Quote Originally Posted by 'algol',index.php?page=Thread&postID=146370#post14 6370
Mining has cooldowns now? Just what the game needs, more cooldowns...
Haha, I hear you. IMO, this expansion is a farmers dream with all of the items that are created through crafting/materials:

http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=55208

I believe you need 12 of those bars for one component of the new motorcycle mount (someone correct me if I'm wrong). Material cost alone will supposedly easily exceed 18,000 gold (just raw materials and merchant stuff); factor in someone blowing 240 hours worth of cooldowns and then finding an engineer with training maxxed to craft the item for you, you'd probably be looking at an easy 23,000+ gold (if add in AH inflation, and the price will only get worse)...

This is just one item, and an example at that. There are quite a few things in WoTLK that are cooldown/tradeskill based; so I'd really expect to see prices rise. Cheers.