WotLK PVE Assassination best proffesions

[dixon118PL]

Hello.
Im playing rogue pve. Which proffesion is best for assassination rogue? Im thinking about alchemy + herbalism. Its my first character.

[jendah]

That would be kind of good combination for money making.

Eng + jwc are best for pve imho. (rawr thinks so as well)

[dixon118PL]

Thank you for response. Could u tell me smth more about benefits? I know that I ll get good potions from alchemy.

[Dongwise]

JC isn't up for debate. Engy is the usual #2 pick but I've seen people go with alch, BS, enchanting, or tailoring as well.

You should make a simple 80 gathering toon if you want to do alch and teach that toon herbalism and then just farm on it. You don't want a gathering profession taking up one of those slots.

[Qtinz]

Thank you for response. Could u tell me smth more about benefits? I know that I ll get good potions from alchemy.

Jewelcrafting offers you the ability to cut special gems (soulbound) that provide more stats than the tradeable ones. JC offers the highest pure stat gain out of all professions.

Engineering offers 340 haste over 12 secs (1min cooldown) as a gloves enchant, crit + movement speed as a boots enchant and agi + slow-fall as a cloak enchant. It also offers special enchants that are viable for PVP.

Tailoring offers 400 attack power over 15 sec (1min cooldown) as a cloak enchant - so it's basically a minor haste/agi loss for a major atp gain.

Blacksmithing offers 2 extra gem slots (gloves + bracers).

Herbalism and Alchemy offer the best combination money making wise, but especially Herbalism has no benefit for PVE. You would waste one profession. As mentioned before it's best to create an extra level 80 character (druid) for gathering professions (herbalism, mining).

[Delythien]

There's not much for debate. The question is, if you're going for Haste stacking retail-like Rogue, or the second variant that some people on Warmane prefer - stacking Agility. Both are viable in BiS gear.

For Haste stacking:
- Engineering (because of the Haste buff)
- Jewelcrafting (because of the highest Haste stat you can gain from a profession)
Alchemy is also viable, but only if you're using Elixirs instead of AP Flasks. Elixir being the Haste one. And in the end, even that doesn't give you as much stats as Jewelcrafting would. Engineering for Assassination is irreplaceable.

For Agility stacking:
- Jewelcrafting (because of the highest Agility stat you can gain from a profession)
- Blacksmithing (because of the 2nd highest Agility stat you can gain from a profession)
Tailoring is also viable, but you're trading that 22 Agility cloak enchant for a 400 AP proc every minute, which isn't that good of a tradeoff.
Engineering is also viable, you gain 1 Agility in Cloak enchant, gain Haste buff and some extra Crit on boots enchant. Overall, it still doesn't give you a biggest upgrade, as you're trading X amount of Agility/Crit for Y amount of Agility/Crit.

So there you have it.