Tailoring
Tailoring allows players to cut and weave various pieces of cloth into armor, bags, shirts and other cloth items. Tailors play an especially important role in guilds because they can create bags for the entire guild provided the guild members gather the proper ingredients.
Mining
Mining is Profession used to gather and create reagents for Blacksmithing, Engineering and Jewelcrafting. As such you could simply collect resources and sell them to blacksmiths, engineers or jewelcrafters. However, most people combine mining with blacksmithing, engineering, or jewelcrafting so they can easily create items.
Herbalism
Herbalism allows you to find and harvest herbs from particular resource nodes scattered around the world. It is a primary profession. While a very small number of herbs are sometimes used for other trade skills, the vast majority are used exclusively for Alchemy.
Skining
Skinning allows players to gather leather, Hides and scales by skinning certain mobs (beasts, dragonkin, Silithid, and, very rarely, humanoids). Not all mobs of each type can be skinned, e.g. birds cannot be skinned despite being beasts. Leather, hides and scales are used for leatherworking.
