Ah, Cleg, I don't quite agree with your opinion about fishing and cooking => my point of view
There are fish alchemists need ( so far 2 I know of) for fish oil => nice to sell. Fishing higher animals (lvl 25/35)and having the recipy to cook them requires no further ingredients for cooking and brings the cooking skill up very quickly. I had the max of fishing/cooking at 225 pretty quickly, by just fishing and cooking the fish <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
The thunderbirds e.g. only eat cheese and fish. So, I provide one hunter with that, so her animal is happy. My cat loves fish/flesh, so I can provide her with a variety of both <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> - cooking fish increases the healing ability they have.
Am waiting now (lvl 39) to become 40, so I can gather the fishing quest and advance to 300.
Besides that => I fish potions, locked chests, weapons, chests with engineering equipment etc.
And... fishing is fun. It relaxes me to stand by the water and find out if there is endemic prey. The funniest lake so far was Cragpoole => fish smeared with oil, rusty bolts etc => pollution.
My fav. class is hunter so far - especially since I use traps and lure the baddies into it. I think, a hunter is good for someone loving to scout through the landscape and discover - a person liking to roam on his/her own.
What I'm really starting to dislike highly about WoW is raid disease (spamming in general chat and lags, lags, lags) and the new "honour system". Gets on my nerves. I'm hoping for Blizzard to provide RPG gamers with a server of their own.
About skinning/leatherworking => gives XP by killing animals, skill is easy to advance as many leave the corpses on the ground, so I know a few "grounds" where I can skin the remnants of others and kill myself. Even high armoured warriors like a boost with the +32 sets <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> - am waiting here for lvl 40 as well, so I can put on my turtle armour <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> - and see if there are higher boosts.
