Well, it looks like we may not be getting together for this after all :/ My mom has been moving over the last few days and we took a load with the truck tonight and I completely forgot about the calender event that I created; I hope none of you waited for me
On another note, I think we should get some kind of forum for random posts like this. All in favor say “Aye”.
So, I’ve been going through my bank and my bags lately, and getting rid of some of my BC raid gear that I’ve replaced, and it got me thinking about PVP gear. I only have 1 piece - the Merciless shoulders - for the only slot that I couldn’t fill with PVE gear before Kara.
Why hasn’t Blizzard implemented a trade-up system for PVP gear? It seems kind of stupid that someone should have to go grind honor for a piece and then grind even more for the next tier in the same slot. Why can’t I turn in the piece I already have for a reduced honor/token cost?
Just thought that I would share a few pics that I managed to take during Winter’s Veil. Everyone say hello to Santa Feld and his undead helper Ashaba. Who wouldn’t want some presents when those creepy demon eyes stare down at you?
And how about some Gnomified Christmas cheer. Here is Solace, Feld and Ash (with those creepy eyes again).
At the grocery store today, saw this AWESOME holiday product and grabbed a few:
Since I’m always trying to make my real life more like WoW, I instantly saw health pots! Not about to let the delusion end there, I brought some home with the intent on making a more…. potent elixir:
Now bear in mind that the cup is only for overflow. I had to pour out some to make room in the… vial/bottle shaped container (leaded vial? imbued vial? they both seem wrong). Here’s my feeble attempt to… mix the elixir with one hand looking through a camera phone screen:
Needless to say I feel much more revitalized! The cooldown isn’t that long either (I think the internal cooldown is 45 seconds, but it’s never up for long ).
Why should I keep tailoring (or enchanting for that matter)? There is nothing there that I can’t get with gold. The tailor-only leg enchants are cheaper than the regular leg enchants, but no stronger. The cloak enchants are so far laughable and proc based (DPS based on RNG, gotta love it).
The flying carpet is sweet.
Everything else is BOE and buyable. Not to mention Tailoring is requiring three time the mats that BC Tailoring required. Even with cloth scavenging, I don’t feel like I have loads of cloth. I blew through 400+ pieces of cloth to reach 394 the other day.
What the hell is the point? Why not go BS and JC: extra sockets of BOP gem goodness. What about the leatherworking wrist enchants that blow naything else out of the water? I’m having my doubts about enchanting as well. As a DPS caster, +24sp per ring is the benefit of enchanting, or +48sp total. Leatherworking gets +67sp on their wrists.
Then there’s the PVPside: Alchemist only arena potions. Letting professions play into arenas is a shitty idea, but why not take alchemy then? They already have awesome trinkets.
So back to tailoring, why should I keep it? I’m 99% sure that I will, for a couple of reasons: I’ve had it for so long and I have a few rare patterns (which are now out of date :P). I don’t want those to be wasted really. The other reason is that there might be more down the line. Blizzard has said that they don’t like the idea of people taking professions solely to have the ‘best in slot’ items (sunwell robe/gloves, FSW starter set, etc.) and that they would rather people take professions that they enjoy.
Dear Blizzard, Not a lot of people enjoy the ‘work’ of the profession. Grinding out useless crap until capped (or just about capped) and able to bang out a few epic patterns for yourself is hardly fun. There are some people and some things that are not so bad, like JC - It’s a fun profession - everyone needs gems, and everything you make will be useful to someone. For the most part, professions are a pretty shitty necessity. I like working for good stuff, but I don’t want the work to be miserable.
So I took on this dude, well took on his ankles anyway, dropped his HP by a few and ran away after 45 or so seconds of combat. And of course Solace asking me “Wtf is wrong with you?”
So I was filling out my protection set for Salovia, entering in all the crafted mats for certain epics and such and decided I wanted to tally up all the mats I was using. You’re familiar with this:
Notice how I’ve entered the comment for the crafted pieces. In the edit panel, just list the materials needed to craft it in this format:
5 x Material
The format is [number] x [material], or [int] x [string]. The separator is the ‘x’ with or without spaces, so don’t use any mats with x’s in the words o.o! (I should change that to * now that I think about it…). So enter each material on it’s own line. When the table is displayed, it grabs each individual line of the comment box, and then calculates totals based on where that X (or *) is. If you enter it incorrectly, it just won’t be parsed into the table. This should be the result:
Let me know if any anomolies pop up and ask me if you have any questions or anything.
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