Ishnu-alah! This is your friendly neighborhood Druid Ankalima, just passing the time by sharing a bit of information. Fun times are upon us as everyone is anxiously awaiting the 2.4 patch, wasn't it supposed to come out a week or two ago? Oh well. More specifically I want to talk about the changes brought to professions (a personal focus of mine).
The first thing that jumped out at me was the change to the cooldown of Transmute Arcanite. A relief for Epic-unmounted Paladins and Warlocks alike I'm sure, the creation of the bars will no longer have a cooldown. I suggest waiting for the patch to buy these if you need them for anything else as well, since its more likely for the market to get flooded with them now the average price per bar should drop, though the cost of the items used to create the bar will probably rise to offset the bar's drop.
Chefs with severe aversions to fishing should look forward to this patch, since it'll much easier to level cooking up to 300 without having to ever own a pole. Charred Bear Kabobs and Juicy Bear Burgers (Foo, now I'm hungry...) can be purchased from Malygen in Felwood and use the meat found on level 48-56 bears. On a side note the recipes themselves require a 250 cooking skill level to learn.
The changes to mining almost broke my heart, as I've already suffered through low skills gains from smelting on far too many characters. However, I am looking forward to getting more skill gains from smelting for any future obsession I pursue. It seems this is more for people who pick up two gathering professions though, since most all professions that rely heavily on mining require enough of the different kinds of ore to help your mining along with little fuss. Still, help is help, and a smart professional knows better than to look a gift Naaru in the mouth.
Enchanters, and those seeking their services, rejoice! You can now shatter Void Crystals into two Large Prismatic Shards. The Large Prismatic shards are used in nearly twice as many recipes as the Void Crystals, and usually in greater quantities. Granted the Void Crystals are from Epic equipment, while the Shards drop from higher end Rare items, but the ability to turn an unwanted abundance into a needed store is always welcome - which all the Jewel Crafters out there are getting a hand in as well, with the added ability to turn green gems into a random blue gem.
Finally, I'd like to touch on Engineering (Careful, the Goblin stuff is a bit unstable...) just a little. Minor Recombobulator is now sold by Gagsprocket in Ratchet making it more accessible to the Horde. Rocket Boots Xtreme now come in a Lite cloth version which drops from Mechano-Lord Capacitus - good luck to you on that one. Non-engineer PvPers will be happy to know that Engineers can no longer run away cackling with the flag with these boots, they now cause you to drop the flag.
Well, that's all from me for now. Ande'thoras-ethil, and happy hunting all!
~Ankalima |