Mining is one of 3 gathering professions (the others being herbalism and skinning) and is the process of, you guessed it, mining ore and stone from random nodes in zones of varying level. Mining supplies crafting professions like blacksmithing, engineering, jewelcrafting, and some alchemy transmutes. Because of this, it’s usually in the highest demand on any given server and because of that, there are usually large supplies available.

That being said, mining is super-easy to get into and highly profitable, especially when combined with your own crafting professions.

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Herbalism is one of three gathering style professions in the game. It’s very simple to level up and really amounts to just picking flowers. As with each of the gathering professions though, they all fuel another profession. Herbalism fuels both alchemy and inscription, so count on demand being at least moderately high.

Since herbalism is point and click, many people have it, this will bring prices down on the weekends and result in lots of competition trying to get higher level herbs. But don’t despair, if you have a character with either alchemy or inscription or you just need some extra cash and happen to have a couple mounts (or maybe you need a couple mounts), then herbalism is a great choice.

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