PvE Survival Hunter Best Professions – WoW Classic

Nevermore Nevermore • Updated June 7, 2025

Find the best professions for Survival Hunters. The professions are listed in terms of importance, ranking from the best professions for overall performance, to useful professions, and lastly, the sub-par ones that should be avoided altogether.

Best Professions

  • Engineering is known as the very best profession in WoW Classic for Survival Hunters in both PvE and PvP, allowing players to create Bombs, Gadgets, Grenades, Ammo, and special Gear pieces that greatly enhance their performance. Survival Hunters can get their hands on Goblin Sapper Charge, Dark Iron Bomb, Thorium Grenade, and Thorium Shells, among many other goodies. The only downside of Engineering is that the profession is extremely hard to level up and maintain, requiring a large amount of materials that can drain your gold instantly if not paired with Mining.
  • Mining is a great profession if you choose to pair it with Engineering, not only for the leveling process but for the creation of any bomb or grenade consumable after reaching 300. Since Engineering is so expensive to use, players will always want to pair it with Mining to be able to get a steady supply of ore and bars for their gadgets and consumables.
  • Leatherworking is a great profession that can land you some awesome gear pieces, throughout your leveling journey as a Survival Hunter and in the later gearing parts. Similar to other crafting professions, Leatherworking can become expensive to level up or create high-end items without pairing it with Skinning.
  • Skinning is a great profession for Survival Hunters who pick up Leatherworking. The profession allows players to skin beasts and gather their hides, creating Leather. The profession is amazing for funneling gold and for acquiring some rare items, such as Core Leather.

Useful Professions

  • Alchemy is one of the best professions for gold generation and overall resources during any PvE encounter. When paired with Herbalism, having Alchemy will make sure that you won’t lack any elixir, potion, or flask that you may require during combat. Sadly, apart from gold generation and a steady supply of potions and elixirs, Alchemy loses to Engineering in terms of raw performance since Engineering simply offers way too much by comparison.
  • Herbalism is an extremely good gold generation tool for any player as it allows them to gather herbs from across the world which can be sold or used with Alchemy.

Sub-Par Professions

  • Blacksmithing is a sub-optimal profession for Survival Hunters, providing only a few items of real value. The only valuable items are the keys that can unlock lockboxes, rods for enchanters to use, and a very few Mail craftable items. Since Survival Hunters can only use Mail armor after level 40, the profession can be useful only in the later parts of the game, for very few items that will be easily replaced by Dungeons or Raids.
  • Enchanting is sub-optimal for any Survival Hunters besides its role in gold generation. Since players can buy the enchants from someone else, the profession doesn’t grant any specific PvE use that couldn’t easily be acquired from another source.
  • Tailoring is yet another sub-par profession for Survival Hunters since the profession is mainly used to create Cloth items and bags. The only good part about this profession is the creation of bags and BoEs, effectively working as yet another gold generation tool.
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PvE Survival Hunter Best Professions

Nevermore Nevermore • Updated June 7, 2025

Professions are a crucial part of your World of Warcraft character, with the potential to give you a large boost to your damage, healing, or survivability, while also allowing you to generate some gold. This section will cover some of your best options for professions as a Survival Hunter.

Best Professions

  • Engineering grants the ability to create gadgets, tools, bombs, and many other fun contraptions useful in both PvE and the open world. Among them, the most notable are Flintlocke’s Woodchucker, Nitro Boosts, and Synapse Springs. Engineering is regarded as the most powerful PvE profession at the current moment.
  • Blacksmithing grants the ability to create Plate Armor, Keys, Enchantment Rods, and many other useful enhancing effects that can be attached to items. You can gain two additional sockets, Socket Gloves and Socket Bracer, by selecting this profession which can be used to socket two additional gems.
  • Jewelcrafting lets you create a vast assortment of gems and accessories and prospect ore to find hidden materials. By selecting this profession you can create special gems named Chimera’s Eye and create items such as Delicate Chimera’s Eye.
  • Tailoring allows you to create Cloth items, bags, and specially enchanted cloth materials while also granting some powerful bonuses that can be attached to items. The profession grants you access to Swordguard Embroidery, an enchantment that grants a chance to gain 1000 Attack Power as a proc during combat.

Useful Professions

  • Alchemy grants you the ability to create Potions, Elixirs, and Flasks! By selecting this profession you gain access to the Mixology bonus which grants an increased effect and duration to the flasks you consume.
  • Enchanting allows you to create enchantments and disenchant gear to gain magical essences. Selecting this profession allows you to enchant your rings with special enchantments, with Enchant Ring – Agility granting an extra 80 Agility.
  • Leatherworking grants you the ability to create Leather Gear and special item enchantments. Selecting this profession grants you Draconic Embossment – Agility, landing you an extra 80 Agility, while also providing a special leg enchantment, Dragonbone Leg Reinforcements, cheaper than the regular version.
  • Inscription allows you to create Glyphs and scrolls while also granting access to Swiftsteel Inscription, a powerful replacement to the traditional shoulder enchantment which grants 80 additional Agility.

Sub-Par Professions

  • Mining allows you to mine ores throughout the world. By selecting this profession you gain access to Toughness which grants 120 Stamina.
  • Skinning allows you to remove the skin of beasts throughout the world and gain their hides. Selecting it grants you access to Master of Anatomy which grants 80 Critical Strike Chance
  • Herbalism allows you to gather herbs throughout the world. By selecting this profession you gain access to Lifeblood, a powerful heal effect that also grants 80 Haste!
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PvE Survival Hunter Best Professions

Jamielolx Jamielolx • Updated June 7, 2025

Professions are a crucial part of your World of Warcraft character, potentially offering a large boost to your damage, healing or survivability, while also allowing you to generate some gold.

Best Professions

This section will cover your best options for professions as a Survival Hunter.

Engineering is, in my opinion, the 3rd best profession for Survival, in Phase 1, only becomes the best in later phases due to the importance of mobility but this is not due to the stats. The main benefit of Engineering does not lie in the Hyperspeed Accelerators gloves enchant, which gives a +340 haste rating for 12 seconds, on a 1-minute cooldown. In fact, we won’t even use this enchant. As we prefer the passive +20 Agility from our regular enchant.

We gain nitro boosts that give a high burst of movement speed for 5 seconds as well as a 24-crit rating on boots.

Finally, just like in previous expansions, Engineers can use powerful explosives such as Saronite Bombs and Global Thermal Sapper Charges.

No surprises here — Jewelcrafting is an extremely potent profession for most classes/specs, and that includes Survival Hunters. Not only do you gain access to powerful, Jewelcrafter-unique gems, but you also get to sell gems to others, giving you a well-earned income through this profession.

The main benefit of Jewelcrafting is the Jewelcrafter-unique gems, Dragon’s Eye, which are more powerful than regular gems but are limited to 3 equipped at a time. The main ones you’ll be crafting as a Survival Hunter are https://www.wowclassicdb.com/wotlk/item/42143 and Rigid Dragon’s Eye, resulting in an increase of +60 AGI, the highest amount you can get out of any profession.

Useful Professions

The following professions are considered okay but offer worse stats compared to the best professions, so they’re not recommended. If you’re not focused on making your character 100% min-max, you can use any of these professions.

Blacksmiths can add 2 extra gem sockets to their gear. Bracers + Gloves Delicate Scarlet Ruby will be the early game pick with this profession, translating into a +32 Agility bonus. Additionally, Blacksmithing has the luxury of allowing you to get whatever it is you need in case you want to respec later. Unfortunately, as a Hunter, you cannot use plate armor, so this is the end of the benefits you get out of Blacksmithing.

As a Tailor, you gain access to the Swordguard Embroidery cloak enchant, a proc which gives you +400 Attack Power for 15 seconds with a 45-second internal cooldown. This translates into a possible +133 Attack Power bonus on average if it procs exactly every 45 seconds, or a +100 Attack Power bonus on average if it procs every 60 seconds, which is massive.

However, there is a significant opportunity cost attached to this bonus, as it prohibits you from using the standard cloak enchant for +22 Agility, making it weaker in practice, as Agility is obviously very good for Survival. Procs are extremely powerful as they can be stacked together with cooldowns, so this bonus shouldn’t be written off at all because of this — it’s just not as powerful or flexible as Jewelcrafting 

Tailoring is pretty weak on the gold generation side, unfortunately, so the cloak enchants are all you really get here. On the bright side, it’s a cheap profession to max out.

As a Scribe, you gain access to the Master’s Inscription of the Axe shoulder enchant, which provides a +80 Attack Power increase over the standard enchant available to everyone, Greater Inscription of the Axe. This bonus ties what Enchanting and Leatherworking can offer, but is generally cheaper to level, and will save you some gold for not having to grind Sons of Hodir Exalted.

Inscription is also a top gold-making profession, which can make it somewhat more appealing than the alternatives.

As an Enchanter you gain access to the Enchant Ring – Assault enchants, which you can apply to both of your rings for a modest +80 Attack Power This bonus ties Inscription and Leatherworking. You also get to enchant your own equipment without needing to tip another enchanter, which results in a decent amount of gold saved, on top of the gold you can generate by enchanting for others.

As a Leatherworker you gain access to the Fur Lining – Attack Power bracer enchant, which proves a +80 Attack Power increase over the standard enchant available to everyone, Enchant Bracers – Greater Assault. This bonus ties what you can get from Inscription and Enchanting.

You also get to make some Mail/Leather gear for yourself, which is nice if your Hunter is a freshly dinged alt with no previous gear. However, there’s generally no gold to be gained out of Leatherworking, so the benefits end there.

As an Alchemist, you gain access to the Mixology passive effect, which increases the effectiveness of flasks and elixirs you consume, but only if you can craft them yourself. This results in a +64 Attack Power increase when using Flask of Endless Rage, our preferred flask. This is sadly a smaller boost than what other professions can offer, but not by much.

On the flipside, Alchemy is one of the best professions for gold generation, as potions, flasks, and elixirs are always relevant and in high demand. This makes it a great profession for your alts to have.

Skinners gain access to the Master of Anatomy passive, which offers a +40 Crit Rating boost. This is weaker than all the other professions mentioned in this list, but at least it’s something.

Skinning is generally not that good at gold generation either, so it’s overall not a great profession.

Sub-Par Professions

Herbalists gain the Lifeblood active skill, which heals you for 3600 over 5 seconds, with a 3-minute cooldown. Hunters have no healing abilities whatsoever, so this ability is… something, mostly while leveling, farming, or questing — but its benefit will generally not be great in a raid.

On the flipside, Herbalism is one of the strongest professions for gold generation, as herbs are used in Alchemy and Inscription, and thus always in demand.

Miners gain access to the Toughness passive, which offers a  +60 Stamina boost. The extra health can help you survive an attack you otherwise haven’t, but it’s not something you as a DPS player should ever count on.

Mining is okay for gold generation, and as with Herbalism, should only be picked up if you’re not completely serious about your character.

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Jamie Antoinne Kaspers
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1 year ago

Just wanted to put a quick comment here and mention that unless you are hitting crit cap, skinning and its 40+ crit bonus is actually better than the professions that provide 80 passive AP.

JC/BS and Engi and Tailoring (tho weaker) are still better than skinning though.

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