The priority for all 4 mage specs is (Hit)> SP > Haste > Crit > Spirit > Int > Stam
For arcane, haste is so close to SP it’s almost (almost) equal. For Fire/frostfire, Crit is so close to Haste it’s almost (almost) equal. Haste can be more valuable than SP for any spec, though, if you have 2T10 and it’s the last few points that push you over the threshold of being able to squeeze out one more nuke with Pushing the Limit up.
ETA: for arcane, techinically Int > Spirit, probably, but it’s still in the category of “don’t go looking for it, but it sure is nice to have”
Who cares, I want the gnome version anyway and I believe that an individual ought’a be referred to by the pronoun of hirs preference, since English insists on gendered pronouns.
Which brings my meandering mind (it’s 8am and I’m still in fuzzy mode) to “why did the devs not make it possible to have gendered nouns and adjectives?” “Dwarven priest” may be acceptable in English, but “dwarven priestess” would be more accurate, if the priest in question has no beard and sports a set of boobies; in Spanish it just… it’s… it’s… AAAAAAAAAAARGH! I know people who only know those English words which have entered Spanish (whisky, checkín, míster) but who prefer to play in English because it doesn’t make their eyes hurt (the ones I know are in Spanish-language servers, more than half the population of those plays in English, judging by general and trade). And apparently neither the names of mobs nor the classifications of characters are translated as a whole, it’s word by word, so the word order in noun-then-adjective languages is just wrong. I know that dealing with things like “one word becomes many” is very difficult, but I wonder how much of these two problems is caused by program inflexibility, and how much by the same mindset that gave us ForjaZ, Ventormenta and everybody speaking in Newscaster Peninsular Spanish.
My own response to Jaina’s sobs is “someone slap Jaina for me, I can’t reach properly”.
The most consistent money maker with blacksmithing are belt buckles especially if you farm the mats yourself which will be easy as you have mining. Changing proffesions is expensive so might not work for you short term so I would suggest take up farming especially:
Though you’ll have to check your AH to see what sells this has been profitable for me on my realm. Last night I farmed Crystallized Fire and Iceweb Spider Silk in Storm Peaks for an hour and if my auctions sell I will make about 500 gold (though some of that is from making spellthread from the fire and silk as I didn’t want to flood the market with raw mats). Not bad for an hour’s work.
Halion’s tanking boots and trinket from 25-man are now mine. Moohoohahaha. Bonus: the Defense on the boots meant I could swap my Herioc Last Word into my Armor set, which is what I wear most of the time these days, and I could replace the Def/Stam gem in the old boots that I needed to keep me uncrittable in the Armor set with a straight Stam one.
If I may suggest… Ditch the Avoidance set. EH wins over Avoidance, every time, at least for the current fight paradigm. There is literally no fight right now in progression content–ICC or RS–where Avoidance will be better. The only way you might want to create sets is to tweak your gear more heavily toward Armor for fights with mostly or exclusively physical damage, and more toward Stamina for fights with lots of magic damage (although even those fights, e.g. Sindragosa, still have a *lot *of incoming physical).
There’s a really awesome thread up at Tankspot that goes into a bunch of detail as to why EH is much, much better than avoidance:
True. But does Chromie ever refer to her/his own gender? Maybe he just likes crossdressing.
In English, it’s becoming more common to move toward using a single noun for a role, versus separate gendered versions. I think part of this has to do with the way that this gendered language creates a divide between the two otherwise equal roles; consider the current meanings of “master” and “mistress,” for example. But I can see how it would be a definite problem in a language where all words have gender, and I’m surprised they didn’t deal with that when the game was localized.
Sort of. In general, you’re correct–farming the materials to level a profession versus buying them “costs” the same amount because by using the materials, you lose the income you would have gotten by selling them instead. However, in this case, we’re not talking about maximizing profits, but about maximizing profits while switching to a more useful profession. In which case, farming the mats to level JC *is *cheaper than buying the mats to level JC.
Yeah, that really doesn’t make a difference. By farming your own mats to level a profession, you’re just generating money at the market price of those materials. That could be a lower gold/hr than other activities or maybe it could be the highest. Nothing changes that farming materials brings in money at the market rate and consuming them to level a profession (or make stuff) consumes them at the market rate.
That’s true on a per-item basis. You could have sold the mats for whatever you could have bought them for.
It’s not true on a profit-per-hour basis, however, which is generally what you want to maximize - for that it’s almost always better to buy the mats and sell the crafted item. If it’s not then you’re probably better to just sell the mats and give up on the crafting for awhile.
I don’t know of any gathering professions that can return a really high profit-per-hour - the highest is probably around the 500g that martu mentioned.
I’m pretty sure that the highest profit-per-hour professions right now are enchanting and JC. High, relatively steady demand, with competitive markets for the materials. Just takes a good amount of cash to get into the market (enough to level the prof, plus buy a good assortment of uncut gems or dusts/shards/crystals). JC requires daily farming to get the good cuts, however, while Enchanting just requires buying a bunch of shards and crystals to buy patterns (minus the patterns that are raid drops).
ETA: I now see you have said pretty much the same thing I did re: profit-per-hour and the illusion of “saving money” by farming mats.
Oh, I see, you were commenting on the belt buckles thing in specific. I was confused because you didn’t actually quote a post. I was replying to you specifically in the context of leveling JC by buying mats versus leveling JC by farming mats.
It is a common mistake though - many times I’ve heard people say in guild chat they’re going to go farm some herbs to make more money on their flasks… attempts to explain were not particular well met.
The only thing you ever need to farm is gold - how you go about that depends on what you enjoy and what the economy on your server is like.
Caveat: Some things are (almost) never for sale on the AH, and have to be farmed.
The mid-level herb market on Cairne is ludicrous. I don’t know who thinks they’re going to sell that stack of 20 Purple Lotuses for 400 gold, but I’m pretty sure it’s a better use of my time/money to run around Tanaris picking 'em at that price.
There’s also the potential gap between what you would have to pay for materials and what you could make selling materials. These won’t always even out 100% equal.
ETA: To use Tom’s example of Purple Lotus above, just because the only Purple Lotus on the AH is 20g apiece, so you farm them instead, doesn’t mean that using a stack of them to make something else just “cost” you 400g, since there’s no guarantee that you would have been able to have sold them at that price.
Well…I might have misspoken myself a bit. My Avoidance set isn’t specifically designed for Avoidance…it just doesn’t have quite as much armor on it as my full-boat armor set. Hereis my bread-and-butter set, which I use to tank most encounters. My EH set swaps out the Tier gloves for the badge gloves (which have a ton of armor), the belt for the Verdigris Chain belt (which also has a ton of armor), and the helm (which I just got last night) for the 264 tier helm. So basically it’s more a tradeoff of HP for armor. Unfortunately I have to wait a couple of weeks to roll on 277 Tier pieces since I main-swapped, so I’m trying to get the best non-tier pieces I can grab without losing my 2 piece bonus. Ultimately, of course, I’m going for 4 piece 277, but that will be awhile.
I tanked my first raid as a main raider last night, and for the most part it was a lot of fun. I held my own quite nicely, though I did make a couple of dumb mistakes out of the gate, due in equal parts to nerves and the fact that the main raid moves a lot faster than the alt raid I’m used to (we started with RS, and I ended up dropping my D&D right on top of the slept Commander, and then missing the pull on the third mirror image add on the first mini-boss so he ran amok and killed several folks before I could grab him). (BTW, if you have any tips for that, I’d appreciate them–our team doesn’t seem to like marking the mobs, and all three copies look pretty much the same. I think I need a way to run my camera back even more than I already do). But after that, things went pretty good. A few hiccups, but that’s to be expected with a new tank–and we actually had two new tanks, both DKs.
For the miniboss who spawns mirrors, pull your camera back further. I believe he spawns his adds right after he does the knockback, so watch for that. You may also wish to request that they just mark the damned copies already, since there’s no reason NOT to do so and it would make your job a hell of a lot easier.
ETA: I’m at work so I can’t see the specific gear you’re talking about. What belt are you using other than the Verdigris one? If it’s the Heroic Belt of Broken Bones, I’d say keep that–it’s got something like 500 less armor but a hell of a lot more Stam, IIRC. Dunno what the other item comparisons are like.
I make more profit from using materials I have gathered as I quest and do other stuff than I do if I buy from the AH. Not farming in the strictest sense, I should have been clearer.
Exactly. This is one of the things that drives me nuts, when trying to sell pretty much anything on the AH. I’m constantly running into situations where my auctions have failed at a particular price (usually the “default” undercut price that Auctioneer comes up with), and continued to fail as I’ve progressively lowered the price a couple times. This tells me that nobody is likely to pay X gold for Y item, and that the item was probably overpriced when I posted it the first time. So I go back to repost again, this time intending to cut the price dramatically, only to discover somebody trying to sell the same item for even more gold., and then I feel like a bit of a jerk when I drastically undercut them. But hey, I already know that the item isn’t going to sell at that price, so I’m going to try to find the price point that will sell. I mean, c’mon, unless a particular item has a model that is in high demand for RPers, nobody is going to pay 60g for that iLvl 10 “… of the Whale” item.
Then there are the low-level crafted items. When I post those on the AH, I’m neither looking for, nor expecting, to make a profit. I’m simply looking to recoup a small bit of money. Who knows, maybe somebody leveling Enchanting will buy the things. If they don’t sell, I’ll just vendor the stuff. So it kind of makes me roll my eyes when I go to post the five Bronze Axes I just made, and I discover somebody else has posted up twenty of them at 10g each.
Heh. I also have a personal policy of not posting more than five of a particular crafted item at a time. No sense flooding the market.
Yeah, I know. But I’m kind of hung up on proving myself, since we’ve also got another new DK tank (naturally we haven’t had a DK tank applicant for months, but right after I decide to main-swap, one shows up), and if nobody else needs marks, I don’t want to be the one asking for them. I’ll hunt around and see if there’s a command that will let me pull my camera back even further, though. That should do the trick.
It is, yeah. The helm is the heroic Broken Ram Skull helm vs. the 264 tier one, and the gloves are the 264 tier vs. the Gauntlets of the Kraken, each with the Engineering +885 Armor enchant on them.
Yeah, this too. I do most of my mining/skinning/herbing while leveling/questing, as opposed to spending time just farming mats. There are exceptions, of course, like when my skinner/leatherworker needed Scorpid Scales for the Dragonscale Leatherworking specialization quest (and the Leatherworking patterns that call for them), because there weren’t any on the AH (not surprising - they’re a pain to farm).
and I believe that an individual ought’a be referred to by the pronoun of hirs preference, since English insists on gendered pronouns.