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I’m thinking about dropping blacksmithing as a skill from Smara and taking mining at the moment with him. I can’t currently see a benefit to blacksmithing for BoP items, and as I already have Jhentar up to 360 blacksmithing it just makes sense to me to drop it with the benefits of doing so being

• I don’t have to keep an eye over on another screens minimap to watch for nodes popping up, I can track them on the main character
• If blacksmithing doesn’t improve in WotLK I will have freed up a tradeskill from Ivana to allow her to grab inscription
• If blacksmithing does improve then I can drop mining, pick blacksmithing back up on Smara and have Ivan go back to mining and have a deathknight or other character grab inscription

The one thing that I will be doing though as I level mining up on Smara will be to make sure I keep enough mats in the bank as I go so I have all the mats ready to level him to 375 in about 3 hours in the situation that blacksmithing BoP’s become worthwhile enough for tanking that it makes sense for him to have it.