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<mbg...@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Fishing really only serves to support other professions.  If you can
> do without the reagents, then I wouldn't bother leveling it (that
> being said, Fishing is dirt-easy/cheap, albeit time consuming, to
> level).
>

I disagree.  I leveled up fishing, and used it along with my alchemy to get 
my epic mount.  Fishing in STV for 'floating wreckage' gets you trunks that 
have greens, cloth, money and other stuff in them.  I was making about 50-75 
gold per day doing this, fishing about 2-3 hours a day.  Gets boring, but 
farming has never bothered me.  I do agree that combining it with other 
skills makes it more valuable.  Stonescale Eels were great catches because I 
would make stonescale oil with my alchy..  and for some reason, on my 
server, I was the only one doing this, and they were selling for big money. 
Didn't take me long at all to get my epic mount.   And now, at even higher 
levels, you can fish some good stuff out, like motes of water, which 10 
combined together get you around 20 gold on my server.  Not to mention the 
blues that you can somtimes fish up anywhere.  I also entered the STV 
contest several times and won twice so I could get the pole and the hook 
trinket, as well as the other 3 special fish that you turn in for gear (hat, 
boots and a fishing line enchant).  Fishing can be useful and fun...


> Cooking on the other hand, as another poster pointed out, can give
> some very, very good buffs at higher levels.  I never leave home with
> Basilisk on my mage or fish sticks on my druid :).
>

There is definate money to be made here.  It used to be that noone cared 
about  it, but more and more, people are realizing that some of the food 
buffs are pretty good...  so learning the higher recipes is a good thing, 
and certain ones can sell quickly.

> First aid is also useful in long boss fights.  If you have time to
> bandage yourself (or even another player), then you can do that to a)
> save mana, but also b) take you out of casting state.  If you can use
> a bandage and get 2 or 3 full ticks of mana back in the process you
> saved yourself 1 heal, and bought another one from the extra ticks you
> picked up.  It's certainly not gonna hurt to level it :).
>

Agreed.  This is useful for EVERYONE, even healers.  More than once I have 
been the main healer, out of mana, and ran up to put a bandage on someone 
that needed it because it was the only thing left I had..  It's free health 
in a fight..  never hurts to have it.

> Mike
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