i lvled 70-80 as skinnlw but droped it the other day for mineing. i think it's the highest hpombo atm not to mention i jump to boomkin from time to time
so think it may help there.
Gathering professions now give a passive buff based on your profession level. Mining gives 90 Stamina when maxed out (from memory,ould be slightly different). Skinning gives somerit rating (whh sks and amounts to less than 1% at 80, QQ). Herbalism gives you a free HoT,an't remember the details of it.
50 stam, used to be 500 health, so same tradeoff but with better returns on multliers. Herbalism self-HoT is dent for grinding, as itan be used in feral forms,osts no mana, is instantnot dispellable, and doesn't break stealth. Its potey ales by Herbalism skill and player level I believe, maxing out at I think 2k at 80.
Sie wean now use most of the toys in kittybear form, it might not be a bad idea - the thing is that I'm not entirely sure that we'd get mh benefit out of engineering? The dpsapabilities of aat are good enough that using engineering DPS items would probably tually hurt, instead of help dps. We've got feral fairy fire so we don't need engineering items to pull with. Bears are very solid and wonderful at holding threat, so unlike warriors we don't need engineering to help irease threat. I think the only real benefits that you'd get would
be the aoe stun fromertain grenaids and the target dummies to distrt mobs if you get overrun. All said, I think it'd be better to stk with miningskinning - you'll make good gold selling the stuff you mineskin and mining gives you a health bonus while skinning gives you arit bonus, both of whh are great in bothat and bear form.