Madlax

Just to edit this so that every one understands it properly, granted the cut/cut not discussion should head over to the "Icy Art of Making Gold":

• Solid
• Forceful, Jagged, Steady, Vivid
• Accurate, Etched, Glinting, Inscribed, Luminous, Potent, Reckless, Resolute, Stalwart, Veiled
• Glowing, Purified, Regal, Royal, Sovereign, Shifting
• Bold, Bright, Delicate, Flashing, Fractured, Precise, Runed
• Brilliant, Mystic, Quick, Rigid, Smooth

33 Prime Cuts
That is the list of cuts I sell on a regular base and have made me a very decent amount of gold every since BC.
The highest demand by far are the Scarlet Ruby cuts(Bold, Runed, Delicate).
Closely after that Smooth and Rigid Autumn's Glow aswell as Inscribed and Reckless Monarch Topaz.

 

dr_AllCOM3

I prospected some stacks of Titanium Ore and combined the results with those of the previous page.

You can expect the following from one prospect (rounded within 1%):

Epic	25%
Rare	25%
Common	150%
Powder	75%

So one stack equals one epic gem.

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Nemantopia

At the moment, other data posts I've seen correlate to this one. Depending on the conversion rate of rare gems, the equation may simplify to something around one stack equaling 1.3333, 1.25, or 1.125 epic gems. Of course, considering the spread of colors it would take a lot of stacks for that to truly work out, but collaborating with other JCs or with guild-mates and friends using you as a prospector to reach a fair arrangement for converting and distributing a load of rares. Which I'd go ahead and charge for, much as I hate giving that advice. If you're going to be a prospecting horse, it's going to take a lot of your time, and unless you're feeling very generous to friends and guildies it makes sense to be compensed for your time. As I mentioned in the gold thread, I would not discount using stores of saronite for rares to convert to epics just yet. It won't provide titanium dust to increase your recipe stock, but it may provide provide from sheer gem value.

As a personal note, JCs may benefit and accquire recipes very quickly by creating prospecting arrangements. Instead of charging gold, a % of gems, or the like, work out the following arrangement with those you prospect for (I will be doing this with a JC guild-mate): I prospect for you, you keep your gems, I get the titanium dust you can't use. With the demand for epic gems at release and so many people stocking on Ore, it's a no-brainer way to expand your cuts to better profit from under-represented but desired sales.

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ash2ash

Engineering is getting an overhaul

Still looks like they do not give the static boosts on par with the other non-gathering professions, but the added a lot of nice little perks.

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Cybsled

The upcoming engi changes are great IMO. The utility they are adding (ports, port-a-bank, AH in Dalaran for engis only, the return of the MC hat, free bomb making belt, bonus on injectors, the tinker stat/effect buffs) more then make up for it in the time/resource savings alone.

 

KraxisSingular

Blizzard has said now and then that they don't think every profession should be the same when people have complained at Engineering.
Now they prove that they truly do want Engineering to be fun to just have.

While I dropped my Engineering long ago, and it looks like it remains a good choice, I can at least be happy to see that Engineering is no longer going to be weak and not terribly fun at the same time. Now it will have some of the fun stuff that it lacked from TBC and onwards.

 

Tigby

wrong post, sorry

 

Tryania

Alright. Good to know.

I'm one of those nut jobs that needs to have EVERY jewelcrafting design in the game (I'm getting pretty damned close), and I have been going on a binge buying Damaged Necklaces.

Judging from what I've been reading, Epic Gem Cuts are going to cost 5 Dalaran JewelCrafting Tokens, I've been saving mine up since I heard that I am going to need them come 3.2, and I currently have 41.

I have also managed to collect over 500 titanium ore for the titanium dusts.

What I need to know is does ANYONE have any idea how many of the designs are obtainable buy Purchase with the Tokens, how many are World Drops, how many need to be farmed from certain mobs, or Obtained from Rep?

I need to know this because I would like to know how many tokens I need to save up, before I can stop spamming in Trade.

Any help would be vastly appreciated.

 

Nemantopia

Currently it looks like the recipes will be purchased, period. World drops and reputation currently look to have been taken out of the equation for 3.2, but this is just based on what is currently known. We all know how the devs like throwing curveballs into easy arrangements.

On a different note, I'm looking forward to the engineering changes a helluva lot. Eough that I've started leveling my second serious alt much more seriously, and am seriously considering dropping herbalism on my DK to level engineering. For pure awesome. The tremendous utility increase is great, but the bomb and mote changes are what are really selling. I mean sure, Jeeves is great, but better siege damage and gathering is a great perk combined with Dala-auctions and better potion injectors. Dangerous wormholes, what's not to love?

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Brekk

It's very possible some will turn out to be world drops, rare drops from certain mobs, etc when they hit live. On the PTR they need everyone to have easy access to everything to test balance.

 

Tryania

I guess in that case, I'll just collect any Damaged Necklaces I can, and farm more Titanium Ore.

 

Ranjurm

At any rate a good portion will remain vendor based and thus tokens will still be valuable.

 

Marthisdil

Has anyone heard/seen anything substantiating the "rumor" that there is a very rare chance that Saronite prospects will result in an epic?

 

Schepwocket

Woot for wasting space, good thing I will never use this website ever again, as I believe that the moderators are much too strict, and will give people infraction points for the silliest little things. Goodbye.

 

◊ Maniq

Just enforcing this choice for you.

Oh and I'll IP ban you as well.

Oh and if you message me about my user title, you'll get an infraction as well

 

songster

Is there a level limit for the quest to learn the red gem transmute?

 

Astrik

The above post is from a comment on MMO-Champion. Looks like I will have to finally drag my level 70 alchemist to Dalaran


Its a trap!

 

footloop

I seem to recall a quote from the last PTR cycle saying that this isn't the sort of thing they do. If they're on the vendors on the PTR, I'm willing to bet that they'll be on the vendors on live as well.

 

KraxisSingular

Well, some things are considered important enough, others aren't. For instance if you are LW you still need to farm specific mobs in Icecrown to get the resistance fur linings. Of course, those are specific for one thing and are personal, but apparently somewhere along the line there is a cutoff point where stuff can be mobdropped (not to speak of raiddrops).
But yes, they have said that general world drops are not fun.

Apparently I'm awesome, if only I knew how such an improbable thing could happen.

 

inksy

A strange thing surfaced on another forum. It is the only such item discovered as of yet but maybe there will be more to come for other professions?

Book of Crafting Secrets

 

Jaconis

That's interesting. I would bet that there would be one for each profession. This is just further proof, as if it were needed, that Blizz doesn't really care about any content from before their latest expansion. With that in mind, I'll be surprised if these items work for skill levels past 375.

 

Uzziel

Is it just me or is that an Heirloom item in color? It says BoP but that doesn't make sense. Frankly, getting double points for power leveling a profession has the possibility of destroying the markets for old world materials. Leveling a profession on an alt is not some majorly time intensive issue that should be skippable once you have already done it - at least as far as I am concerned. I'm interested to see more information on this item if anyone has any insight.

EDIT: There is also a book symbol associated with it on the mmo-champ database, however it is listed as "unknown item" Unknown item #45084 - Items - Sigrie

 

footloop

You misunderstand me, I meant that they won't put a different drop mechanism on the PTR for the sake of 'easy access'. If they're not world drops on the PTR then they're not going to be world drops on live, which is what the post I quoted thought might happen.

A blanket doubling of skill points gained might be too big of a buff, but I think that *something* needs to be done. With the speed of leveling these days it's incredibly difficult for even a new player to keep their professions progressing at the same rate as their level, and the material/time cost for some professions is incredibly excessive relative to other ones. Blacksmithing and engineering in particular require such absurd amounts of thorium and mithril currently.

 

Aguran

This might be the means previously alluded to (my BlueFu is weak) means of re-leveling a profession more easily once you've mastered it. It would also explain the requirement of 1 in the profession and the BoP status.

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Mideci

Jewelcrafting recipes are down to 4 tokens on the last several PTR build. So I'm guessing that's where it's going to end up.