GADS!! WoW Education!! Collecting Gold & Lumber??!!!

Huh??!!

Before walk away from major playing of D2 and embark into WoW I am
reading about WoW on the Blizzard site, so that I will not be a totally
noob dude in the game.

Gold and Lumber!

I repeat Gold and Lumber!!

So I need to be a miner and a lumberjack.

Oh wait, I get Creeps to mine and chop.

Got to get the gold and lumber to town hall.

Holy SimMedievalCity Batman!!

Wait this is for real!!

Oh well.

Okay. I'll do it.

I take it this is going to get even more interesting as I move along
further.

Orion

Orion Ryder wrote:
> Huh??!!
>
> Before walk away from major playing of D2 and embark into WoW I am
> reading about WoW on the Blizzard site, so that I will not be a totally
> noob dude in the game.
>
> Gold and Lumber!
>
> I repeat Gold and Lumber!!
>
> So I need to be a miner and a lumberjack.
>
> Oh wait, I get Creeps to mine and chop.
>
> Got to get the gold and lumber to town hall.
>
> Holy SimMedievalCity Batman!!
>
> Wait this is for real!!
>
> Oh well.
>
> Okay. I'll do it.
>
> I take it this is going to get even more interesting as I move along
> further.
>
> Orion

No lumber, but yes you can be a miner. You don't have to though, but
it's great way of getting some cash.

There are 3 "gathering professions" (like the peons in the RTS WC
games):

Mining. Swing your pick and haul some ore home and smelt it into bars.
Herbalism. Pick pretty flowers.
Skinning. Strip dead animals of their only 'clothes' and leave the rest
of the carcass to rot. If you like clubbing baby seals for their fur,
this is for you.

There are also some crafting professions:

Leatherworking. Uses mostly the leather you got from the animals you
killed. Creates leather and mail armor (I think the mail armor is made
from dragonscales - otherwise I can't see how you can make mail out of
leather...)
Blacksmithing. Uses mostly the metal you mined. Creates mail and plate
armor, as well as weapons.
Alchemy. Uses mostly the flowers you picked. Creates potions to
heal/buff you.
Tailoring: Uses mostly cloth gathered from monsters you kill (gathering
cloth needs no profession). Creates cloth armor.
Engineering. Uses mostly metal, but also cloth, leather, gems (also
gathered with mining) and other odds and ends. Creates all bombs and
sorts of gadgets (some of which can malfunction - this profession is
great fun).
Enchanting. This is used to create permanent enchants on weapons and
armor (like making your weapon strike harder, or give your bracers a
boost to stamina). The stuff you need for this is gathered by
disenchanting magical items. Learning enchanting includes learning the
ability to disenchant stuff.

The above are the primary professions, of which you can choose any 2
you like (but as I'm sure you can see, some of them obviously go well
together).

In addition there are also 3 secondary professions:

First aid. Creates bandages from cloth. Bandages are used to regain
your health.
Fishing. Just like real world fishing, this will give you fish and
sometimes other strange things floating around in the water (the world
of Azeroth is not completely free form pollution you know )
Cooking. Creates food from meat dropped by animals, and fish gathered
by fishing. Food is used to regain health, and some food will also give
you a buff.

HTH.

Devast8or