Get Your Crafting Professions to 350 and Gathering to 375

If you are looking for something to do for the next few weeks, level your professions. You’ll need your gathering professions up to 375 anyways and they are relatively inexpensive to level. Your crafting professions only need to hit 350 to be able to pick up in Lich King (the trainers there will teach you starting at 350) and the recipes at 350 in LK are far less expensive to make to level up with.

If you make something useful, toss it in the guild bank if you don’t sell it or disenchant it – we have lots of disenchanters!

Last but not least, take a good solid look at your ‘professions portfolio’: do you have repeated professions? Why? A while back, I had skinning on four characters, three of them had it up to 375. It’s a waste. You realistically only need skinning on one of the characters to support leatherworking on one of the characters (could be same one). Heck, you only need skinning on one character to support leatherworking on all of your characters if you really wanted the BoP LW items for them all.

So take a look at what professions you have on which toons and think about whether it makes sense and is the most efficient/profitable. Now is a great time to shuffle those around if you need to.

how to understand WOTLK effects on gear

i encourage you to reach out to the information coming out of the Beta of the upcoming expansion. sure, you can spend hours reading and digesting the information being pumped out in Wowhead.com etc; however, there are some great class niche level authors that are doing that for you and if you can trust the sources or the hosts, you can get some great information.

for example, i’ve heard through sources that the level gear at T4 and ZA is replaced early in the expansion; however, i have also heard that the T6 gear in many slots will be great for starting to raid at level 80 and only replaced once you get drops from Naxx.

from my perspective for Ironhelm’s gear, i use resources like:

http://www.tankspot.com/forums/gear-lists-rankings/39462-wotlk-tanking-gear-list.html

to help me put gearing into perspective and to understand how the expansion’s changes to my class are shaping up.

it is helping me decide to keep Blacksmithing which for the most part has been wholly useless in TBC. the only BS items I used, were BOE that I bought from someone else. however, that tanking gear list is a good resource to help me understand the impacts of class and profession changes as known now in the Beta.

if you do not yet have some ‘often read’ sources that you rely on for class/wow information, i encourage you to ask others – both in guild and outside – what resources they read. if there is one thing that differentiates a n00b from a veteran, it is knowledge — gained either from experience or research. for many of us that are not experiencing the Beta, research is the best way to make informed decisions.

[Small Egg] = 1 gold

It is the case of the golden eggs. In case you have not heard, Winterveil is upon us and the egg nog and gingerbread cookies recipes are out again. As always, that means those don’t-have-time-to-farm-but-have-too-much-gold 70’s are buying up [small egg]s on the AH.

For all you guildies that are looking to finance skills, gear, level-40 mounts or whatever, here’s the tip: moonkin just East of Auberdine in Darkshore drop [small egg]s at an alarming drop rate! Not every kill, but pretty much, you get a small egg. In a matter of under an hour, you can travel, farm, travel, list a 100 eggs.

Sell ‘em for what you want (check the market pulse), but I recommend 1 gold a piece. More (a lot are going for 1g 75s) seems over the top to me – but that is just me. You can list for less, but you are just losing cash that way. The market volume is fast.

Snowball machine engineering blueprints are also good right now – before the 24th.

Finally, if you are a tailor or alchemist, when you logged in you will have learned a new recipe (e.g. Red Winter Clothing). Turns out these are selling awfully well, too.

= )

Gremlins and your listing as a guild professional

Regrettably, Heinkel’s list of toons that wanted to be listed as professionals for the guild was stolen by murlocs or vanished by gremlins. If you are not on the ‘Professions’ page list, let us know.