I'd always wanted an extra profession to make use of my mining, such as JC (miner+engi atm), and I could prospect my own stuff, and then for most people more BoP stoof :)

Enchanting I've always wanted, could go with everytign, and maybe if you had say Ench+Tailor or whatever, you could get a gatherer to help ease funds :)
A skinning and mining jewelcrafting warlock? WoW would you be raking in the g!

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I've always wanted a first post too!
Cool :>

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What happens when the new profession of Inscription comes out?

Do we all have to re-level a new toon, just to level this profession up appropriately and 'try it out'? I'm sure new level 10s are going to have to farm for materials in level appropriate zones. Think of the level 70s in low level areas, farming to raise this profession up from level 1-75. High levels competing with low level characters for materials in low level zones. Lots of crying over this.

Or can level 70s keep their two old professions, and gain a third profession slot?
Even if the third profession slot is limited to a certain level, like 300, you could still 'try it out', and have it.

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I'd be happy with more free professions, like First Aid and Cooking.

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5th post, whoo.

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@ #3 - This wouldn't be any different than when TBC came out and jewelcrafting was added. Many players picked up mining months in advance and stockpiled items they would need. There was a clear list of what materials would get you 1-300 from the beta, and even people who picked it up later just ran around and got what they needed, then got out of a zone.

I don't recall mass crying from level 10 players that 60's were running around picking up all the copper in Durotar. It really isn't that big a of a deal.

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Heres what I'm saying:

When we old men here go fishing, we take three or more poles a piece, prop them up against a stick lean-to and sit and drink beer and wait till one bites. Why can't i power-level fishing for that matter? Gain 3 skill points at once. Or dual-wield my pans to double up on cooking.

Seriously though, Let me get a third so i can be mining/engineer/blacksmith so that I can mine the coal for my flying copter's fuel and make extra armor to protect my flight!

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Lets give everyone 15 profession slots.

That way you won't have to make any choices and can just mindlessly max out everything.

/irony

3rd slot is a terrible idea IMHO. More variety, and more hard choices to make is good: Some people have some skills, other other, that's the whole point calling it a "profession" in the first place.

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I remember in Beta when all you needed to learn a new profession was the coin, as each new profession was incrementally more expensive. Those day I didn't know the Paladin class as well as I do, and choose Leatherworking and Skinning because it had far more stamina than Mail or Plate did. Yeah, I know. Thankfully I have learned since then.

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Being able to learn another profession would be a good thing for those guilds who don't have say, a tailor, at 375 but would like to have one. I've maxed out herbalism and alchemy but, if given a chance, I'd go max out mining, too, to farm for motes once I got into the high levels. There are those guild members for whom another professions slot would be a great way to kick start their enjoyment of the game. There are other who would see it as an albatross around their neck since they can't get either of their original choices to 375.

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I'd like to see professions somewhat redesigned. I'd like to see emphasis on synergy with your own class and with your gathering as well, so I think we'd all benefit from a forced gathering slot (herb/skin/mine) and 2 crafting slots.

Every cloth wearer NEEDS tailoring now. Every PVP'er kinda needs Blacksmithing for their epic weapon. (and plenty of non PVP'ers). Yeah, you can get away without having either... but do you really want to? I sure don't. So where does that leave you for your other professions? You've gotta go without a gather or crafting profession on your cloth wearers. For those with a bunch of alts that can go gather mats for the mains, no sweat. For the rest of the people who may only have one max level character... it's kind of a pain in the ass. If they keep adding professions, it's going to eventually get to the point where they HAVE to add a new slot, or segregate the gathering skills and let people try new things without abandoning their gathering skill or abandoning something they've spent (literally) thousands of gold on. Can you ever imagine dropping any L375 skill at all that's not a gather skill? I sure can't.

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If they do this, they had better divide the existing restricted professions into crafting professions and gathering professions.

I have levelled up Blacksmithing and Mining as far as they can go. Not at all tempted to drop either of them in favour of another, or add another crafting profession like Enchanting or Jewelcrafting. If I added a third profession, it would be a second gathering profession like Herbalism or Skinning. And everything I got from using it would go straight to the auction house.

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Removing mining & herbalism from the primary list and moving them to secondary would be great.

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I've always felt that gathering professions should be part of the Secondary Professions. Yes, I'm aware that it would affect the finances of all the realms, but there's always gonna be people that don't want to bother to learn all of them, or don't have the time to. And there's also the rare items (i.e. Black Lotus, Cobrascale Leather, Khorium Ore) to keep the marketplace going.

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#12, #13 I'm in complete agreement. I actually said as much over on MMO-Champion in the 2.3 upgrade thread. I think a 2-Fabrication 1-Gathering system would be pretty sweet. The only issue I can come up with is that Disenchanting would have to become its own skill. Otherwise you could pick 2-Fab 2-Gather. And if they keep buffing endgame tradeskills that could be killer.

Now if they took some time with, say, 2.4 and did to trades throughout the game what they did to low-level dungeon loot I'd be happy. Add more Leather/Mail goggles (any) to early and middle game, add more good armor (any shields) and weapons to BS, etc. I'll say that Alchemy and enchanting are basically OK though. But hey if they don't plan on adding anything whatsoever to the early game for a while after Wrath they might as well make everything easier to level (I'm looking right at First Aid). I mean if there is going to be no real point in being below 68 for a while, why stick us there?

And while I'm ranting about tradeskills, why do miners need to strike multiple times, but herbalists just pick once? We only get one skillup, do they just want to sink some time and aggro into mining?

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I think it'd be great. You'd probably see a lot more Engineers if it did happen. You could afford a "fun profession" if you could have three. Likely you would see a lot of Herb/Alch/Enchanters out there though.

On the devil's advocate side...it could unbalance the economy if everyone all of a sudden has a gathering profession. There were plenty of Alchemy/Blacksmiths out there that bought stuff because they couldn't farm it. Of course, poeple will always be lazy...and keep me rich.

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@9
I agree, having a third profession slot would be a bad idea. I like the way the game mechanics force you to interact with other players or at the very least the AH. Having one character that can mine, smith, and jcraft (or similar) would make the game far less interesting.

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BAD IDEA

If peopled could have three, imagine how many more engineers there would be!

I like how you are limited to two, so if you use one of those on Engineering, you feel special.

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I think having a third profession would be a good thing. I am all for having 1 gather and 2 fab profressions. I had alch/herb to 375. As a lock if I wanted to have the best gear possible I had to discard a profession so herbs went out the window. This meant alchemy became a pain in the rear to work with but as I have all but 3 recipies and have spent mega gold on this profession I was not going to give it up. Also it benefits the guild more than herbs did.

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Something I didn't think about: Inscription will only be available in Northrend if they do it anything like Jewelcrafting and keep it expansion specific. The trainers will all be behind the instance portal. So either give us a new profession slot or all these 70's with 375 level professions will have to drop one to get the new hotness.

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