Professions
Mining - Mining is used to collect items for engineering and blacksmithing.
Blacksmithing - Create armor and weapons.
Engineering - Engineering is used to assemble cloth, leather, metal, and stones into parts needed to make explosives, guns, scopes, bullets, mechanical dragons, aquatic helmets, and more.
Herbalism - Collect herbs that can be used with alchemy.
Alchemy - The alchemist mixes herbs to generate potions with a variety of effects.
Skinning - Gather leather and hides for leatherworking, blacksmithing and tailoring (mostly leatherworking).
Leatherworking - Create leather armor and armor patches.
Tailoring - Create cloth items and bags.
Enchanting - Improve existing items.
Jewel Crafting - Create Trinkets, rings , necklaces and gems
Secondary Skills
First Aid - Healing.
Fishing - Collect food. Good for cooking and an off chance at finding a lockboxs
Cooking - Food is used in the game to heal players out of combat so that they can return to the fighting as quickly as possible.
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