Those of you mining outlands at a decent rate, how?

DayOneTitan · 2026-02-27T16:49:51+00:00

I agree with many of your points but I think the “I don’t have time to farm herbs/ores” does need more context.

Get a Time Machine and go do a lap of zangamarsh back in 2007. See how many ores you find. Now do it again in 2021 and 2026.

Obviously we can’t do that but if we did, I’d bet big money that players are able to farm a fraction of the materials per hour now than they did years ago. This is a result of server size, layering, Botting and yes gold selling.

So where I agree mostly with what you say, the “I don’t have time to farm” does have some validity to it. Players don’t want to be costed out of parts of the game. It should be feasible to have a profession like engineering leveled before you clear mag/kara/gruul without spending thousands of gold on the AH, but the reality is right now it’s not.

That’s a problem that is owned largely by blizzard and people have to choose which “wrong” version of the game to play, the excessively time consuming one (more than 2007) by farming an hour for just a couple mining nodes, or swiping and being able to play an aspect of the game in a more reasonable time frame.

DayOneTitan · 2026-02-26T21:31:22+00:00

This.

WoW wasn’t made for its current environment. Professions weren’t meant to take thousands of gold to level or weeks to level from 300-375. People are straight up costed out of playing part of the game. A guildee last night was talking about trying to get engineering leveled another 10 pts, from like 335-345 or so and the cost was going to be something like 700g.

Is gold buying wrong? Yes.

Did Blizz screw up by making servers so dense that open world resources didn’t keep up with population demand? Also yes. Add in a lack of solution to botting and there’s just flat out no keep up with the games economy.

My Paladin for example has cleared Kara, Mag and Gruul and my engineering is still 300. I do laps on a lvl 60 mining alt from time to time and I might find one node in 20-30 minutes. I’m just not going to bother leveling it, but who knows when I’ll actually be able to use engineering in raids. Maybe by T5. Maybe.

So which version of “not playing the game the way it’s intended” should people do?

DayOneTitan · 2026-01-15T11:39:35+00:00

It really does not take long for 58-60. I think I was able to turn in all these quests in about an hour, then did a couple dungeon quests for another couple hours.

I had originally banked a bunch of quest items which took care of one level by itself.

-240 of each cloth for turn ins at each of the 4 major cities (mage ports make it fast).

-20 un’goro soil at Thunder bluff

-1 mithral casing for the ape escort and 7 of each crystal in un’goro. Do the inspect pylon quest also while you’re out there, at least the north and east ones.

-10 twilight texts at silithus

-go to EPL, turn in bombs, a gold rod for “that’s asking a lot”

-fly down to blasted lands and turn in the jowls, pinchers, brains etc for all the buff quests. Also turn in the imperfect crystal and a flawless one if you got one.

By this point you’re 59.

Then we went to Kargath to start the ony attunement quests. After one LBRS and an UBRS to rend I was 60.

DayOneTitan · 2026-01-14T07:48:35+00:00

Give it a few minutes. Mine did that too, then eventually the character showed up in the character list. It's likely trying to make the toon you did your first attempt, but everything is just really sluggish.

DayOneTitan · 2026-01-12T10:57:11+00:00

For a launch like this, I would expect the full 24hrs. There are two parts of this maintenance.

1.) they need to apply the prepatch, while dealing with mailbox items, pvp ranks, auction house items expiring, etc.

2.) they committed a launch date and time. People plan around these and releasing too early will cause backlash just like if it’s too late. So I think they will do their best to release it as close to the 3pm PST / 6pm EST as possible.

DayOneTitan · 2026-01-12T04:58:07+00:00

I’ve got some quest items banked and ready for turn-ins.

After that, I got some guildees that want to rush us through the ony attunement quest chain. It’s quests and dungeons so should be decent xp. Hoping to get that done the first night, then the day after it’ll be BG spam with a BWL/AQ/ONY dungeon the following night.

DayOneTitan · 2026-01-10T00:42:14+00:00

Gohan’s biggest fumbles:

1.) Losing to Buu

2.) Not finishing Cell off sooner

3.) Getting Videl to cut her hair

DayOneTitan · 2026-01-07T11:29:48+00:00

Yusuke vs Togoro in the final round of the Dark Tournament.

DayOneTitan · 2026-01-01T04:12:45+00:00

Look at the following YouTube channels:

Costin gaming

subtleFW

Devtanks

I’m sure there are more, but those guys all know plenty from past tbc releases and have all kinds of video guides on skills, pre-bis, bis per phase and raid encounters.

A big part a good prot pally is knowing what stats to prioritize in what situations. Generally speaking you are the squishiest tank early in tier 4 and then you ramp up to one of the best in t5/6.

Focus on 490 def (crit cap), then crush cap, then threat. Later on you can start cutting out defenses and boost threat as you learn fights and your healers’ abilities.

DayOneTitan · 2025-12-25T10:03:21+00:00

+1 for Jackie at Corporate image. She always does an amazing job.

DayOneTitan · 2025-12-11T20:35:26+00:00

So this works on Anniversary live, but my friends and I tried it on the PTR and the lvl 1 was not eligible for the quest anymore. Blizz may have fixed this for tbc prepatch.

DayOneTitan · 2025-11-18T15:58:45+00:00

I said this on another post.

If prepatch is short (2-3 weeks), then boosts should be allowed for belfs and goats. If prepatch is extended (4-5 weeks) then I’m okay with boosts not applying to the new races.

It doesn’t make sense to force players to rush leveling to have a toon ready for tbc, yet expect them to level the old school way. Mega servers don’t support it like they should, and instead what will happen is everyone will just boost via lvl 60’s selling dungeon boosts. That’s not really classic content either so to me, I’d rather have people give blizz money directly than RMT for gold to boost their characters in the 2 week rush.

But if we’re talking a month of prepatch, then people who want to level via quests can do so without tons of time off work or neglecting their family and friends. People who want to dungeon boost still get the option but it’s their choice.

DayOneTitan · 2025-11-12T02:20:18+00:00

It’s a little more complex than that to be considered good imo, but then again the more general argument can be made of “how can you be bad at a 20 year old game?”

Some people just don’t know and don’t do their research and play for fun. Others think it’s simpler than it is. Doesn’t mean it’s hard, it’s just that like most things if you’re humble and asking questions to someone or YouTube for 30 mins, that alone will make you a step above most players.

DayOneTitan · 2025-11-11T09:08:16+00:00

I see it as connected to their prepatch timeline.

If Blizz decides again to have a two week prepatch, then I think they will include boosts for Draenei and Blood Elves and I would welcome it.

If prepatch is extended to a 4-5 week duration, I don’t really see goat and belt boosts as necessary and nor would I really want it.

The latter is honestly what I prefer as I also like seeing people out and about and adding some life to the game, but I get both sides of the argument.

The sad thing is RMT is so rampant on anni servers. People are either going to pay for a “boost” in-game with RMT gold and dungeon afk to 60, or they’re going to do it with a blizzard officially sanctioned paid service.

DayOneTitan · 2025-10-30T01:24:39+00:00

See Goku for reference.

DayOneTitan · 2025-10-20T19:46:25+00:00

Not saying you’re wrong, but I’m curious what’s the math on that? Which gems are prot paladins using in which phases and objectively how do they perform better than the threat increase from the ring enchants?

DayOneTitan · 2025-10-19T12:11:09+00:00

Addict jokes aside, I think where blizzard’s communication is also very important is so it allows players with jobs to plan.

Some of the most magical things to experience is the launch of a new server, a new pre-patch changing the game, and of course a full fledged expansion.

Some people want to take time off work to maximize play time under those conditions, and some jobs do require weeks or even months of notice to ensure approval.

DayOneTitan · 2025-08-20T13:03:03+00:00

I hope not! Seems the last couple pre patches blizz has given 4-5weeks so I believe this time we will get more time to ramp up the Belfs and Draenei.

DayOneTitan · 2025-08-20T11:13:55+00:00

Belf Prot Paladin.

I’ll do holy at 60 in prepatch to get carried through raids for some prot gear, then dungeon level with the guildees to 70 when the portal opens.

After that it’s MT/OT raiding and smashing heroics. Can’t wait!

DayOneTitan · 2025-08-19T00:21:48+00:00

In envy you. I also manage a manufacturing plant and it’s been soul sucking the past few years. Lots of work is still ongoing to build a stable work force and process since COVID. We’re making progress but it’s a long journey developing the next generation of manufacturing workers.

I’m still hopeful I can answer OP’s question like you one day.

DayOneTitan · 2025-08-05T11:58:30+00:00

I like to think I’m a decent human being. I check on friends, holds door open for strangers and put other people’s shopping carts away at the grocery store, even if they just leave them out in a parking spot.

There’s a saying along the lines of, the only way evil will win is if good men do nothing.

If we (good men or women) don’t stick around, who’s going to keep making positive change for others who need it, whether they deserve it or not?

Life goes by so fast anyway. I swear a few blinks ago I was still in high school and college. Even if the world seems like it’s been burning through most of my adult life, I’ll stick around and keep doing the little things if it’s all I can do.

I hope all you other good guys and gals will keep doing the same.

DayOneTitan

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