Tailoring or Inscription

Ever since I started playing WOW, my Mage (my first character) has been an Enchanting/Tailor. Now, Enchanting has generally paid off for me, though I've never been one to try to sell enchants. And in BC Tailoring was awesome...at least until I got into T5 and then any use for it disappeared.

The truth is, while the Spellfire Set + Spellstrike Set provided me early T4.5 gear...allowing me a very heafty DPS bonus...my other mage friend who was not an enchanter or tailor was always close to me...the truth is while Spellfire was a very good DPS set, it sacrificed all survivability for it. I remember the days of T4 and early T5 where no matter what I did I would die simply because of the lack of hit points. The sets were just too specialized.

Today, Tailoring has no real benefit for me. I have no access to the Sunwell patterns (though I'd love the chest piece)...and other Sunwell gear is almost as good.

But still, the real reason to keep Tailoring would be Wrath. And it's not just what gear is available in tailoring...it's what -exclusive- gear is in tailoring that defines what professions to take or keep. So far, Tailoring seems to have 1 exclusive that I've seen so far--and that are Back-enhancer that restores mana occassionally on cast spells.

Now, I've also been considering Inscription. Inscription looks to have some fairly interesting benefits in general...but what does it bring to the table exclusively? So far it looks like the only exclusive benefit to Inscription is that you get another free inscription slot.

So, 1 free Inscription Slot vs. Cloak-Enhancer + Possible Gear?

Depending on how good Inscription looks, so far it's looking like Tailoring is going to be the best bet here...at least at first. However, it really depends on how good that extra inscription slot is.