Catchup Guide - 10k ghost iron ore.
Imagine if the Cooking catchup process was similar.
All you need are 14,365 pandaren peaches...... beeches.
Catchup Guide - 10k ghost iron ore.
Imagine if the Cooking catchup process was similar.
All you need are 14,365 pandaren peaches...... beeches.
Here's a cost/craft graph to determine the most expensive portions of the grind. This should help to determine when you should forego the traditional process for Ghost Iron Bars.
Personally I find Blacksmithing not to be as bad as people say. Old world mats are everywhere, even with xrealm. Never had a problem with it. It's leatherworking that's the big problem right now, seeing as it's not even worth the pain come max level.
Some smaller servers have "gridlocks" where it's almost impossible to find mats. Ever try getting enough Fel Iron to level through BC content on a low pop server? Good luck. It's even worse now with CRZ, so you can't just farm without competition on those servers.
On the flip side, some high pop servers have extremely cheap Ghost Iron. As of this moment, there's Ghost Iron bars for as low as 2g39s and as high as 11g76s depending on server according to theunderminejournal.com
What this does is gives an alternative. At any given point in the grind it may be cheaper on your server to use Ghost Iron instead of old mats.
As for farming, Ghost Iron ore with the goggles has got to be the most commonly spawning node in the game.
Last edited by Abysal; 2013-02-26 at 10:01 PM.
Excellent contribution and gratz on getting a front page link.
I found the graph very helpful, thank you.
What makes absolutely no sense to me is why they just don't buff fel iron/adamantite/cobalt spawns. This is the main bottleneck problem when leveling jc/bs/eng in the first place.
Instead, they make this retarded "catch-up mechanic" to make current mats more relevant. Which is all fine and dandy until the next xpac when nobody will be farming ghost iron ore anymore.
Blizzard, ffs, just buff the spawns of the older ore and forget about this dumb shit which you will regret 6 months from now. You already made all older cooking mats obsolete, now you're making older ore obsolete. Which, like I said, works for the present. But in the future will need a serious redesign.
This seems still okay, I mean say you've got a blacksmith alt, and yeah you still use old mats and plans, but there's 10-15 level gap you can't bridge, just farm some ghost iron quickly on your mains/other alts, or buy it from the AH and voila, simple.
Power-leveling using the ghost iron is just as cost ineffective as going at it the normal way, but combined they speed the process up.
(especially at times when Mithril and FelIron/Adamantium are going to make it a pain)
I have eaten all the popcorn, I left none for anyone else.
Awesome job on the spreadsheet. If I wasn't so distracted by University i wouldn't had leveled BS 3 weeks ago
Nah, jk on the leveling part, it only costed me like... 10k gold or so :P But GJ on the sheet!
Do they have plans to do this with all crafting professions?? .. hoping it gets done for engineering
I already have a character with 600 BS, but it could be really helpful. We need this aswell for Leatherworking, though.
Like others have said... while this is likely not the cheapest or even easiest way to powerlevel BS, it is a nice way to fill in gaps if you AH is missing certain ores and/or offers a cheaper alternative in some cases
It's simpler, so people will do it. The people who power level BS off the AH don't care if it costs 5k or 10k the just want it done as fast as possible.
It's a horrible change and sets a very bad precedent for the future of the game. They should be retuning low level recipes and fixing outlands node spawns instead.
Also, if any profession needed this kind of effort it was leatherworking, not blacksmithing.
How is Leatherworking so much more in dire need of retuning than BS? At least Leatherworkers gather while they quest, not going out of their way. I'm not saying it isn't difficult, or comparable to smithing, but BS does have glaring issues and needs a fix. I'm with the people saying that Ghost Iron doesn't fix the problem, after MoP it will become obsolete, Fel Iron/Cobalt will still be an issue. Still technically an issue with this change.
Thanks for the guide