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> On 14/03/2014 12:57 AM, Catriona R wrote:
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>>> actually at 200g they are ridiculously cheap
>>>
>>> Having just gotten into craftings with spirits I am really glad I
>>> mistook them for being like the old wotlk instance tokens.
>>> I just looked at
>>> http://www.wowhead.com/item=87213/mist-piercing-goggles
>>>    eeyup, boss drop, next! grind ghost iron, good old predictable
>>>    x-per 
>>> hour mining
>>> They are a lot of work to get a slow rate even with a farm (tillers)
>>> or farming various place, but fortunately not -only- boss grinding..
>>
>> Farm is 1.6 spiritsper day, they also drop randomly, and I fairly
>> often get them in boxes from my weekly Celstials kill. Also well
>> worth doing the treasure room on Isle of Thunder, you'll get several
>> in there.
>>
>>> The goggles should be like the 1000g+-1500g I expected at first
>>> 200 puts the value of a spirit at less than 100g.
>>>
>>> I would put the personal cost of a spirit of harmony at 500g+ so
>>> most of the spirit crafts aren't worth making at the market prices I
>>> see. 
>>
>> It depends on how much you play the character in question - on my
>> lesser-played characters, yep, it's a high value. On my main, I'm
>> drowning in the flippin' things, and they're worthless, I don't even
>> factor them into values of crafts :-)
>>
>> Being a jewelcrafter doesn't help, there's only three things I'd use
>> them for, all of which are barely worth more than the cost of the
>> gems that also go into them... half the time I turn them into golden
>> lotus instead and mail those to my alchemist, more worthwhile! Yet on
>> my lvl 85 engineer, they're naturally like gold dust, the amount of
>> farming it takes ton get just one skillup is insane.
> 
> For engineer I just missed them out and ground out ghost iron down to 
> grey skill and maybe a very few extra mats to get through the humps to
> green or better again. Even the humps usually needed ghost iron.
>   You CAN get skillups on grey, just not a hell of a lot, I clicked a 
> few too many times, and got a skillup.
> It was a bit of a blur, anything that can fill that gap onhand? then 
> fill it right now!
> It was faster. Not efficient, not the lowest gold cost but it got done
> and wasn't even that expensive.
> 
> And to skillup the alchemy I...just ground out ghost iron and did 
> transmutes.
>    [ yay,  transmute master at 80, I broke down and bought 3 living 
> steel, it was already 600 what was I going to get by waiting?
> SOB trainer took them, but should get them back on procs in a short
> while  ] 
> 
> To skillup the blacksmith..oh more ghost iron.
> 
> Anything can be done with ghost iron :-), jewlcrafting need gems and 
> they come from..mining and prospecting ghost iron.
> 
> If I had inscription I would find a way to use ghost iron dust on thin
> sheets of rolled ghost iron foil.
> Enchanting, well, you can make items with ghost iron...annnnnd
> 
> the hard part is if you have to trade/sell it for other things and
> wait for other people to buy/post.
> Anything that can directly use it without AH wastage is like falling
> of a log, many hundreds of times :-)

I'll have to look into the spirit thing. My main has been using them
for extra Golden Lotus.

I didn't really try to level engineering or mining till my lock hit 90. 
I found myself needing obsidium, but about 30 point below being able to
mine it.

Curiously, mining Ghost Iron for the mining skillups has proved to be
far easier then seeking out Cobalt or adamantium. So, I'm mining 600
level ore to get mining up to 425. I'm stockpiling GI as I go.

Engineering hasn't been too much of a grind up to this point, at 425
there as well. It's a walk in the park compared to fishing.

pt