New patch notes have been posted recently from the PTR and I’ve just copied my own characters to the Test Realm to analyze them more fully. Some are pretty obvious, so I thought I’d share my thoughts on these in the interim:
I have some bad news for Jewelcrafters. The new Brilliant Glass item has already been nerfed. Today I logged in and tried making a few more, and it now has a 23 hour cooldown. While I understand the reasons behind this, likely an attempt to avoid a flood of blue gems on the market, I’m still a bit sad. It was nice to think that I would clear my bags of all the green tribbles and make something useful from them. Ah well, at least the gem economy won’t go down the crapper 24 hours after the patch, right?
“A new jewelcrafting recipe has been added to transform many green quality gems into a single random blue quality gem. This recipe is available from grandmaster jewelcrafting trainers.” — Yours Truly, Blizzard.
Tonight I discovered a new vendor on the Isle of Quel’Danas and I’m terribly excited. Perhaps Blizzard isn’t as evil and uncaring as I previously believed with regard to the epic Jewelcrafting trinkets after all. (more…)
Jewelcrafting is getting a lot of new goodies in the next patch, perhaps more than any other profession. Many of the new recipes appear to be drops from the new raid instance, but a fair number are also being sold by the new faction vendor. Just recently some new epic gem-cutting recipes were added that will utilize the current epic gems now available from Black Temple: (more…)
So I finally tracked down the new epic trinkets that are coming our way in the 2.4 patch. They are pretty nifty, I must say. Most of the trinkets are superior to Karazhan loot, which should make them desirable to the average player.
The test server has been quite a challenge for me this time out, the character copies were down for close to a week and now that I’m finally there, the lag is beyond horrible. Plus, I couldn’t find the new quartermaster the first day, despite a good hour of looking. I finally located him on the second day and got some screenshots for you, but then my copy of Photoshop 6 died a ghastly death and I’ve been trying to figure out how to get the images in a blog-friendly format. Thank goodness Adobe has trial downloads on their site, or who knows how long I would have been stuck 
Now I’m finally ready to share what I’ve collected so far, woot!
I don’t know about you guys, but I often get questions about what’s the best gem for X class or Y class. Now if I happen to play that class and know what stats they stack, I can answer effectively. Or at least answer with what I think they should use, obviously not everyone agrees on this type of thing. But at least I can make intelligent suggestions which they are free to take or disregard.
Everywhere you go! We’ve got new trainer recipes, new epic baubles with our Badges of Justice, new daily quests and new flying mounts. And the big gift for the whole family - a brand new dungeon for everyone to play in!
I finally got around to locating the other new recipes on the test server, and there are some interesting changes. First, they’ve decided to move the Enchant Ring - Stats recipe from the Scale of the Sands vendor to the Lower City vendor. Apparently they want more players to have this recipe, at least that would be my guess as to why they moved this to an easier faction vendor.
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