I asked this question in the shaman forums earlier, but I'm working over the holidays and still havent made up my mind so I'll ask again. I'm planning on making my resto shaman my main raid toon when he dings 80 because my guild is so desperate for healers. I started raiding with him very late in TBC and didn't bother giving him a crafting profession to boost his performance. Instead, I kept him mining/skinning, where he is today.
I like me some casual BG PvP on him and had thought I'd eventually shift him to mining/engineering. But the head gear in the xpac doesn't seem as impressive as in TBC, where it was the best thing going. Part of me thinks the BOP JC trinkets and gems may boost his performance more than the new helm. But I do like the idea of my orc riding around on a tricked out hog and teleporting to gadgetzan and such. So, my long-winded question for you WotLK engineers -- is it worth it?
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Engineering is not currently a very interesting tradeskill. It's got a few perks, but it's in dire need of more schematics to make it worthwhile in the expansion. In terms of performance, you'd be better off with blacksmithing or jewelcrafting if you were looking for something to pair with mining. The motorcycles are neat, but you're talking about the time/cost to level engineering to 450, rep grind main Horde/Alliance faction in Northrend to exalted for the schematic, and then another 13k gold or so for materials that can only be bought from vendors who offer no faction discount. For the cost associated with leveling engineering, you'd be better off commissioning an engineer to make you one of the motorcycles if you wanted it that bad, and save your tradeskill options for something more viable in terms of stat boosts for your toon.
That's what I've generally picked up. So JC? Any JCers wanna weigh in?
Jewelcrafting prismatic gems are great...nice boosts over the typical rare gems most players are stuck with. It's fairly straightforward to level once you get beyond 300 skill, too. Uncommon gems will get you the vast majority of your skillups from 300-400. The only real difficulty with JC is that in order to get the sought after patterns, you have to grind a lot of rep and run a lot of heroics. Regardless, gems comprise a huge chunk of the cost of augmenting end-game gear, so if you can prospect your own gems and eventually cut them, that alone will save you a fortune.
The profitability of jewelcrafting will be changing with 3.0.8, but it's still a very handy tradeskill to have.
The profitability of jewelcrafting will be changing with 3.0.8, but it's still a very handy tradeskill to have.
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The profitability of jewelcrafting will be changing with 3.0.8
What is going to change with the patch?
tuskerdu wrote:
I asked this question in the shaman forums earlier, but I'm working over the holidays and still havent made up my mind so I'll ask again. I'm planning on making my resto shaman my main raid toon when he dings 80 because my guild is so desperate for healers. I started raiding with him very late in TBC and didn't bother giving him a crafting profession to boost his performance. Instead, I kept him mining/skinning, where he is today.
I like me some casual BG PvP on him and had thought I'd eventually shift him to mining/engineering. But the head gear in the xpac doesn't seem as impressive as in TBC, where it was the best thing going. Part of me thinks the BOP JC trinkets and gems may boost his performance more than the new helm. But I do like the idea of my orc riding around on a tricked out hog and teleporting to gadgetzan and such. So, my long-winded question for you WotLK engineers -- is it worth it?
I like me some casual BG PvP on him and had thought I'd eventually shift him to mining/engineering. But the head gear in the xpac doesn't seem as impressive as in TBC, where it was the best thing going. Part of me thinks the BOP JC trinkets and gems may boost his performance more than the new helm. But I do like the idea of my orc riding around on a tricked out hog and teleporting to gadgetzan and such. So, my long-winded question for you WotLK engineers -- is it worth it?
If you have the money for it my suggestion would be 2 of the 3 enchanting, JCing, or inscription. They offer relatively good boost which can not be replaced: ring enchants, prismatic gems, or shoulder enchants, and in the case of enchanting can be quite a money maker. BSing is also an option for the sockets but I haven't really looked that in depth into it since its not something I ever intend on taking.
montaghar wrote:
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The profitability of jewelcrafting will be changing with 3.0.8
What is going to change with the patch?
Rare WotLK gems will be available for purchase with Emblems of Heroism with the patch (or so I'm told). Right now, a huge reason why jewelcrafting is so profitable is because rare gems are...well...rare. And because a lot of the sought-after cuts require exalted rep with certain factions or lucky drops from heroic dungeons. Currently, the only two ways I can think of off the top of my head to get rare gems for "free" are as highly uncommon yields from mining in Northrend or from prospecting Cobalt/Saronite ore. If you're not a miner or a JC, most of the time you've got no choice but to buy your gems from auction, even if you're buying them uncut.
There aren't really all that many upgrade options to be had from Emblems of Heroism right now. People who have been running heroics for a while or who are running Naxx find themselves out of viable options to spend their EoH on short of BoA gear and Frozen Orbs. My paladin has about 40 EoH just sitting around on my currency tab and nothing all that appealing to spend them on, and I am by no means the most prolific heroic dungeon junkie on my realm. Lots of EoH are floating around on realms, carried by people who have no plans to spend them now. Once they can pick up rare gems from the vendor with EoH any time they get an upgrade with sockets, they'll be much less likely to be paying current auction house prices for the gems they need.
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