The engineering head looks odd, it is BoP, rare, has no stats and only minimal resistance values (compared to the other resistance items we've seen so far). As an enchant it may be useful. Or am I missing something here?

Or that it's a placeholder; the other goggles didn't have (properly itemised) stats until recently.

Yup. The original was done for jewelcraft, for two people of my guild who wanted to see if they could raise jewelcraft to 300, or if they needed to farm stuff before the expansion launch.

I simply took the same framework, reworked it, and started from there.
Permission is hereby granted to use, distribute, analyse and reuse, blablabla... I consider this spreadsheet to be public domain (as opposed to creative commons or somesuch), and thus completely available, free of any restrictions.

Herbalism has its own consumables as well now. I don't know if they have a potion sickness type effect to make them once per encounter, or if they're just on a 2 minute cooldown (With healthstones etc.). But those types of consumables can be very powerful combined with cooldowns/bloodlusts to maximize their benefits (The spell power one is strong enough for a balance druid to have me seriously considering dropping enchanting for herbalism).

EDIT: For pure min-maxing the herbalist consumable for casters is at least equal to enchanting for all specs. It's 200 spell power for 10 seconds on a 1 minute cooldown. 33 average spell damage and you can time it with cooldowns/bloodlusts to maximize the benefit likely bringing it up to par with or surpassing the static 38 spell power from the ring enchants. If anything the caster buffs for enchanters are too low compared to leatherworking and blacksmithing at the moment. Tailoring is hard to compare without knowing if the Lightweave ICD has changed, but it's far stronger in PVP just due to being able to add more burst damage.

EDIT: More failure. There's also that 3 minute cooldown hot for herbalism, 2000 health over 5 seconds. Can be used in PVE survival situations, and obviously powerful in PVP for melee classes with no heals.

What about tests with the level 80 elixirs with a maxed out level 80 alchemist? I was under the impression those had bigger buffs.

Anyone managed to test if that hot scale with spellpower or attack power at all? Dranei's hot has been changed to scale with both sp and ap a few build ago.

Affected by neither.

Is this true of all the BC daily quests (XP rewarded in place of some of the gold)? I suspected it might work like that, but I didn't see any confirmation until your post. Do you think it's worthwhile completing every possible daily quest the day before wrath release, and turning them in the next day for XP? If they all give ~12k xp each, you could get a pretty nice initial XP boost.

It is true that the dailies give XP instead of gold but remember that the netherwing dailies give generally more gold than most (and therefore more XP). Any quest giving 8-10g or less won't net as much XP as doing quests in Northrend (although they could be easier).

Mm... this weekend I will try to make a point of doing as many different dailies as I conveniently can on a 70 and writing down the exact XP/gold reward split. Hopefully I can do this without having my hunter ding 71 in the middle of it. My hunter is pretty well "attuned", Skyguard, Ogri'la, Netherwing, good enough skills to do fishing and cooking dailies... if I have to, I'll copy a fresh clone of her over from live to gather more data.

I'll add one thing on this, just because this is clearly a max-out thread: This is certainly something that everyone who wants to level quickly should use. It's fairly easy to log off on the Isle before Xpac and turn in there, then BT neck to turn in Netherwings, hearth to Shatt and turn in daily heroic or something, and then on to IF/SW to go to Northrend. That is a huge boost on zero-day.