…yeah, I’m not bitter that I tried Leatherworking until Outlands, and then dumped it at skill level 284 for Mining… and then leveled that to 330 in a couple of hours, making 800 gold in the process. I’m not bitter… I just think it’s *bad* game design, or weird social engineering and wealth redistribution.

Aaaaaanyway, now that I can make DKs, I’m sure their reason for existence will be money muling on new servers for random newbie alts. I can’t help but think that’s also bad design, but hey, I’ll roll with that.

If you use the mobile armory, there is a method you can use to supplement BBB9001X(!).

I recently rolled anew on Thrall (awesome realm for the horde btw, loving it so far – trade chat is fairly friendly and clean for the most part, excellent progression, people are pugging all raids and all bosses – great for a dad who can’t commit to a raiding schedule). Like you said, I had no heirlooms, no gold, nada. I went with herbalism and mining as my initial two professions. A very nice new thing in Cata is that all the starter areas now have profession trainers that will teach you all professions. So I went about my merry way, herbing and mining while questing. Excellent XP from the two professions and I zipped through the levels.

When I’d log off, I’d fire up the mobile armory and post my stacks of ore, bars and herbs undercutting the market by 1 copper. They sold really well and I was able to start auctioning well before getting a toon to a major city.

Now I am level 21, I have 5 hours or so played in total now and I have 150 gold. And I have all the bags I need too. :) I figure that when I get 80+, I’ll drop these professions and replace them with whatever I want at endgame. But for now, the gold and XP from these two gathering professions is great and makes for a nice substitute for the BoA XP bonus.

I hope you enjoy your new home. :)

The julienne fries bit reminded me of the beginning of Aladdin… tell me I’m not the only one?