Comments on: Exploring Enchanting Alternatives

By: SirFWALGMan

SirFWALGMan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:44:21 +0000

I killed one by accident.. I did not realize that the black kitty on the rocks in the Firelands was a special pet.. until I looted his dead body and found the crystallized tear or whatever it is. I then felt bad.

By: SirFWALGMan

SirFWALGMan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:42:11 +0000

yeah I was gonna mention as people did above DO NOT FORGET THIS JUST BECAUSE YOU BECOME MAX LEVEL. It is very good profit to use these for matts then use the materials for enchants and make some money. I use it all the time.

By: Mir

Mir — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:16:14 +0000

I’m at a point where I don’t ever need to worry about gold again, so I’ll just pass on a nugget of wisdom. Don’t work hard, work smart. Every profession has a few recipes that let you make (what some people would think) are crazy amounts of gold. JC/alch/inscription are the easiest ones to profit by, but all professions have something. Example: Craft the blue healing plate legs/shoulders as a BS. On my server the 8 elementium and 4 obsidium bars they take to make cost ~50-60g and the heavenly shard you can DE it into sells for 100-110. When I was still taking the time to make gold, I’d sell 2-3 stacks a day. That’s about 3000g for 10 minutes of (mostly afk) work. I won’t away every secret (partly teach a man to fish and partly server economies vary so you need to do the critical thinking yourself), but if you look really closely at your professions, there’s no reason to ever have a gold shortage.

Oh. And as a somewhat related sidenote, if you’re the GM of a recruiting guild, offering free enchants as you level up (which wouldn’t sell for much anyway) is a great way to generate interest.

Good luck.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:45:14 +0000

I would never kill a spirit beast. Ever.

I’ll tame it in a heartbeat, however. First come, first friended.

By: Kel

Kel — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:47:08 +0000

I would just make one small request, on behalf of my fellow hunters who may be camping for a new friend out there.

Please, please, don’t kill the spirit beasts? Please? /sadpuppyeyes

By: Minos

Minos — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:50:14 +0000

Green quality gems are far more valuable than I thought!

Except these damn Zephyrites. Those things are worthless on my server.

By: Bloodshrike

Bloodshrike — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:33:36 +0000

Ooooh, just thought of another thing. The addon _NPCscan and it’s companion overlay shows you on your map where Northrend Rares spawn and patrol. Northrend is so empty nowadays, you can easily knock out a lot of the rares in the Frostbitten achievement just by flying around in one afternoon, while you’re mining.

Northrend rares are awesome. When you kill one, you get a blue item, as well as a satchel containing about 20 gold, 20 Frostweave cloth, and usually some Crystallized elementals.

If you do decide to use the addon, you need to clear out your creature.cache file, since Wow scans an area you’re entering, and if there’s a rare in it, that’s how the addon knows to alert you.
I’m running Vista, and for me the location to delete the creature.cache file was in the folder C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Cache\WDB\enUS.

Hope some of the info helps. :)

By: Bloodshrike

Bloodshrike — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:14:34 +0000

Alrighty, you’ve already got hypnotic dust covered with the rings and chokers. You might get lesser Celestial essences from that occasionally, but it’s rare.
As Khettien pointed out, Carnelian Spikes have a 74% chance to DE into 2-5 Greater Celestials. Have your JC prospect a lot of ore, then make the Spikes out of the Carnelians.

Moving on, hands down the best way to get Heavenly Shards is by making and DE’ing Stormforged Shoulders, since you enjoy going out and mining. At a guaranteed 1 Heavenly Shard for 8 Obsidium Ore and 16 Elementium Ore, it’s even an option to be able to buy ore and make a profit. If you have the Bountiful Bags perk, you could get between 1-4 Shards, but you always get at least one.

For Maelstrom Crystals, any ANY epic level 350+ item DE’s into a Maelstrom. Even……Honor items. I think you’ll find that trading 700 honor for a relic is pretty inexpensive, since you can make that back with 2 wins of a BG.

By: Zamboni

Zamboni — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:23:40 +0000

It started out as the “saronite shuffle”. We’re still prospecting that dang stuff now that Infinite Dust prices are back to sky-high levels.

By: Khettien

Khettien — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:17:31 +0000

Yes, it is the fist weapon; they require 3 carnelians, and almost always DE into multiple Greater Celestial Essences. As you point out, it’s a hard call between the essences and the inferno ruby xmute.