Comments on: Big Butted Bear – Super-Genius

By: E

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:05:25 +0000

A few days late, and several dollar short, no doubt… but yes, 2 engineers, both with Jeeves. And I’d say the most fun I’ve had is either running like hell from mobs, popping my rocket boots (and later, nitroboost on my belt) and promptly getting flung straight up into the air (and then down into the waiting mobs) … and using the world enlargener, climbing on my bike and having a friend with any of hte variety of “get bigger” pots jumping into the passenger site. Reminds me of Genie in Aladdin – PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER …. ittttttybitty living space.

By: Yoco

Yoco — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:13:44 +0000

Having spent the better part of last saturday with those guardians I can say I feel your pain. Admittedly I did remember salvaging them – although I was not aware that was the only way to get the recipe. Still no recipe though – and for now I have given up. Maybe I’ll go back there some sunny day…

And aye, Wile E. Coyote is the perfect engineer mascot. In fact – he is where my nickname comes from

By: Minos

Minos — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:16:40 +0000

Wile E Coyote is the real engineer’s spirit animal. You’re not an engineer if you’ve never accidentally rocketed off a cliff.

By: Taikuutta

Taikuutta — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:37:44 +0000

I did it back on my Engineer DK when I was farmiing Halls of Lightning for disenchanting mats. At the time, my Mage enchanter was a little too squishy to solo it a lot so I sent in the DK and surprised myself with it. Didn’t even know how to find it, but there it was. Of course, then I had to go find the recipe for the repair bot. Gotta love the WoW scavenger hunts!

By: Theodoxus

Theodoxus — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:54:38 +0000

When Wrath first hit, and Dalaran had the ‘Engineers Only’ AH, I decided I wanted in on that perk, so I made two engineers. That was fun. But when Cata came around and everything was Org/SW centric, it didn’t matter, and I dropped it on my druid, picking up herbalism instead to feed the potion making needs. Now that 2M/7S has the engineer only AH again, I’m considering picking up engineering again… but the portals are so close and convenient to the AH (at least in Org, I assume in SW as well) – that that boon just isn’t as draw-worthy as it once was.

Plus, I like my enchanter/tailor priest too much to go through all that pain once again.

I am contemplating transferring my heirlooms onto a new server and starting up a new batch of 11 toons on Alliance side – maybe I’ll make them all engineers!

By: Symbiode

Symbiode — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:24:46 +0000

I may also have wasted several hours doing the same thing a few months ago… <..>

By: Wylset

Wylset — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:37:46 +0000

Hey Big Bear;

Love the blog, been reading it for quite some time now, keep em coming, thanks!

Feel your pain on that salvage vs looting. I’ve got engineers all over the realms, all with Jeeves. Figured hey, I want another engineer on my current realm, so mining/engineering, gathered up and crafted much as you did, avoid going back. Kept my eyes on the prize as well, when it was time for Jeeves, I’d already gathered and crafted all the necessary mats, did the instance runs to gather the older patterns, ready, set, go farm Jeeves.

Set down on the library plateau, start wailing away, killing by the score. Bout 20 minutes in, no pattern dropped yet. Hrm. LFD popped, so I enter the instance, have fun, and come back to the plateau again. This time, however, someone else was killing the mobs. Someone at level grinding away I guess. So, there’s a bunch of corpses lying around, and while waiting for a spawn I just happened to salvage a corpse, not sure why, just did. Jeeves pattern.

Oh yeah. Right. Not looted, salvaged, like you’ve done at least 6 times before.

I love WoW. Sometimes being dumb can be just as rewarding as being good. Not often, but once in a while….