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[WoW] A Hard Day's Work: The Profession Thread

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  • Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Goblin or Gnome Engineering for a Prot Pally?

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  • SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Prot, I go with Goblin. Poultryizer isn't nearly as useful as a 40(41?)-yard single-target pull.

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  • Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Sounds good, and the Pet Bombling is cuter then the Gnome pet.

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Well, only Dawnstones and Talasite might be worth less if you use that. Assuming each gem costs 1g, it's only 18g, and I've seen greens go for almost less than what they vendor for.

    Some cuts might sell for 1-2g apiece at any given time... but I'm way too lazy to deal with that crap. Now that I think about it, I probably should, rather than vendoring them for 25 silver, but... lazy....

    Anyway, I haven't vendored many. I maintain a stockpile of 2 stacks apiece on my rogue, and 1 stack apiece on my warlock (for transmuting and not having to mail crap around). I figure I'll probably make like 15 or 20 rares on release day and start upgrading some alt gear that I hadn't gotten around to using rares on, which will be nice.

    I can see this raising the uncommon market a bit, as the demand might not go up (or might even go down a little), but the supply will all but vanish. The introduction of badge epic gems will hurt the rare market a tiny bit, I suspect, and plentiful rares might as well, but I think we'll just see slightly lower prices with a bit more standardizing them as the supply goes up.

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  • KartanKartan Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    higher supply + lower demand = lower prices. I'm all for that.

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  • Salvation122Salvation122 Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    What's the approx cost of powerleveling enchanting to the point where I can DE whatever I want?

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  • CimmeriiCimmerii SpaceOperaGhost Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Poke through here, the majority of the cost is going to depend on the cost of the mats on the ah, and whether you farm or craft stuff to disenchant.

    FYI, I painfully dragged my enchanting from 225-310 or so just post-BC, and it cost around 500g.

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  • deowolfdeowolf is allowed to do that. Traffic.Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    If you grab Auctioneer's Bottomscan app, it might cut the cost down for you. I'm a whore for that thing.

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I spent around 300 gold getting it to 275, which is good for any green trash you find. If it's for an alt, that's all you need, since anything higher than that will be soulbound or worth selling directly.

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  • rizriz Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    275 is also good for any Outlands blues that said alt may end up with; the only thing my druid at 275 can't DE is level 70 epics.

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  • OboroOboro __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2008
    Is there some sort of secret leveling recipe for low-to-mid 100s Jewelcrafting? Really, are there some secret recipes of any sort anywhere, or anything? I haven't seen anything on the AH, and so I'm stuck getting one new shitty recipe from the trainer every 10 points or so ... for an item that's for a level much lower than mine, since it's so expensive/slow to level this dumb profession. e_e

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  • Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    This site helped me with my engineering. Though I'm not sure if the items from the jewelcraft guide are from the trainer.

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Oboro wrote: »
    Is there some sort of secret leveling recipe for low-to-mid 100s Jewelcrafting? Really, are there some secret recipes of any sort anywhere, or anything? I haven't seen anything on the AH, and so I'm stuck getting one new shitty recipe from the trainer every 10 points or so ... for an item that's for a level much lower than mine, since it's so expensive/slow to level this dumb profession. e_e

    I think I made tons of copper wire, iron fittings,healing statues, golden rings of power and that random blue ring with 20ap on my paladin
    I did have a ton of left over stuff from my warrior to do this

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  • OboroOboro __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2008
    Oh, weird. There are white recipes for Jewelcrafting, but they're ... on a random assortment of vendors. Engineering ones mostly, it looks like. o_O

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Oboro wrote: »
    Oh, weird. There are white recipes for Jewelcrafting, but they're ... on a random assortment of vendors. Engineering ones mostly, it looks like. o_O

    It was like an easter egg hunt for them when 2.0 came out

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  • Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Of course I'm blind and just now noticed that they list the origin of the recipes. :P

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  • OboroOboro __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2008
    Of course I'm blind and just now noticed that they list the origin of the recipes. :P
    :)

    Thanks for the link!

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  • Gnomeland SecurityGnomeland Security Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    815165 wrote: »
    My bank is full of crappy green gems, it's too much bother for too little reward to AH them and my OCD wont let me vendor them.

    awesome!

    so you will be able to turn green gems into blue gems in 2.4 and get rich!!!

    grats!

    Next thing i need to do is sit down and figure out how much the BLUE gem market will drop by when every idiot in the world is doing this

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  • Gnomeland SecurityGnomeland Security Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Goblin or Gnome Engineering for a Prot Pally?

    i dont know whats more terrifying atm

    a pally with rocket boots or a pally with a chicken gun

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Goblin or Gnome Engineering for a Prot Pally?

    i dont know whats more terrifying atm

    a pally with rocket boots or a pally with a chicken gun

    Chicken gun?

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  • 815165815165 Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    815165 wrote: »
    My bank is full of crappy green gems, it's too much bother for too little reward to AH them and my OCD wont let me vendor them.

    awesome!

    so you will be able to turn green gems into blue gems in 2.4 and get rich!!!

    grats!
    It's about time.

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  • TheEmergedTheEmerged Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Hmm, what I remember doing is lots and lots of Heavy Stone Statues (start at 110, yellow 120, green 130, grey 140). I mean, what else am I going to do with all that heavy stone from mining? Mixed in with this are Amulet of the Moon (pattern sold in Exodar, 110/140/155/170) and Barbaric Iron Collars (also sold in Exodar, same trivial numbers).

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  • Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Brainleech wrote: »
    Goblin or Gnome Engineering for a Prot Pally?

    i dont know whats more terrifying atm

    a pally with rocket boots or a pally with a chicken gun

    Chicken gun?

    http://www.wowhead.com/?item=23835

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  • TheEmergedTheEmerged Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Whoa, didn't realize it'd been 3 months...

    So, word is that Inscription is going to have Herblism as it's gathering skill. What's funny about that is that back when I was working on my "How to have Enchanting on the AH and do it right" proposal, I had it requiring skinning.

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited June 2008
    Gathering professions really need some kind of perk. Lots of people are going double non-gathering professions, and it's looking like I'll be a sucker in Wrath if I stick with herbalism. The little odds and ends like Nightmare Seeds are nice, but nothing unique and nothing that will make people go Herablism.

    Flame Cap is a good place to start: cut the damage a bit, switch it to all damage types and have it require herbalism.

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Making money hand over fist isn't good enough?

    Last I checked, Terrocone (not exactly a rare or high level herb) was selling for something like 40-60 gold per stack. Lotuses are out of control when a raid group hits the AH, and gems/ore are probably never gonna lose their lustre.

    If anything, skinning could probably use a tiny boost or semi-rare drop that's useful, but herbalism is going to be attached at the hip to Inscription, and you just know that's gonna push the numbers through the roof for the first couple weeks after release, while everyone is messing around with their Deathknight Inscription alt (or whichever class they decide to do it with).

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    Gathering professions really need some kind of perk. Lots of people are going double non-gathering professions, and it's looking like I'll be a sucker in Wrath if I stick with herbalism. The little odds and ends like Nightmare Seeds are nice, but nothing unique and nothing that will make people go Herablism.

    Flame Cap is a good place to start: cut the damage a bit, switch it to all damage types and have it require herbalism.

    Money is a major perk. It's the only professions that are always profitable. But it does look like skining and mining may be getting special attacks.

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Special attacks? Mang, what?

    I was gonna drop my skinning/mining combo for herbing/inscriptions just for the fun of it. But if you can provide me towards some form of vaguely-authoritative source, I may have to reconsider a bit.

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  • PierceNeckPierceNeck Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I thought the skinning/mining attacks were a joke when someone posted them before.

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    PierceNeck wrote: »
    I thought the skinning/mining attacks were a joke when someone posted them before.

    They were datamined. So it's as up in the air as any other datamined info.

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  • rizriz Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Mining/skinning/herbalism have become "the things you level an alt for" as a raider.

    I wish there would be some leaked info about inscription besides the fact that it's going to require herbalism as a supplies profession. I think I finally came up with a good plan for what to do about professions on my warlock (quickly level herbalism right before WLK, pick herbs while leveling to 80, then powerlevel inscription) and I want to know if it's going to be a good idea. :rotate:

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  • IshtaarIshtaar Fun is underrated. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    riz wrote: »
    Mining/skinning/herbalism have become "the things you level an alt for" as a raider.

    I wish there would be some leaked info about inscription besides the fact that it's going to require herbalism as a supplies profession. I think I finally came up with a good plan for what to do about professions on my warlock (quickly level herbalism right before WLK, pick herbs while leveling to 80, then powerlevel inscription) and I want to know if it's going to be a good idea. :rotate:

    I'm thinking of doing the same.

    Tailored gear is happy and nice and all, but I really don't want to hit 80 and be stuck in Extra-Super-Primal Mooncloth with 7500 healing and 12 Stamina until I get into Tier 9 content.

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  • rizriz Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Oh I won't drop tailoring unless it's confirmed that there won't be Frozen Shadoweave 2.0. Given all the patterns in BT and Sunwell, I figure they plan to continue making tailoring a required profession for caster min/max. The only thing I thus far refuse to budge on is enchanting. I really dislike enchanting and it's so expensive to level at this point, an extra 24 spell power would be nice but unless they add some other benefit, fuck that.

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  • IshtaarIshtaar Fun is underrated. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I think I'm still just bitter that PMooncloth had no freakin' base stats on it, but the healing/regen was on par with T5 so it took forever to replace it. You didn't really *need* stam so much in T4/5 content as most of the damage is totally avoidable, but it was a nice change when you did get enough that a loose mob sneezing on you wasn't instant death.

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Ishtaar wrote: »
    I think I'm still just bitter that PMooncloth had no freakin' base stats on it, but the healing/regen was on par with T5 so it took forever to replace it. You didn't really *need* stam so much in T4/5 content as most of the damage is totally avoidable, but it was a nice change when you did get enough that a loose mob sneezing on you wasn't instant death.

    That was the best part, seeing the mob look at a priest and then seeing improved death proc.

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  • IshtaarIshtaar Fun is underrated. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    "Star is loose, oh Ish is dead again"
    "No worries, I specced for it."

    With around 10.5k health raid buffed now, I can stand in cleaves ALL DAY, whee!

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  • rizriz Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Oh don't get me wrong, I loathed having to wear FSW robes until we killed Archimonde, but fashion aside I'll do what they make me do as far as getting the best gear possible. >.<

    Heh last night our Burn-healing paladin kept yelling at priests who were angels "I can't heal you, come into range!" and they'd point out that they were dead, because for some reason Grid doesn't differentiate between a priest and what I referred to as a "fake alive" priest. This phrasing amused the priests to no end.

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  • PierceNeckPierceNeck Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    It's amusing me right now! :rotate:

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  • willmannyeatthatwillmannyeatthat Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Well there goes drum chaining:

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Well there goes drum chaining:

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    You didn't think drums were going to get nerfed? o_O

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