Engineering

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OutDps asked his readers to sort the Ulduar raiding achievement according to difficulty.This request is silly. The opinion of random people is worthless because:Opinions can come from people who haven't even seen Ulduar (unreliable)Their opinion does

All the World's a Stage: So you want to be an Engineer

This installment of All the World's a Stage is the thirty-fifth in a series of roleplaying guides about how to roleplay various aspects of the lore and gaming elements of WoW. Engineering has been my favorite profession in WoW, both in terms of its usefulness

Arcane Brilliance: Patch 3.2 for Mages

Each week Arcane Brilliance sits down to write a column about Mages and all things Mageworthy. Big news this week in Mageville: Patch 3.2 is hitting the PTRs. And we all know what that means -- new Mage cat forms. Finally.Having had some time to ingest

Sparkle Sparkle?

Engineering * Added a schematic for a Goblin Welding Beam that can heal friendly mechanical units. * Alarm-o-Bot functionality changed. Materials required reduced. * Box of Bombs no longer requires an anvil. * Doubled the duration on Nitro

Insider Trader: Patch 3.2 profession change analysis

Insider Trader is your inside line on making, selling, buying and using player-made products.Over the past few days, some upcoming professions changes for Patch 3.2 have been announced, and although they are not as detailed as they could be, several of

Patch 3.2: More profession changes

We've picked up some more details about professions in Patch 3.2. Some of the changes were covered a few days ago by Eliah. The notes made today elaborate more on engineering, alchemy, fishing and cooking changes.
Alchemy
Stackable

Patch 3.2: Non-Druid Changes

Typically I’m in the “I don’t really care” boat when it comes to patches. Sure, I’ll watch the druid changes, but I’ve never threatened to quit Ice or anything over it – I roll with the punches. But this isn’t about the class changes.

More 3.2 news, PTR active

3.2 seems to be speeding up suddenly. PTR patch notes! The Big and complete list can be found at MMOC, WoR, WR and a some other sites. But those won't have all the comments attached to it that you're used to from seeing on this blog!Some of the highlightsInstances*

Epic gems and profession changes in Patch 3.2

With all the things I'm waiting to hear about in patch 3.2, completely unforeseen news takes me by surprise. Bornakk just revealed that epic gems are coming in that patch, as well as some changes to other professions.
Jewelcrafters will be able

Ret!

My guild recruited a prot paladin today. I decided this was as good a time as any to go ret. I'd had interest in going ret for a while, mostly due to the loot system we use.Main specs have priority over dual spec, which means that I'm not only competing

What do you mean I can't skin you.

Last night was crazy good, after the abominably slack raid we had on thursday. We 2shot thorim and freya, and decided to spend the rest of the night on a boss we hadn't worked on in 25 man at all before. Mimiron.
And he went down on the third

Sustainability

Just to save some time: If you don't think that you're part of a society or if you only care about yourself, you can just skip this. If you have some semblance of humanity, read on. Also, this isn't about environmentalism, so you lose points if you

Around Azeroth: River deep, mountain high

Deathtoes of <Wrath of Honor> on Argent Dawn is attempting to live up to his name in this screenshot, as he prepares to take a leap into oblivion. Don't do it, Deathtoes! You have so much to unlive for! Of course, being a gnome, he could just

Hard Mode Flame Leviathon 4 Tower and Heroic:Orbit-uary

Last night was a fun late start to the raid week.Due to some attendance issues,the normal Tuesday start of Ulduar25 man was postponed to allow for 2 smaller groups to run 10man hard mode/achievements. The runs were flawless,and some more achievements

Popular scams and how to avoid them

We have a lot of reports of scams coming in to our tip line and many of us are receiving the same phishing emails you are. Even Scott Kurtz from PvPOnline was tweeting about getting one the other day. These scams can be initiated via email to any one

Insider Trader: Profession-specific buffs part 2

Insider Trader is your inside line on making, selling, buying and using player-made products.Last week, Insider Trader discussed the profession-only bonuses associated with Inscription, Jewelcrafting and Enchanting. This week, I'm going to walk you through

Farewell Engineering =(

Very very sad day for ShadowAshey .... will keep you guys posted on how Jewelcrafting goes!The macro I used look like this (example):Really useful for enchanters. Allows us to spam this macro instead of searching through our bags beforehand. The same

Insider Trader: Your guide to profession-specific buffs

Insider Trader is your inside line on making, selling, buying and using player-made products.The World of Warcraft's second expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King, changed the way that we players, as tradespeople, view professions and altered the reasoning

Breakfast Topic: Inexplicable dislikes

Last Monday, we did a breakfast topic on things you like in WoW that other people don't understand. Today, let's talk about the opposite: things you hate that other people don't get, or that maybe don't make any sense at all. You know - that thing that

Lazy Link Monday

We've been losing a lot of big blogs lately, but a lot of great new ones have been popping up. I thought I'd share a little link love with some of the new stuff I've found over the past couple of weeks.Leading off we have, Pierre @ Leading A Guild -

Insider Trader: Farming recipes in Northrend

Insider Trader is your inside line on making, selling, buying and using player-made products.This week, Insider Trader will be listing the locations and mobs that will drop recipes to help you complete your collection and expand your knowledge to boost

Weekly report

34K since last week. I gained 32K from selling the transported stuff and I still have some, including two hogs.11K from the glyph industry and still not on the top. Some competitors are still struggling to have some profit undercutting me, but it's only

Today's theme is stamina

JC gems are getting nerfed. Their BoP gems will no longer be prismatic. This means that JC tanks can no longer stack stam and get free stats in the process from the socket bonuses. I find this to be perfectly reasonable. The bonuses are there to discourage

It’s time to pay the tinker!

As you well know, the folks at WoWInsider (now WoW.com) have long held the Blizzard mantra of “engineering is fine”. Several posts have been written over at WoW.com which basically ignore or dismiss every major and factual argument put forward

Could virtual worlds inspire learning?

I spun this off from my earlier post about crazy Halo 3 kid.It's disturbing to imagine that video games aren't just worlds to play in, they're worlds to live in. All social ties and entertainment can come from games. When this happens the real world

The Future of Engineering

The latest blow to Engineers has come from the Developers. Rocket Boots will no longer work in Arenas.I think this is a precursor to a big announcement, possibly at Blizzcon about Engineering. Remember that here at Honor’s Code, “All Predictions Are

My BF finally got his toon's engineering high enough to make his copter last night.Today, he decides to go to Storm Peaks to do some dailies.This hilarity ensues:

Nitro Boosts Shut Down In Arena.

As the title says blizzard have just released the following statement:''After several attempts to balance the Nitro Boots ability in the arena, we have decided that we currently do not have an acceptable solution. Until we are able to better balance this

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