This week I fully neglected live WoW for the beta and catching up on tv that I downloaded but haven't seen yet.
A few things on live, the girlfriend got her 98th mount and finished the meta for hallow's eve. She is one step closer to that 100th mount.
I've decided to sell off all my surplus of sellable items and only stockpile things that will help me up my professions at the start of cata. Thinks like primordial saronite and titansteel for the first few levels of blacksmithing or a bank tab of inks for inscription. The idea of going for the insane title is dead. With two of the reputation grinds going away people are inflating prices on those mats to insane highs.
On to TV. I finally got around to watching the first 4 episodes of Lie to Me season 3. Such a great show. If you haven't seen it go check it out. Also the season premiere of Walking dead came out this week. Great acting, great writing, and if they stick to the storyline from the comic it was adapted from it will be a great long running series. Watch it if you like zombie/end of the world stuff.
On to the beta stuff. Don't look if you don't want to know about beta.
Mostly this week I took my main premade DK and leveled mining. I found this horrible bug where the client and the server have trouble talking to each other mostly when you are flying from one area to another and you get a fatal error. It was like the world was pvp'ing me for mining nodes. I did get to 525 mining eventually. The reason for this was to level blacksmithing and engineering so I could see what it takes and what was available for crafted stuff at the top levels.
We have 3 ores that are mineable in cata. Obsidium for hyjal and vashj'ir, elementium for twilight highlands and deepholm, and pyrite for twilight highlands and uldum.
Pyrite is the new rare ore and shares a spawn point with elementium in twilight highlands and uldum. I got about 1 spawn out of every 10 elementium spawns.
Elementium is super easy to get in deepholm and will be super super cheap on the ah after a week.
Obsidium will be the back breaker for all the ore driven professions. There is no great place to get it in bulk, its only in the leveling areas and tons of it is needed to level professions.
Engineering: Good leveling curve, don't need as much obsidium as blacksmithing, and there are some cool things that will make money like a loot-a-rang and a goblin barbeque. That barbeque is probably the best high level feast in the game right now and will be used in raids a ton.
With the obligatory goggles and some other cool flavor items like pets and fishing lures and new bows and guns, expect to be able to make better money off engineering than ever before.
Blacksmithing: OMG obsidium! I spent easily 2 thirds of this week getting obsidium to get to 500 in BS. Not 525 like I did in mining and engineering, but just 500. Even at 500 you still need lots of obsidium to level. Its crazy. Here is an example, almost everything from 475 and up needs 5 folded obsidium. Those 5 items take a full stack of obsidium ore. And thats usually for 1 point in BS. Figure you need a few thousand ore to level BS alone.
On top of that, at 500 you have to go buy your new recipies with either, 1 stack of elementium bars, 2 hardened elementium (equals 1 stack of bars) or 5 pyrium bars. Thats just for recipies not even to make the items.
All in all expect Blacksmithing to be a major pain in the ass to level, but expect the competition to not be super horrible in the first few months. Investing heavily in getting there first will reap you big profits when you do.
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