In World of Warcraft, when you change profession, what other skills do you lose?

Question

I'm a gnome warlock with leatherworking and skinning as my professions. I'm starting to think I should have been a tailor instead of a leatherworker, since I can't wear leather armor and cloth stuff is scarce.
Online I've read that when you change profession, it also costs you your "support skills." And elsewhere in the same FAQ it calls the secondary professions "support skills" plus it also lists other primary professions as "support skills," for example saying skinning is a upport skill to leatherworking, etc.

So... if I change to tailor, will I lose my experience in skinning? Or cooking, first aid and fishing?

Answer 1

Leatherworking is the crafting companion to skinning; with it, you can turn your various kinds of leather into an assortment of items. Most of these will be leather armor, of course, of a variety of types, with a number of items that’ll give good agility bonuses, which are perfect for hunters and rogues. In addition to the armors, the main support items are armor kits, which can be applied to four different kinds of armor to permanently enhance their defensive capabilities, and quivers or ammo pouches, which all hunters will find necessary.



One of the main drawbacks of leatherworking is that it will become precipitously less useful after your hunter or shaman hits level 40, since they’ll be able to switch over to mail at that time. This is more of a problem for a shaman than hunters, as the latter will be primarily concerned with pure stat bonuses on their equipment rather than its capabilities as armor qua armor; shamans, though, will need both the higher armor of mail as well as the strength and stamina bonuses that are more readily found on that type.



Unlike professions, you can obtain as many of the secondary skills as you wish, even if you already have two professions. These skills revolve around creating or finding items that will let you more easily heal yourself; they’re not usually highly lucrative and won’t let you create equipment or long-term buffs. http://www.mmonice.com

Answer 2

If you change a profession that gives you like skinning a + to crit or herbing (a hot) or mining a + to stam to something else you lose that



same with jc/lw/bs they all have at top lvl things that prof gets and only that prof you change you lose them



edit--Leatherworking is the crafting companion to skinning; with it, you can turn your various kinds of leather into an assortment of items. Most of these will be leather armor, of course, of a variety of types, with a number of items that’ll give good agility bonuses, which are perfect for hunters and rogues. In addition to the armors, the main support items are armor kits, which can be applied to four different kinds of armor to permanently enhance their defensive capabilities, and quivers or ammo pouches, which all hunters will find necessary.



One of the main drawbacks of leatherworking is that it will become precipitously less useful after your hunter or shaman hits level 40, since they’ll be able to switch over to mail at that time. This is more of a problem for a shaman than hunters, as the latter will be primarily concerned with pure stat bonuses on their equipment rather than its capabilities as armor qua armor; shamans, though, will need both the higher armor of mail as well as the strength and stamina bonuses that are more readily found on that type.



Unlike professions, you can obtain as many of the secondary skills as you wish, even if you already have two professions. These skills revolve around creating or finding items that will let you more easily heal yourself; they’re not usually highly lucrative and won’t let you create equipment or long-term buffs. http://www.mmonice.com



bull...leatherworking can make mail items matter of fact some of the best pre raid mail is from lw...learn the game before you talk

Answer 3

No, if you drop leatherworking you will not lose any of your support professions. You will only lose those skills, abilities, and recipes associated with leatherworking.

Answer 4

When you drop a primary profession you loose all progress you made with that skill meaning if you go back to that skill you have to start it back at lvl 1 and you loose all the recipes for that skill (even the ones that weren't from the trainer). Secondary skills are unaffected.

Answer 5

If you switch from leather working to tailoring, you won't lose any experience in any of your other professions.