I read every line and I found some interesting stuff in there that you might have missed. I’m not going to just paste them. You can find them here or here. Instead, I’m only going to extract the neat stuff and discuss a bit about it.

Let’s see what we have.

General

Haris Pilton has launched a new line of bags and jewelry. Check her out in the World’s End Tavern!

Everyone’s favorite NPC came back with some new and cool items, like the 22-slot bag “Gigantique” Bag, 1 pair of goggles and 3 rings! Some say that the enourmous prices on these are to reduce inflation in the WoW economy.

One thing is for certain: really nice items to pimp up your bank char or to enrich your RP activity.

Mounts at 30?! Yes, it’s true: Apprentice Riding and mounts are now available at level 30. Training costs 35 gold.

HELLOKITTY! Say woot? Finnaly! It was rather stupid to run all over the place until level 40 and I have to admit it really slowed my leveling time. And buged the hell out of me also, because Druids got Travel Form, Shamans got Ghost Wolf and Hunters got Aspect of the Cheetah way before 40. BUT NOW, it’s all over! Still, it costs 35 gold but that shouldn’t be a big problem (I had over 100 gold on my Priest at level 30 from Mining). Also, for Paladins and Warlocks it’s still (almost) free so in your face!

Warning: long post ahead (aka Wall of Text) so if you have time, you can read more after the jump

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Welcome to Part IV of my “Useful professions for a Protection Paladin” series. Today it’s Enchanting’s turn. Let’s get right to the subject, shall we?

Enchanting pro’s

• Probably one of the best professions for a Protection Paladin, along with Jewelcrafting;
• Excellent source of income through farming instances and selling mats or selling the enchants them selfs;
• Access to two very good enchants, that can make the difference: Enchant Ring - Spellpower and Enchant Ring - Stats;

Enchanting cons

• Slow and expensive to level if you don’t farm the mats yourself;
• Difficult to obtain the popular enchants (low drop rate, endless farming, etc.);

Again, not much to be said from a pally tank’s view, but I strongly recommend for every Protection Paladin to take Enchanting along with Jewelcrafting. It’s probably the best combo out there.

The idea

The idea came to me after I saw some good videos on Youtube about another Paladin doing it so I thought why not do it myself? I took enchanting and leveled it to 300 just for this reason: to take advantage of my character (Protection Paladin) and farm instances for money.

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Welcome to Part III of my “Useful professions for a Protection Paladin” series. Today we open with: Engineering.

There really isn’t much engineering can do for you. Only good creatable items are Tankatronic Goggles and, if God forbid, you ever decide to heal, Justicebringer 2000 Specs. Go get them, they will last you until Black Temple. True story.

Other than that, have fun with engineering. It’s the most entertaining profession out there. And it can bring nice profits as well. I mean, how can it not be when you can craft Explosive Sheep? Or the OMGHAXIHASSOMUCHGOLD Zapthrottle Mote Extractor?

And that’s about it.

Welcome to Part II of my “Useful professions for a Protection Paladin” series. Today we open with: Jewelcrafting.

Jewelcrafting pro’s:

• managed well, it can bring a nice profit.
• cheaper to craft the gems than to buy them.
• unique-equiped gems that can make the difference: Don Julio’s Hear, Facet of Eternity, Falling Star.
• items/gems with Defense Rating: Figurine - Dawnstone Crab, Enduring Talasite, Tenacious Earthstorm Diamond, Thick Dawnstone.
• items/gems with Stamina: Glowing Nightseye, Powerful Earthstorm Diamond, !!! Solid Star of Elune !!!

Jewelcrafting con’s:

• hard and expensive to level.
• you have to be lucky for some of the designs to drop or buy them off AH (not cheap!).
• be prepared to grind for reputation with different factions to be able to get designs.