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Sometimes I can be a bit ... singleminded
Jun. 18th, 2011 08:34 pmSo I'm playing WoW, and my warrior (up to 66 wtf) is an engineer; and one of the recipes I learned was for a rather nice-looking helm.
The only downside is that it requires, among other things, 2 hardened adamantite tubes and 4 felsteel stabilizers, which is all well and good until you realize that a) 4 felsteel stabilizers = 8 felsteel bars = 24 fel iron bars + 16 eternium bars = 48 fel iron ore + 32 eternium ore; and b) 2 hardened adamantite tubes = 6 hardened adamantite bars = 60 adamantite bars = 120 adamantite ore.
I have, at the moment, 18 fel iron ore, 23 eternium, and 42 adamantite.
And I'm questing to level, but also keeping an eye on metal nodes, and keeping track of how many more fel iron (30) and adamantite (72)... when two things occurred to me.
One: I don't need this to level engineering. I mean, yes, at this point it would help, because both felsteel stabilizers and hardened adamantite tubes are yellow, and the helm itself is orange. But you know what else is orange? Handful of cobalt bolts. Which take all of two cobalt ore each.
And two: while the helm is damn good compared to what I have, I am two levels -- well, one and a half -- away from being able to go to Northrend, where the quest rewards are probably better than the engineering helm.
/facepalms slightly and goes back to just questing/
The only downside is that it requires, among other things, 2 hardened adamantite tubes and 4 felsteel stabilizers, which is all well and good until you realize that a) 4 felsteel stabilizers = 8 felsteel bars = 24 fel iron bars + 16 eternium bars = 48 fel iron ore + 32 eternium ore; and b) 2 hardened adamantite tubes = 6 hardened adamantite bars = 60 adamantite bars = 120 adamantite ore.
I have, at the moment, 18 fel iron ore, 23 eternium, and 42 adamantite.
And I'm questing to level, but also keeping an eye on metal nodes, and keeping track of how many more fel iron (30) and adamantite (72)... when two things occurred to me.
One: I don't need this to level engineering. I mean, yes, at this point it would help, because both felsteel stabilizers and hardened adamantite tubes are yellow, and the helm itself is orange. But you know what else is orange? Handful of cobalt bolts. Which take all of two cobalt ore each.
And two: while the helm is damn good compared to what I have, I am two levels -- well, one and a half -- away from being able to go to Northrend, where the quest rewards are probably better than the engineering helm.
/facepalms slightly and goes back to just questing/
