Choosing Professions: Profit or Pwnage?
Juggynaut on Monday, July 14, 2008 - 12 Comments Tags: Alt, DPS, alchemy, enchanting, engineering, jewelcrafting, leatherworking, mining, profit, skinning 
How do you choose your professions? If you just want to make money, clearly there is a general consensus that taking a couple of gathering professions such as mining and skinning would be best. Just head out for a little while, gather up some materials, and sell them. No sinking money into leveling, no rare recipes to find, no investing in mats to make something and hoping it sells.
However, if you want to make your character as effective as possible in battles, it will probably cost you a bit of cash. All of the crafting professions have a few items that can only be used by characters with the right profession, but some are better than others. A couple of the nice ones are engineering for goggles, leatherworking for drums, enchanting for ring enchants, and alchemy and jewelcrafting for trinkets. Let's say you decide ring enchants and drums are best to make your character top the dps charts. How are you going to make that profit? Doing enchants and making armor kits will only make you so much money, especially if you have to buy mats. So, now you have to make an alt in order to provide mats and make a little more money. But don't you want to make your alt as uber as your main? I guess that's just something you'll have to decide for yourself.
E3 and Me
So as E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo for those who don't know, kicks off what kind of joy can World of Warcraft fans like me expect? Well first off maybe none as Activision/Blizzard pulled out of E3 back in May '08. That said there have been rumblings that there will be playable Wrath of the Lich King on the show floor. I will tell you all that would blow my mind! We've seen some great screen shots and some interesting game play video, sorta, but hands on with WotLK... killer! Now they've been slowly showing us what the 71-80 talents will be for each class which has really sparked interest, Shadow Dance?? What? Murder Spree?! Crazy... So here's to some great hands on time with the new beast, I'll be twittering live from E3 as much as I can. Here's hoping!
- Dr Dark
Episode 1.1: Hellfire Ramparts
In this first episode, Project Lore tackles Hellfire Ramparts... on normal. What? Yeah... five level 70's take on a bunch of level 61 elites for your fun and enjoyment... with a few tactical suggestions along the way to help you when you run it yourself. Don't worry. They know. So overpowered it's comical. Rest assured future episodes will be run on Heroic. Let's see how the guys destroy Watchkeeper Gargolmar.
WotLK
Wrath of the Lich King, the not yet released second expansion for World of Warcraft
Episode 1.2: Hellfire Ramparts
In this continuing saga in Hellfire Ramparts, Project Lore continues to destroy low level mobs on their way to Omor the Unscarred. He's a big bad baddie but these guys make it look like cake. There are some very useful tactics discussed and you'll never see Omar go down quicker. Rest assured future episodes will be run on Heroic. Now on to Omar.
Episode 1.3: Hellfire Ramparts
As Project Lore wraps up its normal run of Hellfire Ramparts, we get to see the guys completely own Vazruden the Herald and his mount Nazan. They get a few nice drops and wrap up Hellfire Ramparts. Rest assured future episodes will be run on Heroic. Get ready for the carnage and the fire breathing dragon.
BT
Black Temple, a level 70 25-man raid instance in Shadowmoon Valley
ZG
Zul'Gurub, a level 60 raid instance in Stranglethorn Vale
ZF
Zul'Farrak, an instance in Tanaris
Zerg
To attack something with a lot of players/units, often leaving very little in terms of defense.