Congratulations to Feathergrass in our guild, who may be one of the very few on the server to have the illustrius Attumen's mount from Karazhan. I've been in kara literally hundreds of times and never seen the mount drop, so this is very exciting and indicative that these mounts are now farmable.
Crafting is both good and bad in Wraith. Good for everyone else, bad for the crafter. You see, it all has to do with what you can get out of your profession. Well, they have some okay green crafting gear that will help you as you level, and some intro 80 blue gear, and intro PVP blue gear that's craftable. However, there are many issues with crafting as it is. Mainly its the fact that the good stuff doesn't require a rep grind like in BC. For example, the leg enchants are trainer learned. Everyone learns it, everyone makes some to level up. Result? Plethora in AH, and loss of easily 50% of your material price.
Enchants can now be sold on AH. Result? You lose half of your material cost to make the scroll (which the vellum goes for 10x more than the material cost). This is the same on two servers, so it may be universal.
The sad fact is that for right now, the thing to do is sell your materials and don't try to level your craft. And there is no reason at all to level it beyond the self-buffs such as the ring enchant and bracer LW enchant. Crafters will actually pay you for those critical 425+ skill enchants, and every self-respecting crafter will be leveling their craft to help their guild/raid out. So don't be a chump, don't level it right now, and enjoy the insane profits. 50-60g from a 10g AH item? You bet! 20g per stack of northend leather? That's cheap! (Especially since you will need thousands to level to 450).
The only silver lining is to figure out which enchants/crafted items there aren't a ton of on the AH and provide those, but I don't see making much profit off it. Sure you make make some gold of the PVP gear, but considering the investment cost, i doubt it's worth it. It has to do with opporunity cost, if the cost is literally a mouse click then you can be sure that the item to be sold will never cost more than the materials.
Update: Fara makes the excellent point that you will need ~375 enchant to DE up to level 80 epics. So it's worth it to keep enchanting for that reason alone. Of course, you'd be insane to drop something and pick up enchanting just so you can DE your northend greens.
You know what else is interesting? Tailoring is the only crafting prof that doesn't require it's raw material to be from another gathering profession. This makes it the only crafting profession that you don't need to hit up the AH for to powerlevel, and further you can easily accomidate another profession like enchanting to pair with it.
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Happy holidays!
One of my talented guild mate drew this and posted on our guild portal. She is such a wonderful artist and the painting is completely delightful!
Because she owns the copywrite to this painting you may only link to this post but may not copy and post this picture elsewhere without her permission. Her character name is Deekomposin on realm dawnbringer if you are interested in getting a hold of her.
So I'm browsing through the new patch notes (3.0.8 which is on PTR now). Folks, there are a ton of as yet unpublized data in there. For example, bear mangle is being nerfed.
However, this caught my eye.
Ritual of Summoning Will now create a summoning portal object which can be re-used for multiple summons for 5 minutes.Holy cow, does anyone realize what that means? It means I only need one soulshard to get a whole non-attuned raid into any raid, and the summoning won't take half an hour. Molten Core, I can't wait!
Not sure how I found this addon, but here's QBar.
It's extremely simple, it adds another hotbar of all usable quest items to your UI. No longer do you have to search through your bags to figure out what you are supposed to click. I love it, it's very win. It does one thing and does it well. You can customize the bar with the /qb command, the one to unlock it so you can move it is "/qb lock". (Thanks for confirmation!)
We've made some changes to several dungeons to allow easier access for players in the upcoming patch.
The ritual objects that used to require 3 players to activate in Blackrock Spire and Uldaman now only require 1.
You no longer need quintessence to summon Majordomo Executus.
You no longer need the Scepter of Celebras to teleport to the final section of Maraudon.
You no longer need the Mallet of Zul'Farrak to summon Gahz'rilla.
Nightbane is also being made accessible without the urn.
So...you can now solo just about everything. Not sure if this is good or bad. Certainly opens these instances up a bit more. I like the fact that we no longer have to do the quests to get these items (I never did get the urn due to it requiring two heroics, and someone always had it on them).
Anyway i'm looking very much forward to revisiting the old content. We can probably do just about everything at 60 with a 5 man group that is in the mid 70s.
Molten core attunement (40man):
This is actually pretty simple, run a BRD 5-man. However, you need the Shadowforged key - which is easily obtained by:
#1 killing yourself
#2 talk to the quest giver near the BRD summoning stone
#3 killing a boss in BRD
#4 then he'll give you the key! At that point you can access all of BRD and get through to the core. You can easily do both of these in one shot.
Blackrock spire attunment (10man).
This is a bit more involved. First, buy a unadorned seal of ascension off AH, or farm mobs near BRS for it. Then go into LBRS (lower BRS - 5 man level 60), do a quest involving killing a boss therein. Not done yet! Go kill a mob in duskwallow marsh, go back to LBRS, turn in quest. Finally you have your key.
BWL (Blackwing Lair - 40 man in Blackrock mountain)
Not many saw BWL. Attunement is straightforward. Kill a mob in UBRS, get his drop (Blackhand's Command), this starts a quest to go to the end of LBRS and touch a brand. Bingo, you are attuned. Apparently you still have to run UBRS to get into BWL though.
Update: You don't have to go through UBRS after attunement, the portal is located at the entrance.
AQ20 and AQ40. (20/40 man)
No attunement! A massive server event was created instead to act as attunement. This was done years ago.
Onyxia (40 man)
Attunement dropped. This was a long quest chain involving BRD and some other stuff. Cool quest by the looks of it. Now it's nerfed.
Zul'Grub (20 man)
No attunement! Never was, apparently.
This is a truly awesome post about the uberness of hunterdome. It involves two Hunters (probably BM) at level 80, and ZulGrub. They were able to down several bosses, and called upon a third hunter to get down another boss. Go read it! Sholva (one of the hunters) is dressed in T6/Northend blues. I assume the others are similiarly geared.
My real question is what composition of people would it take to run ZG and other instances? One issue is that attunement for level 60 raids is such a pain. Sure ony attunement is no more, but BRS, MC, AQ are. My thoughts are to get attunements on my lock and get two others to run the attunement proecess with me (Fara, Tapati, I'm looking at you). Then we can port in everyone else who isn't attuned thanks to the handy lock summoning.
Kaliope, Faradhim, and Resto4Life all make good points regarding the choice of crafting professions in Wraith. To summerize briefly, fara makes the good point that since everything is BOE now, there isn't a need to grind up to top levels. Resto compares/contrasts LW/tailoring and makes the point that LW requires a secondary profession while tailoring doesn't. There are merits to both professions and I'll just point you to that post, but again no BOP stuff at the end (450). Kaliope argues that one needs to examine the gear available for pre-raid people (and mentions that much of the best-in-slot stuff is available from rep grinds). Then there is the arguement that you could just buy the epic for 5000g and be done with it (this was in the Resto4life comments).
I may actually ditch LW on my druid, due to this. It will be extremely expensive to buy out the necessary skins (some 1500 I believe), and I don't have a skinner alt on this server (my wife does however). The bracer buff is great. That plus the enchanting ring buff gives me two very nice bonuses to my gear. On the other hand I'm almost 77 and just now getting rid of my 3 piece epic LW set (Windhawk). They have served incredibly well (shockingly well) for leveling and its just one less thing to worry about while leveling.
However these are the benefits to LW that we are neglecting.
1) You can disenchant your greens, so the money is not wasted. Maybe you will break even selling the enchanting mats, maybe not. But you should get enough mats to get through much of enchanting grind. (that plus the ridiculous amounts of greens I'm getting from questing).
2) We dont know what will drop in the future. The main reason I picked up LW was that there was some awesome stuff that only dropped in instances and raids and the recipe was BOP. Particularly in T5/T6, (esp T6), there are recipes that cost stuff that drops in the raid and can be obtained from raiding, and are of that tier equiv, so you don't have to wait on a chance drop).
3) Fun. Lets not forget that crafting is another component of the game. I personally dont want to be done w/ the game, having everything maxed out on my char. That means the game is over and that's not fun. So crafting is another time/gold sink that I'll do willingly just because it's another fun part of the game.
4) Gold. Yes all crafting is a gold sink. At best you will break even. But do you need the gold? If you have an epic flyer you could argue that you don't really need alot of gold, even if raiding. But for some accumulation of gold is a goal in itself. Not me, i'm glad to have a few thousand gold so i can buy things, but otherwise i'm content to have a cash flow.
If i were to sum up my thoughts, its that crafting is already a huge investment, and the expansion isn't done by a long shot. We know the dev's don't intend to have any more BOP stuff, but you can bet that there will be alot more BOP recipes (a source of potential gold). Lastly it's a fun part of the game and a nice time sink for which there are easy tangible rewards.
I am wondering what other crafters feel about the money situation in northend. I've been keeping a close eye on my finances, and found that generally I'm on track to make about 1000g by 77. The new training and flightpoints are really expensive and these expenses add up quickly. Just by vendoring every grey and doing the quests, however, I've had enough funds to be comfortable if not exactly wealthy (mount ain't gonna pay for itself). I've seen alot of 80s coming back and doing quests with me, so my sense is that the quests become fairly profitable at 80, especially if you are an enchanter and can sell the mats (I probably have 1000g in mats saved up for leveling).
As for leather/tailoring, I can't say much, but northend cloth is going for 2.5 gold each (not each stack, each), so I would imagine that tailors will pretty much have to gather mats themselves (for this reason i haven't leveled first aid past 375)
BS seems a bit more desireable now, I've seen linked several non-warrior type epic weapons that BSs can make. That plus the abundance of cobalt should help BSs. But i've never played one, so what do I know.
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