WoW Secondary skills...

[Kev]

I tried out fishing, seems kinda dumb to sit there and "fish" 300 times or whatever to build up this skill. What is the point? Same thing goes for cooking.

I can see a reason for having first aid.

Are there any others I missed?

 

[cKGunslinger]

Everyone should have first aid - no excuses.

Some cooked items give a nice "well fed" bonus, but I never actually took up cooking.
I never saw the point in fishing, unless it's to complement sthe cooking profession, or maybe helps out with hunters and their fish-eating pets.

 

[Quixfire]

As a warrior I choose cooking to supplement my rest time and for the Stamina bonus and I use fishing for both Alchemy and Cooking.

 

[microAmp]

I agree with cKGunslinger, take up first-aid. Even if you are at a high level like I was (50+). It's nice to not use up any mana for healing, or have a lot of downtime waiting to heal up. Let alone you can save the good food for instances or backups.

 

[Litchfield285]

I fish for food for my cat, and first aid is the most useful thing in the world... especially for PvP. I honestly don't know what I would do without first aid when I PvP. It's a lifesaver.

I don't see the point in cooking, seems like a waste of time to me.

 

[Smilin]

I'm a 300 cook.

The earlier recepies simply provide a stamina boost and healing. The later recepies provide mana/health regen, agility bonus etc.

All non-healers should get first aid to 300.

All rogues should be at least a level 60 cook for thistle tea.

 

[Kev]

ok what is thistle tea? cause i just started a rogue and i think i may finally stick with this character.

 

[Smilin]

gives you an instant boost back to 100 energy.

 

[Concillian]

Cooking gives nice bonuses, especially for non-healing classes. Gives stamina and spirit for 15 minutes after eating. The spirit is actaully nice on a rogue or warrior, as they get MUCH higher health regen per point of spirit compared to the other classes. The stamina should need no explanation, more HP = good thing. It's virtually free, so why not?

First Aid is obvious. If you're a rogue, you will use bandages to regen health quickly.

Fishing serves four purposes:
1) cook fish to raise your cooking skill
2) food for a hunter's pet
3) Some alchemy components are made from fish
4) Deviate fish are cool to play around with, and "Savory Deviate Delight" is even cooler.

 

[torpid]

All melee and hunters should take up cooking and fishing, as far as I'm concerned. Using a bandage after every battle is not the optimal way of quickly recovering. Eating cooked foods is much better. And having stam/spirit buffs at all times will also improve your efficiency.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: torpid
All melee and hunters should take up cooking and fishing, as far as I'm concerned. Using a bandage after every battle is not the optimal way of quickly recovering. Eating cooked foods is much better. And having stam/spirit buffs at all times will also improve your efficiency.

Bandages aren't meant for use after a battle, but during one. A quick heal on your priest can come in handy. And you can buy food (but most cooked food is too expensive)

 

[Litchfield285]

Originally posted by: torpid
And having stam/spirit buffs at all times will also improve your efficiency.

The time/money it takes to gather and cook the food makes the entire process very inefficient. The stam/spirit buffs are negligible. Buying food or having a mage summon you bread is a lot quicker and easier.

Edited because of all the typos.

 

[Velk]

Originally posted by: torpid
All melee and hunters should take up cooking and fishing, as far as I'm concerned. Using a bandage after every battle is not the optimal way of quickly recovering. Eating cooked foods is much better. And having stam/spirit buffs at all times will also improve your efficiency.

Er what ?

Time to heal 2500 hp with a heavy runecloth bandage - 10 seconds.
Time to heal 2400 hp with food - 30 seconds.

That's for the best food too - if you are making it yourself you are far more likely to be using 1k food (wolf ribs, roast raptor etc), and 1k for 30 seconds is just wasting your time.

Bandages are also far more available than food for the most part, and don't require you to carry around tinder and wood, let alone spices etc.

 

[Noema]

Fishing is almost mandatory if you are an alchemist. And it can be fun, because you never know what you're going to catch: you might end up with a bottle containing a rare recipe, or a boot, or a bloated fish which swallowed a gem.

Besides, some fish sell very well at the AH: I can make very good money by selling Deviate Fish, and I can farm 30+ in just an hour in the Wailing Caverns.

 

[CrowDog]

Every reason mentioned is good ...plus its something else to do....not everyone likes to power game.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Velk

Originally posted by: torpid
All melee and hunters should take up cooking and fishing, as far as I'm concerned. Using a bandage after every battle is not the optimal way of quickly recovering. Eating cooked foods is much better. And having stam/spirit buffs at all times will also improve your efficiency.

Er what ?

Time to heal 2500 hp with a heavy runecloth bandage - 10 seconds.
Time to heal 2400 hp with food - 30 seconds.

That's for the best food too - if you are making it yourself you are far more likely to be using 1k food (wolf ribs, roast raptor etc), and 1k for 30 seconds is just wasting your time.

Bandages are also far more available than food for the most part, and don't require you to carry around tinder and wood, let alone spices etc.

I do both.

I'm typically running around with a Stam/Spirit and maybe agility buff from cooked food. Heck, it's half a priest buff free for non-priests

If I'm badly hurt after a battle I'll use some store-bought food to fix myself. If I'm only sligtly injured I'll use a cheap-low level bandage for the speed.

During battle I use my expensive high level bandages. It's 2000hp over 8sec for a heavy runecloth I believe. For a rogue this happens to be the exact time the blind ability works so even in a 1v1 situation you can bandage up in the middle of a fight.

Fishing is needed for some of the high level recepie ingredients like squid. It's a pain to get fishing up very high but you can make some decent progress just fishing any time you're waiting on a boat or waiting on party members to form up for an instance run.