I'd say its probably best work on the professions that will benefit your character, such as tailoring for sorcery based characters and leatherwork for range based.
Also alchemy is very handy so you can make your own potions, that will also lead to building up your foraging too.
For gathering professions, if you use the wiki, it will tell you where to find the items and some have nodes close by so you can click to move to each spot quickly,
http://eldevin.wikia...ki/Eldevin_Wiki
When it comes to quests where you have to gather items such as fish or berries etc. If your not a high enough level in the profession to do it, just ask in world chat and there may be someone willing to give (or sell) you the items required. This can also be included to making armour, potions food etc if you supply the materials. saying that, with so few players on now, it may be difficult.
If you find levelling profs really boring due to the repetition, you could always just do the daily quests for each profession and build up you levels that way, since the update that made gaining xp easy, I think you will get quite a bit more xp than is stated in the wiki. You also get artisan awards or (very small) sums of cash at the same time.
http://eldevin.wikia...ki/Skill_quests