RE: Cooking. Cooking is one of the easiest skills in the game to increase. Yeah, there were a few gaps that were hard to clear if you didn't want to level fishing or buy fish off the AH, but those have been miminized. Once you hit TBC cooking benefits every class. So which part about it sucks?
awwwww, its just the time and gathering and stuff. Things i should've done when I first started. Like laundry thats been piled up for a while. not looking forward to doing it, but it's gotta get done.
RE: Cooking. Cooking is one of the easiest skills in the game to increase. Yeah, there were a few gaps that were hard to clear if you didn't want to level fishing or buy fish off the AH, but those have been miminized. Once you hit TBC cooking benefits every class. So which part about it sucks?
awwwww, its just the time and gathering and stuff. Things i should've done when I first started. Like laundry thats been piled up for a while. not looking forward to doing it, but it's gotta get done.
I think it is at 250 or so you can buy a recipe that lets you cook a new Bear meat, which drops fairly often from the bears in Winterspring. That meat can be used to either make an Attack Power buff or a Spell Damage buff.
Pretty useful for getting cooking up, and helpful for leveling. I know my wife sells the recipe in the AH, and I have sold a couple stacks of the cooked meat in the AH as well. (I got a lot of this meat while working towards Exalted with the Wintersaber Faction.)
Cooking isn't horribly bad to level. Somewhere in the middle I know I got stuck, I forgot what I farmed to level it, it was pre-BC.
Fishing? Fishing sucks. I had fishing at 235 for a year & a half because I had zero motivation to finish it off. I never got the expert fishing book until last week. Fishing quests, thank you for allowing me to level my skill two points at a time for gold.
I found that fishing's a lot more bearable if you can somehow combine it with socializing. Being on an RP server, I've found that it's best to wait for these huge cross-faction party things they have at Booty Bay, then grab a spot where I can watch everyone be huge dorks and fish away. That way you've at least got entertainment to go along with it.
Also the fishing quest at 225 or whatever can go suck it. Big time. "Go see the guy on his stupid little island in Theramore's bay, who'll then send you to go fish at every single corner of the world for fish that don't show up until your 100th cast. Nevermind the fact that you're no longer getting points for fishing while doing this and totally getting screwed. Bah, I say! :x
In fishing's defense, it matches up with cooking so perfectly so at the very least it's like leveling two professions at once. So at least there's that...
Removing the Soul Shard cost for Shadowburn would be very nice.
But then the warlocks that use it on a mob/boss or person at 50% or greater health can you no longer stare in shame at them?
Actually with my affliction build getting me mana back when I kill something while soul drained, I often have more shards than I need. So I use Shadowburn early to use some up, on occasion.
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Don't feel bad, Jim, I've had no luck with it either. I've only gotten the thing once, and two of my three wishes were Furious (one darn near killed me because I was OOM and low on health when I tried it like an idiot).
I should probably get my friends to run through BRD to get the Fiery Weapon formula. I got asked no less than five times last night if I had it when I was sitting on top of the bank in Org. I figure, if twinking's a fact of life, I should make some money off of it. :P
Fishing is the only profession I haven't levelled to 375. I think my highest is around 175 so far.
I believe that says a great deal about it right there, when even the self admitted addict says "Fuck it."
Sadly enough, fishing is one of the reasons I re-rolled Horde. You can't unlearn these secondary professions, and I was stuck with these bars on my Alliance characters that were completely empty, which is absolutely not okay. Yeah it's kind of OCD of me but whatever.
So I just tell myself now "This character is for killing things, not cooking and fishing bullshit".
I fish while I listen to podcasts. Good, long podcasts. It's still pretty sad to only expect about five skill-ups while I listen to an hour-long episode of This American Life, though.
I spend a lot of time standing around Scryer bank while bullshitting with people on Vent, so leveling fishing then is sort of a better use of time. Mostly I just leveled it to do fishing dailies until someone told me you can only get the croc pet from the croc quest anyway. >.> I'd RP fishing too though. Random level 70 warlock in a Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat + Brewfest Dress, fishing up deviates outside WC.
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I spend a lot of time standing around Scryer bank while bullshitting with people on Vent, so leveling fishing then is sort of a better use of time. Mostly I just leveled it to do fishing dailies until someone told me you can only get the croc pet from the croc quest anyway. >.> I'd RP fishing too though. Random level 70 warlock in a Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat + Brewfest Dress, fishing up deviates outside WC.
There is a line one crosses in which one leaves the realm of sanity behind. When exactly did you cross it?
Remember that odd period between the release of 2.0 and TBC? When JC patterns started showing up on mobs but nobody had JC yet? I got such a pattern on my mage/tailor while farming for all the runecloth I was going to need once I trained the next level of tailoring (I ended up getting 22 tailoring skillups just from this stock the day TBC hit). I mailed it to my bank alt, and about three days after TBC hit my "cliche" Draenei Shaman JC walked into the first town with a mailbox. This pattern and 4 16-slot bags waiting for him.
Today, the cliche actually learned that pattern. He's been severely backburnered by my main having so much to do in Outland, then by my priest becoming my main alt, and then by my efforts to level a tank. But at last the circle is closed, as it were.
Speaking of "stocking up", has anybody else started stocking for WotLK? I don't think I'm going to worry about tailoring, since the patterns that start at 376 are almost certainly going to be a better choice than the tailoring patterns I could level with right now. I can't start enchanting just yet either, because my enchanting mats are going to a friend that needs them for *his* enchanter and to get his last few points of blacksmithing. Cooking is already pretty much ready, given the number of crawdads I've got on my bank alt versus the number of alts I'm likely to having working on 365-375 cooking before WotLK hits.
That brings me to herbalism, which I'm trying to stock. See, my tank alt is a druid with leatherworking and herbalism. I figured one of them would be made the gathering skill for Inscription and I wanted him to be my scribe. So I went to the trouble of making him a Satchel to bank herbs in, to prep for power-leveling Inscription. Until now I've been selling the herbs (at quite a profit) but I'm aiming to have 2 stacks of every herb I can banked before I sell any more -- pending actual information on what Inscription will need.
Right now, it looks like the herbs themselves won't be used directly. What I'm seeing on the alpha leak wiki suggests Inscription will get a "prospecting" style ability that makes the inks needed. So specific herbs may not be as needed as just lots of the right leveled herbs.
I spend a lot of time standing around Scryer bank while bullshitting with people on Vent, so leveling fishing then is sort of a better use of time. Mostly I just leveled it to do fishing dailies until someone told me you can only get the croc pet from the croc quest anyway. >.> I'd RP fishing too though. Random level 70 warlock in a Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat + Brewfest Dress, fishing up deviates outside WC.
There is a line one crosses in which one leaves the realm of sanity behind. When exactly did you cross it?
I don't know, let me log in and check my account creation date...
You guys, I am SO EXCITED about inscription now. Crushing herbs to make inks? Writing scrolls? omg. In your face, enchanting!
Strangely, the epic gem vendor was released today (yesterday?) on dark iron, and the price of living rubies jumped up by 10-15 gold.
It was a weird side effect I noticed on my server too. Living rubys and solid stars of Elune went up, the +healing/+spirit one as well. Every other blue gem tanked though.
I'm hoping that the prices dropping is in part because people are just stockpiling gold for the S4 release.
I'm sure plenty of possible buyers are already set with epic gems in hand, but as with the last season starts, I'm sure we'll see a surge in prices for a number of things.
Oh well, even if rare gems stay low, enchanting materials will probably skyrocket again, and I'm probably going to unload most of what I've got on hand.
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I'm hoping that the prices dropping is in part because people are just stockpiling gold for the S4 release.
I'm sure plenty of possible buyers are already set with epic gems in hand, but as with the last season starts, I'm sure we'll see a surge in prices for a number of things.
Oh well, even if rare gems stay low, enchanting materials will probably skyrocket again, and I'm probably going to unload most of what I've got on hand.
I'm not sure we'll see the same spike in prices for S4 that we did for S1/S2. More people seem to be clued in and I suspect we'll see more of a glut on supplies. And add to it that you won't see people getting four or five pieces in a week, the demand will be lower.
There will probley be good money for the person that stockpiles the item everyone forgets but I don't think we'll see the same profit taking.
Yeah, I doubt it too, but at the very least I'm going to pricecheck enchanting materials, rare gems and unload anything that's at a high enough peak to get it out of my inventory. This'll probably be the last big chance to do so (even if it's smaller than S2/S3), as from here on down I imagine people will mostly just be prepping/waiting for WLK, unless they take the rating restrictions off S4 shortly before 3.0 comes out.
Which would make a lot of sense, actually.
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If I had to guess, Primal life would be the mat I'd stockpile. It's used in the threads and a few enchants. And Primals tend not to loose their value as much so the risk is lower. If you're feeling ballsy, try dumping your mats right before S4 happens. If I'm right about the glut then you'd sell at peak prices. If I'm wrong...you won't sell at peak.
Oh, I'm not buying. I just naturally stockpile materials as I come across them. Having an alt army go from 60-70 and have all the gathering professions between them means I'm sitting on a king's ransom in gems, dusts and primals as it is.
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Oh, I'm not buying. I just naturally stockpile materials as I come across them. Having an alt army go from 60-70 and have all the gathering professions between them means I'm sitting on a king's ransom in gems, dusts and primals as it is.
That's what I do. I have 20 of each primal in the bank and enough metal to build a small fleet of Engineering mounts. I have a decent amount of enchanting mats from five man runs. It's an amazingly useful thing to do, I maintain stocks, sell off some when there is a spike and replenish either via the AH or farming. The biggest advantage is that I can respond to small AH trends. Fel Iron spikes to 20g from it's normal spot of 10g? Sell.
For others with farming characters I can't recommend having a stockpile enough.
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I think it is at 250 or so you can buy a recipe that lets you cook a new Bear meat, which drops fairly often from the bears in Winterspring. That meat can be used to either make an Attack Power buff or a Spell Damage buff.
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=35562#reagent-for
Pretty useful for getting cooking up, and helpful for leveling. I know my wife sells the recipe in the AH, and I have sold a couple stacks of the cooked meat in the AH as well. (I got a lot of this meat while working towards Exalted with the Wintersaber Faction.)
Fishing? Fishing sucks. I had fishing at 235 for a year & a half because I had zero motivation to finish it off. I never got the expert fishing book until last week. Fishing quests, thank you for allowing me to level my skill two points at a time for gold.
Also the fishing quest at 225 or whatever can go suck it. Big time. "Go see the guy on his stupid little island in Theramore's bay, who'll then send you to go fish at every single corner of the world for fish that don't show up until your 100th cast. Nevermind the fact that you're no longer getting points for fishing while doing this and totally getting screwed. Bah, I say! :x
In fishing's defense, it matches up with cooking so perfectly so at the very least it's like leveling two professions at once. So at least there's that...
it's so dumb!
that... that's it! it's really dumb!
Actually with my affliction build getting me mana back when I kill something while soul drained, I often have more shards than I need. So I use Shadowburn early to use some up, on occasion.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I believe that says a great deal about it right there, when even the self admitted addict says "Fuck it."
How's Mr. Pinchy treating Jimoria oh wait
i've said it before
i will say it again
theran kill yourself
My Mr. Pinchy has a message for you Jim:
i had fishingbuddy, which is a little addon that tracks total number of casts and such
i didn't get my magical crawdad box until my 3rd pinchy, with a grand total of seven furious mr pinchies (i also got a flask buff)
i got him on my 2008th cast into the skettis
i have not fished since
It's one of them Lobster people.
I still have no Mr. Pinchy, after a gajillion (give or take) attempts.
Sadly enough, fishing is one of the reasons I re-rolled Horde. You can't unlearn these secondary professions, and I was stuck with these bars on my Alliance characters that were completely empty, which is absolutely not okay. Yeah it's kind of OCD of me but whatever.
So I just tell myself now "This character is for killing things, not cooking and fishing bullshit".
>.>
There is a line one crosses in which one leaves the realm of sanity behind. When exactly did you cross it?
Remember that odd period between the release of 2.0 and TBC? When JC patterns started showing up on mobs but nobody had JC yet? I got such a pattern on my mage/tailor while farming for all the runecloth I was going to need once I trained the next level of tailoring (I ended up getting 22 tailoring skillups just from this stock the day TBC hit). I mailed it to my bank alt, and about three days after TBC hit my "cliche" Draenei Shaman JC walked into the first town with a mailbox. This pattern and 4 16-slot bags waiting for him.
Today, the cliche actually learned that pattern. He's been severely backburnered by my main having so much to do in Outland, then by my priest becoming my main alt, and then by my efforts to level a tank. But at last the circle is closed, as it were.
Speaking of "stocking up", has anybody else started stocking for WotLK? I don't think I'm going to worry about tailoring, since the patterns that start at 376 are almost certainly going to be a better choice than the tailoring patterns I could level with right now. I can't start enchanting just yet either, because my enchanting mats are going to a friend that needs them for *his* enchanter and to get his last few points of blacksmithing. Cooking is already pretty much ready, given the number of crawdads I've got on my bank alt versus the number of alts I'm likely to having working on 365-375 cooking before WotLK hits.
That brings me to herbalism, which I'm trying to stock. See, my tank alt is a druid with leatherworking and herbalism. I figured one of them would be made the gathering skill for Inscription and I wanted him to be my scribe. So I went to the trouble of making him a Satchel to bank herbs in, to prep for power-leveling Inscription. Until now I've been selling the herbs (at quite a profit) but I'm aiming to have 2 stacks of every herb I can banked before I sell any more -- pending actual information on what Inscription will need.
Right now, it looks like the herbs themselves won't be used directly. What I'm seeing on the alpha leak wiki suggests Inscription will get a "prospecting" style ability that makes the inks needed. So specific herbs may not be as needed as just lots of the right leveled herbs.
I only have 700 arcane dust and like 40 prismatics, gotta fix that.
I don't know, let me log in and check my account creation date...
You guys, I am SO EXCITED about inscription now. Crushing herbs to make inks? Writing scrolls? omg. In your face, enchanting!
Miner's Revenge (Rank 1)
Requires Mining Pick
Hurls your pick axe at the target, inflicted 45 to 55 physical damage, ignoring any armor. 30 yard range, 5 minute cooldown.
Scalp (Rank 1)
Requires Skinning Knife
Attempts to skin the target alive, causing them to bleed for 72 damage over 6 sec.
I'm almost glad to be a miner/skinner aside from the money! I know they're not exactly a big deal but it's quite cool.
edit: s'pose the pick throw might be useful for Alliance Paladins and the bleed will be nice for PVP vs stealthies.
Shhhhhh, don't remind anyone.
Like I said, I've got a buddy training a enchanter alt so no enchant mat stockpile for me.
No excuse. Stockpile mats , on the day sell them and advertise enchants free your mats. Simple.
Stupidly enough, my realm will STILL not have the epic gem vendor open by then. We'll be a few days late of that at earliest.
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It was a weird side effect I noticed on my server too. Living rubys and solid stars of Elune went up, the +healing/+spirit one as well. Every other blue gem tanked though.
I'm sure plenty of possible buyers are already set with epic gems in hand, but as with the last season starts, I'm sure we'll see a surge in prices for a number of things.
Oh well, even if rare gems stay low, enchanting materials will probably skyrocket again, and I'm probably going to unload most of what I've got on hand.
I'm not sure we'll see the same spike in prices for S4 that we did for S1/S2. More people seem to be clued in and I suspect we'll see more of a glut on supplies. And add to it that you won't see people getting four or five pieces in a week, the demand will be lower.
There will probley be good money for the person that stockpiles the item everyone forgets but I don't think we'll see the same profit taking.
Which would make a lot of sense, actually.
That's what I do. I have 20 of each primal in the bank and enough metal to build a small fleet of Engineering mounts. I have a decent amount of enchanting mats from five man runs. It's an amazingly useful thing to do, I maintain stocks, sell off some when there is a spike and replenish either via the AH or farming. The biggest advantage is that I can respond to small AH trends. Fel Iron spikes to 20g from it's normal spot of 10g? Sell.
For others with farming characters I can't recommend having a stockpile enough.