Add-ons and letting my heart rule my head

Having cleared the starting zone for the Tauren my first real decision was to choose professions.

Now my head says that on a first character and new server it is two gathering professions to generate the cash...probably skinning and herbs...as from my gold making days these were always goldmines.

But what I have never done and always wanted to do was Engineering so I grabbed that with Mining so that hopefully the mining would take me more of the beaten track and allow me to enjoy more scenic routes around things.

Also Fishing....I need to find out what that is about and to really see if it improves my cooking skills much more easily.

So a bit more that ten minutes of fishing later, a 50 fish achievement, and I get my first off-hand fish too.

Some habits die hard and I know that in the Tauren village near Thunderbluff there is a nice cooking recipe which I could sell for about 10g on the Auction house to kickstart my characters gold...add to that some Small Eggs and I thought that this would be a good start. After all  the fishing had pushed my cooking way past 50 after some spice bread.

So off to the Auction House and my first pang of loss with "Vanilla" WoW Interface design. I found it so tricky and un-intuitive to use the Auction House on its own...so it got me thinking about Add Ons.

In the past Bartender, Sexy Map, Recount, Omen, Auctioneer, Postal, OneBag, etc, etc had been staple diets for me and I have to admit to starting to struggle without some of them.

In the end I succumbed to just adding OmniCC and Auctionator - as I missed the numerical cooldowns on things and at least I could easily see the minimum buy prices/sell prices with Auctionator.

It reminded me of how hard it was to use the AH when I first started. In fact I made the same amount of gold on my main in the first 18 months of playing Wow as I did in 4 weeks staring a new character from scratch when I used to obsess and play the WoW Economy/Gold Game.

I also wanted to enjoy all of the content in the zone and decided that I would try and do all of the quests in a zone before moving on...and I would try and level professions and skills at the same time.