usually tend to be Health/Energy Main ingredients) and can then whip up a significant batch of potions.
Drop wise, as I said, the loot table is pretty damn good. Grinding a small group of Deer in Shadowlands, I was able to amass something like 6-10 greens in the space of half an hour. In many cases they re-spawn instantly and in the same spot, so you can effectively just spam an AoE if you have one and build up the corpses.
They WILL probably nerf the deer’s loot table but until they do, It’s quite a nice money maker.
*Kill Collectors. While not true for all chapters, you will find a good majority of Kill collectors are looking for Beast kills in the area. Therefore, if you want to level your butchering and get extra xp while doing it, its a no brainier. Find a Kill collectors, find what he wants, grind say 20-30 of them, go hand in for xp bonus in addition to skill ups and a horde of mats. There are also a handful of PQ’s that involve killing Beast mobs also which can be good as well.
*Don’t neglect it. On thing that I found rather annoying is that as soon as you get into Tier 2, all the level 1-25 Alchemy mats dry up and you will instead be butchering a ton of level 50+ mats so make sure your alchemy is around the 50 margin by the time you move into Tier two if you are aiming to be self sufficient.
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September 22nd, 2008 at 9:25 am
So basicly a good profession combo would be Butchering and Apothecary?