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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jan 29, 2011 4:34:31 GMT -5
The weekend BG is Strand of the Ancients. Its a super quick BG and will get you honor fast no matter if you win or lose. I recommend it.
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Post by Yvondith on Jan 29, 2011 20:08:09 GMT -5
I spent several hours doing the BG yesterday, and got enough points for an heirloom dagger.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Feb 1, 2011 1:15:45 GMT -5
It was fun tonight. I did 15 Strand BGs tonight and only lost 3. It was enough for Bomb to get his first PvP ring. He is almost full on PvP gear now. Just needs one more ring, a neck piece, bracers and a cape. Warlock is next.
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Post by Yvondith on Feb 1, 2011 1:55:05 GMT -5
I really wanted to grind that BG because it seems like easy mode for alliance to win it. I had a similar experience Friday night, we lost very few games, and it's so quick and easy. But, alas, I was sick, and still am. I wanna get another dagger and the PvP trinket for my hunter and then farm up the honor for my PvP clothes. I only have the shoulders right now, the rest is quest blues and the bloodied leather set. At least now, my hunter is ready to start leveling again. I deleted her and remade her as a human, due to the old EMFHS. I'm already enjoying having it on my rogue, even with the 3 min cooldown. Clears just about anything that is on me, it's freaking awesome. Next patch, it will replace a PvP trinket completely, so I can give myself two DPS trinkets instead. Which reminds me, my little demon panther trinket is freaking awesome. Gigantic bonus to agility when used, and it summons this little panther companion while it's active.
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Post by Yvondith on Feb 1, 2011 11:38:58 GMT -5
Hey Norfy, remember you asked me about engineering parachutes? There is also this, it's called a tinker, and stacks with enchants. www.wowhead.com/spell=55002Turns your current cape into a parachute. There are tons of other tinkers as well, but remember they can sometimes backfire, and in the case of the belt tinker, can leave you burnt to a crisp, or a mile up in the air. XD I may end up dropping JC now, I'm seeing herbalism is considered to be the best PvP profession, along with Engineering. Still, herbalism has got to be the biggest pain in the ass to level in the game. But the heal and haste bonus is yummy. My rogue is pretty much full on PvP at this point. I may make another rogue designed for PvE. Race would be worgen, since I already studied and concluded worgen is the best PvE melee race there is. I guess professions would be leatherworking and engineering? I may go full out and just level the pure DPS classes, and make a PvP and a PvE character for each one. PvP is easy to know now, so I forsee a lot of humans in my future. XD I really enjoy min-maxing my characters. Also, for the other rogues here... www.shadowpanther.net is a great site for rogue info. Just glad he's updating the site again.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Feb 1, 2011 22:09:12 GMT -5
PvP will be rough for new 85s. Just don't get discouraged and keep aiming for that Resilience gear. Gem for Resil early on too if you can and as it gets higher you can start replacing those with Agility, Armor Pen, Hit or whatever gems Rogues use.
That parachute is what I was looking for. The one cape you linked me before didn't really add up cause I see 85s using parachutes and it seems kinda gimp for them to be 85 and using a low level crap cape just for the chute.
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Post by Yvondith on Feb 1, 2011 22:45:52 GMT -5
There are tons of other tinkers too. Engineering is just a great profession to give your character an extra edge, especially in PvP. I will NEVER forget the first time I was obliterated by an engineer in PvP. After that happened, I knew engineering was a damn good choice. Know what my favorite thing about engineering is? The freaking wormhole generator. I still go to Northrend on a regular basis. That thing has saved me a lot of time and frustration. It ports me right outside the Argent Crusade Tournament grounds, and dammit I love it. I picked up Herbalism as well. At least now I have a REAL money maker. JC was OK, but I wasn't getting anywhere with it really. With Herbalism, at least I'll have a raw material to sell on the AH for profit. And lord knows Engineering is the biggest money sink in the entire game.
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Post by Office Ninja on Feb 1, 2011 23:03:39 GMT -5
I always thought Enchanting was worse than engineering...
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Post by Yvondith on Feb 1, 2011 23:13:29 GMT -5
Nah. You can make money off of enchanting. Engineering? Besides guns, there is *Nothing* you can sell to make money on the AH. Bullets are no more.
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Post by Office Ninja on Feb 1, 2011 23:21:03 GMT -5
Oh I forgot they took out bullets...
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Post by Caller on Feb 2, 2011 2:13:26 GMT -5
You can only make money off enchanting if you sell the low-level "Twink" stuff, which doesn't sell as well as you'd think, and by selling the highest "No minimum level requirement" enchants for heirlooms, especially weapons. Fiery Weapon still sells fairly well, for example. Crusader, not so much, because of the whole "it starts to suck after lv60" thing. Even though it's good for PvP, people tend to go the "Kill it faster" route with enchants for that.
With the exception of a few high level enchants, enchanting is actually a huge money sink and will cost you far more than you'll make back for a very long time. Cataclysm enchants are bonafide worthless till you max it out, and I suppose the same could be said of Wrath enchants. Ironically some of the Burning Crusade enchants still sell well, and the most lucrative tend to be faction specific enchants (like the goddamned Furbolg Agility enchants) or rare recipe drops from raids/dungeons because they're still the best for those heirlooms.
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Post by Yvondith on Feb 2, 2011 8:13:09 GMT -5
But still, it's not impossible to make money with enchanting. It is pretty much impossible to make money from engineering, since you need engineering to use anything you make, except for the guns, bows, and scopes. But even then, do those even sell? Enchants are irritating me nowadays. You need Maelstrom crystals to do the best enchants, but the problem is, each crystal is worth thousands of gold right now because no one is disenchanting epic items yet. I did read that people with alchemy and enchanting as their professions can produce maelstrom crystals by disenchanting a BoP item they can make, but not too many people have that profession set. I want the best, dammit.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Feb 4, 2011 0:08:09 GMT -5
Check this out. Its a rated BG, Twin Peaks, where the opposition (Alliance) was so bad that the Horde was able to cap the third flag by walking all the way back. Just for fun.
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Post by Yvondith on Feb 6, 2011 7:42:51 GMT -5
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Feb 7, 2011 0:26:27 GMT -5
I had such a great time last weekend with Strand as the weekend BG. Now Isle of Conquest is the weekend BG and Alliance fails non stop. Nobody on Alliance seems to understand the need to control the Workshop. Each round it goes uncontested to the Horde and each round they win. I didn't play as much as I would have liked to cause of the non stop suckage!
Anyways, I heard the patch is Tuesday. Priest will be better at healing now. Yay!
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