Patch 3.3 – Engineers get some love

Posted on 2009 under Engineering | 1 Comment

24 Nov

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A late surprise unearthed in Patch 3.3, Engineer swill have a new source of income with Ammunition. It’s a bit of relief I’m sure, most engineers were a little distressed when potion injector market crashed when Blizzard allowed these items to stack up to 20 instead of 5.

What’s really interesting is that you’ve the dev’s splitting the ammunition up this time where Gnomish Engineers can make the Iceblade Arrows and only Goblin Engineers will be able to make Shattered Rounds. The key to obtaining the recipes is pretty simple and that’s becoming honored with Ashen Verdict (new faction with the release of Icecrown).

Since Blizzard has included tabbard reputation model, I’m sure it will be easy for everyone to go run some 5 mans and get to honored. I’m thinking that the split of the engineering recipes does add some value. What Blizzard has done is essentially limited the amount of people who can produce both recipes. There aren’t that many enterprenurial engineers these days as well so we might even see some descent prices. But considering the recipe material is so cheap to make, I’m really not holding my breath. Sure it’s great dps, but I don’t think the recipe was added to make the profession happy as it may have been some sort of balance mechanic necessary for Icecrown hard mode or something, it may have been a little item necessary to allow hunters to complete a possible forthcoming Item Level Achievement.

I was excited for engineering and as usual after giving it some thought – not so much.