This paragraph mystifies me: "Gathering skills are considered to be inferior to production skills, due to the ease of leveling a gathering skill and the fact that it generates a solid income for the player. Production skills, on the other hand, require a large investment of both time and money. They reward us with the ability to make some very powerful items, and similarly reward us with better perks as well. If you're looking to maximize your rogue's potential, you should leave your gathering skills behind and use two different production skills. You can always use an alt to farm materials with, or use other means of making an income."

You're saying gathering is inferior to production because it's easier to level with and because it makes money. Something is bad because it's easy and because it gives you cash? That makes no sense. The inferiority because of numerically inferior bonuses I buy, but this reason doesn't work.

Also, I appear to be in the minority here, but I really prefer to having (one) gathering skill on my main. Why? Because I actually *play* my main, and hence I'm constantly flying over herb nodes on my way to raids or between dailies or whatnot. That is, having the gathering on my main means that gathering happens automatically while I'm doing something else. Having gathering on an alt means I have to devote special time to logging over to an alt and saying "ok, time to go farm now". That's not something I enjoy doing. But like I said, maybe I'm in the minority

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