[Guide] - BOP Crafting items - To help choose professions

[Mikado]

*EDIT* To prove that I am not the author, which I stated up front, here is a link to another post, but better done, and with links to the items since it is on wowhead, maybe someone will find it useful now...

http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=45363

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I am not the original author of this, I just wanted to try and contribute, and thought this would make a nice addition to the site. I didn't see it here already, but if it is, feel free to chastise me appropriately....

Summary of Profession Perks:
(This is PVE focused)

Herbalism
- New Ability: Heals for 2000 over 5 Seconds, 3 minute cooldown (Wild Growth (Rank 6))
- Items:
--- Reduces your armor by 100%, but increases your attack power by 400 for 10 sec, 1 Min Cooldown (Fire Leaf)
--- Makes you vulnerable to magic, but increases your spell power by 200 for 10 sec, 1 Min Cooldown (Fire Seed)
--- Absorbs 750 to 1250 damage. Lasts 15 sec, 2 Min Cooldown (Fel Blossom)

Mining
- 500 HP (Toughness (Rank 6))

Skinning
- 25 Crit Rating (Master of Anatomy (Rank 6))

Alchemy
- % stat bonus + 100% Duration to flasks (Mixology)
--- Flask bonus = 64 AP or 13 MP5 or 320 HP or 37 SP
- % stat bonus + 100% Duration to elixirs (Mixology)
--- Elixir bonus (Battle) = 32 AP or 19 SP or 16 STR
---- AND
--- Elixir bonus (Guardian) = 32 Res or ?
- BOP Endless Potions (reusable item, usable in Arenas)
--- Restores 1680 to 2160 health, 3 Min Cooldown (Endless Healing Potion)
--- Restores 400 to 600 mana, 3 Min Cooldown (Endless Mana Potion)
--- Restores 1680 to 2160 health and 400 to 600 mana, 3 Min Cooldown (Endless Rejuvenation Potion)
- BOP Trinkets with 40% bonus to potion effectiveness

Enchanting
- Ring Enchants (2):
--- 32 AP (Assault)
--- 19 SP (Greater Spellpower)
--- 24 Stamina (Stamina)
- BOP Wands

Jewelcrafting
- BOP Gems (can use up to 3 total, not unique, prismatic for easier socket bonuses)
--- 54 AP (Bright Dragon's Eye)
--- --- bonus (vs. Bright Cardinal Ruby) = 14 AP
--- 27 AGI (Delicate Dragon's Eye)
--- --- bonus (vs. Delicate Cardinal Ruby) = 7 AGI
--- 27 STR (Bold Dragon's Eye)
--- --- bonus (vs. Bold Cardinal Ruby) = 7 STR
--- 27 Crit Rating (Smooth Dragon's Eye)
--- --- bonus (vs. Smooth King's Amber) = 7 Crit Rating
--- 27 Haste Rating (Quick Dragon's Eye)
--- --- bonus (vs. Quick King's Amber) = 7 Haste Rating
--- 27 Hit Rating (Rigid Dragon's Eye)
--- --- bonus (vs. Rigid King's Amber) = 7 Hit Rating
--- 32 SP (Runed Dragon's Eye)
--- --- bonus (vs. Runed Cardinal Ruby) = 9 SP
--- 11 MP5 (Lustrous Dragon's Eye)
--- --- bonus (vs. Lustrous Majestic Zircon) = 3 MP5
--- 189 ArPen (Fractured Dragon's Eye)
--- --- bonus (vs. Fractured Cardinal Ruby) = 59 ArPen
--- 41 STA (Solid Dragon's Eye)
--- --- bonus (vs. Solid Majestic Zircon) = 11 STA
- BOP Trinkets

Inscription
- Extra Major glyph in place of a minor glyph (REMOVED)
- BOP shoulder enchants (also don't require exalted with The Sons of Hodir like non-inscription enchants):
--- 104 AP, 15 Crit Rating (Master's Inscription of the Axe)
--- --- bonus (vs. non-Scribe (Greater Inscription of the Axe)) = 64 AP
--- 61 SP, 6 MP5 (Master's Inscription of the Crag)
--- --- bonus (vs. non-Scribe (Greater Inscription of the Crag)) = 36 SP
--- 52 Dodge Rating, 15 Defence Rating (Master's Inscription of the Pinnacle)
--- --- bonus (vs. non-Scribe (Greater Inscription of the Pinnacle)) = 32 Dodge Rating
--- 61 SP, 15 Crit Rating (Master's Inscription of the Storm)
--- --- bonus (vs. non-Scribe (Greater Inscription of the Storm)) = 36 SP
- BOP Offhands

Blacksmithing
- Glove socket (colourless)
- Bracer Socket (colourless)
- BOP Armor - TBA?
- BOP Weapons - TBA?

Leatherworking
- BOP Leg Armors:
--- 75 AP, 22 Crit Rating (Wyrmscale Leg Armor)
--- --- bonus (vs. non-LW (Frosthide Leg Armor)) = far cheaper mats
--- 55 STA, 22 AGI (Dragonscale Leg Armor)
--- --- bonus (vs. non-LW (Icescale Leg Armor)) = far cheaper mats
- Bracer Enchants:
--- 90 STA (Fur Lining: Stamina)
--- --- bonus (vs. enchant) = 74 STA
--- 67 SP (Fur Lining: Spell Damage)
--- --- bonus (vs. Superior Spellpower enchant) = 37 SP
--- 114 AP (Fur Lining: Attack Power)
--- --- bonus (vs. enchant) = 64 AP
- Drums: (APPEAR TO BE REMOVED)
--- Increases spell power by 50 and attack power by 100 for 20 sec. (Garok's Battle)
--- Increases movement speed by 15% and haste rating by 95 for 30 sec. (Drums of Great Battle)
- BOP Armor - TBA?

Tailoring
- BOP Leg threads:
--- 50 SP, 20 SPI (Sanctified Spellthread)
--- --- bonus (vs. non-Tailor Brilliant Spellthread) = far cheaper mats
--- 50 SP, 30 STA (Master's Spellthread)
--- --- bonus (vs. non-Tailor Sapphire Spellthread) = far cheaper mats
- BOP Cloak Enchants:
--- a chance to restore 300 mana when you cast a spell (Darkglow Embroidery)
--- a chance to cause an additional 1000 to 1200 Holy damage when you damage an enemy with a spell (Lightweave Embroidery)
--- your damaging melee attacks to sometimes increase your attack power by 300 for 15 sec. (Swordguard Embroidery)
- BOP Armor - TBA?

Engineering
- Unique Item Enchants:
--- 340 Haste Rating for 8 secs to gloves, 2 min cooldown (Hyperspeed Accelerators)
- Trinkets:
--- +63 SP + Sonic Shield: Melee attacks against you have a chance to create a shield absorbing 1100 damage, once per minute max. (Noise Machine)
--- +81 STA + Sonic Awareness: Sometimes increases your attack power by 430 for 10 sec, once per minute max. (Sonic Booster)
- BOP Goggles
- Other miscellaneous BOP items

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Stat Comparisons (between professions):

Tanking:
- Mining = 500 HP
- Alchemy = 320 HP (Flask of Stoneblood)
- Enchanting = 48 STA
- Jewelcrafting = 33 STA
--- Jewelcrafting = 48 STA (counts avoiding using a red gem instead of a blue for meta requirements)
- Blacksmithing = 60 STA or 40 Def or 40 Dodge
- Leatherworking = 74 STA
- Inscription = 32 Dodge Rating

Physical DPS:
- Herbalism = 66.7AP (average, requires consumables)
- Skinning = 25 Crit rating
- Alchemy = 64 AP (Flask of Endless Rage)
- Enchanting = 64 AP
- Jewelcrafting = 42 AP or 21 AGI or 21 STR or 21 Crit Rating or 21 Haste Rating or 21 Hit Rating or 177 ArPen
--- Jewelcrafting = 62 AP or 31 AGI or 31 STR etc. (counts avoiding using a blue gem instead of a red for meta requirements)
- Blacksmithing = 80 AP or 40 AGI or 40 STR or 40 Crit Rating or 40 Haste Rating or 40 Hit Rating or 280 ArPen
- Leatherworking = 64 AP
- Inscription = 64 AP

Caster DPS / Healing:
- Herbalism = 33.3SP (average, requires consumables)
- Skinning = 25 Crit rating
- Alchemy = 37 SP (Flask of the Frost Wyrm) OR 13 MP5 (Flask of Pure Mojo)
- Enchanting = 38 SP
- Jewelcrafting = 27 SP or 21 Crit Rating or 21 Haste Rating or 21 Hit Rating or 9 MP5
--- Jewelcrafting = 49 SP (counts avoiding using 2 blue gems instead of 2 red gems for meta requirements)
- Blacksmithing = 46 SP or 21 Crit Rating or 21 Haste Rating or 21 Hit Rating or 16 MP5
- Leatherworking = 37 SP
- Inscription = 36 SP

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Notes & Comments:
- Blacksmithing, Tailoring & Leatherworking all have advantages from the BOP armor/weapons they can make that are NOT summarized here as the infomation available is far from complete
- Blacksmithing's extra sockets are considered with Epic gems for comparison purposes.
- Blacksmithing & Jewelcrafting both allow for much easier socket bonuses
--- Blacksmithing allows gem color freedom on gloves & bracers
--- Jewelcrafting allows gem color freedom in up to 3 sockets
- Jewelcrafting allows you to gain stats that the other professions don't give at all (ArPen, +hit, expertise, +def etc.)
- Jewelcrafting only gems will be way easier to obtain than the epic gems they are compared to since they are crafted from blues (depending on recipe source)
- Jewelcrafting makes meta gem requirements (especially 2 blues req.) much easier if not trivial and confers a bonus that way (avoiding having to use suboptimal gems etc.)
- Tailoring is now also a semi-gathering profession due to cloth gathering bonus

[Ball]

Not even a link to the original post? Copypasta fails in my opinion.

[polire]

Prove me its not copypaste and ill+rep you.

[Pyrise]

VN Boards - question about inscription resposted from there ... thats where i found it >.> tisk tisk tisk

[polire]

[Mikado]

Nope, it's a total copy paste, just wanted to bring it to everyone's attention here. I figured easier to paste than link to another site. If it should be deleted, just let me know and I'll kill the post. (if able)

I just found it and through it was useful. Original post was on elitist jerks fwiw, although copy pasted to wowhead (not by me) a couple days ago, which is what reminded me of it.

*Edit* FWIW, I did read the reads this first, and saw not to repost, but didn't see the don't copy paste. Perhaps if that is frowned upon, it should be mentioned in that post... Just trying to contribute, I benefit from the site, and thought I should try to post as well.