I agree the belt-shield is situational, but at least it’s marginally useful. More useful for my Goblin than a second rocket-boost with a chance to fail, anyway.
Here’s an engineering question: Goblin Barbecue says “Requires 475 Cooking.” Can I still craft one if my Cooking is lower, but just not be able to use it? I need one to buy the +Mastery cogwheel but it will take a while to raise my Cooking to 475 from… 27.
Also – my priest hit Exalted last night with Netherwing! Bought all the drakes. Went out with a bang, too, finding 5 eggs while out doing the dailies. Glad that’s over! Now back to the Cata factions…
Wouldn’t you agree that if the rocket boots and shields and whatnot were completely reliable, that engineering would be an absolutely required profession for anyone who wants to be competitive at end game content? Engineers have a profession bonus. The Synapse Springs as Daedelus mentioned is very powerful, more so than the static stat bonus from other professions for many classes since you are able to time its use with cooldowns and procs. Engineering oozes with flavor, get tons of toys to play around with, but is not overpowered compared to the other professions. I wish all the other professions were like that.
Yes, you can craft it. It’s also BoE, so you can even stick a bunch in your guild bank or send it to someone who does have 425 cooking. That’s what I love the most about the BBQ.
ETA: Err, not BoE – not soulbound (unlike the guild-reward feast recipes).
Yes, I’m 99.999% sure you can (read: I remember doing so, but I might be mis-remembering). I’m a big fan of the BBQ. When my mage summons cake in a PuG, and then admonishes everyone that ‘You can’t have dessert til you finish your dinner!’ Then drops the BBQ, it usually gets a pretty positive reaction.
Cool, I was freaking out last night because I was thinking I had to level my cooking before I could buy the cogwheel, but it looks like that won’t be a problem. I’ll even make some extras for guild runs - someone else will just have to lay them down for everyone.
Well, the two abilities seem very different to me in practice. The racial Goblin ability is more akin to the mage ability to Blink than it is to the Engineering rocket belt. The Engineering ability is much more like a rogue’s Sprint ability. Both get you to a different position faster, but Blink is near instantaneous while Sprint is a speed boost over several seconds. Mobility is extremely important in all aspects of the game, and with the long-ish CD on racial ability, having another way to get around quickly can be quite useful.
While a 20k shield may be rather useful now, I can only imagine that scaling of mob damage will make it less and less useful as the expansion progresses. Whereas the nitro boosts’ increased mobility will always be useful. However, I’m not an Engineer on my main(s), and I’m not trying to convince other people to take up the profession or change what they’re doing with it (although it may seem otherwise). I just think increased mobility is usually quite helpful in raiding, and having multiple ways of handling movement necessities in fights is incredibly helpful (Worgen sprint is a pretty amazing racial as well). Obviously, if you’re not raiding with the character, it may make more sense for you to not use said tinker, but I’ve never even considered using anything other than the nitro boosts on my engineering toon.
Could be. This toon is just starting heroics so I’m not worried about him being raid-ready for a while. Until then the rocket boots (and Ghost Wolf, out of combat) are fine for speed. That’s two more speed options than my priest has!
Has anybody seen any news articles on WOW lately? I’m curious if the growth has been maintained and how the business is doing in general. Thanks in advance.
Their last conference call is the most recent source I’d seen. It’s from early May. They said numbers were down a few hundred thousand from the previous period (to 11 million or so) and that Cataclysm had greater fall off than either of the other expansions. I’d assume that subscriptions continue to fall, but I don’t know what seasonal effects their subscriptions experience.
My anecdotal experience certainly matches the “numbers are down” statement. At least a half dozen (probably more) of our guild are quitting the game entirely, including some that have been playing since launch. We’re down from 4 10-man groups to one or two that raid on a schedule. This is almost certainly the last raid tier for me as well (although I’ll likely keep my sub just as a time-killer).
Yeah, the point of having a cooking dailiy in every old-world capital isn’t to let people level and get tokens faster, but rather to give low-level toons an option other than traipsing halfway across the world from where they’re questing.
The sad thing is, it’s not half to depressing as it used to be. You could level very slowly by doing the Fishing daily every day in Org/SW, which will guarantee you at least one point per day, plus extra cash, or you could supplement that with fishing that gets you some other sort of reward.
*Fish in the Dalaran fountain for coins (the achievement for fishing up them all gives you a fun vanity item)
*Fish in the Dalaran sewers for a giant rat pet
*Fish in Mixed Highland schools in Terrokar Forest for Mr Pinchy, whose wishes give you a chance at a crawdad pet
*Fish in any Northrend school for a turtle mount that increases your swim speed underwater (not as fast as a seahorse, but can be used anywhere)
One of the many reasons that a bossmod you can customize like DXE is infinitely better.
Accidentally using the wrong emote happens aaaaaaall the time. Something that can help is typing them instead of selecting them from the menu. To salute, target the person and type /salute.
I thought I smelled something funny in here.
P.S. If I told you I was going to be able to play Portal 2 tonight, I lied. I’m going out now. Mebbe Fri/Sat.
I concede my earlier rants were a bit overdramatic. I think it’s fair that combat-usable engineering-only abilities have been tuned to the point that the only time you’ll seriously consider using them is when they’re the only thing standing between you and certain death. (e.g.: rocket boot away from some uber-deadly effect area, where you can’t just run fast enough to spare yourself gruesome death. If you die of fuel leak or rocket explosion, well, you were gonna die anyway, and at least your death was colorful.)
Which, when you think about it, corresponds to the spirit of engineering in the game. You’re supposed to trigger the device, shut your eyes, grit your teeth, and plug your ears against the highly likely explosion. So yeah, it’s RP-appropriate. Just annoying to not be able to casually use, even in “convenience” circumstances. (Like dying of rocket fuel poisoning in Tol Barad Peninsula… I guess it’s a PvP battleground of sorts, because that particular malfunction seems almost inevitable there. And not just even in combat.)
Ah well, yes, there are compensations for Engineering. Frankly, if they converted Engineering into a secondary profession, most of the “Engineering-only” perks would be more in line.
Nawww, but unavoidable raid damage exceeding 20k per person is pretty standard on T11 bosses. The randomly targeted hits are even worse glares at Arion, who teleports across the room where interrupting his 60-80k hit is next to impossible
Right, so this shield would block 25-33% percent of the damage from it. That’s not huge, but it’s not bad when it only costs rocket boots that have a chance to malfunction anyway.
It’s obviously not so powerful that it’s necessary for anyone to have, but it’s nice when your health pool is only 110k to begin with.
