Take these key questions into consideration. So what profession is right for you? And should you change to that profession for Mists of Pandaria?īefore you make any kind of decisions about your professions, you really need to sit down and consider exactly how you play World of Warcraft in the first place. Certain professions lend themselves to the weekend Auction House warrior, while others reward daily persistence. But one person might make millions of gold from inscription, for example, while another player struggles to make a few silver.Īside from knowledge (which you're all getting right here from Gold Capped, natch), what's the biggest factor regarding a profession's profitability? It's your playstyle.

Each profession has the potential to be profitable - some more so than others, sure. It's a question to which there's no easy answer. That column apparently got a lot of you thinking, because immediately afterward, I got no fewer than three emails from players asking if they should change their professions to alchemy - or more generally, whether or not they should switch to a better profession. Last week here in Gold Capped, I gave you a sneak peek at the alchemy profession in Mists of Pandaria, including some of the new potions, flasks, and transmutes available to those willing to put in the work. Feed Fox's ego by emailing him, tweeting him at or sacrificing your first-born to him.

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Fox Van Allen and Basil ' Euripides ' Berntsen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House.

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