🚀 go-pugleaf

On 18/03/2014 3:04 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

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

  spirits are bound, thats why skillups can be so sticky at level
  above level or at 90 they come in fast if you are out and about
  enough to do the skillups

  But then with the goggles and pick ghost iron is everywhere.
  That and I don't think anyone much is mining on my server.
  I often have 3 or 4 nodes on the map at a time and quite a few rich 
nodes.
  I still don't have the gather speed gloves on any gatherer.
I even got them first time on a warlock, happyhappyjoyjoy
but then realised THIS IS THE WRONG WARLOCK  enchant and jewel
sadsad doh doh DOH! :-)

> 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.

  gnomish army knife +10, I had a strip of them and every character has one
  gatherer gloves
  engineer doesn't need as much elementium as blacksmith but uldum is 
full of elementium and very easy to spot, very few guardian npcs
deepholm half and half, hyjal is mostly obsidium but sparse.
Also hyjal has more mat gatherers as people first start levelling 80s

  but yeah, you can skillup on ghost iron anyway
  It helped that in uldum my subsidiary miner was unmolested virtually 
no competition and XP 15k a node when a quest gave 50k ( or so?)
No question,
   gather mats you will need and sell well, and gather them quickly
   or quest slower.

> 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.

  I did have warehouse tabs full of stuff, which I prepared earlier :-)
  Fishing I levelled quite a bit picking up the alchemy humps which are 
mostly fish and quite profitable. But of course that wasn't a full level 
just from wotlk.
  You can fish pretty much anywhere, just pick what you fish. Thats 
where a character microeconomy comes in. After many years you know what 
is needed.  The humps are by design, forcing other profs and the AH to 
come into play.

  Again not having a lot of competition really helps, usually nothing 
but me and the crickets out there now.