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Insanely Reconsidering WoW

Plutonius said:
In WotLK, I can cook buff food that will give great stats for 1 hour (or less if you die :) ).

Cooking is a very easy skill to level (The AH is your friend and having a fishing skill makes it even easier). I highly recommend leveling your cooking on at least one character.
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Easy to level and it opens up both the Shatt and Dalaran cooking dailies, good cash and decent buffs. I recommend it.
 
Plutonius said:
I always thought the crater was the best place for thorium. I hope you are using the gatherer addon.

Once you hit 300 BS, it's very easy to level till you get near 375. Most of the 300 - 375 BS recipes in tBC are bought from the different faction quartermasters.
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Actually I should look at Gatherer, but one of my add-ons auto marks my maps when ever I harvest ore. I assume the Gatherer add on has all ore locations all ready in the database?
Thanks!
 
Echinda said:
You get some decent buffs from the food, but to be honest I've never felt the draw and at lvl 80 my cooking skill is just high enough to make the gingerbread cookies for Santa. What's that, 5 points in Cooking? maybe I have 10 because you get some when you make the cookies?

It's never been an issue.
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When the cap was 60, I had some substantial issues with professions. Yes you can make money with them, but for blacksmithing the best gear typically falls off mobs...
 
On Blacksmithing: There are some pretty good blue BoE recipes now - the Saronite shields, swords and maces are actually better than any of the non-heroic drops I've seen from instances (haven't started on Heroics yet). But I just couldn't bear the thought of grinding all the way up to being able to craft those. Ugh. Even the thought makes me shudder.
 
Echinda said:
On Blacksmithing: There are some pretty good blue BoE recipes now - the Saronite shields, swords and maces are actually better than any of the non-heroic drops I've seen from instances (haven't started on Heroics yet). But I just couldn't bear the thought of grinding all the way up to being able to craft those. Ugh. Even the thought makes me shudder.
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But, WoW = Grind. It's jsut a matter of choosing which thing to grind for :)

-mx
 
Echinda said:
On Blacksmithing: But I just couldn't bear the thought of grinding all the way up to being able to craft those. Ugh. Even the thought makes me shudder.
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I am doing that now on my 63DK. I have my 70 Pally collecting the rocks and ore. Also picked up JC. But its getting old grinding for BS and wasting my Pally doing Circuits of the Barrens, and other such lovely areas when I should be moving to the Northend. I am about ready to drop JC and either pick up mining so I can get my Pally back in action or Enchanting and wast my pally running circuits for ore and greens and blues in RFC, WC, Gnome, etc. Makes me very tired of thinking about it.....

Bill.....:apple:
 
TSE said:
I would consider actually, EverQuest: Macintosh Edition.

It has decent graphics, it doesn't cost you anything for the software, it has a great community, and it has a 15 day free trial.

Go to www.eqmac.com or http://eqmac.station.sony.com/ for more info.
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Looking at the site it appears to have been a while since its been updated (2003/2004). Not sure if it would be any better. I did have a lot of friends playing it on a PC and they enjoyed it. I wish they would come out with a Native Version of Warhammer. I would love to try that one and on my laptop I do not have room to load a PC version. I may in the future but its low on the totem poll...

Bill....:apple:
 
merc669 said:
Looking at the site it appears to have been a while since its been updated (2003/2004). Not sure if it would be any better. I did have a lot of friends playing it on a PC and they enjoyed it. I wish they would come out with a Native Version of Warhammer. I would love to try that one and on my laptop I do not have room to load a PC version. I may in the future but its low on the totem poll...

Bill....:apple:
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Ahhhh but that's where you are wrong, young grasshopper. While EQMac certainly isn't classic EverQuest (Classic EverQuest is from 2001 and under), it is the closest anyone can get to playing classical EverQuest, widely considered the best MMORPG ever created. The EverQuest they have out now with all those horrible expansions is not the same game!

Nonetheless, it has a 15 day free trial, so what does anybody have to lose by trying it?
 
motoxpress said:
But, WoW = Grind. It's jsut a matter of choosing which thing to grind for :)

-mx
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Since hitting 80 I mostly do PvP, which isn't so grindy. Sure, you grind for honor points a bit by doing dailies, but I really enjoy Alterac Valley and would play it whether I got honor or not. Especially as a healer - so few people effectively heal in battlegrounds that you actually get spontaneous cheers for good heals in BG chat when you do a half-way decent job. And how often in life do you get praised for merely being adequate? Keep the main tank up when killing the general and everyone thinks you're some kind of uber healer.
 
After 80 I have been grinding rep and doing PvP. It seems endless...must...get...away...
 
motoxpress said:
But, WoW = Grind. It's jsut a matter of choosing which thing to grind for :)

-mx
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Is there a MMO that does not involve some level of grind? I'm enjoying working my way through quests all through for the most part they consist of the same thing- kill and gather. I suggest that if you don't enjoy the grind you probably don't enjoy WoW either unless you one of those people who can spend hours repeatedly dungeon crawling in groups of 25, but that is a form of grinding too, all though I realize that it's more of a challenge than your average kill and collect quest.
 
Now that I have a Dark Knight going question about inscription:

Is an inscription satchel needed? Does it amount to an extra bag or does it take the place of a regular bag? Online research has not revealed the answer.

Thanks!
 
Huntn said:
Now that I have a Dark Knight going question about inscription:

Is an inscription satchel needed? Does it amount to an extra bag or does it take the place of a regular bag? Online research has not revealed the answer.

Thanks!
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I don't think it is necessary. From what I understand it is just an extra bag to store inscription supplies in.
 
Huntn said:
Now that I have a Dark Knight going question about inscription:

Is an inscription satchel needed? Does it amount to an extra bag or does it take the place of a regular bag? Online research has not revealed the answer.

Thanks!
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The inscription bag takes up a bag slot, just like any other profession bag. You need it because of the insane variety of materials you need to collect.

If you're thinking of picking up inscription, don't. Run away. Now. Very fast.

The minimal benefits for the profession are outweighed by the expense and total inability to make any cash. A character's glyphs don't change much, and the oversupply is such that the minimal demand has driven AH prices to pennies. On the other hand, Inscription has made some Herbalists very rich. :)
 
DMJG said:
The inscription bag takes up a bag slot, just like any other profession bag. You need it because of the insane variety of materials you need to collect.

If you're thinking of picking up inscription, don't. Run away. Now. Very fast.

The minimal benefits for the profession are outweighed by the expense and total inability to make any cash. A character's glyphs don't change much, and the oversupply is such that the minimal demand has driven AH prices to pennies. On the other hand, Inscription has made some Herbalists very rich. :)
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Thanks for this advice! What would be a good alternate profession for an aspiring DK? Maybe none. What about Jewel crafting, is that a money maker? I all ready have a tailor, a armorsmith, leathercrafter, and a alchemist. The armorsmith and tailor have made some money. I assume the leathercraft can also. I don't think alchemy cuts it. At least I've seen nothing that would indicate you have something worth selling.

I remember a while back how I thought Engineering would be kick ass EXCEPT you can only sell your wares to other engineers!! So much for making money. It's an abomination I tell you! ;)
 
Huntn said:
Thanks for this advice! What would be a good alternate profession for an aspiring DK? Maybe none. What about Jewel crafting, is that a money maker? I all ready have a tailor, a armorsmith, leathercrafter, and a alchemist. The armorsmith and tailor have made some money. I assume the leathercraft can also. I don't think alchemy cuts it. At least I've seen nothing that would indicate you have something worth selling.

I remember a while back how I thought Engineering would be kick ass EXCEPT you can only sell your wares to other engineers!! So much for making money. It's an abomination I tell you! ;)
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Based on what you've got, maybe an Enchanter/<favorite gathering profession>. The obvious choices for a DK are armorsmith or engineer, but you've got that covered.

Enchanting can be expensive to level up since the mid-range materials are no longer common, but it is awfully handy to send your junk BoE greens and extra items from your other crafters to your enchanter for melting into valuable dusts and shards. It's also easier (I think) to make money with enchanting now since you can enchant scrolls and sell them.

If you're really into making money, though, I'd consider a pure gatherer. That way you can feed your other crafters and sell the extra. The gathering trades also provide some small combat benefits as well.

For my part I went Gnome Engineering/Mining on my DK, purely for the fun of it.
 
DMJG said:
If you're really into making money, though, I'd consider a pure gatherer. That way you can feed your other crafters and sell the extra. The gathering trades also provide some small combat benefits as well.
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My DK had Inscription for about day. Now he is Miner/Herbalist. And he can feed my Armorsmith and Alchemist toons. :)
 
Huntn said:
My DK had Inscription for about day. Now he is Miner/Herbalist. And he can feed my Armorsmith and Alchemist toons. :)
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Not a bad plan at all. The only downside is that you can't have both kinds of radar on at any given moment. That's an advantage of Engineering - you can track elemental clouds and some other resource. Makes it easier to get Eternal <whatever> in reasonable quantity. In TBC, I was hurting for Primals until I brought up an Engineer hunter with a Zapthrottle Extractor. Soon I was swimming in the stuff.
 
My Pally is L70. I have yet to visit Nagrand, Shadowmoon Valley, or Netherstorm (TBC expansion). A friend asked, why the heck was I not in Northrend? I thought it was because I was enjoying Outlands content, yes a little late but still enjoyable. Is there a rush to get over to Northrend? Does the gear over there make the Outlands gear obsolete? Opinions?

Thanks! :)
 
DMJG said:
Not a bad plan at all. The only downside is that you can't have both kinds of radar on at any given moment. That's an advantage of Engineering - you can track elemental clouds and some other resource. Makes it easier to get Eternal <whatever> in reasonable quantity. In TBC, I was hurting for Primals until I brought up an Engineer hunter with a Zapthrottle Extractor. Soon I was swimming in the stuff.
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Hmm, my L61 Hunter is a skinner and engineer. Hopefully not sounding too ignorant, but how do you track stuff as an Engineer?
 
Huntn said:
Hmm, my L61 Hunter is a skinner and engineer. Hopefully not sounding too ignorant, but how do you track stuff as an Engineer?
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As an Engineer, you can do the quest in Zangarmarsh that lets you build a Zapthrottle Mote Extractor. Then you can suck motes from the clouds you see floating about.

To track them, you can build one of several hats that, in addition to being very good hats, have the feature "Equip: Allows you to see gas clouds on the minimap" or something similar to that. It's a freebie, you can still have another tracking thing set. IIRC, there's a recipe once you get to skill 380 that allows you to add that capability to a belt, in case you find a better hat.
 
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