Min-maxing for raids = Blacksmith and Enchanting/Jewelcrafting.

New player = Mining & Skinning for gold

Casual player = Mining & Engineering. Engineering doesn't earn you gold but gives you some fun toys. But it can be a frustrating profession. Another combo could be Skinning & Leatherworking.

Take note if you do go Engineering, the mind control helm tinker for Hunters is virtually useless, you can't use it if your pet is active.

Nitro boots and pyro rocket glove tinkers are still great tho, and Disengage + parachute cloak is win.

This post has been edited by ray123: Oct 26 2009, 04:23 PM

Skinning doesn't provide much benefit for high end PvP. The increased crit is nice but with everyone running around in high resilience it's pretty pointless, you would be better off with mining and the increased HP. Plus you would need mining to fuel your engineering skill ups.