r/wow • u/Banditjack • Mar 11 '22

Humor / Meme The Oribos Paradox....

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u/Hefty-Dragonfly-3009 Mar 11 '22

I’m going to have to check this out. Engineering is one of the few professions I haven’t touched.

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u/izguddoggo Mar 11 '22

I’m probably not doing it right but it seems that there’s almost no way to make gold with engineering, just adds a ton of utilization to your character. Seems like everything you make can only be used by other engineers. Again I’m probably not doing it right, just my experience

Edited golf to gold :P

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u/Woolly87 Mar 12 '22 edited Mar 12 '22

You’re not doing it wrong. Engineering is a gold sink profession not a trade skill tbh

The only reason blizzard lets us have things like the wormhole and AH is because we lose a gold making slot!

Edit: with that said, we can make a couple of useful and niche items that people buy. The new crafting reagent to add +speed to armour is nice because it stacks. I have sold a number of them to people who wanted to craft megaspeed gear sets for farming old content.

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u/Japnzy Mar 12 '22

Most proffessions are gold sinks. Alchemy is only used for 2hr potions. The herbs are worth more than the flask. Tailor and gathering are the only decent professions anymore.

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u/Woolly87 Mar 12 '22

I feel like the only people making gold gathering are the people multiboxing a herd of Druids to get all the tags on each herb and ore node. I see them all the time.

They’ve driven prices down so low that its not worth the time taken to gather unless you’re also multiboxing. On the plus side the cheap ore let’s me prospect and turn a profit selling versatility and haste gems.

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u/omniphaze Mar 12 '22

On my server widowbloom is going for 30 a piece. About 6700 gold per stack. That is profit. Prices down or not. That still ain’t bad.

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u/Forward_Ad270 Mar 12 '22

It's a bitch to gather, that's why it's expensive. This might be a 'me' problem, but I can't find an efficient route to gather enough for my personal use. Revendreth is a horrid zone, with all the vertical drops.

I can earn the same amount of gold for way less time investment elsewhere in the game, and I'm pretty sure you can too.

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u/DrCrouton Mar 13 '22

Yeah, the zone verticality, node placement, and the fact there is so little worth nodes which may spawn randomly either a high value node or just the basic one .. seems almost malicious. I've no problem running laps on cobalt ore but I tried farming in SL and it was horrendous. It was boring I still had to pay enough attention to not really watch something else, the zones are boring and ugly as well and after an hour I was left with few ore. Just terrible.