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"Aboo" <jhem...@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Jun 8, 3:08 pm, John Salerno <john...@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>> Remelak wrote:
>> > Do the secondary skills do much for you? Can they make you any money?
>>
>> > My main is a priest, so I can typicaly heal myself, so making things
>> > to eat (cooking), eating fish (fishing) and applying bandages (first
>> > aid) don't seem to help me much. Should I even be spending time in
>> > these?
>>
>> > And as a side note, for those of you who will suggest first aid for
>> > the bandages so I don't need to use mana to heal, I'm tailoring/
>> > enchanting, so all the cloth I get typically goes to that. Even if I'm
>> > making items that don't level my tailoring I still DE them so thats
>> > where my cloth goes.
>>
>> All I can say about first aid is even though I thought it was useless
>> for me as a healing class, I heard some people talking about it so I
>> leveled it up, and man is it useful! Yes, you lose some money, but it
>> can be worth it depending on how you play. But if you are getting along
>> fine without it, don't bother. I actually haven't leveled it up yet with
>> my druid, and I sell mageweave for 3.5g a stack.
>>
>> Cooking I find useless. Even the buffs don't seem worth the effort, at
>> least not for solo playing where you can just control the situation on
>> your own anyway.
>>
>> Fishing is a huge chore. I do it every now and then, but you don't need
>> to really focus on it. I've never caught anything worth much yet, but my
>> fishing has never gone over 250 yet on any character.
>>
>> Furthermore, these things can take away time from simply leveling up, so
>> consider that too. :)
>
>
> First Aid is a must for almost any character and it's so easy to level
> it's rediculous.  I keep 20 Heavy Nether bandages on me at all times
> and sell the rest of the cloth.
>
> Fishing can be profitable (I caught a trunk with Mythiril Shield Spike
> recipe that I sold for 45g and that was at 140 fishing skill).  It
> also provides fish to level up your cooking skill almost effortlessly
> if you level it as you level.  Sit and chat in town during your down
> time and fish in the ponds in town.

Oh!  I am really looking forward to this kind of find!

>
> Cooking is a huge pain in the ass to level if you don't have easy fish
> to do it with or big bags to hold all the stuff.  But the buffs are
> very nice once you hit Outland.  A free +20 Stamina and +20 Other stat
> that stacks with your priests buffs is NOT a bad thing. :)

At L41 I need to finish the cooking quest from Gadgetzan (my next stop after 
Stranglethorn) so the best recipe I can make is the sagefish one that gives 
health + mana + stamina.  I didn't realize that cooking would return better 
and better and better buffs.  (I should have.)  I'd only heard that it made 
sense to improve cooking skills if one is a hunter as cooked bear meat (for 
instance) makes a pet happy at higher levels than plain bear meat.

Xymmie