So I made a real effort this last weekend to push my death knight's tradeskills ahead.
First off, let me say that one major drawback to playing a death knight is the fact that you don't have a chance to level any profession as you go. You are suddenly thrust into the world at level 58 and have a lot of making up to do as far as your main professions go.
So here we go...
Cooking is at 322 (I know, right?) Cooking? Who levels cooking? I never have. Which is exactly why I wanted to this time around. I'm up to the point of cooking up any strange critters I find in outlands. That's right. If it's dead and has meat it's goin in the fryin' pan.
Fishing is at 128. I haven't spent too much time on this, but this is another skill I have never bothered to level before. It's still kind of boring, but at least there's achievements now. Hey, I caught Old Crafty, have you?
First aid is up to outlands coth drops. Nothing special here.
Mining is at 160. Also nothing special here. I chose not to mine nodes on this caracter, instead using my level 80 pally to crusade aura around mining the necessary materials for blacksmithing.
And here we are at Blacksmiting: 350!!! With the majority of the materials farmed by myself in one weekend.
Oy! That's a lot of mining.
In fact, to advance this far I've used roughly:
133 Rough Stone
190 Copper Bar
24 Coarse Stone
5 Silver Bar
120 Bronze Bar
150 Heavy Stone
5 Gold Bar
230 Iron Bar
35 Green Dye
50 Steel Bar
5 Truesilver Bar
60 Solid Stones
150 Mageweave Cloth
320 Mithril Bar
20 Dense Stone
430 Thorium Bar
10 Star Ruby
155 Fel Iron Bar
10 Netherweave Cloth
70 Adamantite Bar
I'm up to the point now, however, that I'll be needing cobalt bars from northrend to advance. And I'm not going to bother with that until I'm level 65 and can advance to the next tier of skill level for Blacksmithing.
Which finally brings me to my point of this all. After having spent all the time I did finding all those materials to level a tradeskill it really did feel more like a job IRL. /rant Especially when you get to the point of not having any new recipies to learn, you only need two more points until you advance to the next tier of materials, and the only current thing you can make is of the yellow skill level so you farm up enough materials to make 8 of said yellow items and get ONE POINT!!! SERIOUSLY? WHO THE HELL THOUGHT THIS UP!! /end rant
Blizzard should make leveling tradeskills in the old world easier. Smithing up to about the point of using mithril bars went pretty quick and easy. Then you get to the point where you need a boat load of materials just to get one point. For instance to make the Thorium helmet you need like 16 Thorium bars and a star ruby. The going rate for those materials on the auction house is roughly 50 gold. 50 Gold for just one point in your chosen profession?! Hence the reason I farmed most everything I needed.
Seriously Blizz, just reduce the number of bars needed per recipie towards the later end of tradeskills in vanilla wow.
Well, that explains where all the iron bars came from.
ReplyDeleteWhat drives me bananas is that you plateau at certain levels in the game and it becomes harder to advance in the professions when what you need isn't in the area you're presently capable of sustaining yourself in. I had to sit on Mining for a while until my Paladin was strong enough to handle being in areas where you could find Iron to mine. A 25th level Paladin making a dart into Thousand Needles or Desolace just to mine some iron seems an exercise in suicide to me. I'm sure that this is done deliberately to string people out, but would it hurt having something other than Copper or Tin in the Ghostlands or Barrens? Kind of like when I was hunting for something my Herbalist Priest could use to advance his skill -Mageroyal, anyone?- and finding another freaking Peacebloom. The Inscription profession frowns rather heavily on the Peacebloom milled pigments after a short while, so something other than that would be nice in the 20's levels too.