Death Knight Gathering Professions

So you’ve made a Death Knight.  You’ve conquered the starting area, defeated hundreds of Scarlet Crusaders, slaughtered countless innocents, and fought your way to the top.

But you don’t have a job, do you?

Not to worry! Death Knights have a variety of professions they can pick from, so I’ll give you a breakdown of which ones to look at so that your plutonium wielding, rune illiterate Death Knight can actually do something other than kill people.

For starters, let’s look at the manual labour positions.

GATHERING PROFESSIONS

Mining
Mining is (on most servers) the gathering profession that gives the most money.  Not only that, but it gives a stamina bonus to your character when your mining skill reaches a certain level.  The stamina bonus is actually pretty hefty: 50 stamina once your skill reaches 450.  This makes mining a powerful profession for tanking and PvP Death Knights.  Even if you’re a damage dealing (DPS) Death Knight you might want to pick this up as it gives a huge revenue.

Skinning
Skinning can be used to make money, although you’re going to have to kill a lot of beasts to make as much money as a miner.  Not that any of you Death Knights have a problem with that, right?

The fun part of being a Skinner is the increased Critical Strike rating it gives based on your skill level, much like the Mining stamina bonus.  It currently gives 32 critical strike rating, which isn’t a terrible amount at all.  For DPS and PvP Death Knights, this bonus can be very beneficial to you.  Tanking Death Knights won’t see as much output from Skinning so they might want to pass.

Herbalism
Herbalism is for you Death Knights who are a bit more… passive.  Instead of smashing rocks and mashing animals, you daintily pick up flowers.  Despite just how un-Death Knightlike the profession is, it’s normally a big money maker.  This is especially true on servers where a large number of raiders are present: Potions, Flasks, and glyphs don’t make themselves you know.  Herbs are needed in 2 very important raiding professions, so if you know your server has a lot of raiders, this profession might be for you.

Like the other two gathering professions, Herbalism has a bonus.  Unlike the other two, the bonus is an activated spell called Lifeblood.  Lifeblood can be used whenever you like, and is a self targeted Heal over Time (HoT) spell that becomes more powerful the higher your Herbalism skill is.  With 450 Herbalism, Lifeblood heals 2,000 hit points.  For PvP and Tanking Death Knights, this bonus is a very welcome one.  DPS Death Knights won’t see as much use out of it, but it’s still nice to have.

So Which Is Right For You?

Like most of this game, all of this depends on what you want to do.  Do you want to make boatloads of money, or do you want to deal the most damage you possibly can?

One way to help make this choice is to decide what kind of Death Knight you’re going to be.  As an example, say you want to be a DPS Death Knight.  The obvious way to make your Death Knight do more damage is to pick up skinning.  What a tanking Death Knight? Mining would be a great way to go since it gives a great stamina bonus, or herbalism for the extra heal.

By knowing in advance what type of Death Knight you’re going to be, choosing a gathering profession can be very simple.  It’s also a great way to make money, since all 3 professions gather the materials the crafting professions need.

Next time, I’ll talk about the crafting professions for the job seeking, death dealing, and disease ridden Death Knight.

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