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Aikouka

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Originally posted by: Anubis
i prospected 5 stacks and got 5 Rubys as well as 3 sapphires

How do you do this? :( I've always had really bad luck with Prospecting. I remember back in TBC when I had so much trouble getting reds and oranges... only until later on did I start to get them a decent amount (I ended up with about 20 of each... but I still had over 20 blues and greens).

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Prices are such on my server that I only need a single red or orange gem to pay for three and a half stacks of ore. The rest is pure profit. Plus, next patch they're putting in a recipe to make blue gems frm greens + a frozen orb. Or you could just cut the greens until they proc perfects and sell them or give them to alts.

To be honest, I'd have to see the recipe to see if the Frozen Orb cost (~70g) is worthwhile. I don't really do so many heroics (actually none right now heh) as I'm still working my characters up.

I believe stacks of Saronite Ore go for around 25g a piece and out of around 8 stacks I only got one red and one orange the other day. If you add in the others, it might just barely cover it or go over a little, but I can't really sell the gems, because I need them too :(. It sucks having 10 70+ characters (on one server... the eleventh is on a different serer) sometimes haha.

But I did find some Titanium Bars on the AH for 12.99g to 14.99g... bought 30 of them across two characters and I'll try to push my warrior's mining to 450 so he can help out a bit.

Also pushed into Icecrown a bit and did just about all of the Argent Crusade and Knights of the Ebon Blade quests (only have the Mal'Ganis/Scarlet Onslaught 5-mans left). I have to say, Argent Crusade dailies aren't that great... the one in Zul'Drak is horrible because it takes up too many daily slots (6 quests for 700 rep as the mini-dailies don't give any rep and if you do it in 20 minutes, that's 250 + 350). There's only one in Icecrown and it's pretty easy. KotEB has some pretty nice dailies though... well, the ones in Jotenheim. The Argent Onslaught ones are kind of bad... especially when it comes to those fucking gryphons. The intelligence one kind of takes awhile as well, but the transforming one is fairly simple and I'd definitely recommend doing it. I'll most likely take my mage along again and simply ignore him for the intelligence one, since mages don't really get anything in the higher levels of KotEB rep.
 

DangerAardvark

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I need Scarlet Rubies all the time, but it's almost always cheaper to just prospect some ore for one than to pay 100+g for it.
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: Aikouka
Originally posted by: Anubis
i prospected 5 stacks and got 5 Rubys as well as 3 sapphires

How do you do this? :( I've always had really bad luck with Prospecting. I remember back in TBC when I had so much trouble getting reds and oranges... only until later on did I start to get them a decent amount (I ended up with about 20 of each... but I still had over 20 blues and greens).

I have Good luck i guess
 

Anubis

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so we missed 5 min maly (25 man) by 2 fucking seconds last night god damn that was annoying

did 3D Sarth 10 again and rolled less then 10 for the drake a 2nd week in a row :(
 

Aikouka

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Originally posted by: Anubis
did 3D Sarth 10 again and rolled less then 10 for the drake a 2nd week in a row :(

Trade you my rolling luck for your prospecting luck? ;) Although, those Forest Emeralds actually came in handy. I used 6 or so of them to raise my Jewelcrafting to 430 so I can make the epic jewelry. I want to make my mage a Titanium Spellshock Ring :).

I also need to work on my Priest's enchanting a bit. He has around 400 Infinite Dust right now, but I need to get high enough to enchant my mage's staff and be able to do 35 AP or Expertise to gloves.
 

Anubis

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yea my /roll luck ran out in our 1st 25 man naxx where we were doing /roll on everything cause our new DKP page was not set up. Dying curse dropped. another lock rolled a 95 and i rolled a 96

i have not won anything on rolls since then
 

Jax Omen

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I definitely hear you about the green gems, I have like 25 Forest Emeralds and 24 Sky Sapphires sitting in my bank collecting dust. I'm saving them for Ulduar when the tanks all need to regem and Solid Sky Sapphire and Enduring Forest Emerald prices hopefully jump up a notch.
 

Aikouka

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Originally posted by: Jax Omen
I definitely hear you about the green gems, I have like 25 Forest Emeralds and 24 Sky Sapphires sitting in my bank collecting dust. I'm saving them for Ulduar when the tanks all need to regem and Solid Sky Sapphire and Enduring Forest Emerald prices hopefully jump up a notch.

Doh... maybe it would've been worthwhile to buy that Enduring Forest Emerald pattern from the vendor. I just made some crappy intellect + mp5 gems that most likely won't ever sell :p.

Although to make this ring for my Mage... it'll take 10 of my JC daily things :eek:.
 

Juddog

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Ugh... I am so regretting starting the Sons of Hodir faction so late in the game. The should enchants are awesome but now that I'm only friendly I'm looking at a month's worth of daily's to hit exalted.
 

BenSkywalker

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Ugh... I am so regretting starting the Sons of Hodir faction so late in the game. The should enchants are awesome but now that I'm only friendly I'm looking at a month's worth of daily's to hit exalted.

Collect these. As soon as 3.08 goes live they are worth 250rep per turn in(10 per turn in btw). I am almost ready to hit exalted when it does hit due to those(not even revered yet). They drop off of everything pretty much in the whole zone, IME farming the fire guys over by the frozen ore daily is a good way to farm them up(Eternal Fire sells for a reasonable amount on the AH so you get more then just rep out of the deal).
 

Aikouka

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I actually just started Sons of Hodir the other day, but I'm not worrying too much about becoming exalted. Hitting Honored is by and large a good goal and until then, just use the exalted Shattrath enchants as they're the same (well, I believe they're the same as the Aldor ones). It'll also be quite nice when I go to do it on my Death Knight+Druid combo (Druid doesn't need it since he's a Scribe, but they quest together so whatever), because my Death Knight is a Human and the SoH initial rep quests give 44,000 reputation... which means I get a bonus 4,400 reputation! :D So I get instant Friendly and will have honored after finishing the other quests once.
 

ViviTheMage

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Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Gotcha...only certain blue gems are worth 100g~ on my realm.

Also take the Bloodstones/Huge Citrines and cut them into DPS gems until you get some perfects to proc (maybe 1 in 4) and sell em for 20g a pop.

a little late, but whhhat? how can I get a perfect to proc?
 

ggnl

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Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Gotcha...only certain blue gems are worth 100g~ on my realm.

Also take the Bloodstones/Huge Citrines and cut them into DPS gems until you get some perfects to proc (maybe 1 in 4) and sell em for 20g a pop.

a little late, but whhhat? how can I get a perfect to proc?

There's a quest you can do at 340 JC that gives you a passive ability randomly cut green gems into 'perfect' gems. Perfect gem stats are halfway between the regular gren gems and blue gems.

Dont know where you can get it on the alliance side, but for horde you get it in Warsong Hold in Borean Tundra.
 

ViviTheMage

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Originally posted by: ggnl
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Gotcha...only certain blue gems are worth 100g~ on my realm.

Also take the Bloodstones/Huge Citrines and cut them into DPS gems until you get some perfects to proc (maybe 1 in 4) and sell em for 20g a pop.

a little late, but whhhat? how can I get a perfect to proc?

There's a quest you can do at 340 JC that gives you a passive ability randomly cut green gems into 'perfect' gems. Perfect gem stats are halfway between the regular gren gems and blue gems.

Dont know where you can get it on the alliance side, but for horde you get it in Warsong Hold in Borean Tundra.

why waste your time? ^_^ only for in between stats, haha.

I'd like to know where the alliance one is though..my JC is maxed out.
 

ggnl

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Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: ggnl
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Gotcha...only certain blue gems are worth 100g~ on my realm.

Also take the Bloodstones/Huge Citrines and cut them into DPS gems until you get some perfects to proc (maybe 1 in 4) and sell em for 20g a pop.

a little late, but whhhat? how can I get a perfect to proc?

There's a quest you can do at 340 JC that gives you a passive ability randomly cut green gems into 'perfect' gems. Perfect gem stats are halfway between the regular gren gems and blue gems.

Dont know where you can get it on the alliance side, but for horde you get it in Warsong Hold in Borean Tundra.

why waste your time? ^_^ only for in between stats, haha.

I'd like to know where the alliance one is though..my JC is maxed out.

You'd be suprised. Green gems usually sell for 1-2g each on my server, and the perfect cut gems sell for 20+ gold, sometimes even 30-40g for good red/orange socket ones. The proc rate is maybe 25%, so there's potential to turn a pretty good profit, and you only need 350 JC to do it.
 

ViviTheMage

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damn shame I am maxed already then! Those greens were super cheap...and I did like 50 to bring up my JC....few perfect's would have offset the cost...now to find the alliance quest. Do you know the name of the quest, or the quest giver?
 

Aikouka

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Surprised you didn't do it already :Q! I actually made a hit gem for something and was kinda crossing my fingers hoping that it'd be a perfect one and it was :). Only -2 hit for a gem that may end up replaced anyway.

I'm still having a somewhat hard time replacing my Shattered Sun necklace... it's kinda hard judging a replacement when it has that nice AP proc to it. Although, I think the necklace from the Icecrown quest to kill Mal'ganis (the KotEB quest: http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12852 ) may be suitable.

EDIT: Doing a quick check, I'll have to make sure to add ~38 AP to the necklace in any comparisons because of the proc.

That's also one thing I dislike about wowhead. They have a nice method of organizing and ranking things based on stats, but it just doesn't work with procs at all. This makes their trinket organizing pretty pitiful. They ranked the WotLK JC AP trinket above my Shadowsong Panther shattered sun rep trinket, which even using the top gems in the Boar AP trinket (unless I use Dragon's Eyes) will not make it better considering the AP provided over time by the trinket. Although, it's also possible that over-time AP is simply better (as in persistent and not proc based) as with an Enhancement Shaman, my damage is really spiky, so it is possible that I won't have the best of luck with Windfury Procs (and their critting) during the trinket use. I just wish they'd change the Boar to have an on use that's actually useful (like AP). If they did that, I'd be all over it.
 

Soccerman06

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Word is on a bunch of forums and sites is that 3.0.8 is this week, some saying 90% chance... so lets hope that hat rogues are finally nerfed!
 

Baked

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Originally posted by: Sentrosi2121
Patch notes are up.
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And for those wondering, it does NOT look like dual specs are in the patch.

It wasn't in PTR, why are people even speculating it would be on live?
 
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