What are good trade skills for a hunter?
• Mining / Engineering – This lets you build guns and create ammo so you don’t have to pay for it. The irony is that Engineering creates more headaches than it solves, because it takes up massive amounts of bag space, costs a ton of money to save you a little bit on ammo costs, and doesn’t create anything you can sell. You do get Goblin Jumper Cables, scopes, and limited teleportation out of the deal, though. The main reason most players do engineering is for the “toys” – trinkets like the Discombobulator Ray and mind control cap. • Skinning / Leatherworking – A great choice in the beginning, but later on leatherworking starts to suck because there are very few mail recipes and the ones there are are both hard to make and also more often geared toward a shaman. This will definitely help you before level 40, though, and you can continue to sell stacks of leather later on. A huge upside to skinning is that unlike other collecting skills, it won’t interfere with your tracking. • Herbalism
