The WotLK profession thread - Page 107

ColdSnap7 · 01/01/09, 8:12 PM

where would be the best place to go to farm frostweave cloth?

Brekk · 01/01/09, 10:08 PM

Originally Posted by ash2ash

Actually if you can manage to get your JC skill to 300

This is the hard part. Mostly because even if you have the cash there generally isnt a large enough volume of the vanilla gems on the AH at any time to power level yourself straight up. Over a few days your going to need to stock up on any lower gems you see on the AH so that you'll have enough.

Lucinde · 01/01/09, 10:11 PM

Or you can just prospect thorium...

Mideci · 01/02/09, 2:17 AM

Originally Posted by ColdSnap7

where would be the best place to go to farm frostweave cloth?

There isn't one. Humanoids and similar creatures still drop cloth as always, but they drop it in such small amounts that you just can't farm it. Without the benefit of the tailoring cloth gather skill, it's that much worse. You need to basically farm anything else and sell it to buy frostweave, since the cloth is not farmable.

Brekk · 01/02/09, 5:33 AM

run instances.... many many times its the best place to get cloth, and yeah thats only if you have cloth gathering

oogg · 01/02/09, 11:20 AM

Originally Posted by ColdSnap7

where would be the best place to go to farm frostweave cloth?

In IceCrown, Northeast of Grimkor the wicked, there is a choke point where yellow lvl 80 humanoid spirits are charmed and sent south to join the armies of the lich king.

If you have a frost mage and the northrend cloth gathering skill, you can farm a ton of frostweave here. You will also get enough greens to disenchant for dust for the imbued portion of your leveling requirements. I spent almost half of my level 79-80 there and farmed enough cloth to get to 430, make myself 3 bags, and have someone else make me a spellweave robe and gloves.

The drop rate is much faster than heroics because you can grab as many of the yellow mobs as you want, they come on a very predictable basis, and they all come to, or through, your farming area.

I'm guessing here, but I think the location is around 44,46 in icecrown. You will definately know it once you see the yellow mobs run by. In fact if you see some just follow them. It will take you right to the spot.

If this post helps you and you know anything about how to get one of the 'missing' JC recipes, please pm me.

• frmorrison · 01/02/09, 1:58 PM

Originally Posted by Tavik

I'm lost on what professions to take. I have 2 characters that I play. A rogue with alch/herbs

Since you don't mind min/maxing, your Rogue with herb/alch can do well. I have Alc and every time it is up I transmute Water to Fire for an easy 40g. However, you randomly learn transmutes, so it may take a while to learn that one. Herbalism will be good if you keep herbing, since Alch and Inscription need a lot of herbs.

I don't like mining/herb because you have to swap between the trackers.

madman · 01/03/09, 7:33 AM

Swapping the trackers will typically be a hassle that stops a lot of people. I have actually realized, and recommended to people in guild as well, that if you want to be serious but find yourself short on money often, then go for herb/alch. It is basically free to level up, and you can farm on your main char as you don't have to buy your alts the epic flyer. Alch is particularly nice for raiding because a flask will last for 4 hours, and with only a a minor effort of farming you will have a flask for every single raid night. Herbalism gives you a dps bonus as well if you herb the Fireleaves. If you do this right you will save and make a significant amount of gold, as well as not losing out on dps. Myself, I prefer flying around herbing while gchatting or talking on ts compared to doing dailies. For serious minded people with a limited amount of time, I think herb/alch is an excellent alternative as they are.

wyre · 01/03/09, 12:01 PM

Fire leaf will be a grey item after patch 3.0.8.

Malleus · 01/03/09, 1:34 PM

Originally Posted by wyre

Fire leaf will be a grey item after patch 3.0.8.

I believe it'll be white, as it's still used to make Flask of Endless Rage. It will lose the Use ability, though.

Xequecal · 01/03/09, 2:57 PM

I am seriously concerned about how Enchanting is going to work out in the long term. The mat prices are going up, not down. Abyss Crystals are now 250g EACH on my server. In the patch they are reducing the dusts/essences required, but Abyss Crystal requirements are staying the same. In addition, the new Titanguard/Greater Stamina enchant recipies require 5 Abyss Crystals to purchase, and every single tank in the game is going to need 4 Abyss Crystals for the Major Stamina enchant. The drain is going to be immense. I can easily see Abyss Crystals doubling in price, which means that a Fury Warrior that wants double Berserking can expect to pay 11,000 gold just to enchant his weapons. Even a "modest" price increase to 300g will mean he's spending at least 7,000. I'm glad that I'm a LW, because as a tank I sure wouldn't look forward to having to spend 1200-1800g every time I upgraded a bracer. And I know I have it easy, compared to casters who are looking at 3000-5000g for a spellpower enchant on every weapon upgrade.

4LV · 01/03/09, 3:02 PM

Abyssal Crystals should not be the biggest issue once naxx10 pugs get to be competent enough to safely clear the instance, and loot starts getting disenchanted. But yes, in the timespan straight ahead of us, I'm with you on that. However, the positive side for anyone in a capable guild is running naxx10 for Abyssal Crystals to sell/stack up.

Ashaera · 01/03/09, 11:50 PM

Xequecal - Im assuming that your playing on a small server (or low ally fraction).

On my server hordes are like 65-75% of the population, but still Abyss crystals are around 100g max - Naxx 10 can be cleared with 10retards, so given time the supply will meet the demand.

250g each seems way above a realistic long term value.

Lucinde · 01/04/09, 5:56 AM

In a few weeks every competent guild will have Abyss crystals coming out of their noses. The first few weeks every item that drops is either an upgrade or an offspec item for someone. The only supply of crystals is people disenchanting purples they upgraded.

Now, the sixth (?) reset of the expansion, we're disenchanting half of the loot we get in Naxx because nobody needs it for even their offspecs. I can't imagine other guilds being much different because there is so much overlapping loot in that place (the droprate seeminly endless amounts of leather and tanking gear is starting to get annoying) plus that you get a mighty 58 items every week from *just* Naxx 25.

As more guilds are getting to this point and people randomly clear Naxx 10 on off-days I expect Abyss crystals to behave like void crystals in TBC. They'll drop to 30-40 gold in a matter of weeks.

Irise · 01/04/09, 12:46 PM

For the past few days Minor Inscription Research just creates a scroll of Recall for me instead of discovering a new recipe. However, I still do not have a few (about 5) minor glyphs. Anyone know what the issue might be or is it intended?